Covering Dirt Floor Barn

Barn flooring is the foundation of a clean and safe barn.

Covering dirt floor barn.

I have a 60x120 ft pole barn in my backyard. Just a short video on a way to use junk tracks to make a floor in a dirt floored storage building. My shop which is a 24x60 ft insulated room with concrete slab floor has been built in one corner of the barn. If you want to practice compost bedding adding bedding to the top periodically to create a clean surface and allowing the bottom to compost and produce heat all winter then it is probably the best choice.

Since barns are constantly exposed to the mess that goes along with horses including manure dirt and hair the floors need to be easy to keep clean. Dirt well draining soil really can be a good flooring. Cover the dirt floor with a layer of 10 mil plastic sheeting to serve as a vapor barrier which will keep moisture from seeping through the dirt and onto your wood floor. Cover the entire floor with gravel coarse sand chipped wood or a similar larger particle product to a depth of about 3 inches.

Because of the grooves between the pavers they can be a bit harder to clean. So make sure adequate ventilation is in your plans. Part of the garage we did years ago and it has worked very. Overlap the bottom of the walls with two inches of the sheet edges raised upward along the wall s surface.

Flooring needs to have good traction so that horses and their handlers don t slip and fall. Agricultural equipment can also be stored safely in a dirt floored barn. Dust kicks up because it is fine and small enough to be influenced. Rubber and synthetic bricks are other options and these are easy on a horse s legs provide good drainage and are non slip.

Dirt floors are the ideal option when it comes to livestock barns. Interlocking brick or pavers are attractive but present the same problems as concrete floors. The other side of the same end of the barn used to be a 10 or 12 horse stable but all the stalls have been removed leaving a concrete slab on the center walkway strip and just dirt floor in the areas on both sides where the horse stalls. While ventilation is always important moisture naturally occurs with dirt floors.