Covering Dirt Floor Barn

Interlocking brick or pavers are attractive but present the same problems as concrete floors.

Covering dirt floor barn.

My shop which is a 24x60 ft insulated room with concrete slab floor has been built in one corner of the barn. 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. When you have animals housed in a barn dirt floors will provide softer ground to stand or rest on than other types of flooring such as concrete. 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.

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. 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.

Flooring needs to have good traction so that horses and their handlers don t slip and fall. Dirt well draining soil really can be a good flooring. Just a short video on a way to use junk tracks to make a floor in a dirt floored storage building. A big con is that you have a big cleanout ahead of you in the spring and you will have to dig out and replace some of the dirt after the cleanout.

I have a 60x120 ft pole barn in my backyard. Barn flooring is the foundation of a clean and safe barn. While ventilation is always important moisture naturally occurs with dirt floors. Lay the sheets in rows across the dirt floor.

Dirt floors are the ideal option when it comes to livestock barns. Dust kicks up because it is fine and small enough to be influenced. Agricultural equipment can also be stored safely in a dirt floored barn. Part of the garage we did years ago and it has worked very.