Covering Dirt Floor Barn

While ventilation is always important moisture naturally occurs with dirt floors.

Covering dirt floor barn.

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

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. Part of the garage we did years ago and it has worked very. Because of the grooves between the pavers they can be a bit harder to clean. Dust kicks up because it is fine and small enough to be influenced.

So make sure adequate ventilation is in your plans. Cover the entire floor with gravel coarse sand chipped wood or a similar larger particle product to a depth of about 3 inches. Interlocking brick or pavers are attractive but present the same problems as concrete floors. Overlap the bottom of the walls with two inches of the sheet edges raised upward along the wall s surface.

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. Lay the sheets in rows across the dirt floor. Just a short video on a way to use junk tracks to make a floor in a dirt floored storage building. 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. Rubber and synthetic bricks are other options and these are easy on a horse s legs provide good drainage and are non slip. 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. I have a 60x120 ft pole barn in my backyard.