Recladding a barn/shed

honeyend

Member
We have some homemade barns/large sheds. They were made many years ago and clad with asbestos with a tin roof, was mainly used for hay storage. The basic structure is sound, it would be perhaps easier to buy in a metal barn but I do not want the nosy neighbours and the planers having their say so we are going to refurbish. I am slowly scaling up and I do not want to have to rush out and buy or rent out.
So my question is, I want a multipurpose livestock building used for rearing calves or lambing, what would you recommend for the bottom and how high and then the rest of the sides?
Recommend a contractor for doing the job, East Angular
If you have any favourite layouts that if you were renting a shed you would look for.
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
We have some homemade barns/large sheds. They were made many years ago and clad with asbestos with a tin roof, was mainly used for hay storage. The basic structure is sound, it would be perhaps easier to buy in a metal barn but I do not want the nosy neighbours and the planers having their say so we are going to refurbish. I am slowly scaling up and I do not want to have to rush out and buy or rent out.
So my question is, I want a multipurpose livestock building used for rearing calves or lambing, what would you recommend for the bottom and how high and then the rest of the sides?
Recommend a contractor for doing the job, East Angular
If you have any favourite layouts that if you were renting a shed you would look for.
Have you thought of a DIY job?

If you are in the sunny East, fill the barn with quadrant bales to use or sell and sort the roof out yourself? Possible telephone numbers to get a contractor in when you are starting.
 

honeyend

Member
Thank you for your replies. At the moment I am more worried about the brittle asbestos than the roof, which is recycled tin so it already has loads of small ventilation holes. For speed I would rather use a contractor as we have already got lots of jobs to do, and winter is coming.
 

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