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Location: TX | Those of you who live in these, what are the things you don't like. Like are the flies bad? How about the barn smell in the house? |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | The NOISE! I lived in one in the past and HATED the noise. You have NO IDEA how active and noisy stalled horses are in the middle of the night! I would HATE to have to live in one again. (Unless the horses were turned out 24/7!)
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| We have ours set up so that there are no stalls directly under bedrooms now, there is a washrack under one and we converted the stall that was originally under a room into a larger tack room. No noise  |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | Anyone have pictures? |
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| We built one, it was a 2 story on the front 2800 sq ft, garage and attached to the garage were the stalls. No noise, had a fly system fir bugs, loved being able to feed in nasty weather and not have to go outside. We sold it a few years ago, I can't find any pics, it was not fancy but very comfortable. |
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Location: Winging It in KY | I like almost everything about mine. The horses are on the back wall away from the house. But we can still hear them which to me is a good thing. I have gotten used to the feed tub bangs, etc. I was glad to be able to hear them when my horse got hung up in the bars between the stalls a year ago. If my husband would not have heard him, he could have broken his leg!
I do not have fly issues as the house and the barn are seperated by the 3 car garage.
I guess the one thing that I would change would be that the back wall is built into the ground. It keeps the barn cool, provides a storm shelter in the tack room, etc but the wall up keep is not fun. |
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Location: TX | Thanks for the info. I really like the idea of one, but not sure if I will in reality! |
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Location: Arkansas | A fly spray system is a must. We drag in lots of dirt, hair, hay etc but our floors are concrete so easy to sweep everything up. Ours is all on one level and I don't notice a lot of noise. No odor problem either. |
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| I don't currently, but I have lived in one before and really liked it. The whole thing was fairly small, and it was one story, so there was no over stall noise. The bedroom was on the opposite side of the house as the stalls. We actually had less dust and pet hair in that house than we do in our current one. There was one stall that shared a wall with the house, and it contained 1 stall (shared wall and window with the kitchen - this was an extra large foaling stall. You can monitor mama without her hearing doors opening. Just open the curtain!) the tack room, hay storage and wash rack.
What I didn't like was that the whole thing was on a poured slab which made the floor cold. Although, there was no carpet, so was easy to clean.
My only regret is we don't live there anymore. I loved everything about it. In bad/cold weather, horses were in, I could shut up the barn and feed and water in my jammies if I wanted because I didn't have to "go outside" |
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Location: MT | Would love to see your pictures! |
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| Lived in one several years ago. Stalls were along the outside wall of the west side and the feed room, tack room, office and bathroom, wash racks, hay storage were along the inside wall of the west side(don't know any better way of describing). The house was two stories in the front of the barn from the west inside wall to the east side and it was only a qtr of the length of the barn. The remaining area from what would be considered the back of the house and from the west inside wall to the east side was an arena. There was a large bay window in the kitchen that looked out to the arena. Never had a problem with noise. House wasn't huge but I loved it!! |
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| i like a dummy built mie at the end of the arean stupid me but i wish i had built in barn but it was great as far as riding feeding etx
sold it look at j and m arena on face book that is the 1 i built
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Location: Moving soon..... | We built one in Brady and I loved it. Will build another one in a heart-beat. It was 50x60. Apartment was on the west side 12x50 - 2bd 1bath. |
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| Is anyone willing to share the cost of building one of these? I'm looking at a 40x36 with an attached 72x130 building. Any input or idea on how to estimate a cost would be great! Did company require a minimum downpayment? Any issues getting financed? |
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Location: The Great Northwest | I'm looking into having a building with a home, stalls, tack, feed room and wash area with Lester Buildings. The style and living sounds great! |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I've been living in one for several years now. My husband was the builder. We had 10" of insulation between us and the horses down below. We could hear the mare below us in the foaling stall if she were to bang her hard bucket on the wall. Rubber bucket fixed that. It has a 14 ft breeze way-no way would we go smaller. Concrete down the center isle. Had french drains under for our once in a blue moon floods. The stalls are 12X12 with stucco. The air gap is only 6" will go 10" if we do it again.
I want a house built on our ranch he would like to do another combo just NO upstairs! He won't allow me to store hay in the barn.
Currently I'm designing a 8 stall for our ranch that looks like a B52 config. the front is the LQ so I can be near the mares at foaling time. The center is going to be a big court yard like in Europe. We want to have out AI suite and cattle working area at the far end. We just don't want to have two labs on one small ranch.
Fly's are not a problem and no real foul smells.
Ventilation and wind direction are very important for your horses health and yours so check the orientation of the wind.
My husband will not build another two story (50 hard years on these legs of ours). The slab will extend out for ample parking of "buggies" and vehicles we had rock and didn't like the pebbles going all over. We would have done a larger downstairs bath. Plus the wash rack if it goes on a north wall needs a wind break even here in South TX. |
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Location: MN | Does anyone have any blue prints they could share?
Edited by Kay-DRacing. 2016-03-16 9:17 AM
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Location: MI | RacingQH - 2016-01-19 12:23 PM The NOISE! I lived in one in the past and HATED the noise. You have NO IDEA how active and noisy stalled horses are in the middle of the night! I would HATE to have to live in one again. (Unless the horses were turned out 24/7!)
I was going to say the same.. I've house sat for a friend who has an apartment above the barn - well actually the apartment's above the arena, so not even direclty above the stalls, and I remember being amazed at how loud it was. Hearing buckets clang, winnying, etc.
But definitely handy- didnt have to go outside to feed, just down the stairs. How I'd love to not have to go through snow and wind in the winter! |
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Location: Idaho | We are getting ready to build ours this spring. We live in snow country so our barn will be more like an indoor round pen so we can ride and work Colts all winter. The house is 2 stories with a front porch.. 1600sq ft. 3 bed/2 bath. It is attached to a 50x80 "shop" (for insurance and mortgage reasons). It will have over hangs off the barn (down the road, not sure if that part is in the budget right now) but one side will have covered, enclosed pens (stalls) , and the other will be an open shed row style cover. We have a very good builder who does solid work and isn't a corner cutter, so he's a little more expensive. Our place is going to run us about $250,000. |
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Location: Winging It in KY | Kay-DRacing. - 2016-03-16 10:16 AM Does anyone have any blue prints they could share?
I have a drawing of how my house/barn/arena is set up in my album if you want to see it. |
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