nhg
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Post by nhg on Jul 1, 2018 19:15:50 GMT
My friend is trying to figure out what the best option is for a barn heater. When the winter is really bad she wants to bring her horses in at night. So it needs to be warmed up a bit but not actually warm, something around the freezing mark. Can anyone suggest the safest way to heat a barn? I'm thinking radiant heat. Oh, and she can't do electric but she can do gas.
I've been looking it up for her but mostly it's forums and the people responding are just suggesting that a barn doesn't need to be heated, which is really useless information.
Thanks!
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Post by horselover4life on Jul 1, 2018 21:33:16 GMT
Does her barn have doors that shut?
A center aisle design?
With horses inside and closed doors her horses body heat and breathing will have her roof dripping inside come morning with moisture.
Trapped heat escaping when she opens the barn in morning... She doesn't need to "heat" the barn...she needs to remove the drafts that suck the warmed air out overnight.... truth...
I would not keep my horse in a heated barn...you're asking for respiratory problems. Natural warmth accumulated during overnight hours is more than enough...
jmo...
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Post by horselady on Jul 2, 2018 17:04:52 GMT
in a barn i used to show at. they had blowers using gas heat.. from the ceiling.. BUT they were kept clean , dusted at all times.. and no hay was stored in that building. and the horses were inside for a short period of time..
also at an indoor i rode at .. the blowers again from the ceiling. there were 4 of them to take the chill out and allow us to ride in winter.
still scary as the cause of fires is so great.
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Post by leli on Jul 2, 2018 19:45:14 GMT
Our barn had spray foam insulation put in (at least on the part with most of the stalls) and it made all the difference. Stuff isn't freezing in people's lockers anymore, the heaters really only went on if a door was left open a bit too long... otherwise everything stayed at around 0 degrees (or warmer).
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Post by nhg on Jul 3, 2018 3:19:34 GMT
She's having it properly insulated before she does a heating system of some kind. The heat would only be on if a horse is inside and it would not be set to be above freezing. It's only for the really severe nights where they just can't keep up with the cold. Like when it's wet  or a really hard, cold wind. Last winter it was colder inside than outside. And she wants the option of having it be on all the time if a horse were sick or injured and had to stay inside for a period of time. |
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Post by horselady on Jul 3, 2018 11:04:30 GMT
my son used a spray foam insulation on a house he was redoing.. and it hardened up sprayed on out of 20 gallon tanks.. it is better than the pink insulation ,, fiberglass that is soooo combustible..
good to do it now,, and perhaps install that overhead heater.
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or a really hard, cold wind. Last winter it was colder inside than outside. And she wants the option of having it be on all the time if a horse were sick or injured and had to stay inside for a period of time.