Category Archives: Pole Barn Design

Preventing Horse Barn Fires Part I

Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 03/05/2013

Thanks to Google, I get Email alerts when new articles appear on line about pole barns. Sadly, far too many of them are from online versions of newspapers and involve fires in horse barns. Usually, but not always, these fires were entirely preventable. My daughter Bailey (https://www.baileymombtraining.com/) is a professional horse trainer and she would […]

Categories: Pole Barn Structure, Steel Roofing & Siding, Pole Barn Design
Tags: Fire Prevention In Barns, Horse Barn Fires, Pole Building Fires
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Mike’s Roof Rules

Posted by The Pole Barn Guru on 02/01/2013

Nothing is worse than a roof gone wrong. Leaks frustrate everyone involved, and are usually avoidable. Poor design and poor installation are equal factors in the roofs which just are not happy. Avoid Valleys Designing the roof of a pole barn? Then try to design a roof without any valleys. Valleys concentrate water and often […]