I’m having a hard time trying to visualize what you are hoping to accomplish. Do you even need barn doors? What if you left it open?
I do like the roller doors with a chain.
Do you have to have concrete? Could you just concrete a small section? As that would probably reduce your cost.
Yes I do need barn doors. It’s a West/East orientation so when it storms would need to be closed.
I could just do one side with concrete and leave the other side and middle open for animals.
This estimate didn’t even include the labor costs, which on most construction is 50%, I was told, but it has to be leveled and then the concrete frame added and then poured and then smoothed. 15ft x 54ft I would say for one side of the barn.
Ouch on those prices. Of the two you need the barn doors more!
Rather then concrete could you use something else to give you a nice level barn floor? Crushed stone or gravel? Just an option.
I agree, I need doors!
I need something where I can use roll carts, totes, dolly etc., to carry stuff… anything with wheels, and concrete is the only option as far as I know.
Stone dust will do nearly all of what you’re asking, as long as the dolly wheels are a decent size.
Never heard of that…will look it up.
If you can get it flat enough crusher base with mats will work (or works for me). I’ve done it in 3 barns. The first bc concrete was too pricey and the other two bc I was so happy with the first one. I don’t drive on mine with the tractor but the lawn tractor with cart, etc are just fine. No shifting. I currently have a crusher base leveled with stone dust, watered and tamped and mats on top (all by hand) but I only did 525 sq feet this time.
While it can happen with q concrete floor, around here any other than concrete will get us into a long battle with things digging and making tunnels under any other we use for flooring in barns.
Mice and rats, skunks, coons, badgers, rabbits, you name it, they give it a try to make themselves at home.
Why that matters to us, then rattlers come to the buffet and that becomes a real hazard, why we have concrete floors most places that will have stuff piled on it, hay, shaving bags, trailers, wheelbarrows.
By the time you price material, mats and labor, concrete is not that much more.
An opening can be reframed to a reduced size by dropping the header down (this is the normal way to reduce an opening height rather building up the floor), the width could also be reduced if desired by reframing all which is a relative simple process.
Or if the current doors are sliders these could be retracked with a proper grade tracking system.
There were many doors greater in size than Ops that my companies installed for the US Gov that weighed up to 20,000 pounds that could be move just by a push of a hand, stopping that mass was another deal (all of the these doors were motorized to control the speed)
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