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A comprehensive guide that leads horse owners through the maze of designing, building, or remodeling horse barns, featuring 16 plans and 150 color photos.
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Whether building a new barn or improving an existing one, Horse Housing is the perfect guide. From finding the best building site to choosing stall latches, this book is chock full of how–to tips. It explains in detail which materials are good to use around horses, and how good lighting, flooring, and ventilation make a big difference to both horses and people. And it goes beyond theory—offering information, like how to estimate concrete and shingle a new roof or replace an old one. The book contains 16 plans, an extensive directory for locating services needed for barn construction, and a glossary of more than 300 terms to help demystify the building process. Richard Klimesh studied architectural design and has built and remodeled horse facilities throughout the United States. His wife Cherry Hill is the author of 24 books on horse training and care, including Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage, Stablekeeping, 101 Arena Exercises, and The Formative Years. The authors live in Colorado.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Horse Housing: How to Plan, Build, and Remodel Barns and Sheds (Hardcover)
Not exactly what I wanted (Plans for run in sheds). This book gives direction but no detailed plans.Interesting barn layout ideas.
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Positively - A Pragmatic, Professional Resource,
By Leroy Michael Eide, CCIM (Austin Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Horse Housing: How to Plan, Build, and Remodel Barns and Sheds (Hardcover)
Horse Housing provides pragmatic advice on building and remodeling barns and sheds. This is a first rate publication offering the reader wonderful photographs and easy-to-understand illustrations combined with top notch writing by wordsmiths, Richard Klimesh and Cherry Hill. As a Texas State Certified General Appraiser of real estate since 1977, including rural properties, I need to be up-to-date regarding the details of what constitutes well-constructed horse facilities. This excellent book is a professional resource that facilitates a more precise completion of my assignments. Positively, this book belongs on your shelf when you start your next stable, barn or shed project!
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I'm Not Just Horsing Around!,
By Barby Eide (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Horse Housing: How to Plan, Build, and Remodel Barns and Sheds (Hardcover)
As a State Certified Texas General Real Estate Appraiser, I have had the opportunity to view improvements such as barns and stables on numerous rural properties. "Horse Housing" is an excellent resource for rural appraisers. I'm not just "horsing around" when I say that if owners of some of the properties I've viewed had utilized tips in this book during their construction project they could have built a superior instead of poor or average structure . Texas is home to more than 1 million horses, about 15% of the total U.S. horse population. However, while people tend to picture horses in rural settings, the counties with the largest numbers of horses are in metropolitan Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. So this book's guidance on zoning, building codes, and ideas for building an attractive/functional structure that is homogenous to an urban neighborhood is vital to a property owner/investor. It sounds like the reviewer from Michigan should have contacted her local Home Depot or lumberyard for advice on building stalls rather than expect detailed instructions in "Horse Housing."
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