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Published on: 5/31/2008
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"People like to restore old barns to keep the heritage," said Jack Hart, a general contractor and the owner of Advanced Equine Construction in Corbin, Kentucky."A lot of farms are handed down, and when someone's grandfather used the barn, you hate to just knock it down if it's still a good building.If nothing else, you can usually fix it up for use as a hay building and save it.We take a lot of pride when doing an old barn to make it look perfect when we're done."
Advanced Equine Construction has been in business for 27 years and specializes in medium- to high-end masonry and wood structures.Born and raised in Lexington, Hart works in Kentucky as well as around the country.
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Hart said an intact roof is important.
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You can't find anyone today building pole barns the way those old tobacco barns were built," Hart said.
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The cost of converting an old livestock or dairy barn to house horses will increase because in these barns the first tier is much lower than in a standard horse barn, Hart said.
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"You have people who really can't afford a high-end barn, so they go toward the conversion because you can't beat it as far as money," said Hart.
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Hart prefers to have exterior exit doors on every stall."This way, you can get animals out of the barn in case of a fire, without going into the barn," he said.
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