Pole Barns
Post-frame pole barns, equipment shelters, sheds and detached garages built on your land. We prepare the pad and raise the frame, and we can pour the slab under it too.
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A horse barn in Marion County has to handle Florida heat and summer storms on sandy ground. Superior Concrete and Construction is a barn builder based in Ocala that works on farms and acreage across the county. We build center-aisle horse barns with stalls, shed-row barns and run-in shelters. We also pour the aisle slabs and barn aprons that go with them.
We are a builder that pours its own concrete slabs and pads. One company takes your barn from site prep and the slab to the last nail. Maybe you want a barn with six stalls and a tack room, or a run-in shelter for the back pasture. A free on-site estimate spells out the size, the stall layout, the slab and the finish.
Tell us about the job. We come out, look at the site and give you a free on-site estimate.
Marion County calls itself the Horse Capital of the World. A 2023 equine economic study counted about 75,000 horses and ponies here, more than in any other U.S. county. The county's Farmland Preservation Area, set up in 2005 in the northwest, allows one house per 10 acres.
A center-aisle barn faces two rows of stalls across one aisle, with big doors at each end. Open those doors and the aisle pulls a breeze through. A shed-row barn lines the stalls up in one row, each door opening outside under a roof overhang. A run-in shelter is a three-sided building in the pasture that horses use on their own.
On agricultural lots under 10 acres, the county land code sets pasture minimums per horse. The first horse needs 9,000 square feet of open pasture, and each added horse needs 6,000 more. In the A-1 and A-2 farm zones, a horse barn needs a 75-foot front setback, or 50 feet in A-3. Side and rear setbacks are 25 feet.
Penn State Extension calls a 12 by 12 foot stall the standard for a 1,000-pound horse. Stall walls under 10 feet long are not recommended. An 8-foot-high stall partition is standard, and most horses can kick as high as 7 feet. A solid kick wall takes the hits down low, and open grillwork up top lets air move.
Barn aisles should be at least 10 feet wide, per the Rutgers Equine Science Center. Go wider if a truck or tractor will drive through. A stall door opening 4 feet wide and 8 feet tall is the long-standing recommendation. Swinging stall doors should open out into the aisle.
A horse is most comfortable between 45 and 75 degrees, per Penn State Extension. Ocala averages about 110 days a year at 90 degrees or hotter, per NOAA climate normals. The same guide points to shade and moving air, with open eaves and a ridge vent. Summer stall openings should equal at least 5 to 10 percent of the floor area.
Penn State Extension says the stall floor should sit at least 12 inches above the outside ground. The ground around it should slope 5 percent away from the barn. More than half of Ocala's yearly rain falls from June through September. Our site prep and grading builds and compacts that pad before the frame goes up.
Rough broomed concrete gives traction in the aisle and the wash rack, which slopes to a drain. The same source calls for at least 4 inches of concrete under stalls and 5 where manure spreaders drive. Florida DEP guidance puts wash areas at least 50 feet from wells, waterbodies and septic drainfields. Our job photos include a fresh slab being screeded inside a horse barn.
Inside the stalls, concrete is hard on legs, so it needs rubber mats or deep bedding. Another choice is 4 to 5 inches of packed stone dust over a base of sand or small gravel. Plain sand shifts under hooves, and horses that eat it can get sand colic. Our board fencing and farm gates then tie the paddocks to the barn.
Free estimates and site visits across Ocala, all of Marion County and about 50 miles around, from The Villages and Leesburg to Gainesville and Inverness.
(352) 286-7836From the first call to the final walkthrough, here is how it goes.
Call or text (352) 286-7836, or send the form, to ask for a free on-site estimate. Tell us what you want poured or built, and where.
We come out and look at the ground, the drainage and the access. Then we talk through the size, the layout and how you will use it.
For concrete, the estimate lists the thickness, the reinforcement, the base and the finish. For a building, it covers the size and the scope of the build.
We clear the footprint, grade the site and compact the pad. Then the forms and reinforcement go in.
Concrete gets placed, screeded and finished. On a building job, the shell goes up and the finish work follows.
New concrete gets time to cure before it takes traffic. Then we walk through the finished job with you.
Common questions about horse barns across Ocala, all of Marion County and about 50 miles around, from The Villages and Leesburg to Gainesville and Inverness. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Post-frame pole barns, equipment shelters, sheds and detached garages built on your land. We prepare the pad and raise the frame, and we can pour the slab under it too.
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We build three- and four-board fence, farm and ranch fencing, pasture gates and driveway entrances with stone or block columns. Every job starts with a free on-site estimate.
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We clear the building footprint, grade and compact building pads, shape the drainage and lay limerock driveways. It is the ground work before the slab, from the company that pours it.
Learn MoreThe slab under your barn, shop or home comes from the same company that builds on top of it.
One company handles the groundwork, the grading, the slab, the shell and the finish work on your build.
Horse barns, pole barns, custom homes, barndominiums and warehouses for farms, rural lots and businesses across Marion County.
We come out, look at the site and give you a free estimate before any work starts.
Send a few details about the driveway, slab or building you have in mind. If you would rather talk, call or text (352) 286-7836 for a free on-site estimate.
Tell us about the job. We come out, look at the site and give you a free on-site estimate.
