Poultry barn spray foam insulation in Stony Plain is nearly always work on a building that was put up for something else, because a county with a long settlement history has a great many old structures and very few of them were built for birds.
Birds in a building that was meant for something else
The typical situation here is a flock housed in part of an old barn, a former granary, a milk house or a corner of a shed. Those buildings were designed for storage or for larger livestock, and none of them were designed to hold a condition. What that means practically is that the enclosure around the birds is usually a partition somebody built inside a much bigger unheated volume, and the birds are therefore in a small space inside a large cold one rather than in a building of their own.
A partition is not an envelope, and here it has to become one
That distinction is the whole job on most of these. A stud wall with boards on it, dividing a warm corner from a cold barn, was built to keep birds in rather than to keep conditions apart. It has no air seal, it usually stops short of the underside of the roof, and the moisture the flock produces passes straight through it into the rest of the building where it condenses on whatever is coldest. Making that partition a real exterior surface, sealed at the top and the sides, is what turns the corner into a building.
What the moisture does to the structure around it
This is the part owners do not expect and it matters on an old building. Where a flock is housed inside a larger unheated structure and the partition leaks, the water leaves the coop and condenses on the barn's own timber, roof boards and sheathing. So a small flock in a corner can be quietly adding moisture to a hundred-year-old frame for years. Sealing the coop properly protects the building as much as it helps the birds, and on a structure somebody cares about that is frequently the stronger argument.
Ventilation that runs without anybody adjusting it
Whatever is done to the enclosure, the air has to keep moving, and on a household or small flock nobody is going to be adjusting a vent on a February morning. The arrangement that works is a sealed insulated enclosure with a small deliberate continuous exchange, sized once and left alone. On a Stony Plain property that reliability is worth more than any efficiency the work also produces, because the failure mode of the alternative is discovered days later.
Poultry Barn Spray Foam Insulation Stony Plain: Common Questions
Can you insulate just the corner of the old barn the birds are in? That is the normal case here, and the partition rather than the barn is the job.
Will this help the building? Yes, and on an old frame that is frequently the better reason. The moisture is going into the timber.
Do they need heat? Rarely. They need the enclosure dry, which is a different specification.
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