Agricultural Coating Case Studies

Coating work on farm buildings

Farm buildings earn their keep in conditions that would finish most commercial cladding in half the time. Muck, ammonia, washdown, livestock and the weather all work on the same roofs and walls year round. Many of these buildings also carry asbestos cement sheets, which are usually far safer sealed and encapsulated where they sit than stripped off and carted away.

The projects below cover grain stores, dairy units, poultry sheds, livestock buildings and machinery stores. Each one runs to its own calendar, harvest, the milking routine, the gap between flocks, so the timing of the job matters as much as the specification.

What usually needs doing

The common jobs are encapsulating a weathered asbestos cement roof so it stays weathertight and undisturbed, treating cut edge corrosion and coating a steel roof that has started to rust, and relining box gutters that have rotted through and started dripping into the building. On fibre cement we clean gently and seal rather than blast, because the object is to protect the sheet, not break it up.

How an agricultural job runs

We work around the animals and the working day of the farm, keeping dust and mess down where there is stock in the building. The roof is cleaned back, the repairs are done, and the coating or membrane goes on in a dry spell. As with every sector, the whole thing is photographed from the condition we found to the finished building. Sector background is on the agricultural buildings page, with the routes under services.