Ventilation in timber stables!!! Scorching

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I'm after some help. I have some timber stables with a sloping box profile sheet roof (front to rear, mainly green panels other than one clear one for light). Its so hot for my horses, I could not possibly think about leaving them in during the day. Anyone have any ventilation suggestions - cutting holes, adding fans - anything would be much appreciated. Thanks.
 
1. Line the walls of the stables to the eaves with sterling board or similar. The air gap acts as an insulating layer.

2. Ditto the roof. Add an insulating lining layer.

3. Add ventilating louvres.

I used to have single skin wooden stables. They were unbearably hot on a hot day. The above modifications helped a lot.
 
I have the same sounding stables. I specially asked for no clear panel in the roof as I knew from previous place it acts like a greenhouse. It's made quite a big difference. I don't know if it would be possible to replace that panel?
New ones were supposed to come with back air vents but annoyingly didn't 😒
 
I've wooden stables/field shelter which have part of the back wall as Yorkshire boarding which helps hugely with ventilation and keeping them cooler. I also have one with clear roof panel in and I'm thinking of painting it black to see if this will help as that one is definitely warmer than the one with completely solid roof. I've also deliberately let the hedge grow higher behind them as that gives them a fair bit of shade.
 
I have mine in during the day in wooden stables that do get hot. I cover the skylights in summer with those reflective covers you get for car windscreens (I tie them with bailer twine to the slats of wood that the roof sits on so that the silver side faces the sun and reflects the sun away). We also have fans (just the regular ones on a stand you can buy for an office or house) tied up high on the walls so that they blow down into the stables. We leave doors open and have a chain across the door. I wet the hay too, it somehow seems to help, and I also think they get more hydrated. On really hot days I dampen the horses too. With the above things we just about manage, but I hate wooden stables! Our pony stables are old stone with stone slate roof, and they're lovely and cool. I can't fit my horses in them though!

We have toyed with putting a opening window in the back, which is where the breeze comes from, but for ten months of the year, when it's not hot, and the driving winter weather is coming up the valley it would cause more problems than the hot weather it would help.
 
Metal roofs don't work on low buildings .
My big barn has a profile roof it's airy and cool .
My wooden stables have boarding and felt when it was replaced a couple of years ago they left the old roof under and that made it warmer in winter cooler in summer we have louves on each end they have wooden doors that you shut when the weather is bad .
We also have stall bars ( wooden ) inside the doors so when the weather is warm we leave the doors open as well.
 
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