Wooden stabling too hot! Oh the great British weather!

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Hi there, i have wooden stables, a corner block of three boxes plus tack room. The grand plan is we are going to rebuild them at some point in the future, but in the meantime I'm looking to make some modifications. I've read that wooden stabling is notoriously hot. Well, ours is like an oven come 2 o'clock! Unfortunately they are not sited well either - no sheltering trees, south facing so they get the sun all day. The stables do have back half doors, but in this weather even when everything is open on all sides its still like a furnace. I was out late last night and the temperature was lovely, and I would really like to turnout at night/ bring in during day (we have a heavy cattle population and the flies can be really bad during day as well) so is there anything I can do to the stables in the short term?
The roof is on du line, and I read that some stable manufacturers underline roof with 11mm os roofing boards, would this help keep heat out in summer and in in winter?
Any advice would be welcomed.
Thanks in advance
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I used to have single skin wooden stables, and they were unuseable in hot weather. Lining both the walls to eaves height and the roof will help enormously, plus the addition of ventilation louvres.

You've already got back half doors, which is a very good move.

My new stable block's roof was constructed of Onduline over OSB, which creats a small insulating air gap which is very effective cf the bitumen felt over sterling board roof I used to have.

This is my larger field shelter going up showing how the roof is constructed, the stables roof is the same.



From inside, you can see the full height sterling board wall lining and the roof boards, plus the rear eaves ventilation gap.



This field shelter is north facing, and my horses are currently gratefully standing half in and half out of the doors in the shade, catching the breeze :).

For now, can you retro fit some lightweight boarding to the underside of the roof trusses for insulation?
 
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