A wider building or larger cleaning equipment may require larger alleys. Poles at the front of the building may be moved. A free-stall facility will not solve all your housing problems. Start using the new facility at the change of a season. Provide a stall for each cow.
Cows accept and use free stalls faster in open, well lighted and ventilated barns.
Keep lights on in the free stall area all night. Do not feed or water cows in the stalls. Rake or kick manure droppings from stalls at least once a day. This takes less than 20 minutes for a 50-cow herd. Scrape alleys once a day, or certainly no less than three times a week.