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Re: Garage door widths Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:50:25 In Reply to: Garage door widths, Bill Homer [Profile/Gallery] , Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:00:04 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I agree having a larger door width is nice. Our current door is 16' and the garage just about 18' wide overall. It is a 2 car garage on a city lot. The door is a wooden roll up from the 1970's, so it is heavy and problematic.
I like the idea of having 1 door/car, each door about 9'. Bifolding 9' means 27" per panel, which looks reasonably good for the 7' height (or could do 36" panels as 1 bifold pair + man door, but maybe harder to mechanize). New garage will be about 22' wide (can't fit more on the lot), so that is pretty manageable. It looks like the lifts are typically closer to 7' wide between posts and that is where I'm a little unsure in terms of margins for "other" drivers... I'd be interested to hear how that works for others here on the bb... probably most of the issue is how well the car is "lined up" with the 3 openings (door, front lift posts, back lift posts)...
an advantage of 1 big door is you can park a car right in the middle to work on it. I do that sometimes now, but I have done work on a car (floors + exhaust) with it in 1 bay jammed against the wall... just having 2' around all sides of each car should be fine for me... a huge relief actually! So with 3 cars, parking in the middle just wouldn't happen enough to justify it... bifolding a wide door would probably be fraught with difficulty, and if nothing else, the proportions would look a little funny...
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