Garage door on the front off to one side

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N84

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• Mar 22, 2016

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I was wondering about the pro's and con's of Having the garage door on the front, off to the one side?

 

Janicholson

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• Mar 22, 2016

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Of the house for sure. In the garage not so much. You need to get in and out of the car with the door open. If that condition is met, no issue. Jim

 

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David G

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• Mar 22, 2016

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I enjoy having a door to use.

 

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N84

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• Mar 22, 2016

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I should've been more clear. On a pole barn.

 

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gene bender

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• Mar 22, 2016

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Those who have them like em. One person has his on both ends that way the side of the shed can be open and can drive rite thru works real well for his truck and pull camper.

 

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David G

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• Mar 22, 2016

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pulling a hay wagon through is MUCH easier than trying to push it in.

 

Janicholson

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• Mar 22, 2016

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Both ends! You will really find it nasty to move 4 vehicles to get one out, (then one of those rascals will not start! Jim

 

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D beatty

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• Mar 22, 2016

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I have a 12ft. & 8ft. wide doors on one end of shop and a 20ft. wide door on other end of building. Building is a 40x60 .

 

MarkB_MI

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Motown USA

• Mar 23, 2016

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Sidewall post spacing on most post-frame building is 8 feet on center. Which means you have to move a post to install even an 8 foot wide door in the sidewall. And if you want a wider door it becomes a structural issue. It takes a very hefty header to support the roof of a 30 foot wide building over a 16 foot wide door. The endwalls, on the other hand, don't have to support any of the roof load, so you can make a door in the endwall as wide as you want.

 

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N84

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• Mar 23, 2016

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If I were to have a pole barn. I would want 30' wide. To have a 12' wide door that's 10' tall. There would be 15' on the left side of the garage door. On the right side would be 3'. Have the entry door be 3' to the left of the garage door.

 

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Mike M

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• Mar 23, 2016

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Well my last couple of garages have the door offset. At the house the entrance doors are at the side so I offset the garage door. Got room on the side for shelves and in the front corner a small freezer fits right in there. On my tractor storage shed I offset it so I could put a line of tractors on one side that does not stick out into where you could drive right in.

 

Geo-TH,In

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• Mar 23, 2016

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I have a 10 foot overhead door off set and a regular door off set on the other side. My posts are8 ft on walls. 10 ft on one end. Use header for garage door. All my plans passed building inspector. So some posts can be more than 8 ft.

I like one door, but I have to pull truck out to get ever else out.

Upside is only one door opener. Security wise wise truck blocks door.

I put all my doors facing the house.

 

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Russ from MN

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Bemidji MN

• Mar 23, 2016

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At our cabin the garage is too small, but aren't they all. We have a 10 foot door off to one side, so I back the boat in at an angle with the tractor and then the tractor goes in beside it.

 

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paul

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• Mar 23, 2016

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Depends on the size of the building, and how you want to use it.is it a machine shed, or a 1.5 wide garbage, or a 4 stall garage, or.....

Lots of variables.

In general make the door bigger, make it taller. It will still be too small, but make it bigger than you think, you get one chance, after that it costs big bucks to fix it right. Sure is nice to have more than one door to use when stuff gets packed away.

Paul

 

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RayP(MI)

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• Mar 23, 2016

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Think about how you're going to use the building. Are you going to drive in, back straight out? Parking things off to the side? backing into a garage is not easy, backing trailers in can be even more frustrating, 4 wheel wagons even worse. Figure out what you are going to use building for, and how you are going to use the space, and how you are going to get the stuff in and out. I have a 24x32 garage with 16 foot door in 32 side, off set. works OK, but getting some things placed can ge challenging. Recently built a 48x96 polebarn with 16 foot wide 11 foot high doors centered on each end. Works out fine, but still have to figure out optimum parking to get the most in without moving everything around every time I need something.

 

Blackhole49

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White Lake MI

• Mar 23, 2016

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I made the tall barn (30'x48'x12') a drive 10' thru on one side with a 12' slider on the other side.

 

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gene bender

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• Mar 23, 2016

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you park on the side and leav e the other side open with the doors so you can drive thru

 

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N84

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• Mar 23, 2016

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I would use it for restoring a farm tractor. Pull the tractor into the garage door side. The side that doesn't have a garage door would be for all the tools and equipment. I would also have a bathroom in the garage. Along with a heater and ac unit. You can't forget a sink. I would like to have the garage be bigger. 36' wide. I would also make it 40' deep. Make adjustments to the garage door. Have the garage door be 12' wide and 14' high. On the front the garage door would be 21' on the left of the garage door. The right of the garage door is 3'.

 

Hobo,NC

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Sanford, NC

• Mar 23, 2016

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I have 2 on the east front and one on the southwest rear side... If I were going to do work just out in front of a door it would be on the east side. In my shop the coolest place to work in the summer is on the east side the hottest is on the south/west side... Let the sun guide you as how you place your doors.

The first layout of my shop I had the 2 front doors to the northwest side luck of the draw had to change it. It would have been a beach to heat that way...