Entry door for a pole barn

[NES]

Having an entry door for a pole barn. Would you have it be in the front of the barn next to the garage door? Or have it on the side of the garage?

 

[Kevkx125]

I put mine in the front

 

[Red Green]

The end that you can see the peak from.

 

[NES]

Also would you have a window on the entry door?

 

[navycryppie]

Shortest run from the house. I wouldn't do a window on the door, no need to give prying eyes a reason...

 

[larry_g]

Lots of different reasons to have it one way or the other. What is the layout inside the building? As said above, shortest trip to the house. Me I put in the 48" wide door around the corner, but it allows me to move long stuff directly through the machine shop into the main garage. What you do in the building, work flow, people flow, and land layout all play in the reason of where to place the door. There is no reason to key the man door placement off the OH door. To many other things have a priority in dictating the placement.

The above is in my build thread below. The man door leads to the machine shop, and on through to the 'dirty' shop.

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no neat sig line

 

[John in OH]

The entry door for my newest machine shed/pole barn is on end. But since the entire front of the shed is covered by three sliding doors there was no other practical location.

That being said, IMHO, the location of the entry door really makes absolutely no functional difference. Locate it in the most convenient access location from your house or driveway.

 

[rieferman]

If you can place a door where it can nicely "nest" when in the open position, that's nice. Usually they swing inwards (else they can get whipped open by wind) so this nesting can help make efficient use of dead spots in your shop. Otherwise, no real rules that I can think of.

 

[rburke65]

Well I placed mine where I can see it from the house....and my grade door swings IN. Try kicking that in some night....or day. But as said, it all opinion.

 

[RPH]

Where you don't have to shovel snow to get in. Nothing worse than snow sliding off the roof as you walk out. Yes, nature will wait for that moment.

 

[sberry]

The one in the pic in post 2 above is decent and on the end like it should be.

 

[eae197]

I have a 30W x 40L garage w/ 12w x 9h overhead door in the center of the gable end towards the house, the service entrance is centerered between the door and the south side of the garage swinging in towards the south wall. It has a window which lends itself well to see if someone comes to the house if the overhead door is down. My service door is a 32" door as I didn't feel a larger one was needed as the overhead door is right there. (a picture really is worth a 1000 words).

 

[NES]

I'm leaning more toward having the entry door next to the garage door. Especially in the winter time. Or loading and unloading items into the garage.

 

[MagKarl]

I put in 3 man doors on mine. Plan the doors for how you intend to use the building.