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Looking into ideas for some type of animal barrier to use across my shop doors, I have 3 doors 12 ft wide each. When I did my epoxy floor I put some chain link fencing up across them and it worked great but I just fastened it up on the outside and didn’t need to be using the doors. Looking into something maybe retractable of some sort, I’ve thought about cutting the chain link up into 12 ft pieces and attaching to one side of the door opening , then rolling it up next to the door till I need it, then I could unroll it and use some type of hook system on the other side of the door to hold it across the opening. This is a shop area that won’t see vehicle traffic in and out on a Daily or even weekly basis so putting it up and down won’t happen a lot. Just trying to keep the dogs , cats and my geese out.
 
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Looking into ideas for some type of animal barrier to use across my shop doors, I have 3 doors 12 ft wide each. When I did my epoxy floor I put some chain link fencing up across them and it worked great but I just fastened it up on the outside and didn’t need to be using the doors. Looking into something maybe retractable of some sort, I’ve thought about cutting the chain link up into 12 ft pieces and attaching to one side of the door opening , then rolling it up next to the door till I need it, then I could unroll it and use some type of hook system on the other side of the door to hold it across the opening. This is a shop area that won’t see vehicle traffic in and out on a Daily or even weekly basis so putting it up and down won’t happen a lot. Just trying to keep the dogs , cats and my geese out.
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Does it have to be the full height of the opening? Uline (in Canada) makes retractable gates but they're only about 3-4 feet high. They're like acordian gates for security and I'm sure you could get customs ones for whatever hight you like. They mount on a post so they fold in and then you can turn them out of the opening. I'm sure they'd be fine for the dogs and the geese but probably not the cats? I dunno.. cats are evil.




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A friend of the family put in a second track behind his garage door. He went down to the local door company and picked thru their trash. He found an old fiberglass door, removed the fiberglass and kept the frame work. Put some sort of heavy duty screen on it. If you search for garage door security screens you'll see images of similar doors.

I found this video to give you an idea of what he did.
 
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No I don’t need or really want full height screens, doors are 12 ft tall, the chain link I have strung across is 4 ft tall and that’s plenty. 3-4 ft would be all I’m looking for so I’ll check on the accordion style gates. I’ve seen the full screens but it hadn’t crossed my mind to make a diy one.
 
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We keep our doors open more in AZ, especially when the direct sun is not shining in (early in the AM). We don't seem to have a problem with critters (except field mice, occasionally, and cactus wrens who will make themselves at home via any open door). The ones I worry about are snakes, and I have yet to find an effective barrier against them, short of just leaving the door closed. Plywood barriers work to an extent, but they can still find small crevices/holes to slither through, or just go over. Since we live in an area where the predominant rattler is the Mojave, this is a concern. So far (in 16 years here) we've only encountered one in the garage. That one scared the dickens out of me, as he was under the bottom shelf of my workbench, on the slab, and I was standing right beside him when I heard the distinctive warning.
 
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Thanks a bunch the Saftey barriers look like the ticket. In all my searches I didn’t think to look under saftey barrier, as for small critters I’m not to worried about them, copper heads and some diamond back rattlers is about it for snakes which would take a whole different barrier to keep out. I don’t cool the shop, the way my over head doors are I have two across from each other for drive through bays and with them open it’s a nice breeze even in the hot part of the day. Even today it’s nice enough to have the doors open so don’t even need heat, we don’t have long cold spells like the northern areas so there are times in January and February I may even have the doors open.
 
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Here's what I've done to keep the puppy in (shes' a runner).

Hinged in the middle and the length is the inside dimension on the tracks. The hood latch keeps it engaged.
 

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Some more good ideas to consider, Thanks. I figure I’d put them on the inside and use the posts on each side of the doors to attach to if need be. So a fabric or similar material would last years no more than it would ever see the elements.
 
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I use a volleyball net across the bottom of my 16 ft garage door, mounted with hooks on the inside. It keeps the dogs in when I'm working out there with the door open.

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How about a 100ft. roll of plastic snow fence. Cheap(about$30) and 4 rubber bungees per door. Cut at door sizes should roll around a pvc tube easily for storage.
 
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https://media.tractorsupply.com/is/image/TractorSupplyCompany/3502077?$456$

I used this. You can get smaller or larger openings. Only about $25.00 and 4' x 16'.
 
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My dogs hang out with me in the garage all summer but will take off if another dog walks by so I was in the same boat, this is my solution. Just that black plastic fence roll from Menards and some spare hardware, I have eyelets in the wall and this goes between the garage door frame and wall.

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Do you have a pic of how it is setup in use? Do those hooks sit on the track brackets or the holes in the track?

Glad i stumbled upon this thread. Been thinking about this off and on all summer.


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Do you have a pic of how it is setup in use? Do those hooks sit on the track brackets or the holes in the track?

Glad i stumbled upon this thread. Been thinking about this off and on all summer.


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Yes , I too would like to see a couple with it hooked up. Thanks for the post.
 
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There are probably better ways but I had all of that hardware so I just figured out a way with **** I had, that fence is cheap and rolls up easy. Setup and take down only takes 1 min.
 
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