slowTA
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I've been planning my garage for too long and now I'm rethinking the overhead door placement.
The garage will be 30x50x12 with doors on the 30 foot side facing the street, one will be 15 foot wide and the other 10 foot wide. The 10 foot width was determined by the width of my open car trailer, 102". The 15 foot wide door was basically the biggest that would fit based on what the pole building co. said, which was about 1.5 feet from the edge and between doors. Both doors will be 10 feet tall.
Now that I've thought about it too much, parking a trailer with 9" to spare on either side isn't going to be a walk in the park. I can do it, repeatedly, but it is tight and I can picture it getting annoying if I have to do it a few times a month.
I've thought about swapping the doors but then I don't need such a wide door for my other cars, even my truck would fit in a 9 foot door. Which means I could put a 16 foot door on the other side. Which would make parking 3 cars wide a bit easier.
I've also read that filling the garage with doors leaves you with little room for tools/benches/storage, but with the depth I'm going for I'm planning a work bench in the back that should fit nicely and storage can be up high around the perimeter since I'm only going to need the height for the lift in the center back part of the garage.
One of my friends has sworn up and down that I'll hate myself for not putting doors along the 50 foot side instead. The slope of the backyard would make this expensive and make parking the truck/trailer combo inside impossible.
I'm open to almost any suggestion, except putting the doors on the 50 foot side.
The garage will be 30x50x12 with doors on the 30 foot side facing the street, one will be 15 foot wide and the other 10 foot wide. The 10 foot width was determined by the width of my open car trailer, 102". The 15 foot wide door was basically the biggest that would fit based on what the pole building co. said, which was about 1.5 feet from the edge and between doors. Both doors will be 10 feet tall.
Now that I've thought about it too much, parking a trailer with 9" to spare on either side isn't going to be a walk in the park. I can do it, repeatedly, but it is tight and I can picture it getting annoying if I have to do it a few times a month.
I've thought about swapping the doors but then I don't need such a wide door for my other cars, even my truck would fit in a 9 foot door. Which means I could put a 16 foot door on the other side. Which would make parking 3 cars wide a bit easier.
I've also read that filling the garage with doors leaves you with little room for tools/benches/storage, but with the depth I'm going for I'm planning a work bench in the back that should fit nicely and storage can be up high around the perimeter since I'm only going to need the height for the lift in the center back part of the garage.
One of my friends has sworn up and down that I'll hate myself for not putting doors along the 50 foot side instead. The slope of the backyard would make this expensive and make parking the truck/trailer combo inside impossible.
I'm open to almost any suggestion, except putting the doors on the 50 foot side.