garage door size and placements

[tx_mike]

I am laying out my future shop build and going back and fourth with size and placement of the garage doors. building will be about 30 wide and used to store my boat on one side and general work shop on the other half (cars, wood working, some welding). ideally i was thinking 2 separate doors, but have looked at one large wide door.

looking for feedback pros/cons of one single large(18-20ft wide).

 

[sberry]

This is difficult especially in smaller shops but,,, increase the building width by at least 6 ft and better yet 10. The reason is so much wall space is lost cause a guy cant get 3 cars wide in 30 ft and not crowd himself along walls, no room for boxes or shelves or to park a mower.
My ideal here would be 40 ft wide with 2 12 wide doors in the gable end.

 

[hh76]

Seperate doors.

If you know that one spot will always be storage, put a 9' door there so the vehicle/boat goes in and out straight. That way you won't have to keep a path clear for maneuvering vehicle into its spot.

 

[dave*99]

This is difficult especially in smaller shops but,,, increase the building width by at least 6 ft and better yet 10. The reason is so much wall space is lost cause a guy cant get 3 cars wide in 30 ft and not crowd himself along walls, no room for boxes or shelves or to park a mower.
My ideal here would be 40 ft wide with 2 12 wide doors in the gable end.

I agree with this. I went 36' wide and have a 16' door and a 10' door.
2 cars park inside the 16' door and the 10' door is on the lift bay.

 

[tx_mike]

Thanks... i have no intention of parking 3 cars wide. i have limited my building size to hopefully fit my budget and hope i dont have to go smaller.

 

[marksland]

On our 30' wide we went with a 12' wide door on the gable end and a 9' wide on the left side. This allows us to be able to move things in and out of the shop without having to move vehicles and machines out of the way.

 

[rburke65]

My shop is larger but I am SO glad I went with a 12' wide door. And yes ..... 2 doors!

 

[naturalgas]

I have 36' gable end . Town code only allowed three garage doors, residential . I went with a 18x10. It is on order.Just finishing closing up my new build. Town bld. Inspector did let me sneak in a 6x8 on right front side for tractor mower etc. can't be seen from street.


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[Kevin54]

I have a 28' wide addition and I put in two 10' wide doors. I have 4' space in the middle and 2' on each side. I wanted to have the 4' in the middle for more support as the corners would be supported by the side walls.

So if you go with 10' wide doors on a 30' wide garage, you could go with 3', 4', 3', on your front wall.

I have/had 9' wide doors on my existing garage, and they were tight. Not only with my truck, but also with a car trailer. I'm glad I went with the 10' wide on my addition.

 

[DLNorth]

New Guy here,

But, we have a 26x33 garage, with a 9x18 door, plus service door in 26 ft gable end, love it, wouldn't have a smaller door for anything. If you have the width for a second 10 ft door, go for it.

Dan

 

[sberry]

An advantage of putting doors in the end wall is not much support is needed. No heavy headers needed to carry trusses like sidewall designs. The corners of a builing do not need to as stong as sides, a corner post only carries 1/4 roof load.