Which layout is the most functional?

[tlmartin84]

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I am not sure which route to go. The one on the left saves me a door, and leaves me a nice corner for stashing my mower and a few things.

I will have a 12' shed roof down the right side of these that I am hoping I can box a third of it in for a machine shop some day.

The car on the lift shown is 20' long while the other is 16'

What do you think?

 

[rust buster]

Just my two cents, but I'd go with the one on the right and change over to one large garage door. That divider between the two doors will always be in the way. One large door may not be much different $$-wise than a large one.

 

[tlmartin84]

That is a 10' door at the lift and a 12' in the working bay.

The thing that kind of kills one door is the lift........... you have that one post setting there that limits what you can get past it. To get any kind of clearance I feel like I'd need a minimum of a 22' door which is extremely high.

If any of you have a single door and a lift please chime in.

I need/want at least a 12' door to get farm machinery in.

 

[Nemesis88]

I realize that this is on the spendy side, but have you considered a hydraulic door? These have been the rage here in the Midwest for the last 15 years. Almost every shop and storage building has at least one on it for large machinery. Essentially a section of the wall is tilted open by hydraulic rams. I believe the widest one Icon Doors has made to date is just over 90 feet. Just an option, or you could always build one yourself, many of my friends have taken this route. Here is one of the companies that offers these type of doors:

http://www.icondoors.com

 

[NHBandit]

I responded to your post on the HAMB but I'll repost it here. Is there a reason you HAVE to have the overhead doors on the short side of the building ? Here's my 30x40. I have plenty of room and if I eliminated the office area I could easily add a paint booth. Just another thought to consider. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=188161

 

[tlmartin84]

NH, thanks for the response. They locked it down on the HAMB.

The main reason I kept them on the ends was to eliminate headers over the doors on the sides, and so I could go down to 10' walls and still get a 12' tall door in it (Mainly for large farm equipment I often work on as well).

I do a lot of fabricating work, I am always welding something. Once I have the paint booth I will be doing much more of it. I do a lot of furniture and stuff on the side, and I would rather rebuild my stuff, blast it and paint versus buying new (be it cars, mowers, tractors etc). I often try to find good used equipment and rebuild it rather than buy newer Chinese junk.

 

[tlmartin84]

I figure the paint booth will be used for storage, pretty easy to pull one out when you need it for paint.

 

[csp]

To get any kind of clearance I feel like I'd need a minimum of a 22' door which is extremely high.

You lost me with that statement. You're saying that you would need a 22' tall door? If so, that doesn't make any sense.

 

[pattenp]

I have a single 18' door and the lift is set to the right on a slight angle to get the left post to center of the door. This was to allow for a clear parking space on the left side of the garage.

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[tlmartin84]

22' wide ...... too high as in cost

 

[zkdiesel]

22' wide ...... too high as in cost

I have a 16'tall by 28' wide door on farm shop. It was well worth it for a hd overhead door

 

[zkling]

The one on the right. Less needing to pay attention to move vehicles in and out. The layout on the right is a straight shot for both. Instead of the left with a parallel parking job and a off angle lift entry/exit. Just my 2¢