garage door spacing

[MMILLER]

I am planning on building a garage this summer with a side work shop and a upstairs loft for my wood working tools. I was planning a 3 car at 52' but have decided on 60ft. The back and sides will be mostly concrete blocks as its going to be in the bank. The front will be block to above ground level and wood the rest of the way. I plan on using 10x8 garage doors because the little lady seems to be able to hit just about anything. Here's my question how far apart should I place my doors.

 

[lamarbur]

at my old house, I had a four door gge and three feet between the door openings. My gge was 36 X 70, which left me a nice size work area.. It really comes down to what your needs are and what you think will work. to do it again, I would stretch it out to four ft between door openings (opening, closing car doors, manuevering around inside, etc.. I have an attached two door gge now with tow feet between doors and it causes me problems trying to get around everything inside..

 

[ronjhall]

MMILLER

I have a 22 wide garage that has two 9' X 7' doors. My wife has a terrible time getting out of our Astro van on the passenger side. If I was to do it again there would be 4 ' on the side walls and a minimum of 4' between doors. If each vehicles is parked in the middle of it's door. The vehicle doors should not hit if they are both open.

 

[rockinmywaypa]

my sister is an insurance adjuster, her garage has 9x7 doors. one morning when leaving for work she caught the back corner of her fancy-pants van on the door frame and crunched the van. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif She didn't put it through on a claim and tried her darndest to not let anybody she knew see it until she had it fixed. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MMILLER]

I see what your saying. What about 2 blocks 32" inches and 10' wide doors equall sum of 42" over 9' door. Do you think this will be enough. I dont want to do this then wish I had done it differently latter.

 

[RalphVa]

You definitely need 9' wide doors. Three of mine are this wide. The 4th is only 8'. This is wide enough for my tractor but isn't wide enough for vehicles. Had similar situation in Baton Rouge where the 3rd garage was only 8', not wide enough for vehicles.

Space between doors in both my 2 vehicle garages is only about 14-15". You mainly need space out to the side. I wish we'd put a few more inches to the right (wall) side on the carriage house and added a people door out the side and space to walk beside the vehicle on the right. You need about a minimum of 3' for this.

Ralph

 

[RobS]

We have three 9W X 8H doors on our garage with maybe two feet between each. Between my truck and the van it's ok as nothing else accumulates there. On the other side of the van is the tractor and that aisle seems to be where the kids stuff accumulates. It's too narrow. The other problem is the space between the end stalls and the walls. I wish I had made the whole thing a bit wider.

One other problem we have with the individual doors is access in and out with the vehicles parked in. There isn't much room between the vehicle and the door jamb. Have to pull a vehicle out just to get the trash can out. Not sure what the answer to that is since it's the door width, not the spacing /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[DocHeb]

I used 9' x 9' doors on my garage. This was planned ahead as I built the house 2 years ago so I could get my TC40D (with canopy) inside without lowering the ROPS.

 

[uhmgawa]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Here's my question how far apart should I place my doors. )</font>

Another consideration exists if the wall in which the doors are located
is load bearing. While it isn't difficult to bridge the door frames such that
vertical loads are adequately supported, wall shear strength can be
problematic. Depending upon how much wall surface area remains,
panel sheathing alone may be insufficient. In extreme cases steel can
be used to provide the required sheer strength.