Which garage door option would you choose?

9 years ago

Would you add a 9x7 garage door in this space to match the other three 9x7 garage doors or make it a smaller door such as a 5x7? The total available space once removing the storm door would be 12 feet.

The plans inside the garage are for a separate shop area (with an interior door inside the 3 car garage for access), and the garage door for convenience with getting a riding lawn mower and snow blower in an out including extra light in the summer while working in the shop.

The other option would be having a double metal door inside the 3 car garage and then just pulling out one vehicle to get the snow blower or riding mower in and out. It's not practical in the winter time but there are worse things.

The garage doors are HAAS, 200 series, with R17.33. Just want to do what makes most sense and how many people would rather buy a house with a 4 car garage vs. 3.5 garage? I feel it would be half that with a smaller door but can see the practicality with the smaller door too and not needing another garage door opener. And yes, we have 4 vehicles and one will still be parked outside regardless. Which option makes the most sense?

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Bruce in Northern Virginia
9 years ago
You didn't mention where all these garage doors are in relationship to the front of your house. 3 identical doors in a row already sounds almost apartment-like, and adding a 4th begins to look like an auto repair shop. I think you need to do something different on the right side, just to break up the long wall full of garage doors.

Could you design something for that right section of wall that provides access to your snow-blower and other equipment, but makes that wall contrast with the existing set of doors? For example, what about a double set of french doors (four doors total) that have fixed panels on the left and right, and opening panels for the middle two sections. You could open the two middle sections to get a 4-5 foot opening to move equipment in and out. I'm not sure how it would look, but it would certainly give you a lot of light into that area.

Bruce
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stoveguyy
9 years ago
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almost as bad as having 2 double wide doors on a garage. I have 2 9x7 doors with bedrooms above so peak of roof is 20' high. a neighbor has a 3 wide setup like mine and his peak is about 26' high. but his house is $600k, mine is not.
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elkhorn10
Original Author
9 years ago
The other three garage doors have spacing that's approx. 2 feet apart and yes, a row of three. As luck would have it, the 4th garage door ( and we did buy another 9x7) has a wall on the inside that can't be moved and one wall that could be moved. So we are centering it on the shop instead of centering it on the outside of the wall. So on the very end there will be close to a 2 foot distance but on the left side there will be close to 4.5 feet. So I agree with you, spacing it that way will actually look better, and I'll post a picture of the entire garage when it's all done. Thanks for the feedback! Always touch decisions on what do to and what not do as not wanting to hurt resale down the road.