I'm torn...
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I've been plodding thru drawing all the details for construction of our pond home and I'm kinda jammed up on the overhead doors.
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I've elected to go with the gambrel barn design. The ground level will be all garage and shop. This post regards the ground level area.
I started with 8' tall walls. At best, this would allow a 7' tall overhead door with standard track hardware. Low clearance hdwe only gains 6 more inches of door height. As hoped, this thread produced some additional thought and prompted me to consider taller doors to allow movement of a small tractor with ROPD. The consensus seems to be a 9' tall OH door will give me all the options of convenient use.
I've done some adjustments, but a collection of various limitations (that range from costs to aesthetic architectural appeal) have taken me to 8' as the best option for OH door height.
This is not to say that I cannot make the 9' door height work; I can....I just would rather not. The ONLY reason I would adjust to the 9' OH door height is if the difference between the 8' and 9' is like night and day.
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So....here's what I want to know from you's guysez:
a) other than a small tractor for hobby farm level type of maintenance, what other equipment "height items" should I be thinking of?
b) Does an 8' door height totally preclude ingress/egress of the desired items in question "a" ?
