Garage Door Opens Into Hallway

Anyone had this done.

Garage door opens into hallway.

At the same time keeping a house in pristine guest condition 24 7 is unrealistic. Homes designed in this manner are sometimes duplexes that were converted into single family residences with a living room to the left a dining room to the right bedrooms along the hallway and a kitchen at the back of the house. My house in atlanta is the perfect example of this dilemma. Walls and ceiling the wall between an attached garage and the house living area is required to be minimum 1 2 drywall.

There are requirements for the walls and ceiling door to the house hvac ducts and any other garage house penetrations. When the garage door opens automatically they just walk in. Whether your garage leads into your kitchen mudroom or hallway you want that door to be durable enough to handle daily traffic and reflect your personal style. There s no harm in it simply call the office that is responsible and ask.

I m having a door installed to allow you to access the garage from the house and i was sent some plans showing the door opening inward into the house. Let s take them one at a time. For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into it. Googling seems to bring just installation of doors into existing doorways but we ll need someone to knock a hole and fit the door.

I asked redrow if they could swap the door so it opened outwards into the garage and was told initially that it wouldn t be a problem. This is to prevent doors being opened into a traffic path and possibly blocking or bumping into someone going by. We re in yorkshire and happy if anyone can recommend a company thanks in advance. Long narrow dark hallways are a huge turnoff especially if the hallway constitutes the entire view from the entryway.

A concrete lintel would be sufficient for that size opening but be sure you prop the joist of the ceiling first then install a lintel the same width as the wall brickwork by 75mm thick you also must have if the house floor is the same level as the garage floor two courses of brick step over and a half hour fire door installed. The rule of thumb is to hang interior doors to open into the room not out into a hallway or other common area. For many people the entryway between house and garage is the most used door in the home. It s from the hallway into the garage.

To reiterate the security issue just because you don t have an exterior door that accesses the garage does not make the garage secure. You don t have to say you ve already done it if you re worried about it you could say you are planning on doing some remodeling and ask them if a door opens into a landing if that s ok and see what they say. View all house to garage doors. No one wants to open the door for guests into a big mess.

The only way to know is to ask which is what i d recommend you do.