Ask about our automatic door opener systems for side hinged carriage garage doors.
Garage door swing in or out.
Some builders have them swing inward to the garage instead of the home for safety reasons.
You can have the convenience of remote operation and the beauty of authentic wood carriage doors.
Doors attached to tight spaces will often swing out to keep someone from getting trapped inside.
Garage to home entry doors may be an exception to the inward swinging rule.
This is highly effective in reducing.
We install doors that open from the garage into the house on either side of the frame.
If you wanted to add a screen door or storm door to the entry you will not be able to do so if the door swings outward.
An example of this would be a closet space storage space to a half bath.
Often a door opening into a garage would interfere with a car entering or a car door opening if left open.
99 9 of the time an entry door from a garage into the house swings in towards the house like any other entry door.
If there s a fire or explosion in the garage the outward swinging door blocks damage to the interior of the home more effectively than an inward swinging door.
Safety is the critical issue when deciding the swing direction.
An alternative twist to the swing out garage doors fiberglass is the use of the bifold garage door which reduces the size of each swing out garage door panel to half its size with alternating hinge orientations creating a collapsible set of doors to either side of the garage door opening.
It is also code that these doors.
Not only does it secure the hinge pins indoors but allows installation of a screen or storm door on the garage side.