ᐅ Is a garage driveway like this feasible and reasonably practical for everyday use?
Created on: 26 Jul 2022 10:11
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darksun
Hello,
due to structural conditions (slope, boundary, existing masonry), our current garage design looks as follows.
What do you think, is it "reasonably" accessible with a small to mid-size car (Polo, at most Golf)?
Reversing in would be easier and better, driving in forward, hmm...
And yes, this driveway option is not "optimal," but we currently do not see any other solution.
The interior dimension of the garage is planned to be 300 cm (118 inches), with a door width of 270 cm (106 inches), max. 280 cm (110 inches).
Note: The access area (“maneuvering space”) from the street to the garage is level.
(I have already recreated this to scale on paper; a test with a real car in a parking lot is still pending.)
due to structural conditions (slope, boundary, existing masonry), our current garage design looks as follows.
What do you think, is it "reasonably" accessible with a small to mid-size car (Polo, at most Golf)?
Reversing in would be easier and better, driving in forward, hmm...
And yes, this driveway option is not "optimal," but we currently do not see any other solution.
The interior dimension of the garage is planned to be 300 cm (118 inches), with a door width of 270 cm (106 inches), max. 280 cm (110 inches).
Note: The access area (“maneuvering space”) from the street to the garage is level.
(I have already recreated this to scale on paper; a test with a real car in a parking lot is still pending.)
FloHB123 schrieb:
The entrance and exit to the garage must be easy to manage. Otherwise, sooner or later you won’t use it for your car anymore.
Who wants to have to maneuver so much every time? Well, people are just different...
OF COURSE, it’s nice to have a “straight” driveway to a garage, no doubt about that.
BUT if for technical construction reasons and due to the slope it’s not possible otherwise (like in our case, the architect and we went through MANY ideas and carefully considered them), then I prefer to have a garage where you can just barely fit a smaller car in (and with a slightly bigger one, you just need to adjust once) rather than giving up the garage entirely.
Apparently, there are different opinions on this.
Just now I tested it with our carport which has existed for 20 years, it has an entry width of only 250cm (98 inches), with a depth of 580cm (228 inches). A small car (Polo) fits in without any adjustments, with our Passat just once by reversing.
So for 20 years, when parking (in rain, late at night, etc.) we have always had to reverse once, and NEVER did I (or my wife) think of parking outside because it would be too inconvenient.
FloHB123 schrieb:
What will you do if your car ends up being significantly larger? Our car will permanently be smaller, so that works fine (especially since the garage will be moved 50cm (20 inches) to the side as explained one week ago to make the maneuvering space bigger). Nice of you not to believe us.
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