What do you call a garage door?

[Fernando]

Not even a little bit. Think of business run from a warehouse. You have a large door for your supplies & equipment and a smaller door for your personnel.

If it's a detached garage, I just call it an exterior door to garage.

 

[Mike Ault]

If it's a detached garage, I just call it an exterior door to garage.

If you're happy with that answer then why did you ask? I'll tell you when it makes a difference, when you flag one of those doors for an FHA MPR repair. Then you're going to have to tell some realtor which door you meant by "garage door", overhead or personnel.

 

[Fernando]

chatgpt:

On a residential dwelling, the thing that goes up and down where you park a vehicle is most commonly called a:

Garage Door​

This is the large door that opens—either by lifting up, rolling up, or swinging out—to allow a car into a garage. It can be:

• Manual or automatic (motorized with a remote or wall switch)
• Overhead sectional door (most common)
• Roll-up door
• Tilt-up door

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This poster got me confused.

 

[Mike Ault]

This poster got me confused.

Given the fact that there are several different types of doors used for ingress/egress, one would hope you could narrow it down for the reader with the proper nomenclature. When you go out to do a final inspection for an FHA assignment and discover that they painted the wrong door because you simply said the defect was observed on "the garage door", nobody will be happy, including you.

 

[Fernando]

Given the fact that there are several different types of doors used for ingress/egress, one would hope you could narrow it down for the reader with the proper nomenclature. When you go out to do a final inspection for an FHA assignment and discover that they painted the wrong door because you simply said the defect was observed on "the garage door", nobody will be happy, including you.

I suspect many other appraisers not just me who have never gave second thought of the correct door opening names.

 

[KHS445]

Basically you will see five types of doors on a garage. What they are called may vary regionally around the Country.
- passage door: typical personal entry door usually 30” to 42” wide and 80” to 96” high
- roll-up: generally smaller in size and most frequently used in yard sheds and self-storage buildings
- sliding/barn doors: generally covering larger openings on agricultural and commercial buildings
- overhead: most common style garage door used in residential and smaller applications
- horizontal bi-fold: typical used on airplane hangers

Now if the door is really large and doesn’t fit into one of these categories you could call it a portable wall. And remember a picture is worth a 1,000 words.

Generally, I include between 20 and 40 pictures in my appraisals. It is a lot easier to provide a short description along with a picture than to write a paragraph trying to explain what I have observed.

 

[Tom D]

How about garage car entry door. I don't call it anything, why? A garage door description, why? They can't tell from the picture what it be. Some wasted minutia typing here, or is that now on the new super fast uad3.6., check box question #858.

 

[TC]

Personnel door

Person Door

 

[gregb]

Person Door

So, no family door?

 

[Mike Ault]

Person Door

I beg to differ with you this time my learned, spell checking friend.