Horse Barn Door Height
For passenger cards go for at least 9 wide.
Horse barn door height. The average truck or pickup can fit inside an 8 door. Most stall doors either swing or slide open and closed. Stall door manufacturers typically supply a doorway opening of slightly over 7 feet with a 42 to 45 inch width. Many rvs or campers require a minimum of 12 clearance to get inside a door.
Entry doors are for people and can be located wherever you need access to the barn. Generally most standard barn doors are approximately 36 x 84 or 42 x 80 with enough extra lip to overlap most standard door frames 36 x 80 by an inch or so. Although this is not often seen in stables. Most horses can kick as high as 7 feet.
An 8 tall and 4 wide door is ideal with 7 3 5 being the minimum recommended size. A rearing horse can hit his head on a ceiling that is lower than this. Most barn door sizes fall anywhere between 36 wide on the shorter side by 96 tall on the longer side. In other words nothing should protrude down below 12 feet.
Consider these door widths for everyday uses. If you were building the barn from scratch stalls should have a minimum 12 foot clear height. It should be big enough for the horse and handler to safely enter and exit. Another important structural design is the doorway to the stall.
End doors are the large doors usually located on either end of the barn that open onto the barn s center aisle. This offers plenty of room for two horses and handlers to pass by one another safely.