That mean one side you need minimal 8ft clearance. Your front have this much of clearance than ok.

So the question will still be for 16ft autogate can I still use the swing type? I want to use the DCmoto905, can it coupe?

If you refer to "freely" moving in/out, the answer is 16'

Depend your gate design, material use (steel, alloy? aluminium?) All thiese attribute will give difference weight. And look at the motor spec.

I would not recommend not stress the motor above the 90% weight written in the specification.

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It depend on what car you drive, for 18 feet, it can park 2 Camry comfortably, for 16 feet, it only can park 2 Altis or similiar size car comfortably, pls remember that for folding gate , each side will take at least one feet for fold allowance.

Thanks. You look me to up already. Just sharing my thought.

I'm no expert but I was told that anything more than 14 feet ( 7 + 7) is not advisable for swing gate. Also depends on the gate material wrought metal / aluminum. Mine's powder coated aluminum and 13 feet wide. I use a simple and fuss free CEI motor because I dislike motors above ground installation.

Anyway depending on the length of the driveway, using narrower gate will require you to negotiate a little when you enter the gate and try to park 2 C or D segment type cars side by side. I find with a 14 feet wide swing gate, each car is able to go in and park at the designated side by side space in the garage comfortably.

what is the depth of your car park, mine is actually 25ft and wide is 20ft. Hopefully if I use a 14ft swing type gate, I could get in/out easily with 2 cars.

If you have open space, just put few stick, and draw a big box, that way you know what is best gate size.

Too big of a gate, sometime the house look odd. Especially very fancy gate. When i did my house, i was thinking 15', but after much consideration, i made it smaller about 13.5' and parking I have to reverse few or some extra turning. It won't kill me.

You have to consider where the incoming water meter too, and also where the main pipe, if driveway too big does it block the "longkang", water pipe.

Are you referring to the size of the car park itself? What is the size of the house compound? Yes, you need to consider what weikee mentioned about blocking water meter and in some cases the electric meter if it's outside at the main pillar. Especially that you mentioned that your car park is 20 feet wide. weikee also mentioned about the esthetics of the house... Big gate with small front does look weird in terms of proportion. So you need to consider that.

Ok so for my entire front compound, which is the 20ft wide and 25ft depth (this is the max, in actual, minus a few inches). What is the best size for my auto gate if I still insist on getting the swing type. This is taking into consideration on the water meter and also to leave 3 ft to build a mailbox on top of a standard size dustbin room.

I won't be able comment for your house. Need to see the external, your house design and neighborhood. I think you need minimal 14' also depend the car size you drive. 25' depth should be good

You would be able to use swing but just note that your gate would jut out to the road at 7.5-8ft.

Also in order for the swing arm to be able to take the load you would be looking at using the more expensive but lighter aluminum gates. Steel gates would be too heavy in my opinion and put too much stress on the motor arms to open & close gate.

let me just ask what is the maximum size for swing type gate? From there I will adjust accordingly.

This post has been edited by gedebe: Jan 26 2013, 03:26 PM

If you have space and high power motor even 10' per side is ok. All depend how big the open area you have.

One more thing you might need to consider.
Is there any gate size limit for your neighbourhood stated by the local council?

Let me call up Dcmoto dealer to confirm how much weight and length they can take for a swing gate.

Through experience 14 feet swing gate is good enough. 14 half if you like. Any thing bigger than that dont look good for 20 feet wide house. Gate proportionality too big make your house appear to be small, not grant. Try to balance between practicality vs looks. Also if your front driveway and the outside road is not level you may have little problem positioning your cars. Arm gate will take some space vs the traditional ones which install on the ground. You can forget about folding gate. If you really want an easy parking you can opt for sliding type. You can then take the whole 20 feet opening on either side at a time. Not necessary to have a level gate, you can make it a "m".