you need to look at the road is wide enough when your big gate is swing open for you to enter the house with ease...my area a lot of people which i dont quite understand why they park outside the house when they have space in side the house. Their parking causes difficulty to drive my car into the house if I go for swing type. Therefore i opt for folding...

And with folding type when i have visitor that park in front of my gate, I can still open the gate.

16feet medium car (city, civic) can squeeze in but need to be careful. Bigger car like Camry, Accord are no way. probably need another 1 feet each side.

Just my experience.

This post has been edited by mywii: Jan 28 2013, 09:49 AM

slightly more than 90degree

sometime we save but end up dont like it or not suitable then what's the point....

I was using a swing gate before and when my gate guy show me the new ones I asked what happen to the center stopper and lock. you can ask them to add the stopper lock in the center. Your swing door will be stopped at the stopper in the center and a metal rod will drop down and lock. new model dont use this but they do add if you want. However, I finally decided to use folding coz I did my new gate wider and hence swing gate will open quite out which is inconvenient to turn into my porch and cant park in front of my house.

yup you do have an issue with folding gate...unless you dont mind the pilar not the same size at each side of the gate.

I dont put dustbin outside coz there are dogs. And in my area, the collector comes quite punctual on alternate days. So we just put out the rubbish in the morning. My contractor before did advice to "plant" a dustbin metal stand and put the bin on top where dogs cant topple or reach the top. You may want to consider that.

whatever it is please check with your contractor and gate guy....dont forget your letter box and also in case you want 3phase power box (if your house is not on 3 phase now)..