Front Garage Door - side-hanging or 'up and over'?

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The current one we have is old-fashioned, it moves on a roller which is a faff - you open the side door, hook it into the rail and heave it around noisily. Now the wood is warped after decades and I don't suppose they sell those now with good reason.
Before a new gargage door is installed I guess I'd have to get someone to take up that rail along the base of the concrete floor.
A builder made the point that garages tend to be too narrow for cars because these old 1930s properties were in the day of Austin 7s and so on - narrow little runarounds that could take a smaller garage! No way to renovate them or widen them now if you're up against the neighbours.

He also pointed out that it's best to have a garage without moveable parts unless they beak. This makes sense - except, surely if you have a side-hinged door that makes it hard to open with the car in the drive? You'd have to park a way back. And move the car if you just needed to get into the garage, to check the meter (not done very often I know.) This didn't occur to me in our chat. Surely an 'up and over' garage is really the only option in most cases? Yet I do see garages with side-hinged doors along our street. Any thoughts?

I prefer side hinge. Easier to use, can open one side only.

Another open is a roller shutter door.

We have side-hinged, with the leading door narrower than the other one so we can still get in when the car's parked reasonably close to the garage.

We didn't want an up-and-over garage door because it would prevent us from hanging things like bikes and ladders from the ceiling in the front half of the garage.

As a bonus, basic framed, ledged and braced timber doors were much cheaper than "proper" garage doors.

Ours is sectional, so you can still open it when parked very close
It's electric too - DH used to be able to click a button when he came home on his motorbike so he could ride it straight in, same with kids and bikes
www.hormann.co.uk/home-owners-and-renovators/garage-doors/sectional-garage-doors/

@CasperGutman

We have side-hinged, with the leading door narrower than the other one so we can still get in when the car's parked reasonably close to the garage.

We didn't want an up-and-over garage door because it would prevent us from hanging things like bikes and ladders from the ceiling in the front half of the garage.

As a bonus, basic framed, ledged and braced timber doors were much cheaper than "proper" garage doors.

Hi @CasperGutman, that sounds like a good idea - but I can't find any links or pictures of it. Do you have a photo you might upload so I can see what it looks like, or a link to the website?

Can't get a photo right now as the doors are covered up due to building work. It just looks like a pair of side hinged doors, (like these: www.leaderdoors.co.uk/lpd-doors-external-solid-redwood-unfinished-framed-ledged-braced-garage-door-rgarflb-p55743/s165922) but different sizes. Ours are painted, but they could be oiled or varnished I suppose.

I've not seen it on a garage to be honest, but unequal door pairs are pretty common elsewhere e.g. fire doors in schools, hospitals. It seemed sensible on our driveway as the car would overhang the road if parked far enough back to open a door which covered half the opening.

It's easy enough to achieve, just buy two timber doors of different widths and have whoever's hanging them proceed as normal, making sure they know which door should open first!