Barndominium/Shop or "real" House?

[WinterDeere]

I see that your overhead door track follows the slope of roof trusses. Was it a problem to have it installed that way? Do you know if there are limitation on what the slope can be? I would like to do something similar on a steel frame building where the slope is 5:12. Yours looks less steep, at least on the inside.

My barn has a roof pitch above 10:12, and the prior owner had the doors track that way. I re-tracked them horizontally when I added a second floor, but they worked fine previously.

Door spring was torsion type, and doors were old-school vertical planked type with horizontal cleats, so they went up and down as a solid panel, not hinged sections. I guess that's one of the advantages of tracking like that, as a solid panel door might clip something on the way up/down, if tracked horizontally to a low ceiling.

 

[ETD66SS]

I see that your overhead door track follows the slope of roof trusses. Was it a problem to have it installed that way? Do you know if there are limitation on what the slope can be? I would like to do something similar on a steel frame building where the slope is 5:12. Yours looks less steep, at least on the inside.

The pitch of the ceiling is 1.5:12. There was no issues having the tracks installed that way. I'm not sure at what pitch it would become a problem if at all. I'm sure the spring/jackshaft components are different if a pitch is greater and the door weight has to be held up in the open position more than say horizontal tracks.