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  • High roof van height.

    Posted by John Mackenzie on March 4, 2014 at 2:51 pm

    I’m planning our mezzanine and I need clearance underneath for a High-Roof van, does anybody know the clearance needed without me having to go and measure one?

    I did look here but couldn’t see a measurement for roof clearance?

    Thanks in advance…

    John Mackenzie replied 10 years, 2 months ago 6 Members · 9 Replies
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  • Denise Goodfellow

    Member
    March 4, 2014 at 2:53 pm

    what van? I`m sure they would all be different

  • John Mackenzie

    Member
    March 4, 2014 at 2:57 pm

    Just a generic ‘Sprinter’ type, I’m not going to make it exact but if a high roof Sprinter is, for instance, 3400mm I will allow 400mm on top of that. Anything bigger we can do at a neighbouring garage.

    Other than that thanks for your reply, it was most helpful. 🙂

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    March 4, 2014 at 3:10 pm

    The Jumbo transits and big sprinters are about 2600mm not allowing for roofbars, vents or rooflights. I would suggest allow 10ft to ensure most vans will fit (Not the big box removal vans though)

    Vans have become bigger in recent years. We find the older Jumbo transits will fit in under our roller shutter (which is 2600mm) but newer transits are just fractionally too tall.

  • John Mackenzie

    Member
    March 4, 2014 at 4:32 pm
    quote Phill Fenton:

    The Jumbo transits and big sprinters are about 2600mm not allowing for roofbars, vents or rooflights. I would suggest allow 10ft to ensure most vans will fit (Not the big box removal vans though)

    Vans have become bigger in recent years. We find the older Jumbo transits will fit in under our roller shutter (which is 2600mm) but newer transits are just fractionally too tall.

    I ended up telling them I wanted 3500mm clearance underneath as I found a US site that said the Super-High roof Sprinter is just over 3m high (around 3020mm). Fingers crossed the price comes back at a reasonable amount!

  • Denise Goodfellow

    Member
    March 4, 2014 at 7:12 pm

    Forgot to say, we went to see a small unit the other day, hubby took me to hold the other end of the tape.

    The roller shutter door was just short of 3 metres, the unit was used as a tyre and exhaust place before.

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    March 4, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    think you have the answers there but i would have a look through the outline book and open a few large vans aswell. to to check

  • John O'Sullivan

    Member
    March 5, 2014 at 12:36 am

    well then i suppose the rule of tum would be if your mezz floor is higher than your door height your sorted 😀

  • Ewan Chrystal

    Member
    March 5, 2014 at 1:16 am

    Just looked at a couple of previous vans ive done. HR Transit was 2.58m VW box van was about 3.1m

  • John Mackenzie

    Member
    March 5, 2014 at 10:52 am
    quote John O’Sullivan:

    well then i suppose the rule of tum would be if your mezz floor is higher than your door height your sorted 😀

    We have a pitched roof so it would leave us only being able to use the bit in the middle!!!

    quote Ewan Chrystal:

    Just looked at a couple of previous vans ive done. HR Transit was 2.58m VW box van was about 3.1m

    It looks like the 3500mm I’ve asked for should be OK then, thanks for looking.

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