Submitted by Teddy_canuck t3_yf1leu in DIY
ezbake_fpv t1_iu1bdla wrote
Would you like to know how to determine a doors "swing"? It's simple. Stand in the doorway, with your back against the hinge-side door jam. If the door opens to your Left it is "Left-Handed", to the Right would be "Right-Handed". Next if the door opens into the room space it is " inswing", if it opens away from the room space it is "outswing". (Ex: if you were entering a room from a hall way, and as you move to open the door, you notice the door handle on the right side of the door, and that you will need to push the door to open it, that door would be left-handed inswing door.) Hope this helps.
bms42 t1_iu1nfou wrote
Good info. I'll just add that inswing and outswing are simply orientation. A right handed door is a right handed door - in or out swing is just how you mount it. Important for the build spec, but irrelevant to ordering.
digital_wino t1_iu1u7im wrote
As someone that sells door hardware, I'll tell you right now that we hate the "butt to butt" method mentioned here. This is NOT how hardware companies hand doors.
The way that hardware manufacturers hand doors is if you are standing outside of the room, what side are the hinges on? If they are on the left, it's a left handed door. Doing it this way correctly orientates levers to face the correct way. The "butt to butt" method will change the handing off the door simply based on which way the door swings.
elpajaroquemamais t1_iu3h41j wrote
Uh, no. The hinge placement can change based on which side of the door you are standing on. Are you telling me that standing on the other side of a door you’d call it left hand vs right hand? If you are standing outside a room and the hinge is on the right, but it opens toward you, it’s a left hand door. You’re just wrong.
digital_wino t1_iu3hv0m wrote
So to be clear, you think all of these door handing charts are wrong?
elpajaroquemamais t1_iu3i7x8 wrote
No, I’m saying two things, people were accurately describing what right hand doors and left hand doors are. No one said anything about reverse. I’m also saying that as a contractor that has worked for at least a dozen other contractors and ordered and installed hundreds of doors, no one uses that language. For inside houses it simply doesn’t matter. A left hand door and a right hand reverse are the same thing. For outside doors, you specify inswing or outswing in addition to the hand. You might sell doors, but you’ve clearly never installed one.
digital_wino t1_iu3jpec wrote
I don't sell doors, I sell locks. And I've installed many of them. I know that inswing vs outswing doesn't matter on most interior doors, unless of course it has a mortise lock. Which is pretty common in high end homes.
elpajaroquemamais t1_iu3jsd6 wrote
Sounds like we agree. To a degree it matters for locks but most are reversible so it still really doesn’t.
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