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Post by smasonnc on Apr 14, 2024 12:27:21 GMT
I believe that in order to pass an inspection, the door has to open to the inside. This way a person can always get out of their house if there is a fire. If the door opens outwards and a person has blocked the door with a box or something, then the person inside may not be able to get out. It's a fire hazard. This doesn’t make sense. You could just as easily block your door from the inside. When we bought our new doors we had a choice. Most Florida doors open out and have since I was a kid. |
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Apr 14, 2024 12:54:30 GMT
My front door opens inward but my back door opens outward onto the deck.
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Post by compeateropeator on Apr 14, 2024 13:02:25 GMT
For those that have doors that open outward, I am assuming you just have a door and no screen/storm door? I would not be able to open my door from inside if it opened outward because of my screen/storm door. They would have to be reversed.
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Post by miominmio on Apr 14, 2024 13:06:49 GMT
Norway, not the US, but all front doors open outwards.
edit. It seems you can order doors that open inwards, but it is not recommended.
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Post by miominmio on Apr 14, 2024 13:07:28 GMT
For those that have doors that open outward, I am assuming you just have a door and no screen/storm door? I would not be able to open my door from inside if it opened outward because of my screen/storm door. They would have to be reversed. I haven’t seen a single screen door in Europe. |
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Post by compeateropeator on Apr 14, 2024 13:20:00 GMT
When I think about it the house that I lived in white an exchange student in Sweden the front door was a double door that opened outward and had no screen.
I am not sure that I would have thought to notice that type of detail back in my younger days as there were a lot of other big differences and acclimating that I was trying to do, but I think my old self now would be all over the no screen thing and opening outward. 😆But it was a pretty standard Scandinavian old style house so I assume most were the same.
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Post by Gennifer on Apr 15, 2024 0:21:21 GMT
For those that have doors that open outward, I am assuming you just have a door and no screen/storm door? I would not be able to open my door from inside if it opened outward because of my screen/storm door. They would have to be reversed. No, I don’t have screen doors. |
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Post by melanell on Apr 18, 2024 18:34:13 GMT
I don't recall ever coming across a private home in which a main exterior doors (not screen or storm) opened outward. In fact, it's unusual enough to be immediately noticeable to me if even an interior door opens towards you rather than into the room that you are about to enter. Basement doors open outward (that is, into the main level room, not into the basement stairwell), I assume so that you don't have to lean over the stairs/stairwell to try and grab the door to close it? None of the other doors inside seem to open outward. Good point about staircase doors! Even older homes with doors at the bottom of the main staircase typically have doors that open towards you. I can only ever recall one instance in which this wasn't the case and it was in an old 1700s house where there was one step, then a door, and the door opened away from you onto a small landing, and then there was the rest of the main staircase. (Which was typical of the times and was narrow and twisting. That landing was your chance to decide you didn't really want to bother going up those stairs after all!  ) |
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Post by dawncpa on Apr 19, 2024 9:15:18 GMT
I live in Florida. I’ve had homes that open outward. Some of my friends do also. Current home is inward. Storm/screen doors are not as prevalent in Florida as elsewhere.
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Post by atomicdog on Apr 19, 2024 9:38:31 GMT
Our screen doors open outward, but the main door opens inward.
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