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Default left hinge door, right hinge storm

"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
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We've got a left-hinge door, and my husband wants to install the storm
door
right-hinge. Here's a picture of our setup:

http://www.adi.com/~hamilton/house/o...ontOfHouse.jpg

(It shows the old door and storm both of which were installed left-
hinge.)

It seems really inconvenient to me, and I'm trying to talk him out of
it
(although I expect to lose, as I have lost every damned point on our
current project.)

Does anybody have anything that I could use to persuade him?

Thanks,

Cindy Hamilton


Several factors go into making a decision on which way to mount a storm
door.

Prevailing winds. If winter winds will blow across and grab the door out of
your hand and smash it all to heck that is a really good reason to mount the
door backward.

If the handle on the screen door would conflict with the door handle that
would be a good reason to mount it backward also.

If none of the above applies then my opinion is that is a real stupid way to
hinge a storm door.

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Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.