"Bob F" wrote in message
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Steve B wrote:
"DanG" wrote in message
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Robert, thank you for an intelligent and concise answer. This has
become so extremely rare on usenet. It is the type answer that made
usenet possible and popular.

It is tragic to see the depths to which it has come with politics
and name calling. I miss the usenet we once had.

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DanG

Still, you gotta wonder why people would want to literally push
someone off their stoop so they could come inside. And have the door
open outwards and get rained on. You knock on the door, then have to
jump back or step backwards off the stoop because a door is coming at
your face. Doesn't make any sense to me. Just thought we might have
some LEOs or druggies who might chime in with their take on the
question.

If you have a 3 foot square porch, maybe it's a problem. Otherwise, you
just step back as the door opens, just like you do when you open a regular
one from the inside. The porch roof takes care of any rain issue.

When I installed a door to open outward, it was because it would have
conflicted with another inside door otherwise.

Have a homebrew and relax.

I understand that an outward opening door would not be a problem to people
who lived there, or who were knowledgeable about how the door worked. For
everyone else, people with groceries in their hands, new visitors, small
children who don't understand to get back, and people who might have to step
back and DOWN a step or five on the stoop just to swing the door open so
they could get in, an outward opening door is something that I can not
understand being installed in that configuration. That makes as much sense
as putting an INWARD opening door in a tiny closet so that you could not
open the door once you threw anything in there, nave no floor storage space,
couldn't open the door if anything fell off a shelf and blocked the door,
nor have access to any shelf behind the door. To me, an outward opening
door looks like it belongs on a crack house. They are just not "common",
and makes as much sense as installing shingles from the top down, leaving
the shingles to collect instead of repel water.

Steve

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