Is there a concensus on placement of bifold closet door pulls?
On the pivot door,or the sliding door? If on the sliding panel,in the middle of the panel, or on the edge? Which edge?
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About 1 to 1 1/2" from the edge (hinge side) on the leading door.
Makes sense to me, thanks. I have seen pulls all over the place on bifold doors._______________________________________________________________
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On the pivot door, near the edge with the hinges that carry the sliding door.
Bill
Ditto,
On the pivot door, near the edge with the hinges that carry the sliding door.
Geoff
"Is there a concensus"
I put them in the center of the lead panel, not the pivot panel
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Aww, what the heck, I'll chime in, too.
Use 4 handles and put them in both places recommended. Even use an big Astragal (sp?) in the middle so it looks like two sets of tiny double doors.
Is there a concensus on......
Hell we cant even get a concensus on wheather the earth is round and you want one on this topic!
Doug
Oh, I forgot, I put them in the center of the lead panel.
Edited 5/2/2007 7:05 am ET by DougU
sigh...what was I thinking...
I was worried about this. Maybe I should have had Ruth start a poll:
'How many HD shoppers does it take to put knobs on a bifold?'
Maybe a vote? So far knobs on pivot are tied with knobs on traveler, who wants to break the tie??
Like herding cats...:-)
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Consensus in this group, never gonna happen.
I'll even throw out a third option that works for me.
No knobs at all. My boys room has a set of bifold doors and I don't want my three year old in the closet too much, so at this point in time, there's no knobs at all on the doors.
This probably doesn't help you does it?“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
I don't want my three year old in the closet too much, so at this point in time, there's no knobs at all on the doors.
Oh, you're good! You got the wife buyin' that?
I gots to pick yer brain. What other "reasons" are you using for unfinished projects around the house?
; )
J. D. ReynoldsHome Improvements
Oh, I've got an excuse for everything. She buys about half of them (some of them are even hers)
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I'm the shoemaker in the fable about the cobbler's kids and their lack of shoes.
You are not alone brotha.
For a long time my biggest nightmare was the fact that my house didn't have a front door. Well.....the door was there....but barely. I was in the house almost ten years before I made good. Two of my kids were born not knowing a front door had a handle.
Funny note....when we bought this house, my brother and his wife gave us a brass door knocker as a house warming gift, which I didn't immediately install, because I planned to change the door out at some point. When I finally did, he commented on the beautiful knocker. He swore he didn't recall giving it to us.
J. D. ReynoldsHome Improvements
"Two of my kids were born not knowing a front door had a handle."
Does this mean you have kids who were born already knowing that a front door has a handle???
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Yes. Very bright kids dontcha know.
wizeazz!
J. D. ReynoldsHome Improvements
Placing the pull on the pivot door makes sense to me. At least that what I did the one and only time I've made a bifold door.
My reasoning was that you'd want to pivot the "attached" door; the sliding door simply trails behind.
Below is a photo. This matches the two-panel doors throughout the house (when it's closed, anyway).
Allen
Now here is something I don't often say.
"Do exactly what Piffin says!"
Have a good day
Cliffy
Oooh....I hope we move onto roof venting next! LOL
For aesthetic purposes, I place a knob on each panel, centered on the stiles that are joined by hinges. This gives the look of more tradional twin doors.
I try and stay away from the wooden knobs included with the bifold kits. If the doors are large enough, I use dummy knobs that match the rest of the house (or at least room). For smaller doors, I look for a scaled down version.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
Johnson Hardware shows all of the on the "sliding panel". And in the cneter.
Here is an example.
http://www.johnsonhardware.com/200fd.htm
http://www.johnsonhardware.com/images/200fd/200componentplacement.JPG
Now on this one it has a picture of them on hinge edge of the non-pivot panel. (It does not have sliding panel). But the drawings show it on in the center.
And this this type of hardware a knob on the pivoting unit would not work as it would not be accessible when the door is all the way open. And might ding the walls.
http://www.johnsonhardware.com/1601.htm
http://www.johnsonhardware.com/images/1601/full%20access%20jpe.JPG
On my own house the knobs where installed on the leading edge of the sliding panels. THAT IS THE WRONG PLACES. You need to put some "english" on the knobs to get them open.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
The closer to the middle of the door set, the better.
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