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Door Knob orientation question…

SYSOP | Posted in General Discussion on February 21, 2006 03:32am

I’m in the process of redoing the first floor bathroom and new door knobs got purchased and now we are having an “issue” with which way to set the door knobs. DW is calling these egg Knob handles and we are just not sure which why they should go. Vertical or horizontal? Might seem like a trivial issue but well lets just say I need to get a professional answer… Thanks -M

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    coonass | Feb 21, 2006 03:39am | #1

    They go whatever way she wants them to go!

    I set 'em verticle.

    KK

  2. joeh | Feb 21, 2006 03:41am | #2

    SWMBO doesn't know?

    They go which ever way she wants them eventually.

    Joe H

  3. dustinf | Feb 21, 2006 03:46am | #3

    I set 'em verticle.

    Ditto.

    My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
  4. RedRobertson | Feb 21, 2006 04:01am | #4

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      PeteDraganic | Feb 21, 2006 04:30am | #5

      My input seems redundant at this point but one more vote for verticle.

      The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -Albert Einstein

      http://www.peteforgovernor.com

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        CloudHidden | Feb 21, 2006 04:34am | #6

        >My input seems redundant at this point but one more vote for verticle.I'll disagree, and vote for vertical.

      2. SHG | Feb 21, 2006 02:31pm | #14

        sure, politicians always telling ya how to vote.  Don't listen to these guys. They go vertical.  Except in Ohio.

        SHGFor every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.

        -H.L. Mencken

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          SYSOP | Feb 21, 2006 04:29pm | #15

          and once again Breaktime solves the issue... Thanks all!

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            BossHog | Feb 21, 2006 05:18pm | #17

            "once again Breaktime solves the issue..."

            ...Along with a lot of the usual BS.

            (-:
            In the city, you can only see from horizon the horizon what man has made.
            In the country, you can see from horizon to horizon what God has made.

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            SYSOP | Feb 21, 2006 05:33pm | #18

            Yes but that is the beauty of Breaktime you get the real info filtered through the BS...

  5. Stevefaust | Feb 21, 2006 04:55am | #7

    all depends on how's wearing the pants.  Im my house, when i comes to decisions like this, or paint colors, or where to hang what pictures, where the couch is going to go...   I have absoutely no say

  6. DougU | Feb 21, 2006 04:58am | #8

    Dont listen to all those puzzy whiped guys, they go vertical!

    Doug

    1. RalphWicklund | Feb 21, 2006 05:38am | #9

      Hey. Don't go asking those hard question here. Go straight to Home Depot and look at the displays. Seeing is believing.

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        bstcrpntr | Feb 21, 2006 06:05am | #10

        verticle

        thats how they go 'cause she said so

        and I have never set them any other way.An inch to short.  That's the story of my life !

        bstcrpntr ---   I hope to grow into this name.

  7. BryanSayer | Feb 21, 2006 06:47am | #11

    My old house ones are vertical. I really like the feel. I think they are much easier to turn that way.

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    Sphere | Feb 21, 2006 07:01am | #12

    Depends on how far she is from the floor...

    Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

     

  9. QCInspector | Feb 21, 2006 01:53pm | #13

    One on each side of the door.

    1. TrimButcher | Feb 21, 2006 05:54pm | #19

      One on each side of the door.

      The top and bottom sides? Or the hinge and latch sides?

      Regards,

      Tim Ruttan

      1. QCInspector | Feb 21, 2006 09:48pm | #20

        ;-) Inside / Outside....Frontside / Backside....Yourside / Myside....Goodside / Badside....Rightside / Wrongside....BEWARE OF THE DARKSIDE..........

        1. Danno | Feb 21, 2006 10:17pm | #21

          A house I was working on in MS the other day had the curvey handled latches on the storm door (lotta good the storm door did--two feet of storm surge still ruined the house!). They went horizontal, but I seemed to have a lot of trouble using that door--turned out it was upside down, so I was trying to push it down to open and it had to be lifted up. To do it right, the whole door would have had to be rehung from the opposite side, and then it would have opened towards you with no way to get around it on the narrow deck.

  10. mike4244 | Feb 21, 2006 04:33pm | #16

    Take them back, exchange them for round knobs,then install the round knobs in the horizontal position.

    mike

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