Not just surgeons, we woodworkers are prone to making this kind of mistake too

[peter halle]

Doors = put your butt up against the jamb where you want the hinges (they are called butt hinges after all  [big grin].). then if the door swings open to your right then it is right handed.  If left. then left handed.

On a personal note, cutting off the top vs the bottom of a door once carpet has been installed is a mistake and lesson best learned only once.  If the lesson is remembered will be up in the air.

OOPS.

Peter

 

[Crazyraceguy]

The door cutting thing seems so silly to me? The knob is always closer to the bottom, which should make that easy. Plus, with a frame and panel type door, the lower rail is always wider that the top one.
Then there is the idea that you "should" put a piece of blue tape of something on the part to be cut, before removing it from the jamb.
I have heard of people putting doggy-doors on the wrong end of the door too.

 

[rst]

Don't make the mistake of door handing with architectural hardware handing.  With commercial hardware, specs are determined by facing swing of the door facing you and hinge side, thus pull side= Right hand reverse, left hand reverse and pushes = right hand and left hand.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Don't make the mistake of door handing with architectural hardware handing.  With commercial hardware, specs are determined by facing swing of the door facing you and hinge side, thus pull side= Right hand reverse, left hand reverse and pushes = right hand and left hand.

I thought I understood swing and now that you’ve added “reverse”, I’m confused again. [blink]

 

[rst]

It's referred to as reverse...it actually means pull side

 

[peter halle]

The door cutting thing seems so silly to me? The knob is always closer to the bottom, which should make that easy. Plus, with a frame and panel type door, the lower rail is always wider that the top one.
Then there is the idea that you "should" put a piece of blue tape of something on the part to be cut, before removing it from the jamb.
I have heard of people putting doggy-doors on the wrong end of the door too.

The last set of new bifold doors I installed had one of the sections hinged to its mate upside down.  Mistakes do happen.

Peter

 

[luvmytoolz]

The door cutting thing seems so silly to me? The knob is always closer to the bottom, which should make that easy. Plus, with a frame and panel type door, the lower rail is always wider that the top one.
Then there is the idea that you "should" put a piece of blue tape of something on the part to be cut, before removing it from the jamb.
I have heard of people putting doggy-doors on the wrong end of the door too.

I used to hang a fair amount of doors and quite often would get called out to rentals to replace the door that had fallen apart. Usually they were hollow/honeycomb doors, and the prior fitter had trimmed the door on one end only, but the rails on standard OZ hollow doors is only around 30mm so the door would fairly quickly fail, especially as they would use them as exterior doors.

And I've lost count of the amount of solid timber 4/6 panel doors I've seen hung upside down, these really do my head in whenever I see them!

One of the weirder ones though, was a young couple having trouble working out how to fit screen doors to their house, when I got there I found the builder had installed a meranti frame for a door and 2 sidelights, but he'd fitted it the wrong way around, so the front door opened outwards!

 

[Packard]

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Then there is the idea that you "should" put a piece of blue tape of something on the part to be cut, before removing it from the jamb. […]

I’m pretty sure blue tape had not been invented in 1956 when my dad cut the wrong end (with a hand saw—the only type of saw available back then).

In fact the only type of “scotch tape” we had back the was the clear shiny stuff.  Scotch “invisible tape” hadn’t been invented either.  And if there was any home how-to shows around then, it would have been in black and white on one of the 7 available stations.

And if you are a new home owner and you hadn’t cut the wrong end of anything yet, the you probably wouldn’t take precautions against such eventualities.

All dogs are friendly, until one of them bites you.