Door

A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress

(entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure. The created
opening in the wall is a doorway or portal. A door's essential and
primary purpose is to provide security by controlling access to the
doorway (portal). Conventionally, it is a panel that fits into the
doorway of a building, room, or vehicle. Doors are generally made
of a material suited to the door's task. They are commonly attached
by hinges, but can move by other means, such as slides or
counterbalancing.

The door may be able to move in various ways (at angles away
from the doorway/portal, by sliding on a plane parallel to the frame,
by folding in angles on a parallel plane, or by spinning along an
axis at the center of the frame) to allow or prevent ingress or egress.
In most cases, a door's interior matches its exterior side. But in
other cases (e.g., a vehicle door) the two sides are radically A door
different.

Many doors incorporate locking mechanisms to ensure that only some people can open them (such as with
a key). Doors may have devices such as knockers or doorbells by which people outside announce their
presence. (In some countries, such as Brazil, it is customary to clap from the sidewalk to announce one's
presence.) Apart from providing access into and out of a space, doors may have the secondary functions of
ensuring privacy by preventing unwanted attention from outsiders, of separating areas with different
functions, of allowing light to pass into and out of a space, of controlling ventilation or air drafts so that
interiors may be more effectively heated or cooled, of dampening noise, and of blocking the spread of fire.

Doors can have aesthetic, symbolic, ritualistic purposes. Receiving the key to a door can signify a change
in status from outsider to insider.[1] Doors and doorways frequently appear in literature and the arts with
metaphorical or allegorical import as a portent of change.

History
The earliest recorded doors appear in the paintings of Egyptian tombs, which show them as single or
double doors, each of a single piece of wood. People may have believed these were doors to the afterlife,
and some include designs of the afterlife. In Egypt, where the climate is intensely dry, doors weren't framed
against warping, but in other countries required framed doors—which, according to Vitruvius (iv. 6.) was
done with stiles (sea/si) and rails (see: Frame and panel), the enclosed panels filled with tympana set in
grooves in the stiles and rails. The stiles were the vertical boards, one of which, tenoned or hinged, is
known as the hanging stile, the other as the middle or meeting stile. The horizontal cross pieces are the top
rail, bottom rail, and middle or intermediate rails.

The most ancient doors were made of timber, such as those referred to in the Biblical depiction of King
Solomon's temple being in olive wood (I Kings vi. 31–35), which were carved and overlaid with gold. The
doors that Homer mentions appear to have been cased in silver or brass. Besides olive wood, elm, cedar,
oak and cypress were used. A 5,000-year-old door has been found by archaeologists in Switzerland.[2]
Ancient doors
were hung by
pintles at the top
and bottom of
the hanging
stile, which
worked in
sockets in the
lintel and sill,
the latter in
some hard stone
Stone door in Hampi (India) A massive door socket from Persepolis (modern-
such as basalt or
day Iran)
granite. Those
Hilprecht found
at Nippur, dating
from 2000 BC, were in dolerite. The tenons of the gates at Balawat were sheathed with bronze (now in the
British Museum). These doors or gates were hung in two leaves, each about 2.54  m (100  in) wide and
8.2 m (27 ft) high; they were encased with bronze bands or strips, 25.4 cm (10.0 in) high, covered with
repoussé decoration of figures. The wood doors would seem to have been about 7.62 cm (3.00 in) thick,
but the hanging stile was over 360 millimetres (14 in) diameter. Other sheathings of various sizes in bronze
show this was a universal method adopted to protect the wood pivots. In the Hauran in Syria where timber
is scarce, the doors were made of stone, and one measuring 1.63 by 0.79 m (64 by 31 in) is in the British
Museum; the band on the meeting stile shows that it was one of the leaves of a double door. At Kuffeir near
Bostra in Syria, Burckhardt found stone doors, 2.74 to 3.048 m (8.99 to 10.00 ft) high, being the entrance
doors of the town. In Etruria many stone doors are referred to by Dennis.

Ancient Greek and Roman doors were either single doors, double
doors, triple doors, sliding doors or folding doors, in the last case
the leaves were hinged and folded back. In the tomb of Theron at
Agrigentum there is a single four-panel door carved in stone. In the
Blundell collection is a bas-relief of a temple with double doors,
each leaf with five panels. Among existing examples, the bronze
doors in the church of SS. Cosmas and Damiano, in Rome, are
important examples of Roman metal work of the best period; they
are in two leaves, each with two panels, and are framed in bronze.
Those of the Pantheon are similar in design, with narrow horizontal
panels in addition, at the top, bottom and middle. Two other bronze
doors of the Roman period are in the Lateran Basilica.

The Greek scholar Heron of Alexandria created the earliest known

automatic door in the first century AD during the era of Roman
Roman folding doors at Pompeii, Egypt.[3] The first foot-sensor-activated automatic door was made
from the first century AD, similar with
in China during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui (r. 604–618),
Neoclassical doors from the 19th
who had one installed for his royal library.[3] Gates powered by
century
water featured in illustrations of the automatons of the Arab
inventor Al-Jazari.[4][5]

Copper and its alloys were integral in medieval architecture. The doors of the church of the Nativity at
Bethlehem (6th century) are covered with plates of bronze, cut out in patterns. Those of Hagia Sophia at
Constantinople, of the eighth and ninth century, are wrought in bronze, and the west doors of the cathedral
of Aix-la-Chapelle (9th century), of similar manufacture, were probably brought from Constantinople, as
also some of those in St. Marks, Venice. The bronze doors on the Aachen Cathedral in Germany date back
to about 800 AD. Bronze baptistery doors at the Cathedral of Florence were completed in 1423 by
Ghiberti.[6] (For more information, see: Copper in architecture).

Of the 11th and 12th centuries there are numerous examples of

bronze doors, the earliest being one at Hildesheim, Germany
(1015). The Hildesheim design affected the concept of Gniezno
door in Poland. Of others in South Italy and Sicily, the following
are the finest: in Sant'Andrea, Amalfi (1060); Salerno (1099);
Canosa di Puglia (1111); Troia, two doors (1119 and 1124); Ravello
(1179), by Barisano of Trani, who also made doors for Trani
cathedral; and in Monreale and Pisa cathedrals, by Bonano of Pisa.
In all these cases the hanging stile had pivots at the top and bottom.
The exact period when the builder moved to the hinge is unknown,
but the change apparently brought about another method of
strengthening and decorating doors—wrought-iron bands of
various designs. As a rule, three bands with ornamental work
constitute the hinges, with rings outside the hanging stiles that fit on
vertical tenons set into the masonry or wooden frame. There is an
early example of the 12th century in Lincoln. In France, the
Roman wall painting of an ornate
door, in the Villa Boscoreale (Italy),
metalwork of the doors of Notre Dame at Paris is a beautiful
from the first century AD
example, but many others exist throughout France and England.

In Italy, celebrated doors include those of the Battistero di San

Giovanni (Florence), which are all in bronze—including the door
frames. The modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano (1330), and
of the east doorway by Ghiberti (1425–1452), are of great beauty. In the north door (1402–1424), Ghiberti
adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects as Andrea Pisano, but in the east
door, the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs that illustrate Scripture subjects and innumerable
figures. These may the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.

Doors of the mosques in Cairo were of two kinds: those externally cased with sheets of bronze or iron, cut
in decorative patterns, and incised or inlaid, with bosses in relief; and those of wood-framed with interlaced
square and diamond designs. The latter design is Coptic in origin. The doors of the palace at Palermo,
which were made by Saracenic workmen for the Normans, are fine examples in good preservation. A
somewhat similar decorative class of door is found in Verona, where the edges of the stiles and rails are
beveled and notched.

In the Renaissance period, Italian doors are quite simple, their architects trusting more to the doorways for
effect; but in France and Germany the contrary is the case, the doors being elaborately carved, especially in
the Louis XIV and Louis XV periods, and sometimes with architectural features such as columns and
entablatures with pediment and niches, the doorway being in plain masonry. While in Italy the tendency
was to give scale by increasing the number of panels, in France the contrary seems to have been the rule;
and one of the great doors at Fontainebleau, which is in two leaves, is entirely carried out as if consisting of
one great panel only.

The earliest Renaissance doors in France are those of the cathedral of St. Sauveur at Aix (1503). In the
lower panels there are figures 3 ft (0.91 m). high in Gothic niches, and in the upper panels a double range
of niches with figures about 2  ft (0.61  m). high with canopies over them, all carved in cedar. The south
door of Beauvais Cathedral is in some respects the finest in France; the upper panels are carved in high
relief with figure subjects and canopies over them. The doors of the church at Gisors (1575) are carved
with figures in niches subdivided by classic pilasters superimposed. In St. Maclou at Rouen are three
magnificently carved doors; those by Jean Goujon have figures in
niches on each side, and others in a group of great beauty in the
center. The other doors, probably about forty to fifty years later, are
enriched with bas-reliefs, landscapes, figures and elaborate
interlaced borders.

NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center

contains the four largest doors. The Vehicle Assembly Building
was originally built for the assembly of the Apollo missions' Saturn
vehicles and was then used to support Space Shuttle operations.
Each of the four doors are 139 meters (456 feet) high.[7]

The oldest door in England can be found in Westminster Abbey

and dates from 1050.[8] In England in the 17th century the door
panels were raised with bolection or projecting moldings,
sometimes richly carved, around them; in the 18th century the
moldings worked on the stiles and rails were carved with the egg- Glass door decorated with Art
and-dart ornament. Nouveau elements, from the Singer
House (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Short visual history of doors
 Fragment from an Ancient Greek door carved on the Ancient Roman
Ancient Egyptian Hercules sarcophagus from the Kayseri bronze doors of
tomb door, circa Archaeology Museum (Kayseri, Turkey) the Curia Julia,
2150 –1981 BC, now in the
in the Basilica of St.
Metropolitan John Lateran
Museum of Art (Rome)
(New York City)

Indian Mughal teak wood Traditional Byzantine door of Islamic door

and brass door Chinese folding the Little decorated with
doors in The Old Metropolis geometric
Museum of (Athens, Greece) patterns in
Wisteria Morocco
(Changzhou,
China)
Romanesque Gothic door of the Russian door in Saint Basil's Cathedral
door of the Saint St Magnus (Moscow)
Nicholas' Church Cathedral
in Barfrestone (Kirkwall,
(Kent, England) Scotland)

Brâncovenesc Renaissance Baroque door in Rococo door

door of the Antim door in Gdańsk the Palace of on Rue
Monastery (Poland) Versailles Monsieur-le-
(Bucharest, (Versailles, Prince (Paris)
Romania), with a France)
pisanie above it
Louis XVI door of Neoclassical African door with A decorated door
the Hôtel Mortier de painted lock, late 19th or from the
Sandreville, on Rue double-leaf early 20th century, Gandantegchinle
des Francs- door, 1790s, wood with iron, from n Monastery
Bourgeois (Paris) by Pierre Burkina Faso, in the (Mongolia)
Rousseau, in Brooklyn Museum
the Cleveland (New York City)
Museum of Art
(US)

Gothic Revival door Egyptian Revival door of a

on Rue Malebranche mausoleum in the Forest Home
(Paris) Cemetery (Wisconsin, US)
 Rococo Revival door of the Hôtel Romanian 19th century Beaux-Arts
de Breteuil (Paris) Revival door of Eclectic Classicist door of the
the Școala door on Rue La Cantacuzino
Centrală National Bruyère (Paris) Palace
College on (Bucharest)
Strada Icoanei
(Bucharest)

Art Nouveau metal Stripped Classicist Art Deco door in

and glass door in door of the Royal Angers (France)
Nancy (France), with Palace of Bucharest,
a big transparent now the National
awning above it Museum of Art of
Romania

Design and styles

There are many kinds of doors, with different purposes. The most common type is the single-leaf door,
which consists of a single rigid panel that fills the doorway. There are many variations on this basic design,
such as the double-leaf door or double door and French windows, which have two adjacent
independent panels hinged on each side of the doorway.

A half door or Dutch door[9] or stable door is divided in half horizontally. Traditionally the
top half opens so a worker can feed a horse or other animal while the bottom half remains
closed to keep the animal inside. This style of door has been adapted for homes.
Saloon doors are a pair of lightweight swing doors often found in public bars, and
especially associated with the American west. Saloon doors, also known as cafe doors,
often use bidirectional hinges that close the door
regardless of which direction it opens by
incorporating springs. Saloon doors that only extend
from knee-level to chest-level are known as batwing
doors.
A blind door, Gibb door, or jib door has no visible
trim or operable components. It blends with the
adjacent wall in all finishes, to appear as part of the
wall—a disguised door.[10]

A French door consists of a frame around one or

more transparent or translucent panels (called lights
or lites) that may be installed singly, in matching
pairs, or even as series. A matching pair of these
doors is called a French window, as it resembles a
door-height casement window. When a pair of
French doors is used as a French window, the
application does not generally include a central
mullion (as do some casement window pairs), thus
allowing a wider unobstructed opening. The frame
typically requires a weather strip at floor level and
where the doors meet to prevent water ingress. An
espagnolette bolt may let the head and foot of each Door of the Florence Baptistery called The
door be secured in one movement. The slender Gates of Paradise, 1425–1452, gilded
window joinery maximizes light into the room and bronze, height: 5.2 m
minimizes the visual impact of the doorway joinery
when considered externally. The doors of a French
window often open outward onto a balconet,
balcony, porch, or terrace and they may provide an
entrance to a garden.
A louvered door has fixed or movable wooden fins
(often called slats or louvers) which permit open
ventilation while preserving privacy and preventing
the passage of light to the interior. Being relatively
weak structures, they are most commonly used for
wardrobes and drying rooms, where security is of
less importance than good ventilation, although a
very similar structure is commonly used to form
window shutters. Double louvred doors were
introduced into Seagate, built in Florida in 1929 by
Gwendolyn and Powel Crosley, that provided the
desired circulation of air with an added degree of
privacy in that it is impossible to see through the fins
in any direction.
A composite door is a single leaf door that can be
solid or with glass, and is usually filled with high
density foam. In the United Kingdom, composite
doors are commonly certified to BS PAS 23/24[11]
and be compliant with Secured by Design, an official
UK police initiative.[12] Entrance of the Kunsthistorisches
Museum (Vienna, Austria)
A steel security door is one which is made from
strong steel, often for use on vaults and safe rooms
 to withstand attack. These may also be fitted with wooden outer panels to resemble standard
internal and external doors.[13]
A flush door is a completely smooth door, having plywood or MDF fixed over a light timber
frame, the hollow parts of which are often filled with a cardboard core material. Skins can
also be made out of hardboards, the first of which was invented by William H Mason in 1924.
Called Masonite, its construction involved pressing and steaming wood chips into boards.
Flush doors are most commonly employed in the interior of a dwelling, although slightly
more substantial versions are occasionally used as exterior doors, especially within hotels
and other buildings containing many independent dwellings.
A moulded door has the same structure as that of flush door. The only difference is that the
surface material is a moulded skin made of MDF. Skins can also be made out of hardboards.
A ledge and brace door often called board and batten doors are made from multiple vertical
boards fixed together by two or more horizontal timbers called ledges (or battens) and
sometimes kept square by additional diagonal timbers called braces.
A wicket door is a pedestrian door built into a much larger door allowing access without
requiring the opening of the larger door. Examples might be found on the ceremonial door of
a cathedral or in a large vehicle door in a garage or hangar.
A bifold door is a unit that has several sections, folding in pairs. Wood is the most common
material, and doors may also be metal or glass. Bifolds are most commonly made for
closets, but may also be used as units between rooms. Bi-fold doors are essentially now
doors that let the outside in. They open in concert; where the panels fold up against one
another and are pushed together when opened. The main door panel (often known as the
traffic door) is accompanied by a stack of panels that fold very neatly against one another
when opened fully, which almost look like room dividers.[14]
A sliding glass door, sometimes called an Arcadia door or patio door, is a door made of
glass that slides open and sometimes has a screen (a removable metal mesh that covers the
door).
Australian doors are a pair of plywood swinging doors often found in Australian public
houses. These doors are generally red or brown in color and bear a resemblance to the
more formal doors found in other British Colonies' public houses.
A false door is a wall decoration with the appearance of a window. In ancient Egyptian
architecture, this was a common element in a tomb, the false door representing a gate to the
afterlife. They can also be found in the funerary architecture of the desert tribes (e.g., Libyan
Ghirza).
A doormat (also called door mat) is a mat placed typically in front of or behind a door of a
home. This practice originated so that mud and dirt would be less prevalent on floors inside
a building.

Types

Hinged

Most doors are hinged along one side to allow the door to pivot away from the doorway in one direction,
but not the other. The axis of rotation is usually vertical. In some cases, such as hinged garage doors, the
axis may be horizontal, above the door opening.

Doors can be hinged so that the axis of rotation is not in the plane of the door to reduce the space required
on the side to which the door opens. This requires a mechanism so that the axis of rotation is on the side
other than that in which the door opens. This is sometimes the case in trains or airplanes, such as for the
door to the toilet, which opens inward.
A swing door has special single-action hinges that allow it to open
either outward or inward, and is usually sprung to keep it closed.

French doors are derived from the French design called the
casement door. It is a door with lites where all or some panels
would be in a casement door. A French door traditionally has a
moulded panel at the bottom of the door. It is called a French
window when used in a pair as double-leaved doors with large
glass panels in each door leaf, and in which the doors may swing
out (typically) as well as in.

A double-acting door, patented in 1880 by the Dutch-American

engineer Lorenz Bommer, swings both ways. They are often used
in areas where many people are likely to pass through, such as
restaurant kitchens.[15][16]

A Dutch door or stable door consists of two halves. The top half
operates independently from the bottom half. A variant exists in
which opening the top part separately is possible, but because the
lower part has a lip on the inside, closing the top part, while leaving
the lower part open, is not.

A garden door resembles a French window (with lites), but is

more secure because only one door is operable. The hinge of the
operating door is next to the adjacent fixed door and the latch is
located at the wall opening jamb rather than between the two doors
or with the use of an espagnolette bolt.

Sliding

It is often useful to have doors which slide along tracks, often for
space or aesthetic considerations.

A bypass door is a door unit that has two or more sections. The
doors can slide in either direction along one axis on parallel
overhead tracks, sliding past each other. They are most commonly
used in closets to provide access one side of the closet at a time.
Doors in a bypass unit overlap slightly when viewed from the front The main types of door mechanisms
so they don't have a visible gap when closed.

Doors which slide inside a wall cavity are called pocket doors. This type of door is used in tight spaces
where privacy is also required. The door slab is mounted to roller and a track at the top of the door and
slides inside a wall.

Sliding glass doors are common in many houses, particularly as an entrance to the backyard. Such doors
are also popular for use for the entrances to commercial structures, although they are not counted as fire exit
doors. The door that moves is called the "active leaf", while the door that remains fixed is called the
"inactive leaf".

Rotating
A revolving door has several wings or leaves, generally four, radiating from a central shaft, forming
compartments that rotate about a vertical axis. A revolving door allows people to pass in both directions
without colliding, and forms an airlock maintaining a seal between inside and out.

A pivot door, instead of hinges, is supported on a bearing some distance away from the edge, so that there
is more or less of a gap on the pivot side as well as the opening side. In some cases the pivot is central,
creating two equal openings.

High-speed

A high-speed door is a very fast door some with opening speeds of up to 4  m/s, mainly used in the
industrial sector where the speed of a door has an effect on production logistics, temperature and pressure
control. High-speed cleanroom doors, usually consisting of a transparent material on a stainless steel frame,
are used in pharmaceutical industries to allow passage between work areas while admitting minimal
contaminants. The powerful high-speed doors have a smooth surface structure and no protruding edges,
allowing minimal particle retention and easy cleaning.

High-speed doors are made to handle a high number of openings, generally more than 200,000 a year.
They must be built with heavy-duty parts and counterbalance systems for speed enhancement and
emergency opening function. The door curtain was originally made of PVC, but was later also developed
in aluminium and acrylic glass sections. High-speed refrigeration and cold-room doors with excellent
insulation values have also been introduced for green and energy-saving requirements.

In North America, the Door and Access Systems Manufacturing Association (DASMA) defines high-
performance doors as non-residential powered doors characterized by rolling, folding, sliding or swinging
action, that are either high-cycle (minimum 100 cycles/day) or high-speed (minimum 20 inches
(508 mm)/second), and two out of three of the following: made-to-order for exact size and custom features,
able to withstand equipment impact (break-away if accidentally hit by vehicle), or able to sustain heavy use
with minimal maintenance.

Automatic

Automatically opening doors are powered open and closed either by electricity, spring, or both. There are
several methods by which an automatically opening door is activated:

1. A sensor detects traffic is approaching. Sensors for automatic doors are generally:
A pressure sensor – e.g., a floor mat which reacts to the pressure of someone standing
on it.
An infrared curtain or beam which shines invisible light onto sensors; if someone or
something blocks the beam the door is triggered open.
A motion sensor which uses low-power microwave radar for the same effect.
A remote sensor (e.g. based on infrared or radio waves) can be triggered by a portable
remote control, or is installed inside a vehicle. These are popular for garage doors.
2. A switch is operated manually, perhaps after security checks. This can be a push button
switch or a swipe card.
3. The act of pushing or pulling the door triggers the open and close cycle. These are also
known as power-assisted doors.
In addition to activation sensors, automatically opening doors are generally fitted with safety sensors. These
are usually an infrared curtain or beam, but can be a pressure mat fitted on the swing side of the door. The
safety sensor prevents the door from colliding with an object by stopping or slowing its motion. A
mechanism in modern automatic doors ensures that the door can open in a power failure.

Other

Up-and-over or overhead doors are often used in garages.

Instead of hinges, it has a mechanism, often counterbalanced or
sprung, so it can lift and rest horizontally above the opening. A
roller shutter or sectional overhead door is one variant of this
type.

A tambour door or roller door is an up-and-over door made of

narrow horizontal slats that rolls up and down by sliding along
vertical tracks; it is typically found in entertainment centres and
cabinets. Sectional doors for industry

Rebated doors, a term chiefly used in Britain, are double doors

with a lip or overlap (i.e. a rabbet) on the vertical edge(s) where they meet.
Fire-rating can be achieved with an applied edge-guard or astragal molding
on the meeting stile, in accordance with the American fire door.

Evolution Door is a trackless door that moves in the same closure level as
a sliding door. Invented by Austrian artist Klemens Torggler, is a further
development of the Drehplattentür that normally consists of two rotatable,
connected panels which move to each other when opening.[17]

Applications
Architectural doors have numerous general and specialized uses. Doors are
generally used to separate interior spaces (closets, rooms, etc.) for
convenience, privacy, safety, and security reasons. Doors are also used to Evolution Door, 2013
secure passages into a building from the exterior, for reasons of climate
control and safety.

Doors also are applied in more specialized cases:

A blast-proof door is constructed to allow access to

a structure as well as to provide protection from the
force of explosions.
A garden door is any door that opens to a backyard
or garden. This term is often used specifically for
French windows, double French doors (with lites
instead of panels), in place of a sliding glass door.
The term also may refer to what is known as patio
doors.[18]
A jib door is a concealed door, whose surface Transparent awning in Luxembourg, above
reflects the moldings and finishes of the wall. These a door
were used in historic English houses, mainly as
servants' doors.[19]: 101 
 A pet door (also known as a cat flap or dog door) is an opening in a door to allow pets to
enter and exit without the main door's being opened. It may be simply covered by a rubber
flap, or it may be an actual door hinged on the top that the pet can push through. Pet doors
may be mounted in a sliding glass door as a new (permanent or temporary) panel. Pet doors
may be unidirectional, only allowing pets to exit. Additionally, pet doors may be electronic,
only allowing animals with a special electronic tag to enter.
A trapdoor is a door that is oriented horizontally in a ceiling or floor, often accessed via a
ladder.
A water door or water entrance, such as those used in Venice, Italy, is a door leading from
a building built on the water, such as a canal, to the water itself where, for example, one may
enter or exit a private boat or water taxi.[20][21]

Construction and components

Paneling

Panel doors, also called stile and rail doors, are built with frame and
panel construction. EN 12519 is describing the terms which are
officially used in European Member States. The main parts are
listed below:

Stiles – Vertical boards that run the full height of a door

and compose its right and left edges. The hinges are
mounted to the fixed side (known as the "hanging stile"),
and the handle, lock, bolt or latch are mounted on the
swinging side (known as the "latch stile").
Rails – Horizontal boards at the top, bottom, and
optionally in the middle of a door that join the two stiles
and split the door into two or more rows of panels. The
"top rail" and "bottom rail" are named for their positions. Parts of a panel or glazed door
The bottom rail is also known as "kick rail". A middle rail
at the height of the bolt is known as the "lock rail", other
middle rails are commonly known as "cross rails".
Mullions – Smaller optional vertical boards that run
between two rails, and split the door into two or more
columns of panels, the term is used sometimes for
verticals in doors, but more often (UK and Australia) it
refers to verticals in windows.
Muntin – Optional vertical members that divide the door
into smaller panels.
Panels – Large, wider boards used to fill the space
between the stiles, rails, and mullions. The panels
typically fit into grooves in the other pieces, and help to Joint between midrail, lockrail and a
keep the door rigid. Panels may be flat, or in raised gunstock stile
panel designs. Can be glued in or stay as a floating
panel.
Light – a piece of glass used in place of a panel, essentially giving the door a window.

Board battening
Also known as ledges and braced, board and batten doors are an
older design consisting primarily of vertical slats:

Planks – Boards wider than 9" that extend the full height
of the door, and are placed side by side filling the door's
width.
Ledges and braces – Ledges extend horizontally across
the door which the boards are affixed to. The ledges hold
the planks together. When diagonally they are called
braces which prevent the door from skewing. On some
doors, especially antique ones, the ledges are replaced
with iron bars that are often built into the hinges as
extensions of the door-side plates.

Ledging and bracing

As board and Batten doors. A frame and filled door

Impact resistance

Impact-resistant doors have rounded stile edges to dissipate energy

and minimize edge chipping, scratching and denting. The formed
edges are often made of an engineered material. Impact-resistant
doors excel in high traffic areas such as hospitals, schools, hotels
and coastal areas.

A hollow door with one face removed

Frame and fill

This type consists of a solid timber frame, filled on one face, face with tongue and groove boards. Quite
often used externally with the boards on the weather face.

Flushing

Flushing of a door means the door is flush with the face of the wall on either side.

Moulding
Stiles and rails – As above, but usually smaller. They form the outside edges of the door.
Core material: Material within the door used simply to fill space, provide rigidity and reduce
druminess.
Hollow-core – Often consists of a lattice or honeycomb made of corrugated cardboard,
extruded polystyrene foam, or thin wooden slats. Can also be built with staggered
wooden blocks. Hollow-core molded doors are commonly used as interior doors.[22]
Lock block – A solid block of wood mounted within a hollow-core flush door near the
bolt to provide a solid and stable location for mounting the door's hardware.
Stave-core – Consists of wooden slats stacked upon one another in a manner similar to
a board & batten door (though the slats are usually thinner) or the wooden-block hollow-
 core (except that the space is entirely filled).
Solid-core – Can consist of low-density particle board or foam used to completely fill the
space within the door. Solid-core flush doors (especially foam-core ones) are commonly
used as exterior doors because they provide more insulation and strength.
Skin – The front and back faces of the door are covered with HDF/MDF skins.

Swing direction

Generally, door swings, or handing, are determined while standing on the outside or less secure side of the
door while facing the door (i.e., standing on the side requiring a key to open, going from outside to inside,
or from public to private).

It is important to get the hand and swing correct on exterior doors, as the transom is usually sloped and
sealed to resist water entry, and properly drain. In some custom millwork (or with some master carpenters),
the manufacture or installer bevels the leading edge (the first edge to meet the jamb as the door closes) so
that the door fits tight without binding. Specifying an incorrect hand or swing can make the door bind, not
close properly, or leak. Fixing this error is expensive or time-consuming. In North America, many doors
now come with factory-installed hinges, pre-hung on the jamb and sills.

While facing the door from the outside or less secure side, if the hinge is on the right side of the door, the
door is "right handed"; or if the hinge is on the left, it is "left handed". If the door swings toward you, it is
"reverse swing"; or if the door swings away from you, it is "normal swing".

In other words:

In the United States:

Left hand hinge (LHH): Standing outside (or on the less secure side, or on the public
side of the door), the hinges are on the left and the door opens in (away from you).
Right hand hinge (RHH): Standing outside (or on the less secure side), the hinges are
on the right and the door opens in (away from you).
Left hand reverse (LHR): Standing outside the house (or on the less secure side), the
hinges are on the left, knob on right, on opening the door it swings toward you (i.e. the
door swings open toward the outside, or "outswing")
Right hand reverse (RHR): Standing outside the house (i.e. on the less secure side),
the hinges are on the right, knob on left, opening the door by pulling the door toward you
(i.e. open swings to the outside, or "outswing")
In Europe:
One of the oldest DIN standard applies: DIN 107 "Building construction; identification of
right and left side" (first 1922–05, current 1974–04) defines that doors are categorized
from the side where the door hinges can be seen. If the hinges are on the left, it is a
DIN Left door (DIN links, DIN gauche), if the hinges are on the right, it is a DIN Right door
(DIN rechts, DIN droite). The DIN Right and DIN Left marking are also used to categorize
matching installation material such as mortise locks (referenced in DIN 107). The
European Standard DIN EN 12519 "Windows and pedestrian doors. Terminology"
includes these definitions of orientation.
In Australia:
The "refrigerator rule" applies, and a refrigerator door is not opened from the inside. If the
hinges are on the right then it is a right hand (or right hung) door. (Australian Standards
for Installation of Timber Doorsets, AS 1909–1984 pg 6.)
 In public buildings, exterior doors open to the outside to comply with applicable fire
codes. In a fire, a door that opens inward could cause a crush of people who can't open
it.[23]

Main materials

New exterior doors are largely defined by the type of materials they are made from: wood, steel, fiberglass,
UPVC/vinyl, aluminum, composite, glass (patio doors), etc.

Wooden doors – including solid wood doors – are a top choice for
many homeowners, largely because of the aesthetic qualities of
wood. Many wood doors are custom-made, but they have several
downsides: their price, their maintenance requirements (regular
painting and staining) and their limited insulating value[24] (R-5 to
R-6, not including the effects of the glass elements of the doors).
Wood doors often have an overhang requirement to maintain a
warranty. An overhang is a roof, porch area or awning that helps to
protect the door and its finish from UV rays.

Steel doors are another major type of residential front doors; most
of them come with a polyurethane or other type of foam insulation
core – a critical factor in a building's overall comfort and efficiency.
Steel doors mostly in default comes along with frame and lock
system, which is a high cost efficiency factor compared to wooden
doors.
A neoclassical wooden iron door in
Most modern exterior walls provide thermal insulation and energy the Palace of São Cristóvão, the
efficiency, which can be indicated by the Energy Star label or the former main residence of the
Passive House standards. Premium composite (including steel Brazilian imperial family with gilded
doors with a thick core of polyurethane or other foam), fiberglass imperial cyphers of Emperor Pedro II
and vinyl doors benefit from the materials they are made from, of Brazil
from a thermal perspective.

Insulation and weatherstripping

But there are very few door models with an R-value close to 10 (the R-value measures how well a barrier
resists the conductive flow of heat). This is far less than the R-40 walls or the R-50 ceilings of super-
insulated buildings – Passive Solar and Zero Energy Buildings. Typical doors are not thick enough to
provide very high levels of energy efficiency.

Many doors may have good R-values at their center, but their overall energy efficiency is reduced because
of the presence of glass and reinforcing elements, or because of poor weatherstripping and the way the door
is manufactured.
Door weatherstripping is particularly important for energy efficiency. German-made passive house doors
use multiple weatherstrips, including magnetic strips, to meet higher standards. These weatherstrips reduce
energy losses due to air leakage.

Dimensions

United States

Standard door sizes in the US run along 2" increments. Customary sizes have a height of 78 or 80 in (2,000
or 2,000 mm) and a width of 18, 24, 26, 28, 30 or 36 in (460, 610, 660, 710, 760 or 910 mm).[25] Most
residential passage (room to room) doors are 30 in × 80 in (760 mm × 2,030 mm).

A standard US residential (exterior) door size is 36  in ×  80  in (910  mm ×  2,030 mm). Interior doors for
wheelchair access must also have a minimum width of 36 in (910 mm). Residential interior doors, as well
as the doors of many small stores, offices, and other light commercial buildings, are often somewhat smaller
than the doors of larger commercial buildings, public buildings, and grand homes. Older buildings often
have smaller doors.

Thickness: Most pre-fabricated doors are 1 3/8" thick (for interior doors) or 1 3/4" (exterior).

Closets: small spaces such as closets, dressing rooms, half-baths, storage rooms, cellars, etc. often are
accessed through doors smaller than passage doors in one or both dimensions but similar in design.

Garages: Garage doors are generally 84" (7 feet; 2134 mm) or 96" (8 feet; 2438 mm) wide for a single-car
opening. Two car garage doors (sometimes called double car doors) are a single door 192" (16  feet;
4877  mm). Because of size and weight these doors are usually sectional. That is split into four or five
horizontal sections so that they can be raised more easily and don't require a lot of additional space above
the door when opening and closing. Single piece double garage doors are common in some older homes.

Europe

Standard DIN doors are defined in DIN 18101 (published 1955–07, 1985–01, 2014–08). Door sizes are
also given in the construction standard for wooden door panels (DIN 68706–1). The DIN commission
created the harmonized European standard DIN EN 14351-1 for exterior doors and DIN EN 14351-2 for
interior doors (published 2006–07, 2010–08), which define requirements for the CE marking and provide
standard sizes by examples in the appendix.

The DIN 18101 standard has a normative size (Nennmaß) slightly larger than the panel size (Türblatt) as
the standard derives the panel sizes from the normative size being different single door vs double door and
molded vs unmolded doors. DIN 18101/1985 defines interior single molded doors to have a common panel
height of 1985 mm (normativ height 2010 mm) at panel widths of 610 mm, 735 mm, 860 mm, 985 mm,
1110 mm, plus a larger door panel size of 1110 mm x 2110 mm.[26] The newer DIN 18101/2014 drops the
definition of just five standard door sizes in favor of a basic raster running along 125 mm increments where
the height and width are independent. Panel width may be in the range 485  mm to 1360 mmm, and the
height may be in the range of 1610 mm to 2735 mm.[27] The most common interior door is 860  × 1,985.

Doorways
When framed in wood for snug fitting of a door, the doorway
consists of two vertical jambs on either side, a lintel or head jamb
at the top, and perhaps a threshold at the bottom. When a door has
more than one movable section, one of the sections may be called a
leaf. See door furniture for a discussion of attachments to doors
such as door handles, doorknobs, and door knockers.

Lintel – A horizontal beam above a door that supports the

wall above it. (Also known as a header)
Jambs or legs – The vertical posts that form the sides of
a door frame, where the hinges are mounted, and with
which the bolt interacts.
Door casing door casing, door frame or chambranle – Is
formed by the lintel and the two jambs.
Sill (for exterior doors) – A horizontal sill plate below the
door that supports the door frame. Similar to a Window A diagram illustrating the
Sill but for a door components of a panel door
Threshold (for exterior doors) – A horizontal plate below
the door that bridges the crack between the interior floor
and the sill.
Doorstop – a thin slat built inside the frame to prevent a door from swinging through when
closed, an act which might break the hinges.
Architrave – The decorative molding that outlines a door frame, called an Archivolt if the door
is arched. Sometimes called brickmold in North America.
 Front door of a house with A door knocker with putti Pair of door knobs in the
typical door furniture: a holding a cartouche, in Galerie dorée de la Banque
letter box, door knocker, a Paris de France of the Hôtel de
latch and two locks Toulouse (Paris)

Hinge of a door of the St

Pancras railway station
(London)

Related hardware

Door furniture or hardware refers to any of the items that are attached to a door or a drawer to enhance its
functionality or appearance. This includes items such as hinges, handles, door stops, etc.

Safety
Door safety relates to prevention of door-related accidents. Such accidents take place in various forms, and
in a number of locations; ranging from car doors to garage doors. Accidents vary in severity and frequency.
According to the National Safety Council in the United States, around 300,000 door-related injuries occur
every year.[28]

The types of accidents vary from relatively minor cases where doors cause damage to other objects, such as
walls, to serious cases resulting in human injury, particularly to fingers, hands, and feet. A closing door can
exert up to 40 tons per square inch of pressure between the hinges. Because of the number of accidents
taking place, there has been a surge in the number of lawsuits. Thus organisations may be at risk when car
doors or doors within buildings are unprotected.
According to the US General Services Administration, discussing child care centres:

...It is essential that children's fingers be protected from being crushed or otherwise injured in
the hinge space of a swinging door or gate. There are simple devices available to attach to the
hinge side, ensuring that this type of injury does not occur. As the door closes, the hand is
pushed out of the opening, away from harm. In addition, young children are vulnerable to
injury when they fall against the other (hinged) side of doors and gates, striking projected
hinges. Piano hinges are not recommended to alleviate this problem as they tend to sag over
time with heavy use. Instead, an inexpensive device fitting over hinges is available on the
market and should be used to ensure safety...[29]

Opening direction

Whenever a door is opened outward, there is a risk that it could strike another person. In many cases this
can be avoided by architectural design which favors doors which open inward to rooms (from the
perspective of a common area such as a corridor, the door opens outward). In cases where this is infeasible,
it may be possible to avoid an accident by placing vision panels in the door.[30]

Inward-hinged doors can also escalate an accident by preventing people from escaping the building: people
inside the building may press against the doors, and thus prevent the doors from opening. Related accidents
include:

Grue Church fire: Grue, Norway in 1822

Victoria Hall Disaster: Sunderland, UK in 1883
Glen Cinema disaster: Paisley, UK in 1929
Cocoanut Grove fire: Boston, USA in 1942

Today, the exterior doors of most large (especially public) buildings open outward, while interior doors
such as doors to individual rooms, offices, suites, etc. open inward, as do many exterior doors of houses,
particularly in North America.

Stops

Doorstops are simple devices that prevent a door from contacting and possibly damaging another object
(typically a wall). They may either absorb the force of a moving door, or hold the door against unintended
motion.

Guards

Door guards (hinge guards, anti-finger trapping devices, or finger guards) help prevent finger trapping
accidents, as doors pose a risk to children, especially when closing. Door guards protect fingers in door
hinges by covering the hinge-side gap of an open door, typically with a piece of rubber or plastic that wraps
from the door frame to the door. Other door safety products eject the fingers from the push side of the door
as it closes.

There are various levels of door protection. Anti-finger trapping devices in front may leave the rear hinge
pin side of doors unprotected. Full door protection uses front and rear anti-finger trapping devices and
ensures the hinge side of a door is fully isolated. A risk assessment of the door determines the appropriate
level of protection.

There is also handle-side door protection, which prevents the door from slamming shut on the frame, which
can cause injury to fingers/hands.

Glass

Glass doors pose the risk of unintentional collision if a person is unaware there is a door, or thinks it is open
when it is not. This risk is greater with sliding glass doors because they often have large single panes that
are hard to see. Stickers or other types of warnings on the glass surface make it more visible and help
prevent injury. In the UK, Regulation 14 of the Workplace (Health and Safety Regulations) 1992 requires
that builders mark windows and glass doors to make them conspicuous. Australian Standards: AS1288 and
AS2208 require that glass doors be made of laminated, tempered, or toughened glass.

Fire

Buildings often have special purpose doors that automatically close to prevent the spread of fire and smoke.
Fire doors that are improperly installed or tampered with can increase risk during a fire. Sometimes, door
closer mechanisms ensure fire doors remain closed.

An additional fire risk is that doors may prevent access to emergency services personnel coming to fight the
fire and rescue occupants, etc. Fire fighters must use door breaching techniques in these situations to gain
access.

Doors in public buildings often have panic bars, which open the door in response to anyone pressing
against the bar from the inside in the event of a fire or other emergency.

Automobiles

Vehicle doors present an increased risk of trapping hands or fingers due to the proximity of occupants. In
some car accidents, injury to occupants from the movement of car doors occurs.

Bicyclists cycling on public roads risk dooring: collision with an abruptly opened vehicle door. Because
cyclists often ride near parked cars alongside the road, they are particularly vulnerable.

Aircraft

In aircraft, doors from pressurized sections to un-pressurized compartments or the exterior can pose risk if
they open during flight. Air may rush out of the fuselage with sufficient velocity to eject unsecured
occupants, cargo, and other items, and drastic pressure differences between compartments may make
aircraft floors or other interior partitions fail. These concerns are typically mitigated with plug doors, which
open in toward the pressurized compartment and are forced into their door frames by the difference in air
pressure. Most cabin doors are of this type, but cargo doors typically open outward to maximise interior
space, and require hefty locking mechanisms to overcome internal pressure and prevent explosive
decompression.

A number of aircraft accidents have involved outward-opening door failures, including:

American Airlines Flight 96 (1972) (design flaw)

 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (1974) (design flaw)
1975 Tân Sơn Nhứt C-5 accident (poor maintenance)
United Airlines Flight 811 (1989) (design flaw)

See also
Biometrics
Closed-circuit television
Coal hole
Door loop, a method for providing electric cabling to a door
Door security
Double margin doors
Electronic lock
Hinge bender, a tool for adjusting door hinges
Identity document
IP camera
Janus, Roman god of doors
Keycards
Locksmithing
Lock picking
Logical security

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General references
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Spiers, Richard
Phené (1911). "Door". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.).
Cambridge University Press. pp. 419–420.

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