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Adjacent doors hitting each other

Home Improvement Asked on December 13, 2020

I have two doors at a 90-degree angle to one another and the doors hit each other when they are opened the full way.

I guess I could mount a door stop on one of the doors, but it seems kind of weird to put a doorstop on a door.

Another option might be to remount both the doors to either/both change the handedness or swing direction, but that would be a lot more work.

How can I keep these doors from hitting when opened?

3 Answers

Another solution: Make one of them close to avoid clashing.

I reversed my kitchen door so it opens into the hallway instead of into the room. That means it can clash with the cloakroom door if that's left half open. I solved it by fitting a (very gentle, in fact modified with a weaker spring) automatic closer to the cloakroom door, so it doesn't stop half open.

Rehanging a door can be tricky but is perfectly doable with reasonable DIY skills. It's one of the simplest tasks for which you need a decent set of chisels (in fact it's the main reason I even have chisels). The job needs proper planning: when I did mine there was enough space on the new side of the frame to make it simple but had it been on a different (non-structural) wall it would have been much harder.

Answered by Chris H on December 13, 2020

I did indeed end up putting two stops on one of the doors at the top and bottom and it works ok.

One key thing is that I put the stops on the door that faces the length of the hallway. This is important because you don't want to have a door stop jutting out into a corridor or hallway where someone could trip over it or knock things into it, like bags or luggage.

By putting stops only on the door at the end of the hallway they worked fine and created no problems.

Answered by Tyler Durden on December 13, 2020

I had this same problem with my front door and the adjacent garage door. The solution was a unique doorstop that is slightly longer than normal and has a roller on the end of the stop as shown below:
6 inch doorstop with roller
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Stopper rolls along door
If one door is narrower than the other it should be installed on the narrower door.
Here is the link:https://www.doorware.com/site/product.cfm?id=349175

Answered by HoneyDo on December 13, 2020

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