Doors

High Doorstop Suggestion?

We just installed large entry doors to our brownstone. The door used for ingress/egress (?) swings in quickly, often hitting the multi-unit mailbox in the vestibule behind it. The mailbox juts out about 1.5 inches from the wall. The bottom of the door is about 3 inches above the tiled entry floor–any suggestions for a…

by AEPE
07/14/2009

We just installed large entry doors to our brownstone. The door used for ingress/egress (?) swings in quickly, often hitting the multi-unit mailbox in the vestibule behind it. The mailbox juts out about 1.5 inches from the wall. The bottom of the door is about 3 inches above the tiled entry floor–any suggestions for a doorstop that isn’t too ugly? Tried the route of the door stop that affixes to the hinge but the door is too heavy (plus the stop is sorta ugly) and the normal half-circle door stop that would be screwed into the floor is too short.

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  3. Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, we would require at least a 5 inch door stop that would screw into the baseboard, after taking into consideration the distance of the door knob that hits the mailbox.

    I will have to google the door closer, Pintchik has something that sounds like this, but it was white and large and wouldr eally take away from the look of the doors.

  4. A door closer with a positive stop(PS)/ hold open feature will solve your problem as well. One advantage of such a closer is the “back check” feature. The back check will add resistance to the last 10 degrees of the door swing when opening (the resistance is adjustable), so the door can not be slammed into whatever is behind it. A hold open is a knob on the arm of the closer that will allow you to keep the door propped open via the closer arm, rather than jambing something under it.

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