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I’m wanting to covert my laundry/pantry room door into a 36″ full height double door. In addition, I’d like to have the doors double hinged and to stay open when opened to a certain point and needing only a small tug to get the door to recluse. I’m having a problem finding per-hung doors configured to work or hinges that will work. Any suggestions?
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You need what they call - Double Action - hardware. You won't find it on a prehung unit. You'll have to install it yourself. Any good decorative hardware store should have them in stock.
Follow the directions,
Ed. Williams
*here is one type of hinge that will work good, I'll post another...
*this is the hinge Ed was talking about...
*A commercial door distr. would have available a few diff. sizes of Bommer (maybe another B in there) hinges. These can be sized to carry most any wt. door. You might be able to get an "Eliason" type offset pivot hardware big enough to work with that door. That would be a soft landing. The Bommer's are quick and pretty forceful. Not sure if you can find em with a hold open feature. How bout a pair of those oldstyle dining room mortice spring hinges. The tension is adjustable maybe enough to compensate for the small doors. I bet Baldwin has something you could use. The bevels on both doors will need to be both edges rolled so they'll pass either way. Sorry to take your time, maybe someone will give you a more difinitive answer. Best of luck.
*Calvin,The Bohmmer spring is just a spring activated door closure only. It's a big spring with a little pin at the top, and you insert another pin at the bottom after "winding" up the spring with a few turns. It won't permit a door to stay half open. And, I agree with you; they are very forceful.We use to install Bohmmers all the time on secondary, utility type doors in our mill to simply keep them from being blown open in a wind storm. They are a hell of a lot cheaper than an ingersoll door closer; which we only installed on office doors.Tim, I think Greg has the best choice for you so far. The double acting springs that Ed mentioned are what we always referred to as being "cafe" hinges; though they may or may not be the "real McCoy." Those Double acting hinges will easily allow yopur door to swing open in (180 degrees) either direction; but my experience with these are that they are big, ugly, and very forceful. Only time I witnessed a door remaining open using these was if the door was wedged open. Perhaps there are lighter duty spring actions available ( which Ed must know about and, of course I don't)for this type of hinge. I only worked with the heavy duty version.The pivot style hinge that Greg mentioned would be a "low profile" design; which is something I like in a hinge....I want it to work, but not be seen. Of the 3 mentioned so far, my vote goes to the pivot style.Davo.
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I'm wanting to covert my laundry/pantry room door into a 36" full height double door. In addition, I'd like to have the doors double hinged and to stay open when opened to a certain point and needing only a small tug to get the door to recluse. I'm having a problem finding per-hung doors configured to work or hinges that will work. Any suggestions?