I need to install some door stops in my bathrooms that were recently tiled. The area behind the door is a tile floor with a bullnose baseboard that is about 2″ high. The door stops that I am familiar with are the “screw into the baseboard”, dome type floor mount, soft wall mount, and hinge mounted.

My original thought was to mount the traditional baseboard door stop on the door, but as best I can tell my hollow core door doesn’t have enough solid wood around the edges for me to feel secure doing this (probably only about 1/2″ at the bottom of the door). This house may become a rental again, so I am reluctant to use the wall mount as I had one door with one and there was severe cracking around the wall mount from the renters slamming the door open. I am reluctant to drill holes through the tile to mount the dome style stops.

I am wondering how much abuse the hinge style stops will take before the screws pop out of the door hinges when a bit of force is applied to the edge of the door. Anyone have good/bad experiences with this type of stop?

Another possibility is to get baseboard stops that have a removable screw and put a longer one in and then drill a hole through the grout between the bull nose tiles and screw into the 2×4 at the base of the wall – although with the tile taking up about half the thickness of the 2×4, that doesn’t leave me a lot of wood to anchor the stop. (However, I haven’t actually seen a baseboard door stop with a removable screw for a while.)

What is the standard/best approach to installing door stops in such a situation?

Thanks