WOOD DOORS & IRON DOORS TERMS

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Dentils
A classical detail consisting of a row of little blocks with spaces between like square teeth.

Door-frame dovetail
This joint is used on quality wood doors jamb at the top corners. Not only is this joint stronger than the usual wedge and nail method and the rabbet method, but its design allows the frame to move without the joint appearing to open.

Double-paired tenons
A joint used on the end of the lock rail-on the lock side only-for extra-thick framed and paneled wood doors. There is some confusion as to the name; they've been variously described as paired double tenons, a double pair of single tenons, a pair of double tenons, and so on. Basically, there are four tenons with a shoulder running to all sides. The mortise is cut in the same way as for all door tenons-like a dovetail key, so that when the wedges are driven home from the outside of the frame, they convert the joint into a dovetail.

DOUBLE MARGIN DOORS
When an opening is too wide for a ,ingle width door (at about 3 feet 11 inches) yet too narrow for a pair A double doors-because one door is too narrow to allow easy passage the traditional answer is to make two completely separate narrow doors, fix them together with wedges, and hang them as a single door. Although the result is a 1,ingle door hinged at one side, the overall visual effect is one of a pair of attractive narrow doors.