WOOD DOORS & IRON DOORS TERMS

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Ledges
The horizontal members on ledged and on Iedged and braced doors.

Ledged and Braced Wood Doors
The ledged and braced door sometimes known as a Z door was almost certainly built in answer to the problem of sagging ledged wood doors. It is, in effect, a ledged door with the addition of diagonally set brace boards that slope upward from the hinged side of the door. The brace boards make for a much stronger door, in that they prevent the structure from dropping at the nose. There are usually two braces-one that runs from the bottom ledge through to the middle or latch ledge, and one that runs from the middle ledge through to the top 1edge. Sometimes the braces are simply butted in place; with the more expensive option, the ends of the brace boards are let into the horizontal ledge with notches and/or oblique stub tenons. Doors of this type function perfectly well for workshops and stables and for cottage and porch doors where there is a need for country type imagery. They are strong and they look good.

Lift Off Butt Hinges
Lift off or heave-off butt hinges are, as the name suggests, designed so that you can easily remove the door without unscrewing the hinges. For example, if you need to remove the doors and shutters for the summer months, lift-off hinges would definitely be the answer. There's no messing around with screws; you just lift off the door, and the task is done. These hinges are set in mortises, as with regular butt hinges.

LATCHES, LOCKS, HANDLES, AND OTHER FITTINGS
All doors need a handle so that you can pull them open or closed and some sort of lock, latch, or catch to hold them closed. There are hundreds of different forms and models to choose from in association with other fittings such as doorplates, mail slots, and the like-but there are just a hand Ful of generic types. There are knobs, thumb latches, rim locks and latches, bars, bolts, mortise lucks, and various ultra modern Yale type dead bolts. The following listing gives you some idea of the possibilities.

L hinges
Also called quadrant hinges, L hinges are much the same as H hinges, the only difference being the shape of the flaps. The L shaped part of the hinges is screwed to the door. They come in left and right configurations.