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A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress into and egress from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a doorway or portal. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide security by controlling access to the doorway (portal). Conventionally, it is a panel that fits into the portal of a building, room, or vehicle. Doors are generally made of a material suited to the door's task. Doors are commonly attached by hinges, but can move by other means, such as slides or counterbalancing.
The door may be moved in various ways (at angles away from the portal, by sliding on a plane parallel to the frame, by folding in angles on a parallel plane, or by spinning along an axis at the center of the frame) to allow or prevent ingress or egress. In most cases, a door's interior matches its exterior side. But in other cases (e.g., a vehicle door) the two sides are radically different.
Doors may incorporate locking mechanisms to ensure that only some people can open them. Doors may have devices such as knockers or doorbells by which people outside announce their presence. (In some countries, such as Brazil, it is customary to clap from the sidewalk to announce one's presence.) Apart from providing access into and out of a space, doors may have the secondary functions of ensuring privacy by preventing unwanted attention from outsiders, of separating areas with different functions, of allowing light to pass into and out of a space, of controlling ventilation or air drafts so that interiors may be more effectively heated or cooled, of dampening noise, and of blocking the spread of fire.
Doors may have aesthetic, symbolic, ritualistic purposes. Receiving the key to a door can signify a change in status from outsider to insider. Doors and doorways frequently appear in literature and the arts with metaphorical or allegorical import as a portent of change.

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    USA Sliding Door Threshold to Tile

    I'm looking for solid answer or opinion. We had some windows removed on an exterior wall and replaced them with a sliding door. The frame is quite high so I'm going to do a transition that is not even. What is my best option to make this sound and visually appealing? I first thought about using...
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    Extending current porcelain floor tile without door strip

    Afternoon all, I am purchasing a new build property and the builder has already laid 4500mm x 4500mm porcelain floor tiles through the entrance, hallway and kitchen. As part of the purchase we have agreed they will lay the same tiling in 3 additional ground floor rooms but they have stated they...
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    Hidden tiled door ideas/sugestions

    Hello everybody. I'm going to quote a bathroom , in which there is a boiler on the corner, and they would like to cover it with a hidden door blended with the tiles. Any suggestion on which kind of hinges can I use ? Other tip/ idea would be appreciate. Thanks in advance!
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    Door mat gaps consideration

    Hi Tilers question for you please based on your what you believe to be a correct way / standard Front porch is it common practice to leave a gap under the door for a mat even if it's a small one ? when you are planning to re-tile this area Q 1: If you planned to lift the tiles in this area...
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    Cellar Door Cover - Possible?

    Hi, Appreciate any feedback and advice here. The lobby of my house has a cellar door and this area is currently unfinished. Before a normal lobby doorway into the house there is a metal expandng security gate, and the hallway beyond is laid with parquet flooring. I'd like to have the entire...
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    Handling Uneven Front Door

    Hi all - I'm in the midst of a DIY tiling project, laying Original Style Victorian floor tiles on my front door step to match my path. The main issue is the bottom edge of my original Victorian door is not at all straight and has evidence of lots of hacking over its long life. I removed some...
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    Door frame and threshold detailing

    When you guys overboard the subfloor with a backer board, do you undercut the door frame in order to fit the backer board and tile/adhesive under? also what do you use to hide the height difference between the tiled floor and whatever is in the adjacent room ( wood floor in my case) Im...
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    Setting Out Brick bond around door or window

    I'm tiling my bathroom using white metro tiles 20mm x 10mm (not bevelled). I want to use a brick bond pattern. When tiling around a window/door do I start above them and work down or do I start at the first full tile above the floor and hope the pattern matches back up above the window/door...
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    pocket door tiling

    I'm converting a small bathroom in to a wet room. It has a sliding pocket door. I was going to tile the whole room with 600 x 300 porcelain tiles but the wall of the pocket door is extremely flexible. I'm an experienced DIY guy and have researched this project to within an inch of it's life but...
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    Tiled floor height to bifold door

    Hi, I've had a new extension built with bifold doors. I'm raising the floor height of the concrete floor, but I'm unsure how high i can take the total floor build up including tiles. My intended height is where the green line is, is that possible or could i go higher if needed. On my doors, the...
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    What to do at door frame

    Hello, I'm tiling a bathroom at home and the O.H wanted the tiles up to the edge of the door frame. I'd normally tile up to architrave but I ripped it off without much thought. As i was scraping the paint off the walls today i had a closer look and I'm not sure it will work out too well? Any...
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    New Kitchen Floor - door join OK?

    Hi, Thanks in advance for any advice. My kitchen has just been done by a guy who originally said he would bring in a specialist tiler but then just tiled it himself saying that the tiler was double booked. After tiling he removed the door and at that point chipped the tile in the doorway...
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    Tiling around Door frames

    What approach do you guys take when tiling a floor and you have the obstacle of a door frame? If im doing a wood or laminate floor i usually undercut the frame and slide the floor under the frame. Sometimes a bit tricky ig working towards the door. What would you do when tiling a floor...
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    My 1st Job Sealing around shower door frame.

    I have refitted my ensuite and I have made it to the last step only to run into trouble I cant seem to fix. I have a tiled shower floor with wet room tray underneath, all tanked etc and tiled the walls. Sliding shower door frame fitted. Siliconed up where the metal meets the tile but I keep...
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    Cutting out door frames to fit tile under

    Just wondering what height to cut clear - Tile + How much for adhesive? The tiles are 59cm x 59cm porcelain and 9-12mm thick. I have a 20mm trowel. I think that is 15mm height so applied at an angle presumably will be somewhere between 9 and 12mm (depending on angle)... is there an official...
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    Tiling around door frame

    hi everyone.. So doing this wetroom.. have boarded the walls with 6mm jackoboard. Have boarded around the door frame and left the timber frame exposed. So the board sits proud of the frame, as will the tiles. Is it best to tile to the far edge of the door frame or up to where the frame...
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    Back to Back Trim on Pocket Door

    Hi Guys, thank you very much for the responses to my question on the pocket door. I went with 18mm marine ply and 6mm Jackoboard. I am now prepping for tiling. Because of the build up of the wall, I am thinking about putting 2 pieces of 12mm trim up the edge of the wall. 1 piece to mask the...
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    Tiling at bathroom door not level, causing threshold issues

    Hi We are just near the end of getting our bathroom refurbed by a local plumber. The tiler he used did a good job overall, but left the threshold with a 7mm rise on the left had side versus the right. Now when the plumber tries to fit the threshold z-bar to the carpet, on one side it is flush...
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    Floor tiles flush with sliding door threshold

    Going to soon start tiling our open-plan kitchen/dining area, which has a large sliding door along one wall. I'm using 600x600 porcelain. The plan was to get the top of the floor tiles flush with the top of the sliding door cill to create a seamless transition from inside to out (decking on the...
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    UK Help me find a 25mm door bar / threshold

    Hi all I have previously bought a deep silver coloured threshold for carpet to engineered wood floor. I cannot for the life of me remember where I got it from and now I need one for bathroom where tile and backer boards have raised the level. Just a standard silver one but deeper than the...
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