Frequently Asked Questions
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Here are some answers to common questions about our products and the terms we use. If you have more questions for us, don't hesitate to contact us!
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- Antique Brass: This is a finish that has a dark brown color, also denoted by industry as US5.
- Backset: The term backset is used to explain the distance from the edge of the door to the center of the hole drilled for your know, lever or deadbolt.
- Ballcatches: Item of hardware inserted into a hole drilled into the top of a door. Used where door is opened by pulling or pushing it only. In double doors, they are used with dummy paiss of levers or knobs. They also can be used in the top of a small closet where pull may be used. The ball is pushed by spring tension into nothced brass plate in jamb above door.
- Bore: The diameter of the hole drilled in a door for a knob, lever or deadbolt.
- Deadbolt: Locking mechanism for an entrance door or other door, in which a bolt moves with a turn of a key into a jamb. Deadbolts can be a single cylinder or double cylinder. With a single cylinder deadbolt, a key is used on one side, and is turned by hand on the other side. With a doulbe cylinder deadbolt, a key is used on both sides. Double cylinders are only recommneded where no one needs to go through a door in case of emergency.
- Door Stop: A door stop is the small piece of wood, usually 1-3/8"-1-1/2" wide, that is attached to the door jambs on both sides and on top of the new door. This strip of wood is where the door comes to rest when it is closed. It stops the door from moving any furhter, and also covers the gap that would otherwise appear between the door and the jambs.
- Door Viewer: Item that is inserted into a hole drilled into the face of a door. Viewer has a curved lens in it to magnify an image on the other side of the door. Viewers are made with various degrees of field of vision.
- Dummy Pairs: Dummy pairs for doors where no latches are needed. These knobs or levers do not turn. They can be slipt up for bi-fold door set, since no hardware is needed on back of the bi-folds. Dummy pairs can also be used on doulbe french door units, where ballcatches are used to hold doors in place. Dummy Pairs do not require a standard hole to be drilled, since most are attched from each side of the door.
- Finials: Also called decorative tips, these may come in different shapes, such as balls or pointed steeples, which attach to the top and bottom of a hinge for decoration. Only some hinges will accept these finials.