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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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  1. Dowler77

    Door frame over tiles

    Hi just finished my tiling and now I need to fix the the architrave door trim. The tiles are proud of the door frame. Whats the best way to do this? Thanks
  2. S

    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...
  3. J

    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...
  4. magicmat

    Advice on how to tile over a gap

    Hi everyone, We have just finished renovating our home and have saved the entry porch as a job for us to do. We would like to have a practise with tiling as its a small simple shape. We have not tiled before. There is just a little problem that i'm not sure how to solve. The entry porch has a...
  5. T

    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...
  6. J

    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...
  7. D

    Lining up backer board, tiles, and door frame

    Just about to take on my first attempt at tiling and do my bathroom. The walls are in a pretty poor state under the old tiles so planning to use Marmox backing board fixed to solid wall to give me the best chance of an even finish without the need to get a plasterer and wait for the plaster to...
  8. F

    Help with tiles around door frame

    Hi, I had my bathroom updated however the builder disappeared before finishing it. The tiling has been completed but there is a gap of 1.5cm around the door frame and the wall tiles. What would I use to fill this gap please? Thank you
  9. C

    How to cut fixed porcelain tiles up to door frame?

    I'm not a tiler. Hope that's OK! We had a new kitchen, and the builder laid the porcelain tiles. After he'd finished (and we'd paid him), we saw the line by the living room door wasn't straight. He apologised, and offered to cut it straight with an angle grinder, but he can't get to the edges...
  10. D

    Dot n Dab around a door frame issues.

    How do you guys board around doors? If i go up to the architrave then the tiles will be too proud, if i remove the architrave then you'll always see the edge of the board and tiles from the side of the door. (if you follow). Can this be avoided? If so how do you guys normally finish this off...
  11. T

    Wooden floor with brick in door frame

    I'm tiling a kitchen floor over a suspended wooden floor (overboarded). At the rear of the kitchen is a large doorway and windows to the garden, wooden framed but mounted in the concrete/brick. The brickwork is approx 150mm wide, it and the overboarded floor are at the same height and tiles...
  12. D

    Tiling Around Door Frame

    I am in the process of tiling my bathroom with travertine. My door frame is flush with the cement board walls and I am wondering the best options with regardings to tiling this area. If I remember there was skirting or arcatrave (whatever it's called) around this area prior to me ripping the...
  13. B

    metal door frame , help!!!

    made the fatal mistake of assuming something! my wifes grandparents struggle to get in the bath. so decided to buy them a walk in bath from ebay. went to fit it yeaterday to discover the door is only 585mm wide!! assumed it would be at least 2'6". so thought " right i'll take the door frame out...
  14. M

    Newbie questions, tiling up to door frame

    Hi guys, looking for a bit of advice. I'm a total tiling novice about to embark on my first go at tiling, so please bear with me if these are stupid questions!! Firstly when tiling up to a door frame, should I just grout up to the frame or do I need to use sealer (I've read you need to do this...
  15. B

    can I cut a door frame

    Hello all, Just wondering if it's ok to cut off all the door frame/architrave etc from the bottom of a door and slide a tile under rather than doing a very tricky and time consuming cut? I'm using large tiles and going from one room into another. Is the frame bearing much weight? Many...
  16. S

    Tiling Around Door Frame

    Hi All, I've nearly finished tiling my bathroom with large format 60 x 30 porcelain tiles. Its taken me a while but i'm finally getting there. I think my question is a fairly simple one for you experts BUT i'm struggling as I'm not sure what the best practice\method is. My door frame is...
  17. S

    door frame

    whats the best tool on the market for cutting down door frames to allow tiles to slide under frame?
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