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You may not need to figure out the handing of your doors, many of
Baldwin products are reversible. Baldwin interior knobs and levers
are all reversible, even the privacy sets. Schlage levers do
need handing information. Baldwin or Schlage knobs do NOT need
handing information.
Door handing is not as confusing as most people think it is, and we can
give you a few rules of thumb so it's very simple. In many cases
it doesn't even matter as quite a few locksets are reversible.
Before you go to all the trouble, ask us if you even will need to
know.
1. Forget everything that your
friend, carpenter, builder or Uncle Ed ever told you about door
handing.
2. Look at the door in question.
Now, it should be pretty easy to tell what side of the door is the
outside, and what side is the inside.
Outside of a bedroom door you would be standing in the hallway. A bathroom
door that is in a bedroom you are standing in the bedroom. A door
from the garage to the house you would be standing in the garage.
ANY exterior door you would be standing outside looking in. If
your not sure what side is the outside, ask us.
3. ALL door handing is done from
the OUTSIDE of the door. Whatever side the hinges are on, when
viewed from the outside is the same as the door hand. If the
hinges are on the right, it's a right hand door. If the hinges are
on the left, it's a left hand door. PERIOD. Unless
you are ordering a Baldwin full mortise lock, we don't care
if the door pulls towards you or opens away from you. We only care
what side the hinges are on from the OUTSIDE. The "reverse
bevel" term rarely applies, forget it.
4. That's it. It's never wrong.
Forget everything else. You have now learned something most
carpenters with 30 years experience STILL get wrong.
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Door terms and determining
door hand 
