What are the different hands or swings of a door?
Most of the contractors we deal with use the “butt to butt” method to determine the swing of a door. This will give you the correct swing. Doors are always handed from the outside of the door so a good way to tell if you have a reverse hand door is if you are standing facing the outside of the door and you have to backup (reverse) when opening it, it is a reverse hand door. If the hinges are on the left side of the door, it is a LHR. If they are on the right side of the door, it is a RHR. The outside of an exterior door is obvious. The outside of interior doors is the key side of the door. Since some interior doors will have a passage or privacy lock which has no key, a good way to determine the key side is to visualize if you were to put a keyed lock on that door, which side would you have the key on. This will be the outside of the door. So, if you are standing on the outside of the door looking at it and • The door swings in and to the right, it is a RH. • The door swings in and to
