Door handing

[jimu57]

An old carpenter taught me that you stand in the door opening with your back against the door jamb. If the door swings to your right, then it is a right hand door. It it swings to your left, then a left handed door. But when you toss in the lock cylinder into the equation it gets complicated. I like the post with the diagrams of the doors. You can still stand with your back against the door jamb in determining the hand but add the modifier "reverse" depending on where the lock cylinder is located.

[billdeserthills]

An old carpenter taught me that you stand in the door opening with your back against the door jamb. If the door swings to your right, then it is a right hand door. It it swings to your left, then a left handed door. But when you toss in the lock cylinder into the equation it gets complicated. I like the post with the diagrams of the doors. You can still stand with your back against the door jamb in determining the hand but add the modifier "reverse" depending on where the lock cylinder is located.

I like to determine door handing from the outside of the door. If the hinge is on the right, it is Right Handed
if the hinge is on the left, the door is Left Handed

Of course there is also right hand revers and left hand reverse, but I haven't noticed that affecting the actual direction needed for a tubular lock
only for a mortise type lock

[Tyler J. Thomas]

When cylinders are involved, ASSA ABLOY teaches to identify a door's handing by viewing the door from the cylinder side.

[billdeserthills]

When cylinders are involved, ASSA ABLOY teaches to identify a door's handing by viewing the door from the cylinder side.

I bet that doesn't work so good when the contractor urns the deadbolt around on the garage door, so he can lock
all his tools in the garage