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Door stop ideas

3 years ago

Our garage opens into the mudroom. The door swings inward, and will hit the mudroom cubbies. We can't do a hinge pin on the door because it is some special closing door. Any suggestions for door stop that isn't heinously ugly? The door going into the house also opens inward, but I think we can do a hinge pin on that one. The floor is a Cortec lvp. The X's in my drawing show approximate spot doors would hit when fully opened.

Comments (10)

  • PRO
    3 years ago

    Floor stops?

  • 3 years ago

    Why can't a hinge pin stop be used? You have 3 hinges, if a self-closing hinge is on 1, or 2, I can't imagine it is on all 3 hinges.

  • 3 years ago

    We just had these installed everywhere bc our design team likes them better than the ones that attach to the door. They come in lots of colors.




  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    Garage doors are typically a fire rated door with adjustable hinges for self closing. I believe there is a way to limit how far they open. If not get an over door check which will limit how far the door will open.

  • 3 years ago

    What's across from the cubbies? Is there a reason why the door is hinged so that it opens against the cubbies instead of against a wall (or whatever is there?) Doesn't answer your question, but it seems like it would be nice not to have the door open against the cubbies.

    MyKnobs has some door stops that look nicer than the springy kind you find at the hardware store. Not sure how these would work if you have to swing against the cubbies, but the Cube shape looks fairly inconspicuous. Rectangular Cylindrical Cube

  • 3 years ago

    I will try to answer all the questions.  On the opposite wall is a built in broom closet, counter area and fridge.  I am not sure why the doors swing the way they do, but there was a reason.

    Just met with builder foreman.  Apparently the door only has 2 spring loaded hinges ( as 3onatree guessed).  So we are going to try a single hinge stop.  If that isn't sufficient, I will try one of the above suggestions.  Thanks everyone!

  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    In my area the self closing hinges to the garage need to be there to pass inspection. We removed the ones on the entry door to our main garage, because they are more dangerous than helpful, when coming in carrying stuff and for our dogs. We have no problems manually closing that door ourselves. We left them on our secondary garage entry, because we rarely use that one. We used hinge stops on all our interior doors.

  • PRO
    3 years ago

    Fire rated doors are supposed to be left as they were inspected it is not for your convience when shopping but for safety if the garage has a fire . Have you tried just a small stop in front of the cabinets maybe mounted on the front even just a clear plsstic pad should do the trick . We have bathroom door that can hit the cabinet sometimes I just used one of those on the cabinet.


  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    I certainly don't need some government entity to tell me how to be safe in my own house! I have lived without a self closing garage door for a loooong time, in several homes, in as many states and I'm still alive. I close the door every single time and don't need some spring hinge to do it for me. Feel free to do what you want in your own home.

  • PRO
    3 years ago

    A floor plan would explain a lot.