I think it's called a pivot hinge.

https://www.finehomebuilding.com/forum/antique-swinging-door-hardware

There are several good links in the string that might be able to help.

The top two pics, you could get some paint remover, put it on the the hinges and remove those years of paint over the hinges and screws at the frame or on the door so you can unscrew the hinges.

Drive the pin out of the hinge (hammer and punch or something to act as a punch)?

1. Scrape the paint from the bottom of the hinge to expose the pin. Position a punch or even a large nail beneath the pin. Hit the punch/nail with a hammer from below to drive the pin upwards.

-OR-

2. Insert a screwdriver into the gap between the top of the pin and the rest of the hinge. Strike the screwdriver lightly to force the pin slightly upwards. Once the pin is loose, force it up and out from below.

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The instructions linked by tozmo1 show how to install the a door with a so-called Bommer hinge but if you look at those instructions, you see that it would be difficult to swing the bottom of the door outwards to remove the door because the mounting plate is recessed below the level of the surrounding floor.

When removing the pins, start with the bottom.

I use the heavy duty screw driver method and a hammer. Usually can get them out in just a few minutes. I have no idea why people paint their hinges, but, I have seen them painted many times.

The parking garage guy in our building hammered out the pin! Now we will see if the 29” fridge ( size with fridge door removed) fits through the 29” doorway, which is crooked- 75 year old building.

Swinging door to dining room is 31” wide but we couldn’t figure that one out.

If fridge doesn’t fit, we’ll have to swap with a snaller Whirlpool, which is .5 inches smaller.

🤞🤞🤞

Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

Good Luck Kendrah. They can be tough to get in, thats for sure. My doors are 36 inches, and still had to take the door off the frig, to get it through.

Soaking the paint off an old house's hinges is an easy thing to do, once you have run out of more important things to do! Also, when you are drinking coffee some day, you can imagine if your place would be better off with or without the swinging door.

Please post an update after the fridge arrives.

I'm sorry you're having to go through this, and that the previous place didn't work out. I guess you can try to think of your time in this condo as glamping.

remove the whole door, looks like it needs a good clean up any way.

lots of built up paint

WELL.... The fridge arrived. My heart sank for a moment when they rolled the box off the truck and it said 29.5" without door attached.

Although the LG specs online and the LG spec sheet at the appliances store stated it was 29" deep with fridge door removed, the specs were incorrect. Delivery crew unboxed it and sure enough it is 29.5" not 29 as their own specs had listed. It could not fit through the doorway way where we managed to remove the door. (The one with the painted on hinges.)

They said in order to remove the swinging door, they would have to remove one of the kitchen floor tiles -- and I think they were right. They said someone could just come back and put it into place. Someone? What tile person is going to come to my condo for one tile? I don't know jack about resetting a tile and matching grout, and learning about it is incredibly low on my priority list.

They left with the LG fridge and will come back on Monday with the Whirlpool fridge which is supposed 28 1/8" without the fridge door attached.

We shall see....

@John Liu - I do appreciate the glamping compairson. I have lived in way more decrepit places in my life. It is amazing what one gets used to when you move up a bit in the world.

I'm going to concentrate my weekend on ordering replacement light parts, ceiling fans, surface mount medicine cabinets, a bathroom sink, and finding a good handy man to who can install.

Well, since there have been a lot of problems with LG refrigerators lately, maybe this is a blessing in disquise. Sorry you are having to wait though.

I had not heard about LG fridges having problems lately. Interesting to know. I was aware of their compressor problems that were then resolved since switching to a different kind of freon a few years ago. What is the new issue with them?

cat_ky: "...there have been a lot of problems with LG refrigerators lately..."

Data source?

I dont know about the data, but, I know personally 4 people with Lg refrigerators that are under 2 yrs old, which have had a compressor problem, and also had to have new door gaskets installed. One also has an LG stove that is about a yr old, and has had to have all new oven parts installed, and the old ones were burned right in half.

cat_ky: "I know personally 4 people with Lg refrigerators that are under 2 yrs old, which have had a compressor problem..."

What about all the appliances owned by people you know that work fine? Do people you know tell you about them? Of course not. It's biased reporting and without an unbiased sample of appliances such anecdotes aren't meaningful.

I know that if I had four acquaintance who had problems with fairly new appliances of a specific brand, I would steer clear.

Yeah, I and one friend had problems with a particular brand and I have since steered clear of it. Biased data for sure but hard to ignore if you've experienced it in person.

@Kendrah, how long will/may you be there? Any idea?

Is the replacement fridge coming today?

IMO you should have got a smaller fridge or you follow the directions given

IMO you should have got a smaller fridge or you follow the directions given

@Patricia Colwell Consulting - What are you talking about? Directions given by specs were 29", the doorway was 29", the specs were wrong and the fridge is larger than 29".

@RedRyder - I believe the replacement is coming today. Not taking my food out of the old fridge until the new one gets here though on this 94 degrees day. :)

@John Liu - We will live here full-time until the end of the year. Then we will hold on to the unit for who knows how long as we make perhaps once a month visits to my parents for I assume as long as they live. Maybe we will live here full-time again if they need our care full-time again. Could have this place five years. Could be ten?

We purchased it with cash so it seems a fine place to park our money while the economy likely heads to the toilet. It is near a universities with huge international student populations and many who buy here are eds and meds folks, bio researchers, hospital residents. We will see if the attack on international students and the cutting of research funding makes a dent on the real estate market in this neighborhood. I presume so.

Hope one of these solutions helps you!

"We purchased it with cash so it seems a fine place to park our money while the economy likely heads to the toilet."

This is not happening.

@Kendrah you'e a good daughter.

Real estate is local as you know, condos are usually the first to roll over, but if you're holding for several years and it is otherwise a thriving city it is hard to think you'll lose money, and the place should cashflow nicely as a rental after you're done using it. It would probably cashflow well as an AirBnB when you're only using it once a month, if you want to look into that. I know things are fraught, but they needn't stay so.

Did the new fridge fit? 🤞

Glad it fit and your persistence paid off. Add a photo if you like.

Whew!! I am sure you are relieved. Now you can move on to something else without worry that the frig wont fit.