WOOD DOORS & IRON DOORS TERMS

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Shutting stile
The stile on which the handle and lock are fitted-the opposite side of the hanging stile or lock stile.

Strap hinge
A type of hinge with a long horizontal part that is screwed to the face of the ledge, usually fitted to heave ledged and braced door. Hinges of more or less the same character but designed to be fitted to lighter door are know as cross garnet and tee hinges

Scutcheon or escutcheon
A little plate fitted over the keyhole. An opened segmented pediment with carved swags. The term open segmented refers to the break in the arch; swags relate to the garlands of flowers.

Stop
The small sections planted on the inside face of the jamb, or the step rabbeted from the jamb, against which the door is closed.

Skirting
The board that runs around the bottom of the wall to meet the door plinth. The top of the board is usually molded. The skirting is generally nailed to the ground or grounds that is, battens plugged to the wall with the nails being punched below the surface and the whole works being tilled and painted. Note that with this arrangement there is a useful space between the back of the skirting and the area of unplastered wall-good for hiding electric cables and pipes. In top quality work, the skirting is tongued into the floor.