Doorstops? Simple? HA! :(
So I'm doing the finishing touches to a place I've been working on for some time,and the owner has asked me to install some doorstops. Simple, right! Wishful thinking!
Now, when I first started on this site a few years ago, it had just been framed out (sorta) and the framer had been given the flick (which is why I was originally called in) because he'd laid all the floor bearers down on their sides. :eek: Unfortunately, this wasn't picked up until the inspector was called out... by which time the brickwork had been finished, wall frames & trusses installed, etc., etc.
ie. it wasn't a case of an easy fix. (Solved by adding extra stumps, but let's not go there.)
What has this got to do with doorstops? OK, I'm getting to that... the brickwork went in properly, according to plan, right? The floor is an inch lower, 'cos the bearers were laid FUBAR. So this means the door sills are an 1" too high, because they're position is matched to the brickwork. Fortunately, the owner was happy with a bit of quad to "ramp 'em down," one less headache for me [phew], but...
Both the front and back doors are doubles and the owner doesn't want the doors to swing back to the walls, he's asked for 'em to be stopped at just beyond perpendicular. The higher sill means much higher floor clearance than usual, I'd say 1.5"-2", which makes all the commercial floor-mount doorstops I can find useless. He veto'd my idea of simply using wooden blocks... and I don't blame him. (I was trying to weasel out of yet another headache. ;))
So, I'm racking my brain. One idea I've come up with is to use a kick-board mounted type (see pic) and replace the ####ty little screw with a nut'n'bolt as I've done in the pic so I can bolt it through the floor instead. I'm concerned about leverage though... modern floorboards are pretty thin nowadays and I reckon a good slam of the door onto a stop mounted like this could do some serious damage. :(
I've been thinking about turning some round disks about 3" dia. x 1" high (probably domed) and drill them out to fit snugly over the stop. Screw these down to the floor, plugged & trimmed with dowel, and pray they add enough extra lateral support at the base of the stop. Hopefully they'll look good too. [fingers Xed]
Opinions? Criticisms? Flaws? Better ideas? Please?