Timeline for Why do door knobs still exist?
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| May 29, 2014 at 3:20 | comment | added | Jon of All Trades | Supporting the price factor: on homedepot.com right now, plain Jane door knobs are $8 to $20; levers are pretty consistently $20 for basic models. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 13:21 | comment | added | Alex Feinman | IIRC, Ireland had a huge amount of new construction in the 90s. Maybe you're seeing the newer install base? | |
| May 28, 2014 at 10:40 | comment | added | Daft | @TRiG I'm Irish and I've noticed that older houses in Ireland usually have knobs instead of levers. I have a few friends who live in old Victorian houses in Bray, Wicklow, and they all have round doorknobs. My house is much newer than theirs and we have levers. I only live a short distance from them too. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 0:36 | comment | added | TRiG | On external, @cpast, it depends. Quite often there's a knob which doesn't turn on the outside, used only to pull the door closed. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 22:34 | comment | added | cpast | @TRiG Do you see them on external doors, or do you not see them at all? | |
| May 27, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | Almo | We have doorknobs because we bought our condo before it was built and the builder asked if we wanted knobs or levers. So we got knobs cause we hate stuff catching on the levers, which we had at our previous apartment. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | TRiG | Interesting you say they're more common on internal doors. Here in Ireland, I don't think I've ever seen them on internal doors. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 18:01 | comment | added | Alex Feinman | When installing a knob, it can be "twisted" with respect to level and you won't notice--the only sign is that the screw holes (mostly hidden by the knob) may not be perfectly aligned. With a handle, the entire handle will be tilted to the left or right. A professional installer will have a jig that makes this easier...which costs money and takes extra training. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 16:34 | comment | added | Mladen Jablanović | Can you just clarify "trickier to install", I don't get that part. Out of level in which way? Thanks! | |
| May 27, 2014 at 15:59 | history | answered | Alex Feinman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |