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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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Is that an American thing that an external door opens outwards? I don't think anywhere else in the world they would. (Except fire escapes.)
The main door opens inwards the little glass/screen door opens outwards. In this pic there is no way for him to open the door without hitting the drinks.
I have a similar setup. I’m fortunate enough to have a garage though. So I can easily go around if I need to.
You could also try propping your screen door open when waiting for a food delivery. I would do this with mine but then it blocks the doorbell. I got a little mini folding wooden table I can leave out, and put a sign indicating to leave the food there. (I also don’t like my food bags touching the ground because I’m a germaphobe. Though I’m sure their filthy DoorDash cars are dirtier than my door mat.)
Why isn't your food order handed to you personally? Ring the doorbell, wait for someone to open up, give the food. Just like the pizza delivery guy in porn movies. Why would you leave food near the door... I don't get it. Or a package, same story. Hand it to someone or bring it to a neighbor. I've never heard of porch poachers over here because packages are never left unattended at people their houses.
Some delivery people are lazy. Especially with packages, some won’t even ring the bell!
For DoorDash, I try to make sure I track them on the app and am at my door to meet them when they get here.
Over here they're not allowed to leave it unattended, unless the house owner specified on the website it's allowed to leave it a certain point outside the house. Otherwise it's just free loot for anyone to take. It's only covered by insurance if it gets stolen from within your house. But only if your house is locked, otherwise the insurance company isn't scared to do some victim blaming. So it's crazy to just leave stuff out in the open.
But to be fair, delivery people are often treated like shit. So I kinda get it why they would prefer to avoid contact. A friend of mine does grocery deliveries, the stories I hear from her of how people treat her. Fucking insane. Maybe if we start to treat others with respect like we would like to be treated ourselves... But goes both ways. When you leave drinks just outside an outside opening door, I kinda get it why people get mad at you.
Its the same with my cats. Constantly complaining I'm nog giving them enough food. When I'm giving them food, they complain it's not fast enough. When they're done eating, it's complaining they didn't get enough again so they start to throw my stuff from tables and desks. They treat me like shit but expect perfect service (they are in their puberty, they are driving me insane but I love them very much).
The door looks high enough to come over the drinks, but I do have bad depth perception. If not, I think there's room to squeeze a person out the side of the door and get the delivery, but you wouldn't want to fling the door open.
That's the Storm Door. The main external door to the house opens inward (behind the kitty).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_door
Thank you! Interesting, never heard of that.
I dunno but I didn't have one for a while and then i did and the temperature difference is noticable. You can also swap out the glass pane for a screen in the summer.
In warmer environments, they tend to be called screen doors, and are used when you want to leave the door open without bugs getting in. In areas with bad weather (ice storms and such), storm doors protect the door itself from the elements, especially if it’s an expensive wooden door.
It must be American thing, I have never seen a house with two doors (Europe), apart from front door and back door of course. I am not saying these don't exist but certainly are not common enough for me to see one.
If you have an extra screen/storm door, how the hell do you make them both open inwards?
Why would you need 2 doors?
Sure, you've entered through the first door, but what about second door?
Only an extra key you could loose. How do you "enter" the first door when there's a second but closed door right behind it? My house also has 2 outside doors: 1 in the front and 1 in the back.
It insulates better than your normal single door, the screen door is self closing so it helps to keep bugs out if you're doing anything around the house where you're going in and out a bunch, and when the weather is nice it's quite enjoyable to leave the main door open so all the light and a breeze and sounds get through the screen door. It's like a window that goes all the way to the floor and never has curtains in the way. In the US most front doors are sort of in the main living room. It's an open floor plan where the entry way and living room aren't divided by walls.
You don't have insulated upvc doors?
Yeah, but now imagine it being double walled.
They had that in Sweden, so Idk.
I think almost every house I've ever seen has externally opening doors. Where it's not a thing is in apartment buildings where an externally opening door would be a hazard to other residents.
I know of one small town in my country that has internally opening doors because the local council demands it for aesthetic and historical reasons.