Dumb question

[wesleysgirl]

What do you call the thin, often wooden bit at the base of a doorway, that separates the floor in one room from the floor in the next?

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[theferretgirl.livejournal.com]

Threshold?

[luvs-phoenix.livejournal.com]

yep

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Wow, not a dumb question at all. I sure don't know!

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Apparently it's the threshold. Thank goodness for flists! :-) *Smooch*

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

No clue. A threshold? The bit attched to the door is called a sweep... that's all I know. ;-)

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, threshold will do. Thank you!

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

I thought it was lintel but when I looked it up it wasn't! Grins!

Hope someone comes up with this!

Have a great day!
Love, max

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

I thought it was, too, but when I looked it up it seemed like that's the part ABOVE the door. People seem to think it's the threshold, which works for me. *Grin* Thank you!

[byrne.livejournal.com]

... or door jam. Sill?

I dunno. :))

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

The jam is the wooden surround that the door slides into, so the two sides and the top. The sill is the first layer of wood that's on top of the house foundation. So often the bottom of the outside doors are on the sill plate.

I think that the bottom of a door doesn't have it's own special name, like the top does. But the wood or metal strip is called a transition strip in the hardware stores.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

Dude. You know stuff. :D:D

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

Transition strip - if you're looking for what to hunt down in the hardware store. I've got a few to install with the new flooring in the back of the house. :-)

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm just looking for what to call it in a story when someone is being dragged backwards across one, LOL, so I think threshold will work okay for that purpose. Thank you, though! How are you feeling?

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

Oh *nods* Threshold is the word you're looking for.

I'm doing pretty well today. More mentally focussed and moving around better. I'm still taking he percoscet because I move better on it than on the tylenol. I should be able to transition tomorrow or Saturday to the lighter stuff.

I was up for some commenting and light e-mails yesterday. Today I think I'll get to some posting :)

Hope there was some good stuff that came out of your bday :)

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm SO SLEEPY. I want to go to bed. But I'm trying to finish this book that's due back at the library tomorrow, LOL! *Hugs*

[twilightofmagic.livejournal.com]

Oh how conversations among very nice ladies with apparently normal lives etc. have changed. From ordinary household information about doors to dragging bodies across the threshold of. Heheh. Funny.

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Hee!!! You're so right. *Grin*

[elliotpp.livejournal.com]

the "stop sweeping here" line is what i prefer to call it, personally. :)

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Ha! Perfect. :-D

[elliotpp.livejournal.com]

and i think it has a nice flow in a narrative: "...Davey dragged Andrew over the 'stop sweeping here' line and told him that he'd better choose his next words wisely..."

two cents worth....:)

[alfrenne.livejournal.com]

Hiya, just to say we call them doorsaddles in Ireland. And the word architrave fits in there somewhere, too.

I really enjoy that On life and living domestic AU series; perfect pick-me-up, thanks!

Alfrenne