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WCDT Strips 3141 to 3145 (25 - 29 January 2016)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 25 Jan 2016, 10:45 ---Where do you live? I've thought of seven-foot height as standard for doors all my life, and been annoyed with builders who put them down to six feed nine inches.
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6'6"x2'6" is a completely universal standard for domestic doors in the UK even now. My references give 6'8"x3'0" as the standard in the US.
Schwungrad:
--- Quote from: Cattus on 25 Jan 2016, 09:26 ---
--- Quote from: Schwungrad on 25 Jan 2016, 07:31 ---Most people instinctively duck, even if there's still a few inches of headway. Bubbles not doing that would fit her character, I think.
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I would think that an android or sentient robot would be able to size up the doorway precisely prior to passing through and would know to the mm. how much clearance it had, both vertically and horizontally.
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Some robots still duck like tall people would. Bubbles doesn't.
MrWoodchip:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 25 Jan 2016, 04:59 ---"excessive display of friendship"
What does that even mean?
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It means a display of the wonders of friendship that I would normally consider to be in excess of the amount required.
Kugai:
Most businesses have tall and fairly wide doors for moving stock and/or equipment in and out.
There should be music with this scene.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 25 Jan 2016, 12:01 ---6'6"x2'6" is a completely universal standard for domestic doors in the UK even now. My references give 6'8"x3'0" as the standard in the US.
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Does nobody in the UK use wheelchairs? You can't get a standard 32 to 34-inch wide wheelchair through a 30-inch door! And most of the time doors are effectively even two inches narrower than the opening because the width of the door panel itself extends into the doorway when the door is open.
We passed a law in the US (the ADA, or Americans with Disabilities Act) a few decades ago, partly because a bunch of Vietnam vets came home with missing legs or feet after encountering mines. Since then you have to have ADA-compliant buildings (wide doors and accessible bathrooms) before you can get a business license in the US, and although businesses that were already running didn't have to convert immediately, they can't get building permits for anything else until they do. So, regardless of height, that three-foot width is a very firm requirement for businesses in the US. Even for private homes, narrower doors are not used in new construction. I don't think it's banned for new private homes the way it is for new commercial buildings, but it's Just Not Done, because that would reduce the real-estate value.
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