Anytime any tool needs to be hung on a door in order to function, the door will no longer close, effectively breaking its essential doorness.
Since doors are generally better, more useful things than things made to hang on them, the things made to hang on them just end up making me sad as I pine for what might have been.
So stop making things that break doors to add something not as good.
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Example?
Over-the-door clothes racks are generally low-profile enough that the door will still close.
My over the door towel rack doesn’t interfere with my bathroom door at all.
Tea towel rails to hang over a cupboard door:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8755364.htm
Over door towel rails:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8321585.htm
Over door clothes hooks:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8755216.htm
Your doors are broken/substandard/hung improperly if the made-for-the-purpose over-the-door racks don’t work on them.
Over the door wreath holders seem to do their job fine IME.
I would argue the reverse: my doors fit their frames precisely with no extra.
The doors in my house have the same issue. Not all of them, but most of them do not have enough clearance to accommodate the over-the-door door racks and close properly.
Sounds like you and Stoid are cursed with perfection in a world designed for imperfect doors.
Some over-door racks fit my doors, others don’t. Some over-door racks are very thin and might fit even your perfect doors.
Did you think everyone using these things was just not closing their doors?
This. Automatically assuming that the fault is in the very existence of these racks, rather than in the construction of your dwelling’s doors, is a tad bit narrow of a worldview.
I don’t usually have over the door racks but when I have they have not impeded the closing of the door, nor have I found the fit of the closed door with the rack to be substandard.
I will agree, if you cannot manage to have both an over the door rack and a closed door, you have failed.
Why would anyone think it more desirable for doors to have gaps? If you can fit these doohickies, your door is clearly leaving gaps between itself and the frame, and by definition is doing a poor job of being a door.
Well, it’s not that. It’s just that they don’t work on everyone’s doors. Obviously, they are meant to work in the vast majority of cases, otherwise, they wouldn’t be selling them. Upstairs, the 1/16 inch thick door rack works on only two of the eight doors. In the other doors, I just drilled in a rack to the door itself where needed. One can also file down the top of the door. This is a somewhat older house, though (60-70 years), so it could be an issue of either tolerances being different or wood warping/swelling over time.
Have you tried not buying over the door racks?
It’s a door, not a hermetic seal. Having a small gap in no way detracts from the “doorness” of the door.
Indeed, too tight a fit could make the door difficult to open or close in more humid months. The perfect door gaps slightly to allow for the natural expansion and contraction of the wood.
It’s awesome that you live inside a concrete block built on solid shale, but for the rest of us, houses shift and settle. Wood expands and contracts. Air needs to flow around. It’s good to have some kind of gap.
That is, indeed, what happens here occasionally.