If you are installing a new door and jamb in a rough opening.
How to determine right or hand sliding door.
If your left hand is nearer the doorknob then the door is left handed.
To determine the hand of a door view the door from the outside security side or key side of door.
The standard procedure is to stand with your back to the push side or exterior of the door.
If the open doorknob is on your right side it s a right hand door.
If the door is on your right you then have a right hand door.
If your right hand is nearer the doorknob then the door is right handed.
If the doorknob is on your right it s a right hand swing door.
If the operating patio door panel is on the left side your patio door is a left handed unit.
If the doorknob is on your left it s a left hand swing door.
If you are replacing an existing interior door open that door place your back against the hinges and if the door is on your left you then have a left hand door.
Once there identify which side are the hinges located on the right or left side of the opening.
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Note handed from the exterior outside of the home.
To determine the door swing while replacing an existing door step into the doorway with your back to the hinges standing sideways in the opening facing the jamb where the door latches.
This can be done with interior doors because there is no threshold attached to the bottom of the door frame so the door frame can be reversed.
If it s on your left side the door is left handed.
If the door is on your right it s right handed.
A door is right or left hand looking at it as it opens away from you.
Replacing an existing door.
In the picture below you can see rh lh doors swinging into and out of the room.
Stand with your back to the jamb that has the hinges.
Open stand with your back against the hinge jamb.
However the clerk taking the order may still get confused especially if you re ordering over the phone.
The barrel or cylinders of the hinges should be on the opposite side of the door.
Looking at it hinges on the right side would be a right hand door.
If the door is on your left it s left handed.