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Racy Building Strategies-30 |
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1 Provide three hinges of 5 inch size to doors and 3 inch size to window shutters. Keep one hinge at the center and the others two at 8 inch distance from top and bottom of shutter. Use 1.5 inch size screws. Take care that door and window hinges fixed on the frames ( chowkhats) are sunk into the frames and not fixed on the surface of the frames. If the hinges are fixed without making recesses, shutters will not open fully. Ask the carpenters to make recesses in frames with depth equal to thickness of hinge plate so that hinge surface is flush with the frame surface. Similarly the second plate of a hinge should be sunk into the shutter to make it flush with shutter edge.
2. For more tips, see the Hindustan Times of 09.12.06
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