I have always called the interior things saddles - still use stone to
transition from stone or tile to something else and wood for wood flooring.
I don't like metal for interiors unless high traffic commercial areas.
For exterior doors I call them thresholds so I don't confuse with sills for
windows. Don't forget stools for the similar interior portions of windows.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Walter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 6:52 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Stoned Names, Help Needed
In a message dated 7/31/02 4:37:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
What ever happened to thresholds?
Rudy,
For starters, I don't think anybody makes threshholds out of stone these
days. Maybe in the days when one threshed more frequently they made 'em
outta stone, and specifically for use at the entrance to a threshing floor.
Nowadays, a threshhold would probably be made out of aluminum or bronze
probably, maybe wood. Actually, as I think about it, on a door schedule,
the piece of wood or metal (or a strip of marble at a bathroom or kitchen
door) directly beneath the closed door leaf would be listed as a saddle.
If you went into a lumberyard and asked for a threshhold or a saddle or a
sill, they'd probably ask you whether you wanted wood or aluminum, and would
probably tell you to get hosed if you wanted a bronze one.
But as far as I'm concerned, a big piece of stone at an exterior door
forming a sill is called a sill.
What say ye, merry Twzbil, in your capacity as a Architect?
Ralph
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