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My neighbor's kid asked why my shed door opens out, not in
I was finishing up a small garden shed project last weekend, this 8x6 thing I've been piecing together for months. My neighbor's boy, maybe 10 years old, was watching me and just asked, plain as day, 'Why does it swing out into the yard? Won't you hit it with the mower?' I gave him my whole spiel about saving interior space and shed doors always doing that. He just shrugged and said, 'But your rake and shovel are inside. Now you have to walk around the door to get them.' I stood there for a full minute holding my drill. He was totally right. I'd just copied plans without thinking. I spent the next two hours re-hanging that door to swing inward. Has anyone else had a simple question from a non-builder totally upend a project assumption?
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derek_ross1mo ago
That kid's logic works until you need to get a wheelbarrow out. An outward door gives you the full width of the opening. Thompson.julia's snow point is real too, but a quick shovel fixes that. An inward door just trades one hassle for another when you're moving big stuff in and out.
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