Minimum width for a 2-wing window/terrace door?

Thanks to everyone for your feedback.

Thanks to Michael... Yes, that helps me.

@ Musketier
Michael says he only has to open the 2nd wing in exceptional cases. In everyday use, one wing is enough.

My conclusion: I have the following impression... anyone who has a wide wing can't imagine it being narrower (hypothetical assumption). But when someone actually has a narrower door, it works very well.

Best regards, Steffi

I don’t know whether you have to desperately restrict yourself when building a new house.

As a not exactly heavily built office worker, I come to an estimated width at the shoulders of 50-55 cm. When walking, you don’t keep your arms completely straight by your sides, so you can actually assume a body width of 60 cm. Whoever has a bit more width at the shoulders than I do would then have to pass through the door sideways at every passage (provided the belly doesn’t protrude too far forward) or open the second door leaf. Interior doors are not without reason also a certain width.

With Michael, it doesn't sound like he has to forcefully restrict himself..

So... now I had the idea to actually try it out on our patio door.. see picture.. below there is a folding ruler spread out to 60 cm. I noticed that we almost never open our door wider than 60 cm because there is always a heavy armchair in the way (on the right in the picture). If you want it wider, you always have to push the armchair away and we actually rarely do that. Often we wedge our patio door on the armchair so that it doesn't close.. We live very well with that.

Hello Steffi,

Good idea to try that out. Let your husband do it too. You probably wouldn't have any problems with our doors. In the end, it has to work for you, not for theoretical people with bodybuilder backs and wide doors.

Of course, you can always plan for the maximum, but then maximum costs come out too. The trick is to make compromises in the right places. Your window widths seem to be a good point for that.

Best regards
Michael

Hello Steffi, that is a nice idea from you to post a picture about the topic from you for the users.

Regards Yvonne (who from time to time enjoys the two meter-wide open wings, because then the garden flows into the house )

That also depends on the habits. We have double-winged doors with about 80 cm each and we only use one wing. However, we have house cats, so the door is currently closed again and again. But so far, all people and objects fit well through one wing.