Talk:Screen door

Porta a bussola/Box door
Is there anything like a box door (Italian: porta a bussola) in English? Let me first tell you that I'm Italian and, since English is not my first language, I had to make up an expression like box door.... I'm not sure if it makes sense, I just tried to render the idea of what I'm talking about.

In short, it is a sort of screen door or double door system but the biggest difference is that the two doors are part of a small cabin or booth that provides entrance room to the apartment. I called it box from Italian bussola, an old noun meaning box that derives from the box tree (just like English box). This cabin is usually made of wood, at least when it comes to old residential buildings, like 19th century buildings in some historical city centers. It is shaped like this:

1. the first door (the one facing the building landing) is a big wooden door providing access to the cabin

2. the second door (the one facing the apartment) is kind of smaller and thinner, the upper part of it is made of glass and it provides access to the apartment

Well, this definition mostly applies to residential buildings as I said but box doors can also be used elsewhere, for example they can provide access to stores, restaurants, banks, pubblic offices, etc. In these cases, their shape can vary according to the several buildings they provide access to. You can find examples of box doors through the web by searching for them as porte a bussola or porta a bussola.


 * Do you mean a revolving door? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door

62.232.189.106 (talk) 08:04, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Storm door
The content of the article about storm doors resembles pure original research and home furnishing advice and as it is right now fails the GNG criteria to warrant its own article. However, it is a commonly searched item meaning the page should remain and redirected to screen door which could receive some of the content from the merged article about storm doors. « « «  SOME GADGET GEEK  » » » (talk) 00:10, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Oppose: while the pages are poor, the topics seems to be different, and so I think that they should have distinct pages. Note that notability is based on the existence of suitable sources, not on the state of sourcing in an article. Klbrain (talk) 22:48, 9 May 2019 (UTC)