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Name for cellar doors priorityman@gmail.com 07-27-2007
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Posted by eds on July 27, 2007, 1:12 pm

> priorityman> wrote
>> What is the name of those door, often metal, at the back of a house?
>> They lead up from the basement, are horizontal or slightly inclined
>> from horizontal, I think often in a concrete frame. The swing to the
>> side and you generally come up stairs to the backyard.
>>
>> I am looking for the common name for this feature, if there is a
>> common name for them. If not a more professional terms would be good.
>>
>> This is for a fiction work.
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> Try this site: Bilco
>
> They have what they call *basement doors* that are like what you've
> described.
> basement?
> cellar?
> who's gonna teller?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/39l6gf
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Around here (MA) we call them "bulkhead" doors, but I don't know why.
EDS



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Posted by priorityman@gmail.com on July 30, 2007, 8:11 am
I was reading a thriller and came across:

storm cellar doors sloped to the foundation.


Posted by Michael Bulatovich on July 30, 2007, 8:32 am
Probably referring to the US plains.

>I was reading a thriller and came across:
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> storm cellar doors sloped to the foundation.
>



Posted by ++ on July 30, 2007, 11:33 pm


Michael Bulatovich wrote:

>Probably referring to the US plains.
>
>

Probably we all have images in our minds when we think about a product
or another. The iamge that came to my mind was a city townhouse
basement entry.

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>>I was reading a thriller and came across:
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>>storm cellar doors sloped to the foundation.
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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on July 31, 2007, 8:47 am
I meant the appellation, not the thing itself. My house had such a thing
when we bought it, but no one around here calls them 'storm cellars'.
Cellars, yes. Basements, more usual, but we don't get storms of any scale
requiring a shelter.

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>
> Michael Bulatovich wrote:
>
>>Probably referring to the US plains.
>>
>
> Probably we all have images in our minds when we think about a product or
> another. The iamge that came to my mind was a city townhouse basement
> entry.
>>
>>>I was reading a thriller and came across:
>>>
>>>storm cellar doors sloped to the foundation.
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