What are Bilco Doors?

Peter Rukavina

In an ad for a proof press I noticed this reference:

currently located in a basement with 7 stairs to up and out bilco style doors

I’d never heard of “bilco doors,” and that’s because, as it turns out, it’s a regional expression in parts of the US, the “Kleenex” of basement doors, named for the Bilco company known for making them.

Given that I have a 50 year old boiler in my basement that cannot fit up the inside basement stairs, I could use a good set of Bilco doors here at 100 Prince.

Comments

Submitted by Jarek on

Permalink

Our 100 year old cast iron boiler came out up the narrow stairs in pieces. So that might be an option. That was expensive (it was quoted as part of the whole boiler replacement job, not itemized, but I think I heard around $1000-2000?), but they couldn't rule out asbestos, so it had to be a professional job anyway.

Add new comment

Plain text

  • Allowed HTML tags: <b> <i> <em> <strong> <blockquote> <code> <ul> <ol> <li>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

About This Blog

Photo of Peter RukavinaI am . I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person.

To learn more about me, read my /nowlook at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve written, or get in touch (peter@rukavina.net is the quickest way). 

You can subscribe to an RSS feed of posts, an RSS feed of comments, or a podcast RSS feed that just contains audio posts. You can also receive a daily digests of posts by email.

Search