I have several hinge ones and like them fine. I've never had a problem with them. You just have to fiddle a little to get them adjusted right when you install them.

Thanks, elohbee! I might convince DH to pick up one this weekend and see if it's easy to install, and we can go from there if that one works for us.

They're pretty easy. Set and forget and they don't collect dog fur. :)

I've had the "below" pins and they work better than one in first pic but you can't be too rough or be a door slammer b/c it can dent door trim.

ETA: since it was an all men family + me, i took all the stops off and applied the stick on wall disks. I painted same wall color(s) and they're invisible.

bossy, what does the bellow pin look like? I'm only finding what appears to be auto parts when I search that term.

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Linelle, my cats love the bottom variety too. Too much. Way, way, way too much. Almost all of the little rubber tips are missing from the downstairs doorstops. (Thanks, Penny.) I've thought about gluing them on so she can't remove them, but then she'll probably just sit there and gnaw on them. She knows this is bad behavior, so has adopted the practice of only engaging in "doorstop delight" when we aren't home. Which is often.

I had those in a previous house and they damaged the door and the molding. The doors weren't solid though. I think there is a market for something better - maybe you can invent something :-).

We have one on the door going to the basement. The contractors out it in when they remodeled the kitchen. Works great. Never thought of replacing the baseboard ones but now you've got me thinking.

Sunfeather, I've been reading reviews and a lot of people have said that the hinge pin type dented their doors and moldings, so I am concerned about that. It also sounds like some of the dark rubber tips mar white woodwork easily, so I'm looking instead at those with white tips, not sure how that would look on my doors. (They're white with dark ORB hinges.) I found these, which got great reviews on Amazon, but I'm hesitant to spend $5.70 per door. The color of the metal does look like it would match our hinges really well though.

A floor-mounted stop is also an option. I have one in my powder room. You have to watch the pads because they dry out and crack. The house we recently purchased has some little rubber bumpers on the wall where the door knob would hit. I don't like them but they are stuck on and would pull off the paint if I removed them.

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Got rid of all the baseboard kind years ago. It was tough to vacuum/clean the floor. I've used the hinge pin type with no problem.

Hmmm. I hadn't considered a floor mount. I know we wouldn't want to use those in the "wet" rooms where there's tile, and I'm not sure about installing them in the hardwood, but I'll take a look at them as well while I'm at it.

I have them on most of some of my doors. I say some, because, the doors that get used the most were getting dents where they touch the door, and also where they touch the mouldings when open. When I repainted all the trim and doors, I filled the dents, sanded and primed them, and took those things off, and threw them in the trash. For doors that are seldom used, or maybe used by adults only, they are ok. I prefer the type that cats like (my cat does too). Babies like them, when they are crawling around too.

We've had the cat/doorstop "problem" for quite some time, but this really only started becoming a serious quest after a conversation I had with a coworker yesterday. He has a 10-month old who has just discovered the baseboard doorstops at his house, and she's obsessed with them. She knows how to remove the rubber tips, and he fears they're a choking hazard, so he's going to be installing the hinge pin stops instead. That got my wheels to turning. I think it's so great to have options!

The hinge pins work fine unless you have someone in the house who is hamhanded and pushes open a door and lets it fly open. That's when you get the dents. It might help to use two or even one on each hinge if you are worried.

I think the hinge pins might work well for us. It's just DH and myself, and we tend to really baby the house. (Never just let the doors fly.) :-)

I like the idea of glueing rubber thingy to the door stop and then spraying with "bitter apple" available at petco to discourage kitty.

I know someone who bought a house where every door with a hinge pin had a hole punched in the back of it by the pin. They must have been particularly rough.

We had some and with teenagers slamming the doors open roughly, ended up with the hinge screws pulling out of the frame.

Have the spring kind, which the cats use as alarm clocks and staff call buttons.

These actually do stress the door and the hinges because of where they are on the "lever arm". They can turn the door into a pry bar with the end of the pin being the pivot point, the knob end of the door being the end of the handle and the stress point or pry point being the hinge edge of the door. It may not be You you need to worry about, its other people. My sister or her husband could rip a door off its hinges with one of those on it

They do ruin hollow doors, IMPE. Not sure about solid ones...

There is a hinge pin that doesn't have the "arms". It has an internal spring or something like that. I bought one to put on our bathroom toilet door, but the pin did not match the size of the hole in the door hinge, so I never used it. Just DH and I using the master bath so we don't slam the doors open.

chispa, you wouldn't happen to have a picture of that, would you?

This bumperless door saver is rather intriguing! Too rich for my blood, but it looks like a pretty cool solution to me.

If the problem is the cat playing with the spring, what about using the same type but rigid? If they didn't twannnnggggg, maybe she'd ignore them?

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Tell your friend to install the hinge pin door stop on the middle or top door hinge. I had to point out to my son that his toddler daughter was able to pull the door stop up and was well on her way to removing the hinge pin! Yikes!

We have hinge pins at the lake condo. The one on the front door took the paint off and gouged the trim. I may just spring for the bumper less door saver that Ida Claire mentioned.

I've had hinge pin door stoppers for 20+ years. Never a problem. On certain doors that get more abuse than others I have 2 installed. One in the lowest and one in the top hinge. The kids playroom and the garage door for example.

Thank you all for sharing! You've given me a lot to continue pondering. This certainly isn't an exciting project to consider, but one that we need to do something about sooner or later.

I really think Penny (and now Molly, since Penny has "coached" her in the game) is attracted to the rubber tips themselves and not so much the twangy-ness of the doorstop as it is the fact that the little tips are just delightful kitty-sized toys to bat around. We've found a few of them, but there are others that have disappeared into thin air. We also tried a number of remedies (such as the spray above) to try to quell her interest. No dice. She avoided those areas for a very short time, but was right back at them. Now we have quite a few that are "un-tipped" and I really worry about someone accidentally opening a door into the bare metal.

These naughty girls are really lucky that they're cute.

my puppy loves to chew on the rubber tip of the solid style that AOK posted. and she thinks the Bitter Apple spray is yummy.

This is timely! I'm planning to order this one which is the same brand as my door hinges. I'm annoyed at the shipping cost because I don't need many, but maybe this one would work for you if you need a lot? Also I have solid doors and my contractor suggested 2 per door to help share the load.

I have a door that needs to open further than the hinge pin allows, so my contractor recommended a magnetic door stop...so maybe that's an option if you don't want the rubber thingies

This is one of my favorite videos ever: Puppy

Yes, the rubber tips are known choking hazards to baby proofing companies.