Archive for January, 2012
I LOVE THIS PHOTO! It is a building in Norrköping, Sweden, which was attached to another building that burned down. The fire doors in the photo (and the wall, and of course the valiant efforts of the firefighters) prevented the fire from spreading to this building. The building in which the fire started was very [...]
It’s official – I have a new job (woohoo!). For the last 3 years while I’ve been getting to know all of you and putting as much code/application information on this site as possible, I have also been managing our specification team for New England. At times it has been a struggle to do both, [...]
Even though I risked being called a weirdo by my colleagues, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to try to learn more about the 5″ wide edge channels that are sometimes required on fire-rated wood doors with concealed vertical rod exit devices. When these channels show up on the jobsite without warning, architects tend to [...]
I’m in San Antonio, Texas at a beautiful hotel and conference center for our annual sales meeting, and there are A LOT of doors with mag-locks. Check out the coordination of the bank of pairs below…concealed closers, overhead stops, and mag-locks all coexisting in the same space. Notice that the mag-locks have a split armature [...]
My friends in Indy have obviously been holding out on me. I visited downtown Indianapolis in the frigid 14-degree weather last week, with the only thing standing between me and a broken hip my extremely inappropriate clogs, but it was worth it to see the gorgeous doors on the Indiana War Memorial. There are more [...]
Last week I wrote about a tragic fire in Chicago, in which Shantel McCoy was killed. I provided links to several articles in my post, but in a nutshell… a) The residents of the apartment of fire origin left their door open in hopes that their cat would escape. b) The open door allowed smoke [...]
I previously posted Part 1 and Part 2 of this article, and here is the third and final segment. A Memoir from 1880 – How I Discovered Door Checks by L.C. Norton, Inventor of Door Checks _______________________________________________________ In the August 1986 issue of Doors and Hardware, Norton described his troubles with manufacturing and selling the [...]
Last week’s quiz question seemed to work pretty well, so how about another? Click the link below to begin. Opening Force Requirements for Fire Doors
I have spent this entire week at our corporate office, so I haven’t had a lot of time for posting. In return for your patience, next week I will post the third and final article from Lewis C. Norton’s “How I Discovered Door Checks.” That seems fair, right? I’m here in Carmel with about a [...]
I saw this application twice in one week…the exit sensor for the mag-lock mounted behind the exit sign. It definitely affects the range of the sensor. The code requirements for mag-locks do not address exact placement of the sensor, but this seems like common sense, no?
UPDATE: More articles added at the bottom of the post. The other night, one of my friends (you know who you are) was talking about how I post “stories about people dying because they didn’t have the right kind of hardware.” Well, that’s sometimes true and if he got the message maybe someone else will [...]
When I first started working for the New England agency representing LCN back in 1994 (MPS Sales), LCN used to print an annual calendar showing their door closers in action. Well, I don’t know about you but it has been quite a few years since I have hung a calendar on the wall, and printed [...]
Sent in by Nolan Thrope of Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. Thanks Nolan!
