According to my coworker, Mark Kuhn of Allegion, this Wordless Wednesday photo shows the egress side of this door. What’s wrong with this picture??
Oct 26 2016
WW: Man Cave
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October 26th, 2016 6:32 am
Considering all the Confederate paraphernalia in that store, I’d say there’s nothing wrong with that door at all. I’m going to go with the bottom right knob as the latch. It’s the only one where you can clearly see a through-bolt screw in the rose. The rest are dummies.
October 26th, 2016 8:05 am
I take one of the knobs on the left side, is a true door knob??
Is there an exit sign above the door?
October 26th, 2016 8:25 am
There should be a poll: Is it left-handed or right-handed?
My guess is that it is left-handed based on the missing veneer in the bottom corner and how the foot traffic seems to be offset to the right side.
October 26th, 2016 8:59 am
The real question is where to start the list
October 26th, 2016 1:09 pm
Didn’t I see an article somewhere that referenced murals such as this on an egress only in nursing home type settings (sorry, I’m a real rookie).
October 26th, 2016 1:27 pm
Great Job Rookie!! 🙂
Here’s that article: http://idighardware.com/2015/02/murals-in-health-care-occupancies/
– Lori
October 26th, 2016 4:14 pm
My first reaction was that the painting of the man gives the impression this is an entrance only door, not an exit. congrats to the rookie for being first!
October 26th, 2016 4:17 pm
I would say this is NOT an egress door. With merchandise so close to the door, it would be too easy to ‘grab and go’. (IF you wanted any of that stuff anyway) So it may be a dressing room or restroom, in which case there’s no code violation–just an annoying doorway.
October 26th, 2016 4:20 pm
Its all knobbed up!
October 26th, 2016 4:25 pm
It has KNOBS but no KNOCKERS
October 26th, 2016 4:52 pm
Well, it’s clearly labeled as the “Man Cave”, which doesn’t normally mean “Exit”.
October 26th, 2016 5:34 pm
Being in the South I like this painting. I think the brass knobs were painted for looks not functionality.
However these type cafe doors are normally double acting and the frame has a stop on it.
Only letting the doors swing outward. And obviously they do not provide security.
October 26th, 2016 6:31 pm
Bill Elliott shops here.
October 26th, 2016 7:33 pm
You need four hands to open this!
October 26th, 2016 10:18 pm
Shouldn’t that be a matched set of pistols?
October 27th, 2016 8:29 am
Looks like a “cute” name for the men’s room, so it would be OK as is.
October 27th, 2016 11:10 am
If the door is clearly labeled by an illuminated “EXIT” sign out of frame, and if pushing on the door will make it open (most likely because there is no latching/locking hardware, but perhaps because the “swinging door” decoration is painted on a protruding board which is mounted to a panic) I wouldn’t consider this door to be worse than some other decorated doors. Given the decoration, I would guess that it probably grants access to a room which is served by another exit, but that in most cases where a shopper would have clearly-visible path to another exit, it would be better for the shopper to use that exit (which is visibly unobstructed) than hope egress is possible through the other room (which might turn out to be impassible because of a fire which broke out there.
I’m curious to what extent people’s ability to find exits which are marked with clearly-visible illuminated “EXIT” signs is actually impaired by “camouflage”. Camouflage would clearly exacerbate the effects of a missing “EXIT” sign, but is there any evidence that in an emergency, people who see an exit sign would not as a first instinct push anything under the sign which looks like it might be a door?