About Me
I’m Lori Greene, a hardware consultant with Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard an architect say, with passion, “I HATE HARDWARE!” On the other hand, I work with lots of hardware consultants who like hardware enough to work in this industry for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, or even longer (you know who you are!). I also field questions from security consultants, code officials, locksmiths and other facility personnel who have a healthy respect for doors and hardware.
I’ve started this site because in the last 20+ years I’ve been asked hundreds of questions, many of them again and again. I don’t always know the answer but I do try to find out and report back. I’m hoping that by answering questions via this site, you’ll eventually be able to search for answers here. If you don’t find what you’re looking for and you’re located in New England, drop me an email at lori_greene@irco.com.
If you’re located outside of New England and have a specific question, please contact your local Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies office.
Lori Greene, AHC/CDC, CCPR
Fire Door Assembly Inspector
Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies of New England
77 Wexford Street, PO Box 801
Needham Heights, MA 02494
Direct: 781-453-5306
Cell: 617-966-1688
Fax: 866-422-7884
Email: lori_greene@irco.com
The information included in this site is for reference only and is based on my interpretation of the codes. The actual code publications should be consulted when comprehensive data is required and to ensure compliance with the applicable codes, and the Authority Having Jurisdiction is the ultimate decision-maker. Accordingly, Ingersoll Rand Company and its related companies, subsidiaries, sectors, divisions, and affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents, successors, and assigns (hereinafter referred to as “Ingersoll Rand Companies”) make no representations or warranties, express or implied, with respect to the information contained in this resource, nor does it assume any obligation or liability for any advice given by Ingersoll Rand Companies arising out of or related to this resource.
March 19th, 2009 3:45 pm
Lori,
Love the site! Thanks.
March 26th, 2009 3:00 pm
Good stuff Lori. I hate hardware too!
April 16th, 2009 10:45 am
Harris stopped by our place today and mentioned your site and all the hard work you’ve put into it.
This is my first visit here and I’m quite impressed. Nice Work.
April 22nd, 2009 10:57 am
Just found out about your site today!! What an invaluable tool! Great site Lori….can’t wait to read it all. Thanks for all the time you must put into this!!
June 15th, 2009 9:29 pm
What a wonderful thing, Lori! You’ve found a way to spread your hardware-brilliance further afield. To all of you newcomers, welcome to the best consultant you’ve ever met!
signed, a long-time colleague
June 30th, 2009 7:45 am
Thanks, Lori,
I really appreciate all that you and your colleagues do!
P
July 15th, 2009 7:56 am
Well, I guess the cat’s out of the bag. All of my architect friends who for years have thought I was the smartest guy in the world now know the source of much of my information. Anyone who hates hardware has got to love Lori!
July 30th, 2009 1:49 pm
Lori, thank you for the excellent gift for winning the “guess what’s wrong with this picture”
Terry
July 30th, 2009 2:23 pm
You’re welcome Terry! There’s another little contest coming up next week so watch for it!
- Lori
August 3rd, 2009 7:01 am
I am enjoying your site,great info, have a
safe trip.
August 10th, 2009 5:04 am
Lori,
Very impressive,your website is a world of information! I am going to refer many of our friends who are in doors and hardware business.
Regards,
August 31st, 2009 6:40 am
hello lori, interesting site you have here, I don’t work for any business but i have always been into hardware since middle school (6th grade to be exact) and from what I have observed from middle school and got to high school I got hang of it and got started reparing classroom door closers (LCN 4000 series, mixed 4040′s and 4010′s) believe it or not I find fixing doors interesting.
not many places were you will see a post like this from a 24 year old female
October 7th, 2009 1:00 pm
This is an awesome site!! I saw it right after you started it and it has grown tremendously. I’m going to bookmark it on my desktop. What a wealth of information written in a comfortable, casual, concise, easy-to-understand style. EXCELLENT!!
October 12th, 2009 2:41 pm
Lori, stumbled on your site and am very impressed, especially the pictures showing the issues or hardware involved. In the code business we sometimes don’t know hardware like we should, and it helps having somewhere to go to say, “here’s the issue, what do you have that is code-compliant”. I hope you don’t mind my opinions on the site, and I will be happy to give an interpretation from a building code/fire code perspective whenever I can.
October 16th, 2009 3:13 pm
After visiting this site throughout the last couple months, I can say I LOVE HARDWARE, lol. This is actually a very good source of information for all hardware people as well as those not in hardware but who just want to know about it. Great job Lori, don’t forget my request on “industry profile” person. Thanks for making hardware somewhat humorous, the pictures are worth a thousand words.
November 19th, 2009 11:50 am
Lori….great site…..it is clear to me that you spend a significant amount of time and effort keeping this site up to date and relevant for a broad audience. Keep up the great work!!!!!!
December 9th, 2009 1:28 pm
Lori, Thanks for being you and thanks for all the help over the years. we are also very lucky to have you working at the SSC New England.
Rich
February 12th, 2010 2:20 pm
Very nice site! In addition to Funky Applications, it might also be fun to see Super Unique But Totally Excellent Applications.
Thanks for this site!
Mike
March 9th, 2010 6:42 am
Lori, this site rocks! It’s well organized, covers all the important stuff, and most importantly it’s fun! The world has needed something like this for a long time. THANK YOU
Lloyd
PS- Tell Nolan he is not allowed to hate hardware!
May 9th, 2010 12:36 pm
I hate dealing with hardware, but I love this website!
February 3rd, 2011 8:01 pm
Lori,
You are a huge help to me and others. I’m glad you’re passionate about this.
Let me know when I can help you out too.
Ian
March 2nd, 2011 2:00 pm
Hi Lori,
I’ve recently moved to Seattle from Vancouver, BC (where I worked for an IR spec company). I have an interview in Seattle tomorrow for their sister company, also IR and am so looking forward to get back to selling door hardware. I’m GAI certified (English and worked in London for Allgood PLC, selling d line and FSB)
So happy to have found your site. As my site visits increase over the coming months, I hope to be posting and sharing some stories with you. Consider yourself bookmarked!
Dan
March 3rd, 2011 12:09 am
Thanks for the comment, Dan, and good luck with your interview!
- Lori
March 7th, 2011 9:38 am
Hello,
I wanted to comment on how much I enjoy your post and site. It has a lot of valuable information. If your ever short on topics to write about, please let me know. I have a few topic about doors that I would love to see you write about, if you have not written about them in the past.
John H. Jackson
Fire Safety Project Manager
Environmental Health and Safety
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
March 7th, 2011 9:39 am
Thank you so much for the email…it really means a lot! Feel free to send me ideas and I can add them to the list. It’s a long list though…I need a clone.
March 14th, 2011 7:15 pm
Hi Lori,
Have you written anything or posted anything on Won Doors? or Auxiliary Fire Latches (LBR’s) or power operators of fire doors having to be interfaced with the fire alarm system to shunt power in a fire alarm event?
March 18th, 2011 8:30 am
Hi Lori,
Do you have any pictures of Harris’ old VW Rabbit????
March 18th, 2011 10:27 am
No…I think he was driving an Audi by the time I arrived in 1994.
But this is a message from Harris: “That 1980 “Black Diesel Rabbit” was a beauty!!! Zero to 60 in about three days, but 40 miles to the gallon. Never touched the brakes, didn’t need them, just turn on the A/C and the car would come to a rather “quick” stop. Those were the good old days!!!”
July 25th, 2011 1:58 pm
Thanks for the nice words about the 4040XP.
Mark Braunlich
LCN Snr. Design Engineer
August 23rd, 2011 12:50 pm
Hello Mark, its really great that the 4040XP got all the improvements to prevent wearand tear from daily use as well as other brands from “copycatting” the body style.
where else can you find the Last Closer Needed???? i have always been a fan of LCN closers ever since i was 12 noticed the 4040 using an EDA arm (standard edition) on the classroom door in 6th grade.
i have an idea that may be a good advantage to LCN and convenient for installers who install the 4040, basically my idea involves the backcheck selection valve and its location.
another idea i had, (idea from when i was young too, but never did anything about it, that T handle used on H-CUSH arms, why not dip it in tool handle grip rubber (or some soft material) some of these hold open arms i have turned the handles on, ahh, where not too easy to turn and can easilly hurt the user’s hand or fingers.
-Jess the door (closer)doctor
(Lori, is it possible I can email with Mark or someone in his Dept at LCN about my ideas?? also feel free to give him my email address.)
if in case the revise the LCN4040xp or upgrade/update any of the arms mentioned?? I hope I can be of help to LCN and the employees at IR)
August 17th, 2011 8:51 am
Lori, great site. I am recommending this to every hardware geek I know. I have been in the business for 15 years and within a few minutes I learned and updated valuable knowledge. Everyone interested in learning about our business and how it relates to their jobs should read this regularly. Building owners and facility engineers should have this as their homepage.
Thank you.
August 17th, 2011 9:30 am
Tom -
Thank you so much! That really means a lot. Let me know if you have any suggestions for topics to cover.
- Lori
August 29th, 2011 11:28 am
Congrats Lori on your Presidents Award!!! I knew this was a fabulous site, but now the rest of the organization does.
November 28th, 2011 1:22 am
Hi Lori
My name is zvika greenberg i am 63 from Haifa Israel.
I work as a Safety Engineer at Bnai Zion Haifa Medical Center.
I like very much to write.
This summer I decided to start writing the “Introduction to Safety Engineering”
It will be 2500 pages.
I am now on page 300.
I started with “Loss Prevention in the Process Industries” from F.P.Lees who was my lecturer at Loughborough University 1984.
I continued with Hospital Ventilation Systems, Life Safety Code NFPA 101.
After writing 300 pages I have a view about Standards.
Now I decided to write about “My Virtual Building”
It was you who changed my attitude toward my writings.
http://idighardware.com/
Sincerely Yours
Zvika Greenberg
Haifa Israel
April 21st, 2012 7:18 pm
Lori, it was great meeting you at the IAPSC conference last week. ( I enjoyed the dinner! )
GREAT website. I can’t tell you how many people have told me over the years “I have a great website,” but when I looked at them, there was always something wrong. Maybe the info was erroneous, sometimes it was too cursory, too proprietary, or even just too hard to read, but yours is everything you said, and more.
I’ve already passed it on to a local code expert, who has bookmarked your site, and he doesn’t bookmark much!
Thanks and keep up the great work.
JBP