Push/Pull
There are a thousand ways to screw up a door, so one of my goals with this blog is to help others avoid mistakes I’ve seen or made myself (yes, I’ve made plenty). Today’s warning involves the straight pulls that have become popular in the last few years. These pulls are often close to the full height [...]
Someone sent me this photo of the custom door pulls made by Tice Industries for the Danner Shoe Manufacturing Company, and I thought they were so cool that I asked Scott Tice to send me more photos of their custom door pulls. They have other custom capabilities as well, so check them out! All photos [...]
Almost every week someone asks me about the clearance behind door pulls. Many manufacturers’ catalogs show certain pulls with a symbol indicating that they are accessible, and other pulls without the symbol. About 10 years ago I called the Department of Justice (ADA), the International Code Council (CABO back then), and the Massachusetts Architectural Access [...]
I coincidentally received these two sets of photos on the same day. Who knew there was such cool hardware in Indiana?? These are from Mary Hinton of Mulhaupt’s. I’ve never seen hinges like these. Have you? And from Cory Yamaguchi of Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, amazing pulls on art gallery doors. Thanks to both of [...]
No matter how much time I spend thinking about doors and hardware (that’s so sad), there’s always someone waiting in the wings with a question or problem I haven’t thought of yet. When I worked for a hardware distributor, that usually meant that because I had never thought about that particular issue before, I had [...]
We were on a mini-vacation earlier in the week, which is my excuse for forgetting two things. First, my pal Zeke Wolfskehl is in search of some research that I remember hearing about but have never been able to find documentation for. Maybe it’s an urban legend, but I know that I heard/read somewhere that [...]
If you haven’t been to Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, you’re missing out on some great old hardware applications. They recently had an exhibit of antique door pulls, and as soon as my first-grader saw it he said, “Mom! I think you’re going to want to get out your camera!” In addition to the [...]
I find this cool in a freaky sort of way. I was searching the internet for something completely different, and I saw this blog post about a door pull shaped like a giant pair of scissors. The blogger is in the Netherlands. Through the miracle of Google Street View, you can see the exact street [...]
