It’s a good thing that the problem with this frame prep was noticed before the frame was installed…can you tell what’s wrong with today’s Fixed-it Friday photo?
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It’s a good thing that the problem with this frame prep was noticed before the frame was installed…can you tell what’s wrong with today’s Fixed-it Friday photo?
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What do you mean the strike prep and the EPT prep aren’t supposed to be on the same side of the frame?
I’m assuming that is an EPT prep that should be on the hinge jamb and not the strike jamb.
An EPT prep on the strike side. Oops is right. With computer driven equipment these days, the mistake was probably in the inputting of the data and no one caught it. Gotta make sure you attached the prep code to the correct jamb leg.
Looks like a power transfer prep that should be on the hinge side.
PREP FOR STRIKE AND POWER TRANSFER ON SAME SIDE OF JAMB
That power transfer prep needs to be on the hinge side, not the strike side of the door!
looks like the power transfer prep is on the wrong side of the frame
Taking a wild guess that the topcutout is for a wire hinge power transfer!
It looks like the prep for a strike and an electric power transfer were made on the same side of the frame. One or the other of these is on the wrong side.
Insert a Don-Jo EPT-1 grey filler plate. Screw, Bondo, light grind at 36grit, then again with palm at 80grit, then touch up with Red-Cap glazing putty, hand sand at 80grit, and reprime. While waiting to dry, cut in the new EPT rectangle prep (using your handy dandy template), located 22-1/2″ top to C/L on the hinge jamb, slide in a Steelcraft STP 2930 prefabricated ept reinforcement plate. Tack into place, reprime the weld burns, then tack in a Steelcraft 3PG0023A001-GL 13″ Electric box on the backside, reprime the weld burns, and you are back in business. About 30 minutes, if you don’t dilly dally.
Perfect
ept has to be on the opposite side of the strike prep cutout
As soon as I had seen this, I knew one prep is on the wrong side of the frame leg.
If this is the latching side the EPT prep is on the wrong side.
If it is the hinge side which I doubt since I cannot see any hinge preps, then the strike is on the wrong side.
Either way better to find it now before the frame is installed.
William Cushman’s comment is great, but I would expect the fabricator to correct the mistake first