When you’re faced with an opening where a floor stop or wall stop just won’t work, you could use an overhead stop. If that’s not enough protection, you could use a door closer with advanced variable backcheck (AVB), which starts the backcheck (cushioning effect) earlier in the opening cycle and keeps the door from gaining momentum. Or you could get creative and make your own stop, cover it with carpet so it looks pretty, and then buy a new door…
Thank you to Rocky Giroux of Kamco Supply Corp of Boston for the photos!
Have a great weekend everyone!
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And buy a new frame or pay someone to repair it!
Don’t you just smack it with a hammer a few times? 🙂
Not only was the wood door damaged, the HMF is damaged and pulling away from the CMU wall. Hmm… must be the New England Patriots locker room, or a junior high school.
It’s a mental health facility, but I can imagine the same scenario at my daughter’s middle school.
Wow, I used to hate overhead stops, but now I’m seeing them in a whole new light!
Well that’s great! My job is done – I think I’ll take the rest of the week off! 🙂
Swing clear hinges and put a wall stop on the other door…..
Actually a good place for a crash chain but I see it is a mental facility….
This is a learning experience. I see the holes in the floor where the floor stop was originally placed. I can see floor stops creating the same kind of damage if they are placed close to the door jamb. I have seen this done alot recently in the work place so as not to be an obsticle for medical equipment and furniture. An overhead stop with AVB is definitely the way to go. Thanks.
Another “A” for effort. It amazes me that people are thoughtful enough and would go to such lengths to build such a thing but don’t have enough common sense to realize how destructive it could be. Time for a lesson in leverage.
OR…..maybe we should just start making doors that are more flexible. Spring-steel or rubber doors perhaps. Y’all leave that alone. It’s my invention. I’m gonna be rich!!!!