I was going to post this for Fixed-it Friday, but when I noticed the manual flush bolt installed in the face of each door, I became Wordless. This exit is serving a theater. Thank you to Dean Benson of Northern Door for the photo.
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Looks like an older facility
I do enjoy the corner closer mount though.
WOW! really?
I wonder if it has locking hardware on the outside and these were installed to keep smokers from setting off the alarm.
yup…Wordless
Much quicker to remove a chair than a padlocked chain.
That’s true, but I don’t think many people would know to retract the flush bolts in an emergency. With some sideload on the door it would probably be impossible.
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Codes have probably changed many times since the doors were installed. The flush bolts look like original equipment along with the potbelly closers. Maybe the flushbolts and chair were left over from the day they gunned down John Dillenger in the movie theater. The FBI did not want him exiting out the back door.
I’d be surprised if the flush bolts were original but I like your John Dillenger theory.
I hate to be picky, but the chair is in the wrong finish.
Why would anyone put flush bolts on a VR x VR application?
High security. :\
so, do you climb up on the secondary security device in order to operate the flush bolts?
Funny you should mention that…someone told me that they were having problems with one of the secondary security devices because there is a portion that is mounted a few inches up on the bottom of the door face and the kids were standing on it and “riding” the door (my kids would be all over that). When you attach something to the face of a fire door and then stand on it, it doesn’t stay attached for too long!!!
I was thinking of the chair as the secondary device — a step above a 2×4 dropped into brackets on the door jambs
True.
Even if this is an older building. Why hasn’t the local fire marshal or building inspector put a stop to this? I know in some cities or areas of the country, regular building inspections are few and far in between. But I fault the local authority having jurisdiction for this one. Many or most building owners or staff don’t know enough about building codes or life safety codes or means of egress codes, etc. So the local AHJ inspects the building once when it is first built. The building owner then makes some changes or modifications a few years later. Then local AHJ never comes back for regular inspections? Wow. I don’t want to live in that city.
Definitely time to put that opening out to pasture.
‘Time’ to get with the times.
Sign on left says you are under video surveillance. Time to get warrant for that to find who put the chair there if nobody speaks up.
So where are the inspectors?
Did not sell enough tickets to buy a chain and padlock. The usual method.