I am writing this blog post from a hotel in Texarkana, Arkansas, where I saw the Wordless Wednesday door in the photos below while waiting for the car to be fixed. I hope that by the time you read this post I will be back on the road. Fingers crossed!
This stair door in our hotel is one of the highlights of our time here. Wordless…
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Should have went another mile and stayed in
Texarkana Texas !!
Is this an older hotel??
It didn’t appear to be that old, but it wasn’t in good shape. We only stayed there because we were traveling with the cat so we had to stick to places that would allow him in our room.
– Lori
Is it only a two story building??
Might explain the door?
It was a 4-story building, but even a 2-story building would require code-compliant fire doors on the stairs.
– Lori
Oh man a push/pull fire door, Safety First!! Can you steal that closer for me, I really need a new one on the storm door for my townhouse : )
Would the holes for the previous closer and the gaps on the KD frame be against code as well? I thought you could have a hole in the frame as long as it’s not too big.
No, you can’t have any open holes or breaks in the door or frame.
– Lori
Based on the holes in the frame they had a parallel arm closer there at some point. Presumably when it broke down Cletus and Joe decided it’d be easiest to replace it with a patio door closer from the Home Despot.
Sounds like the start of a good country song.
Self closing. Any worse than spring hinges?
Wow! They went to alot of trouble to put a push pull instead of a fire rated exit looks like.
Looks like the maintenance budget was a little tight this year.
value engineered by the low contractor!
I’m just SO impressed the painter didn’t paint over the label on the door. That’s the first thing painters do here in Georgia! (How’s that for finding a silver lining?)
Besides the (many) obvious issues, is that rating tag held on by one rivet and one screw? Good thing they didn’t paint over the tag – that would have been a code violation…
What kind of opening force would a fire be likely to put on a door before temperatures reached the point that the area on the fire side of the door could be presumed uninhabitable? It’s acceptable for double fire doors to omit bottom rods if they are equipped with temperature-activated fire pins. Would pressures on the fire side of a door get too great too fast to make fire pins practical for holding push-pull or roller-latch doors?
That’s a good question. There are pins available for auto flush bolts so the bottom bolt can be omitted. I don’t know if anyone has tried the roller latch / push-pull idea.
– Lori
Hotel prices are rising rapidly, and the condition of the properties is going down even more!!
The hotel chain CEO should be shot or us it hung down there in that neck of the woods … Lol . Hate to say it I have seen worse or is it “worser”. The closer from the PA pattern looks like it was once a LCN 1074 or perhaps a off shore replica. Too many violations to even list . Obviously the AHJ doesn’t check these on any type of a regular basis. .. I guess once they have a real emergency they may change the way they think.