Lori is the Manager, Codes and Resources for Allegion, and the creator of iDigHardware. With more than 35 years of experience in the door and hardware industry, in her current role she focuses exclusively on the code requirements that apply to door openings.
Outside of the typical bad idea concerns for these devices. What happens when that metal clip is broken and the thing falls and whacks a kid in the head?
Always makes me laugh when I see someone who wants to secure a door with that much glass in and around it. I would have been in that room in less than 2.8 seconds!
Would the install be considered a renovation? I can see the AHJ coming in, immediately rejecting the barracade, then requiring the locks be updated to be ADA compliant. So not only would the school system be out the cash thrown down for those stupid devices they then would have to shell out even more money to upgrade the locks to do away with the knobs.
If the “intruder” was even a little motivated, he would have snapped that door in half diagonally.
P.S. Another sore subject: That door had wired glass in it.
can we produce a video ever showing compliant door locking systems that comply with the codes and get as much attention as the never ending bad ideas put forward?
They hope to keep the cost under $200.00! The one lawful code-compliant retrofit barricade lock I am familiar with, Safebolt(tm) from Securitech can be had for $400.00 list.
Frank Ehrman CPP Psp
February 6, 2019 at 4:28 pm - Reply
This came to mind, the children’s book.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Modified to:
The Worst Design Idea and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Code Violating Door!!!!
Substitute the image of an intruder on the outside with a teacher trying to get in and the person on the inside being an attacker with a victim now locked in the room with him. That is a more realistic (common) scenario. Very troubling.
One Word, “”Suicide””
You could say
I can save you 90% of the cost
Here is a 10 cent door stop.
Outside of the typical bad idea concerns for these devices. What happens when that metal clip is broken and the thing falls and whacks a kid in the head?
Poor Door!
you could say:
It is not UL Listed.
Always makes me laugh when I see someone who wants to secure a door with that much glass in and around it. I would have been in that room in less than 2.8 seconds!
Would the install be considered a renovation? I can see the AHJ coming in, immediately rejecting the barracade, then requiring the locks be updated to be ADA compliant. So not only would the school system be out the cash thrown down for those stupid devices they then would have to shell out even more money to upgrade the locks to do away with the knobs.
And it doesn’t comply with either the IFC or NFPA 101. Just another BAD idea.
If the “intruder” was even a little motivated, he would have snapped that door in half diagonally.
P.S. Another sore subject: That door had wired glass in it.
can we produce a video ever showing compliant door locking systems that comply with the codes and get as much attention as the never ending bad ideas put forward?
They hope to keep the cost under $200.00! The one lawful code-compliant retrofit barricade lock I am familiar with, Safebolt(tm) from Securitech can be had for $400.00 list.
This came to mind, the children’s book.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Modified to:
The Worst Design Idea and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Code Violating Door!!!!
Death Trap!
Substitute the image of an intruder on the outside with a teacher trying to get in and the person on the inside being an attacker with a victim now locked in the room with him. That is a more realistic (common) scenario. Very troubling.