Today’s Wordless Wednesday photo is shared with permission from Vince Davis, who posted it on the Fire and Life Safety Inspectors Facebook page. If this is a fire door it’s got some other issues, but the egress problem is clear.
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Needs marker on the wall: “you must be this tall to remove that piece of wood”?
Not in ADA Height Guidelines
A fire door without Latching Hardware????
What is a “Fire” door?
sorry
The door is an old-timer, like me.
How silly to paint a message “fire door do not block”, but what does it matter? The door is barred shut!
is it to a mechanical room and not an exit. is the 2×6 partof the rated listing for the latching of the door?
Well, Curtis, they probably didn’t get the hot work permit from the local FD when the welded those brackets on either…
Wow, and it appears that they didn’t even use fire treated lumber.
We shall not block the door–we shall just use a large block (of wood) to lock the door..
permits, we don’t need no stinking permits
1) I see hinges. I thought I read somewhere that the NFPA frowns on inward swinging emergency egress doors.
2) It’s a good thing that the door cannot latch. Lifting the wood beam is a single operation. If the door latched, it would take two operations and be against code.
3) Isn’t the wood required to be 3′ to 4′ off the floor?
4) Didn’t somebody try something like this at the Cocoanut Grove in Boston? I don’t recall that turning out very well.
5) “Fire Door” is nice language. But I thought other language was required. Maybe something. like, “Exit.” Maybe illuminated.
Yes you are correct about NFPA/code requirements the wood should not be there at all. I think it is single motion egress not single operation meaning this door assembly fails with flying colors.