I can’t tell if the attempt to repair this panic hardware incorporated double-sided tape, Command Strips, or something else. Whatever the method, it was unsuccessful! Thanks to Kurt Stoll of Chown Hardware for today’s Fixed-it Friday photo.
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I believe those are command strips…they are only rated at 2 lbs…Where is the fire marshal?
Umm… I know thru-bolts are available for that panic device… For the cost of the tape and command strips… I’m just saying.
They obviously should have used Gorilla Glue, instead.
What, no gorilla glue???
Definitely not the right door for a band aid repair. It has been beat up enough to lose the stainless trim on the push bar. Call someone and get it fixed properly.
Unbelievable…
That’s what happens when such devices are applied to hollow steel doors using tapping screws which invariably come loose. Proper mounting method is to use steel (not aluminum) Rivnut threaded inserts with machine screws. My two cents.
Too narrow of a door in too narrow of a space with no leading edge door protection becomes a classic example of not if, just when the hardware get torn off. Designers need to do better.
Obviously they used the wrong tape!
Just stupid, but I was giving that direction from an architect working for State of VA on a project at the Capital here.
I was tasked to install 4 Nabco GT8500 on doors that we’re 13’6” x 42” wide doors.
I needed holes through the new limestone walls for switches. That’s where I asked the architect for his input. As G-D is my witness he told me to mount a piece of plywood to the wall using double-sided sticky non-staining tape. To which I asked him how the information from that key switch was going to get through that plywood through that wall and up to the header. I did what I always do, and did what needed to happen.
looks like the hinge side is about 2″out of plumb as it follows the face of the meat cooler that it is crammed up against