A fire marshal sent me today’s Wordless Wednesday photo, but neither of us know the original source. We’d love to give credit to the photographer, and to ask what in the world is going on with this door?!
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1. Display model for a door company??
2. Real answer,,, that is really not a brick wall behind. The movable portion,,,, It is an illusion attached to the glass, to make it look like a brick wall,,, So they could make it on I dig hardware!!!
Look at the brick pattern, Its a picture that looks like brick. that’s a door behind that, “Door”.
It looks like the sliding section of the door has an image of brick affixed to the interior side.
The brick in that part of the door is a different size than the brick in the wall and the coursing does not match with the brick in the wall.
I am imagining they did this as a deterrent against break-ins.
Lori,
That “Security Camera” on the wall is a “Candid Camera” moment!! I would love to see the look on people’s faces when they try to walk thru the door!!
Kevin… The Fire Marshal!! 😉 😉
What I see is a sliding glass door with a brick image attached that appears to be activated with a motion sensor above. It is possibly a one-way image application that can see out. The railing appears to be hinged in front of the glass panel with a latch to hold it in the open position shown on the right side of the gate. What troubles me is the handing of the man door so that a person has to get around it after using it
“Customer Complaint Dept. – Just head through the sliding glass doors.”
HAHA!! Yes! This made my day!
“Every wall is a door” Ralph Waldo Emerson – yes, I had to look it up
Looks like they did away with the sliding door. May have been a loading dock originally. The side hinged door looks new since the steps and walkway appear to have been added as well. I would have changed the swing so the door would not be an obstruction as least. Hopefully, they will remove the sliding door altogether.
Missed the swing gate in front of the sliding door!
Like this company, likes to dress up their buildings
https://www.insideselfstorage.com/facility-design/self-storage-design-study-all-storage-texas-and-its-unique-box-office
It’s for cartoons
Photoshopped. You can see the repeats if you look close. Credit to my coworker Adam for spotting it.
You can see the Brick patterns match the adjacent
That’s the Road Runner’s entrance.
:-):-) Nice one Lou!!! LOL
There’s got to be some sort of Harry Potter thing going on here for sure!
Yes… it’s the U.S. entrance to Daigon Alley.
I want to say something witty about a stairway to heaven and entry denied, but I can’t think of a witty way to word it…
“Local Company Solves COVID”
Here are my thoughts. This is a building modification, likely still in progress.
The concrete pour is new, and the railing has been modified and welded. The part in front of the door used to be a swinging RHR gate. There are two stops on the left of the gate. The self-latching gate latch Is still visible in the center of the left side of the gate. The two hinges are on the right side of the gate. Based upon the weld and grind pattern I think the railing used to be continuous. The gate is an addition.
If you look at the brick wall both above and to the left of the sliding door, there is an existing lighter colored rectangle pattern to the bricks. I don’t see the same light pattern behind the door. But … The same light colored pattern is visible in the bricks at the lower right corner of the sliding door. Meaning, if you take the bricks from the lower right corner, and move them to the upper left corner, it would fit like a jigsaw puzzle. I’d guess that the bricks were pulled down, and later reused and reassembled.
There is something else odd. On the bricks in the center of the open portion of the sliding door, there are red and white reflective letters. It’s very difficult to make out, but the first work looks like “Caution.” MAYBE the second word is “Fire” but I can’t tell.
This is a self-storage building. I suspect this either was, or will be, a large opening to move property in and out of through. Since the sliding door looks brand new, I’m guessing they were installing it. The pedestrian door looks new too. If you look at the ped door header, it extends to the right from the upper right corner of the ped door. It looks like there was something else there that had been removed, and the ped door installed.
I agree with an earlier poster. Definitely photoshopped. No question about it.
If you look at the brick wall both above and to the left of the sliding door, there is an existing lighter colored rectangle pattern in the bricks. I don’t see the same light pattern behind the door. But … The same light colored pattern is visible in the bricks at the lower right corner of the sliding door. Meaning, if you take the bricks from the lower right corner, and move them to the upper left corner, it would fit like a jigsaw puzzle. Almost like it was cut and then rotated.
The bricks in the doorway all look good … until you look at the corners in the slider doorway. Especially the upper right quadrant. Blurry.
It’s odd that the track of the sliding door crosses the “entrance,” and there is only one door.
But the clincher is easy. Zoom in to the right side of the sliding door, where it overlaps the pedestrian door. Vertical white line from the cut and paste.
I heard there was an opening in the door and hardware game but every time I applied I hit a brick wall
That’s the shadow (mirror) of the adjacent wall, where the door slides open on.
Facing the door, the right hand stile of the door is the line of symmetry, mirroring the bricks pattern.
High likely there is an opening behind the door.
Yes! I love it when I see a picture on here that matches one on my phone. Makes me feel like less of a weirdo. OK, so I still feel like a big weirdo. But whatever. I took mine at a U-Haul in Grand Rapids, MI. This also appears to be at a U-Haul. I did not have to go into the store as I was only dropping off a truck. It appeared be for exit only. Also looks like they are custom matching the image on the glass for each location. Door I saw was in a block wall. It was a Stanley product. I’ll stop in next time and check it.
Yes! This is a U-Haul also! I’d love to know the reason for doing this…the next time you’re in the neighborhood. 🙂
– Lori
We have installed quite a lot of sliders for local UHaul locations lately here in MI. UHaul will apply brick vinyl, as some people have guessed, to some of the sliding doors we have installed. Most of these doors are meant for employee use only. They will put the vinyl on storage rooms, auto accessory installation areas, etc. They often order single slide surface mounted packages which is why you only see one door panel and exposed brick next to it. I suppose they may have adopted this to discourage customers from trying to enter through the employee only areas?
Mystery solved! Thanks Paul! 🙂
– Lori
It’s an historic warehouse building repurposed. But closing down the wide opening where container used to back up and unload its goods, a new brickwall will stick out like a sore thumb. They framed the opening twice its size, printed an image of the adjacent brick pattern and glued it to the new glass sliding door, sealed permanently the loading/unloading steel pipe gate.