Last week I posted some photos from a recent hotel stay in Indiana…here are a few more from a California hotel, sent by Deputy Jeff Tock of Allegion. The stairwell fire door in these photos was prepped for a wire raceway leading from the electric hinge or power transfer to the electrified lockset. The fact that the door is now cracked in half helps to explain why drilling wire raceways in existing doors is typically treated as a field modification that must be approved in advance by the listing lab.
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I’m curious about the material that door is made from. Is it a P Lam type? P lam fire doors are the only doors I have seen crack like that and they weren’t raceway drilled, just poorly constructed.
What kind of idiot installer do you need to be to walk away and leave this door in place? And what kind of idiot building inspector do you need to be to look at this with blind eyes and walk away? This is beyond questionable.
One good kick by some rambunctious teenager and bye-bye door!
I’m not sure if the crack occurred when the raceway was drilled or afterward when the door was weakened by the raceway and was used for a while. Either way, it’s a problem!
– Lori
That might even be a rated door since it’s on a stairway. A big mistake to field modify a rated door if that’s the case.
Yes – absolutely. I’m sure it’s a fire door.
– Lori