These Fixed-it Friday photos were sent by Daniel White of Top Notch Distributors. We have all seen retail doors with non-code-compliant security methods. This has only gotten worse with the pandemic and the current security issues in some areas of the U.S. In the supermarket pictured here, the manager said that others had told her the doors were not code-compliant, but that her boss said to “lock it down” anyway.
How do we argue with that? It’s one thing for someone to be unaware of the code requirements, but given the litigious world we live in, I would be even more hesitant to defy the adopted codes. What would you do if you saw cables and padlocks on doors serving an occupied retail store?
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I like to use a nice Guuci bolt cutter!!!
But that was in the old days, when I could get away with it.
Either call the fire marshal or 911!!!
I hate locking blocking doors, for numerous reasons.
Call the fire department, the local TV news, tell the manager that you’ve done that for them.
The supermarket reminded me of Emo Phillips.
He said, “Eternity is a log time my friends. Imagine you are in a supermarket checkout line and there are ten carts ahead of you, and they are all heaping full, and none of the prices are marked, and it is the clerk’s first day on the job, and she doesn’t speak English, and everyone has coupons, and they all want to pay by check. Take a few minutes off of that and you have a good idea of what eternity is like! (Share if you like, thought it would brighten your day at least, off topic though it is.)
That does sound like an eternity, Jerry! 🙂
– Lori
Send the photo to the local fire department, with two questions:
1) how will shoppers get out in an emergency?
2) how will your crews get inside in an emergency?
They should be able to at least disable the exterior sensors for the automatic openers.
That’s true – I think disabling the sensors without locking the doors and adding signage would deter a lot of people. As long as the doors can still be operated manually in line with the code requirements, that would be a good solution.
– Lori
Grocery stores are losing shopping carts full of high value merchandise out the more remote doors of the store. So while the store is open until 10pm they start blocking these doors with long rows of shopping carts and other improvised barriers. Haven’t seen chains yet. They get upset when we tell them they can’t do it.
Unless I was on a first name basis with the Fire Chief or the AHJ I would take a picture and quietly walk away. Find the convening authority and e-mail the information.
As an AHJ… They wouldn’t be on there long after I knew about it !!! There would be a phone call to the store manager as well as the District Manager!
Maybe send this link to store manager?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire