Take a closer look at these Fixed-it Friday photos sent by Robin Greenberg of Perkins Eastman…I’m interested to hear your theories about the thought process behind this “fix.”
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Take a closer look at these Fixed-it Friday photos sent by Robin Greenberg of Perkins Eastman…I’m interested to hear your theories about the thought process behind this “fix.”
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Door to extra dining area.
All the high security is to keep people out, when extra seating is not needed.
I didn’t say this in the post, but the doors go from a cafe into another business. What do you think about the little piece of the door that’s exposed but not usable?
– Lori
Especially one with an exit sign posted above…
I finally figured out I was looking at myself,,, mirrored door.
I would say for the entire space,,, figure out if the exit, is needed. If not needed, take down the sign.
If needed,,, more than likely only 3 feet of width is required, so I would not worry about the other door,,, unless there is an exit sign on the other side!!! Than once again evaluate, since someone might try to open the other leaf, while standing on the other side.
Guessing a much older building, with several past uses.
That’s one way to secure an inactive door leaf!
I would think that the obvious retrofit would be to drop the left-hand door and put in a new section of frame on that side, making it into a single door. Or, if it’s a different company entirely, drop both doors and put up some drywall.
Since they didn’t do that, I would assume that the retrofit was done by someone who figured it was easier to immobilize the left hand door and use it as the frame for the remaining door. But the new framing looks like pretty decent carpentry, so maybe they did it that way because the landlord insisted that the double doors be kept in place, in the event that the space needed to be combined again.
But, they could have at least removed the lever on the left hand door and put on a hole cover. That would have given them a few more inches to build out the wall and made it less obvious that it was once a double door.
What are the units of Egress? But regardless the Barrel bolts block access to the exit side of the door
It would appear to be a two leaf door and that someone built a wall over the majority of the leaf on the left. The slide bolts secure one side and there are no photos to show what, if any, security measures are on the other side. Obviously no rating for the wall or door assembly and the small door piece that is exposed cannot be used. Clearly, violates various egress code requirements (at least in my state – slide bolts are not allowed).
Looks like a pair of doors with one leaf mostly covered.
i don’t see a braille exit sign so if it is no longer a required exit the exit sign should be removed. You cannot exit through a different tenant space.
If it is still a required exit the bolt locks will need to be removed, and I would suggest taking the hardware off the door which you can only see part of it so there would be no confusion on which handle to use.
My guess is that the tenant on the side the photo is taken from needed the wall space for their counter, but the building owner did not want to straight up remove the existing pair of doors for a single door so it can be undone in the future. I also see it is a fire exit, so ignoring the hardware issues here, a single door had to remain to meet egress requirements.
First off, it appears that someone took a shortcut when modifying the doors from previous tenant(s). But more importantly, this presents a confusing situation. Perhaps at this point a hole filler plate for the inoperable door could reduce confusion. But that would still be wrong.
If the door is meant for egress of any kind (I see an EXIT sign), the barrel bolts are a problem. But I see more than that…
Regarding the EXIT sign, it is centered over the former double doors. If the opening was originally sized for egress, based on licensed capacity, the now-single-door may not provide enough of an opening for emergency egress even if it had the right hardware.
That seems like a lot of trouble to avoid removing the lever.
As there is an exit sign, I’m pretty sure the slide bolts are not to code. Depending on the occupancy the deadbolt. Egress through intervening space. So many things.
It looks like this was probably one business that was turned into two separate businesses.
Isn’t there a code that says an exit can’t go through another business? If that’s correct, the exit sign needs to be removed.
The other issue is the lack of security for the business on the other side of this opening. Unless there are surface bolts on the other side too, the people in this business can retract the surface bolts and have free access to the other business.