Between the BHMA fall meeting and the DHI ConNextions conference, I spent a weekend visiting Sedona and the Grand Canyon, and the landscape in that part of the country is enough to leave anyone Wordless!

The hotel where I stayed on the Grand Canyon South Rim is a rustic lodge designed in 1935 and a Registered National Historic Landmark.  There are 90 lodging units, and my room had a communicating door connecting to the adjoining room.  Typically, communicating doors are required to be fire door assemblies, to protect the opening in the fire resistant wall between the hotel rooms.

Current codes require doors between sleeping rooms to be have a 20-minute rating and to be equipped with positive-latching hardware.  Although almost all fire doors are required to have door closers, communicating doors between hotel rooms (Group R-1) are exempt from the self-closing/automatic-closing requirement.

You can read more about the requirements for communicating doors between sleeping rooms in this Decoded article.

Check out the communicating door in my hotel room (and the entrance door – a dutch door!).  I’m wondering about the motivation behind the hardware…it wasn’t a cost-saving measure!

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