I love stumbling upon these old sliding fire doors “in the wild”…Nolan Thrope of Allegion sent me this Fixed-it Friday photo of a slider he saw in Industry City. The facility’s request was to automate the 4-foot x 9-foot door, but I think that’s a “fix” that may not be feasible. What do you think?
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Would depend on if that door/wall still needs to be rated
Also, Will it be used for an exit.
Also, if the idea it is still a rated opening protection, good guess it is not maintained for that.
Crown Industrial does stuff like that – I’m sure there are other companies too. Love the painting on the door though.
Thats a gravity tin clad and yes you can motorize them provided they are not in an egress path BUT that door had the door opening moved. The door should be close to the floor when closed at the low end of the track. “Tin Clads” socket in a receiving bracket/stop at the floor level. Someone infilled the proper door opening and cut a new one behind the door from the look of the picture. Blow the dust of the Richards Wilcox catalogs and add a stay roller on the uphill side and a rub strip and it looks like a tin clads in the factories we work in. The counter balance is also missing but your fix that with rope,a fusible link and some cobblestone. The pulley is still intact at the end of the track and the rope anchor point is still attached by the downhill roller.
Those sliding doors were very common in older factories
It can but would this not be the best use of your companies new AD doors? The AutoMotion version is perfect for this application and a local artist could make it look the same.
I know you never push your own brands but I will always would when it is the right product and I like the AD doors I have used.
I know of a company in western Massachusetts that sells the hardware for rolling fire doors. I personally installed and serviced them in the 90’s.
I love the electro-magnetic hold-open device (cane bolt).
Pipe dream
That’s a lot of door so it will take a lot of operator to move it. It is also likely to need new track/hangers..
Lots of learning just to make it work translates to lots of $$$
That door WAS a part of a fire stop system. A review will be needed to be sure that the current usage has changed to allow some type of conversion. The weight that operates the door would go over the pulley on the upper left hand corner. Detention hardware could be used if fire concerns are no longer in the picture. Ordinary residentail OHD operators will be under sized for power.
Is it my imagination but, isn’t the opening that the slider is supposed to be protecting….. Bricked Up??? Those doors only traveled the width of the door opening.
I have several of these doors in older buildings I own. Does it take a special rope or cable to meet code and can you still buy fusable links.