Today’s Fixed-it Friday photos were sent in by David Shahriari of ALVB Outcomes, LLC. These photos were taken in a school…the extra strikes are intended to address the excess clearance and allow the latch to engage.
Even if this is not a fire door assembly where clearances are strictly limited, the excess clearance causes a major security issue. This lockset has a deadlatch – I just spent some time explaining this feature to a security officer at a high school. When the door and hardware are installed properly, the latchbolt projects into the strike, and the auxiliary deadlatch is depressed by the strike.
With the auxiliary deadlatch in the correct position, the latchbolt can not be pried back with a screwdriver or credit card. With the application shown in the photos below, the auxiliary deadlatch is not depressed by the strike, and it is very easy to push the latch in – even with a finger or pencil.
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3 strikes your in,
5 strikes our out,
Might want to add some hinge shims
I was thinking the same thing! 🙂
-Mark
Welcome to my world………..Very bad workmanship, plane and simple…….Please escort the installer off the job.
This looks like a new install? Should have never happened.
I’ve seen many jobs install, Not as bad as this, and I just was on a job that the drywall crew tried to install doors and hardware. First, I don’t install drywall, I install doors and hardware…….Second, should I even go there?
For many years I have been called in to “fix stupid” and I want to retire some day………Don’t look like that’s going to happen any time soon.
Hi Lori, Mason with Area Wide Locksmith here, I would like to use this article in our monthly newsletter. We feel it’s important to help our customers know when things don’t look right, so they can have a peace of mind when a job is finished, and done correctly.
This would go in our newsletter tomorrow, with proper accreditation.
Hi Mason –
Thanks for sharing the link in your newsletter!
– Lori