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Update: A hospital job in Cleveland made me rethink my approach to door pressure
I was adjusting the closing force on a set of hospital doors last month and a nurse mentioned how the old setting was too hard for some patients to push. I dropped the force by 15% and now I check that spec on every service call, not just code jobs. How do you guys handle door pressure complaints from building staff?
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evanfox3mo ago
Took a patient to finally tell me my doors were too strong.
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linda_butler283mo ago
That line about the doors being too strong... it's like when you get so used to your own normal you don't see the problems. I've seen it with websites that are impossible to use or instructions that make no sense. The person who lives with it every day just stops noticing the flaws.
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wrenwilson1mo ago
You ever had a maintenance guy tell you "it's fine" about something you knew wasnt? I had a similar thing in an old office building where the front door was so stiff people would walk into it. The building manager said no one complained. I watched for ten minutes and saw three people struggle. I just fixed it anyway, showed him after, and he finally admitted he never actually tried opening it himself. Now I always test doors myself instead of trusting the word of someone who opens them a hundred times a day and built up the muscle.
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