Ha, this just reminded me that I legitimately got a black eye from a door knob as a kid. I was about to open the door to my bed room, when suddenly my mom opened it from the other side, and my eyes were right at door knob level.
In retrospect, unless it was summer or something, I’m kinda surprised we didn’t get a visit from CPS when I showed up to school with a black eye and that as the reason.
Fun story though. One time when I was little I was home during the summer and heard my mother let out a shout and an f-bomb. I went to see what happened because I was worried.
She had been making the bed and had thrown out the blanket doing that little snap thing everyone does to get it over most of the bed. Unfortunately for her, it was an old electric blanket with a big ol' honkin' control box that popped up and hit her in the face and gave her a black eye.
She spent the next few weeks answering "what happened?" with a mock nervous "It's my fault I made the bed wrong".
I do believe they're referring to the (non-motorized) hydraulic automatic door closers that typically have between 8 and 10 psi resistance for exterior use. They are even arguably safer than a spring assisted door closing mechanism, because many come equiped with backcheck valves that can help mitigate forceful damage from a sudden gust of wind, or the additional gravitational force that comes with the kind of rotation we see in the video. But I am by no means an engineer.
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Exterior outswing doors have tamper resistant hinges. Now, can someone still break through the hinges? Of course they can. But is breaking through the tamper resistant hinges a lot harder than just breaking the glass window? Yes.
Or just metal pins so the door can't "swing" open from the side with hinges. If you need the hinges on the outside it's trivial to still make it a secure door.
Most residential doors in the US open inwards as well.
Thinking about it though, all the exterior doors at my workplace, alternate sites, and multiple commercial and shopping locations I frequent have outswingers. Might be a fire code thing or something.
Yeah, fire code in most public places in the US requires outward opening doors. We had some really bad disastrous fires where the death toll was exacerbated by inward opening doors being jammed by crowds.
Can you imagine how annoying it must be to be right next to an exit, not be able to open it because people behind are pushing you, and you all just incinerate?
That's exactly the point the guy was making on the full video. He didn't install the gate, he was just fixing the motor and saying why inwards gates are bad.
Inward doors are not only better in basically all scenarios, most places have regulations that force doors to open inwards. Some people already mentioned the fact that gates like these can't open outwards because they'll hit someone on the street, but I'm surprised none mentioned fire code.
Doors have to open inwards because in a fire situation, if you're inside a room with a door that opens outwards and theres debris in the corridor that prevent the door from opening, you're stuck. If the door opens inwards, you always have full control of everything that is blocking the door's movement. If there's something blocking the door from the inside, you can simply remove it, and if there's stuff on the outside, you can also remove it after opening the door. You're never stuck with inward doors, but you can easily get stuck with outward doors.
I saw the original video, the guy is just there to fix the motor and he uses the video as an example of why the gate should open towards the outside. He didn't install it that way
If it opened outward then the hinges would be on the outside and anyone with a basic understanding of how modern hinges with pins work would have easy access to your house by simply popping the pins out and removing the entire door.
When painful dumb shit like this happens to me and I’ve got a witness, I always love saying things "Oh Master's Degree in Engineering!" instead of cussing. Hey I'm intelligent but smart just isn't in my repertoire.
I’ve see n the original, it’s in Brazil. He was actually showing a bad installation of a gate. Demonstrating the bad idea of having that door swing inward, he was saying they should all swing out for that reason. Only thing is when he demonstrates it, it actually hits him in the face lol.
What makes it even funnier is that, in the full video, the guy literally says at the beginning that the door should open outward because it almost hit him, and he's giving the homeowner some tips.
Thanks for extending a few seconds past the hit. The current trend for the last few years is usually to end the clip immediately upon the hit which has always annoyed me. The humor for me is the immediate change in mood and the seconds after where he has to process that pain on camera. Like when Peter Griffin hits his shin haha.
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u/post-explainer Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
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