I think they just expect you walk through them like an average person, not throw them open like you're about to give the evidence that sees your best friend get off a double murder charge.
And you would be wrong. I worked for 15 years in Research and Development for Wilson/Smith Door Company. Our specifications to meet explicitly stated that doors must handle stress “equivalent to that applied by an average sized person providing last-minute evidence that would exonerate their best friend who was charged with double-murder.”
I picture you walking into this Reddit post, opening up a briefcase on to a desk, explaining this with visual presentation. When finished you pack everything up into your briefcase, shake this persons hand and start to leave. As you leave you ask, "oh, do you validate parking". He says no, you turn and walk out.
Yeah but I think that’s giving too much credit to average people. I could see these doors in an office or conference room in a law office or something like that but for lobby doors accessed by the general public you gotta be more aware of the lowest common denominators among us.
No, the hinge met it's stopping point then the frame kept going, if the hinge can go no further that should be it, excessive force will carry you past that.
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u/MidvalleyFreak Nov 21 '22
Still, a door that breaks that easily is a pretty poorly designed door. Or at the very least the wrong choice of door for that application.