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fire exit hardware

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    camouflaged fire-exit doors

    Hello, I saw a post not too long ago with some "great" photos of business Owners hiding their fire-exit doors in all type of creative (non-code compliant) ways. The topic had some great info... but I don't seem to be able to find it anymore. Thanks,
  2. LGreene

    Fire Door Latching - During/After the Fire

    Sorry - 2 questions in one day that I need help with. I recently received a question about why doors with fire exit hardware don't open during the hose-stream portion of a fire test (or when hit by a hose stream in an actual fire). The reason is because the latching hardware basically fuses in...
  3. LGreene

    Fire Exit Hardware on Non-Fire-Rated Doors

    Because of the increased enforcement of annual inspections of fire door assemblies, I'm getting a lot of questions about fire doors. I'm attempting to answer them on my site as they come, but I'd love some input from y'all. Today's question was whether it is ok to install fire exit hardware...
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