The Door Closes But Will Not Latch — What’s Actually Wrong
The most common fault in any commercial building, and the one most often lived with. Usually a twenty-minute fix — and on a fire door, a code failure rather than an inconvenience.
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The most common fault in any commercial building, and the one most often lived with. Usually a twenty-minute fix — and on a fire door, a code failure rather than an inconvenience.
A door closer is a hydraulic device doing the same job thousands of times a year. It does not fail suddenly — it drifts, gradually, until someone notices the door is not shutting properly. By then it has usually been failing for months. Here is how to read what your closer is telling you. For…