Hardware Installation

Olson Construction & Development was hired to provide certain improvements for this building currently…

…being used as a clothing recycling store, operated by the Crises Pregnancy Clinic in Saint Helens.

As you can see, the 2-sets of double-entry wood doors on this building were originally “in-swing,” and equipped with your common cylindrical type keylocks & deadbolts.

For reasons of fire-egress as it relates to the building’s new use, the in-swinging doors were now a building-code violation.

So the cylindrical locks needed to be replaced with Panic-Bars and the doors needed to be changed to an out-swing application.

If you look closely, you can see the new closers & jamb-mount weatherstripping we installed. Fortunately, the original door jambs had removable “stops,” which enabled us to quite simply reuse them for rehanging the original doors in an outswing application.

The cylindrical hardware was replaced with Von Duprin Model 99 non-vertical-rod panic devices on the interior side, and commercial pull-handles on the exterior.

As you can see in the sixth photo, we filled the original hinge mortises with wood which, after they were repainted, would erase any aesthetic liabilities related to the former door-swing configuration.

We employed the use of a removable center steel mull-post, upon which the new panic devices latched, making for a very low-maintenance door hardware package, as opposed to using the troublesome vertical-rod versions.

What they saved in not having to buy new doors & jambs, helped pay for the top-shelf, low-maintenance commercial hardware.