 The best kind of doors are the doors you have to explain. Welcome, welcome to Unhinged with the door door. Today, we do have some very special nerds joining us. The construction brothers, Tyler and Eddie Campbell here. How's it going guys? What's up? I'm Eddie Campbell. I am Tyler Campbell. Check out their podcast, Wednesday, Friday. Are you guys ready? Let me share my screen. I'm so ready. I don't know if you're ready. I know where this is. You actually know this door. Yeah, I put this photo. Is that a real door? It is a real door. But does it lead to anywhere? That is cement behind the door. Let's wonder if you look in the window. A relatively new hotel. But there is a caveat. This hotel was constructed from an old building. It was a retrofit building. Can we like phone a friend? Is that how the game works? I don't know. Who would you call? Do you have door experts in your phone just ready to go? What if we prank called the hotel? You could call Benji. Actually, yes. So this was an architectural decision is what you're telling me. Yeah, did you actually get the backstory on this? So first thing I do whenever I check into a hotel is I always throw my stuff in and then I go to the nearest emergency exit to make sure everything is compliant and make sure that I can escape if there's a, you know, like a normal sane door hard runner, right? And so this door to the left of this door is actually the emergency exit. It's the path of egress. And so if you run out this door and an emergency, you're like, which door do I take? There is a door to the left that goes down the stairs that you can then exit, but there's also this door right here. And you're like, whoa, what's going on here? Why didn't you just get imagery of the office whenever they're doing the fire drill? Yes. Everybody stay calm. Stay calm. I was more like the old good bugs bunny cartoons where people still got hit with anvils. And this door looks like something that you would try to run through and then somehow end up in pancake form. Also, there's no door knob on it. Well, it wouldn't need one, would it? It wouldn't. And I'm just wondering, like, how do you ever get this open again? Is it welded shut? No, actually, I should have gotten a close up. That might be a well on the hinge there, but as far as I could tell, it wasn't welded shut. I think they just cemented it off as opposed to tearing out the door. I don't know, maybe it's structurally part of the building, like they need that frame in. Structurally support door. We see that a lot in steel now. But I don't know why they didn't just take the whole door out as opposed to just fill it with concrete. Like that's a popular engineering method now, especially in seismic. What, putting doors where there should be steel beams? You use doors instead of beams. Right. In elementary school, when we're doing the earthquake drill, where did they tell you the height underneath the door? Exactly. Yes. Get in the doorway. There you go. Even better if it's welded shut. Yeah, and it acts like your concrete farm, right? Yeah. Guys, I got to be honest, I don't see any problem with this. I think it's fine. I don't think there needs to be anything addressed with this. You're being great. Well, let's give it a knocking score. What do you think? You know, I think that if you're stupid enough to open that door, then you deserve it. And I think it was an architectural decision personally. So I'm going to go one. I don't think there's anything wrong with this. I just think they're an idiot if they try to walk through it. I feel the need to go tan again just because he went one. But I'm going to go one as well because I think it's hilarious. And I kind of wanted to stay in the world. I would love walking by this and figuring out that there's concrete behind it. I would. I mean, I'll probably find a friend and be like, come here, look at this. This is awesome. The best part is there's probably an RFI on this somewhere. There's got to be an RFI somewhere. Ball in court. Ball in courts. We're there in litigation literally over this whole area. We're making jokes. Yeah. So I think it's also a one. The only thing we're really missing here, though, is that this is not a door sign for no other reason than it's unhinged. Like we need that. But if you guys ever come visit us in New Haven, I can take you here. So they do show that there's concrete behind that window. So I mean, I feel like that tells you enough of this is not a door. No sign needed. Maybe they added the window so you could see that there was concrete behind that. The amount of time that they spent putting a window in that door versus just filling the hole. Why is this here? Why? I like how you've got this as a post-installed window. Put a window in it. We didn't buy a door with a window in it. We put the window in after we got the door. Somebody give me some plexiglass, man. I feel like Procore would have solved all of this. We don't overthink anything. We don't overthink it. So not too knocking bad. I agree with you. I don't think there's any code violations for SAVE. I mean, maybe someone might be confused because it's on the path of egress, but there isn't an exit sign above it and there was an exit sign on the other side. So that would lead people that direction. So I'm just confused about why they didn't just take the door out as opposed to leave it in there, but made for a great shot. So what's the score? What's the score, man? Yeah, I'm waiting. What's my score? Yeah, what's your score? Probably like a two or three. See, I actually was pretty darn close on that one. Hilariously enough, I was trying to be stupid again. And I still got close to the experts. I'm feeling pretty good here. I was just hoping for unanimous. Mia, did you give it an official score? I said a one. We had three ones and you ruined it. Come on, man. Join the club. Also, I don't feel like I'm an expert here. I'm just here for a good time. I'm not here for a long time just to join the club. Just here to have fun. Seriously. It was new construction. So I'd be really confused if this was a new door. You can actually tell this is an older door. Even though the door is in pretty good shape, it's actually very similar shape to this door. You can tell that it's an older style door because it's got the wire frame in the glass and it's actually not code compliant anymore. So they probably put grandfathered into from the previous building that this was grown off of. So I want to draw you out. Why are we no longer allowed to have wires in the glass? Because this was throughout my school days in all of our classrooms. Oh, it's true. So a big concern was from a first responder standpoint. If they had to break the glass to try to get into places, it was keeping them from breaking the glass and people were getting hurt because of that. I think also fire raiding had something to do with it. So what you're saying is that this one was acceptable because I mean, if a firefighter first responder tried to break through this, then honestly, they probably need to be let go. They better have been the Kool-Aid man, actually. This is where the Kool-Aid man comes from. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. Okay, last photo, are you ready? Bring it. That's cute. I mean, it's an interesting choice. I know for sure they have the air handler in that door. Benji, this is at your house and you twitch when you walk by it, isn't it? Come on. Every time. Wow. Of all the houses. Oh my goodness. And all of the lands. I just want to know where it goes. It's a Narnia. That's cool. That was a weird road, but it's all right if it's a door for this episode and it's half one. I do like the panel style on it, so I march for that. Yeah, yeah, architecturally. This is nice. This is nice. The threshold's a little thick. I appreciate the fact that they put the door stop up at the top hinge to make sure that it doesn't hurt anything. They took the extra time to make sure to put that door stopper in there. Usually you're not really concerned about your door slamming into your crossbeams, but. Just true, true. It could hurt the drywall for sure. This looks like an eddy idea. Like this is me looking at Christy and being like, but listen, just hear me out. Just hear me out. We need a little sword space, okay? And I know because I know how stuff's built that that is hollow, that's gotta be hollow because the return is right under it. There ain't nothing above it. We can capitalize on the space. Just hear me out. One door. But then she got to pick out the trim and everything, right? That's right, yeah. I'll make it pretty, I promise. Make it pretty. Nobody will ever notice except for Benji. Well, here's the other side of this too. Is that a hallway behind it? Yeah, like right here. No, no, no, no, no, to the left-hand side. That's the entryway to the house. Yes. Okay. Actually, the knob is still like not proportionate to the door spacing, but still where you would be like naturally like open up a door from. Do you know what this is, Benji? No, I have no background. Oh, okay. It's like, don't leave it in the cold. You know, okay, so what I think this is is you've got your foyer to the left. You have that actual full-size door to the right, which means you have a bedroom behind there, but because of the air handler, they fully block that out, so it was empty space. My last house, I had a 1950s cape and at the end of the hallway, we had the air handler just like that and they put a little linen closet in there right above the air handler. Really? Yeah, so that bedroom's closet is probably behind this, but that was just blank space or the entryway closet is behind this. Yeah, I could see a closet being there, yeah. It may not have been the homeowner, but somebody definitely had the good idea of capitalizing on unused hollow space. I gotta give them, you know, high marks for that. Yeah. Well, I'm all for capitalism in that regard. I'm gonna go you that this is a single story house. I'm gonna go you that it doesn't matter. That return might be a chaseway and then that whole space will be used, but if it's all downstairs, maybe that goes in the crawl space. My last house was a two-story house and this was our first floor linen closet. The setup was just like this. Boom. See, it doesn't matter. Okay. You're an idiot. And that's all I needed to do. Harry Potter's front bedroom. This is Harry's room. That's gonna be a room pasta. Oh, what? It used to above the air handler. So if we open that up, Hagrid's gonna be just slammed in there. What up, Harry? It's got an owl and a dragon in there and stuff. Ooh, it could just be a portal to Hogwarts just in general. Do you think that's the new nine and three quarters? Who knows? I'm gonna give it a score of a five on this one because mainly I think it's a portal to another dimension and I think it needs to at least be checked out to make sure that it's not like something weird. Like there's not a black hole or something like that that's gonna be trying to get through that. Honestly, or a demigorgan for that matter could lead to the upside down. We don't know. So I give it a five. I'm still on a one. Like this is genius. There was empty space that somebody put a door to. Now you've got a place to put your towels. Ooh, I had an idea. What if you opened it and an ironing board fell out? On your face? You've seen that? Like the ironing board fell out? I was thinking of something. I'm on a one. I'm gonna score it one. Okay. I'm good. I like it. I think it's cool. It's a good talking point. Have a party. You're like, you see my door? Ooh, it's a bourbon closet. Now it's a one for you. I'd get that. Yeah, that was a bourbon closet. So it's another dimension. It's a five. It's a bourbon closet. It's a one. Yeah, we just gotta figure it out. So I'm gonna keep it at a five because we need to check that out and verify some things first. Breaking all the rules. But honestly, I feel like if we put a pane of glass in there and maybe some lighting or something, that'd be a pretty good bourbon shelf. I was gonna jokingly say a five, but either way, if it's a portal to another dimension or a bourbon closet, it doesn't have a lock on it to keep out or keep in or keep people out. So it's a seven. No, I'm kidding. It's a one. It's a one. It's a very creative use of space. I don't like the style of door, but that's my personal preference. I can't score it badly for that. Besides, I would never, ever do this in my home and it would make me twitch a little bit every time I walked by. It's not bad. It's not bad. Besides, it just hurts me a little bit to look at. Other than that, it's fine. Yeah, it's a one. I'm with you guys. I really wanted you to say this was your house. That was fantastic. Now, Tyler messed up. It would have been unanimous. I'm sorry. I wouldn't have had that lock on my friend, but I'm sorry. I have concerns. All right, so close to greatness. I have I have concerns, real concerns. What if this opened up a portal to the planet of the apes? What if then you wouldn't go in? It just wouldn't be too late if you opened it up. Now, wouldn't it? You think the apes are just ready to pour out? I too. I really do. I think they're in their breeding. All right. Well, thank you again. Thank you, Tyler, Eddie. Appreciate it. The Construction Brothers podcast, Wednesdays and Fridays, right? 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