 Welcome, welcome to Unhinged with the DoorDork where door hardware nerds get together. We knock and we slam on different doorfills. We learn, we laugh, and sometimes we even cry depending on how bad the install is, but mostly we just have fun dorking around, dorking out on some doors. Today we have a very special guest. We've got Nelson Kreschel, Kreschel from the Asa Abloy door group, and I'll let him introduce himself. Hi, I'm Nelson and I've been with the Indian openings industry from the time I graduated from Iowa State University. Go Cyclones. And I've been with Asa Abloy for about 30 years in various capacities, anything from engineering to operations, product management, which is what I do now. And I'm one of those type guys that likes to embarrass my family by any time I walk through a door opening, I check the hinges, the lock, the door. I check the top of the door to see if it's a steel door to see who it is. I'll look and see if it's fire rated or whose hardware it is. So yeah, I'm a door dork, yep. I was gonna say 30 years in the industry, you've got to have some dorkiness, some door hardware nerd deep in there. So you open up the door, it's the nice thing to do so your family can go through. But then when they're waiting and your food is getting cold and right, there's a fine line at the balance. And then as always, we've got the wonderful Mia Merrill, I'll let her introduce herself as well. Yep, product manager, just like Nelson. But I am for the hardware brands and I am also the producer and woman behind the curtain for Door Hardware Nerds and I am happy to be back. Welcome back. Yeah, well, I've got a few doozies for us today but for those who don't know how unhinge works is I'll pop up a picture of a door or a lock or something related to an opening in general. We'll react, we'll slam, we'll knock it and then we'll give it a knocking score between one and 10, one being knocked too bad and 10 being pretty knocking bad. Does that sound okay, Nelson? Yeah, that sounds great. Yeah. All right, I will share my screen and we'll jump into it. Okay, you ready? Ready. Are we ever ready? Yeah, I don't know if we're ready for this one. Wow, somebody's confused. This is not the droid you're looking for. I like the color. Yeah, that definitely stands out but I don't know about you, Nelson. You've got 30 years of industry experience. That looks like a door to me. Yeah, it does to me too and it even has a lock that looks like it's gonna be able to hold the door closed. There's also a hollow metal frame there. Yeah, yeah, and the undercut's pretty good. Looks like it'll clear the tile. So I rose somebody like I said, really confused on this one. I'm wondering if they meant not an exit. They might be right, Mia. Don't use this as an exit door. They forgot the word. You know, I don't know about you but if I saw this at a place, I would absolutely want to go through this because this is not a door. Well, this appears to be a door. So let me investigate and it would probably be the exact opposite of what they're looking for me to be doing. I wonder what's on the other side. Yeah, yeah, no. We're all curious creatures and I might have to pull out my pick set to get through that. Hopefully it's not too high security. I wonder if that's where the dirty laundry is. Yeah, that's the skeletons in their closets. You see the, would you have a door on those machines just to the right there? Nelson, you know what it is? It's where all the missing sock pairs are. So maybe you can't get the door open. That's the reason they say not a door. There's so many socks in there. I think this door has a complex. You know, it's what's the word for, you know, they lie all the time. Pathological? Yeah, pathological liar. Pathological liar door. All right. So I don't believe there's any code violations in this one per se. I think there might be like a code deep somewhere where it talks about where it's mostly for firemen to go through different doors but I'm not 100% sure what that looks like where it says this is just not a door where people are living or existing. So maybe that's why it's there. But I thought it was funny and clever to have the door being not a door. So if you guys gave it a knocking score, one through 10, what would you say, Nelson? I'd probably say about a six because it's not quite average. So I would say about a six. Yeah, no, that's a healthy, healthy knocking score. I'd say it's probably like a three. I mean, really, it's just mislabeled. So it might even be lower than a three. Nothing's really necessarily wrong with the store. Yeah, no, I mean, there's no obvious code violations. No one's an immediate danger. I think the only thing that I would give it. You don't know that they're not an immediate danger. You could open that door and have all those socks come in and really have an odor that you really wouldn't want to be around. Yeah, maybe that's why it's up there. That sign is, it's not a door because you don't want to go in there. Just don't even worry about it. Okay, I'll jump on to the next one. Next one, I'll preface it a little bit, is not really a door hardware fail, but it's pretty impressive. I'll let you guys look at. Wow, that is a big door. It's a very large door. Let's see, I've got my notes here. It's cast bronze, so it's a very heavy door. Probably 30 feet. Yeah, that's a very short person. And it is the oldest working door to date. This was built in the Roman Empire back in 1580. And it still works today. You can see where people push on it. It is so well balanced that people can still, one person can open this easily without any assistance. Talk about, they don't make it like they used to, right? Yeah, no kidding. Wow. Wow, where is this door? It's in Rome. Of course, it's in Rome. Yeah, Roman Empire, I suppose, yeah. I went on my honeymoon to Rome and I probably came across this door before I became a door hardware nerd. And I might even have a picture of this somewhere thinking, oh, that's an impressive door, not even like putting two together, realizing that it would quickly become my entire life, right? I mean, it's a beautiful opening. I will say that, like, I wish we still had new architecture going up that had openings that looked like this. Yes, it is very impressive and really, I mean, the fact that it can be still opened by one person, I mean, you would definitely meet, if that's the case, I would think you'd probably meet code requirements for maybe even means of egress. Yeah, I don't know if they'll meet like any five-toned requirements. It's a good shoulder into the door, but yeah, and I don't know if you guys knew, but the Romans actually had a god of door hinges, so that's why it's so well hung. A god of door hinges. Yeah, I forgot the name of her, but if there's a goddess, sorry, a goddess of door hinges, and I thought that was pretty impressive. The Romans were the first to mass produce door hinges. Before then, it was strictly for military gates and then like synagogues and temples and church monasteries. That was the only place where you'd find door hinges. Everyone else just had an open doorway or a wooden slot that they would set right there. I don't even know if we need to give this a knocking score because it's just beautiful and I thought it was interesting. Very interesting. Yeah, no knocks from me, zero. No knocks from me, either, zero. Oh, no. Wow, I'd love to see what kind of marks are on the hinge because hinges, I can't imagine that they didn't have some sort of identification of who actually made the hinge. That is really impressive. All right, well, thank you, Mia, and thank you, Nelson, for joining. Thank you. 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