 So welcome welcome to unhinged with the door dork where door hard and word nerds get together We knock and we slam on different door fells, you know poorly installed things and today We've got a pretty special episode. It's gonna be focused more around sustainability You know, it's earth month earth week earth day earth year. It shouldn't shouldn't every day be earth day, right? If you think about it We laugh we learn sometimes we cry but most importantly we dork out on some doors and Have fun and we learn a little bit while we go through it today. We do have a couple of special guests I'm calling them the sustainability sisters Hopefully that's okay, but Please if you could introduce yourself tell us a little bit about what you do with the company and then maybe a fun fact Let's let's have some fun. I'll go first. Hey everyone Amy with auntie director of sustainability here at Osa Abloy I've been with the company for a little over 15 years now. It feels like just yesterday that I started Fun fact about me. I was voted most mechanical in high school. I was the captain of the cheerleading squad that fixed cars during class so It's good to good to be a Jill of all trades, I suppose Yes, most definitely really you Captain of the cheerleading team, but you also worked on cars cars. Right? Yeah, just enough to be dangerous Hi everybody, my name is Aaron Spada Bechia program manager for sustainability I've been with Osa Abloy for a little over seven years and a fun fact about me is I love being outdoors I love kayaking, but I'm not that good at it. So there you go. I I've only been kayaking a couple of times, but it is hard. It's hard work. I let the river do most of the most work for me exactly And as always, you know her you love her Mrs. Mia Merrill You want to jump on and say hi and give us another fun fact? Yeah, so hello everybody. Welcome to this episode of earth month unhinged I was going to do a different fun fact but since Amy did her high school superlative I will do mine. I was voted most likely to become a soccer mom Yeah, do you have the minivan yet Mia to my husband has a minivan he is a stay at home dad I I refuse no it's the it's really the kids minivan So if we're carting the kids around they go in the minivan and whoever has to drive them takes that That that's awesome. Um, I I wish actually my dream car is a minivan So I'm on that like it's so practical right when you have kids you just throw them in the back So you're camping stuff in there. It's a fun fact for me, right? Ooh, if we're going back to high school, uh Not a lot of people know this but in high school actually started uh ballroom dancing And uh, that's what I ended up getting a scholarship for and going to college And ended up competing all around the world when I was much younger. Um, it was a lot of fun. Um, and yeah From ballroom dancer to dork Who who would have thought But I was the captain of our ballroom uh dance team. So there you go. Amy. I've got the cap Impressive and very Okay, so uh, here is how Unhinged works for those who might not know. Um, I'll pop up a picture of a door We will slam we will knock on the door We'll throw out any helpful tips and then give it a knocking score. So a knocking score one Through 10 one not being very good Like like this is not too bad, right? And then 10 being pretty knocking bad like we should get this addressed immediately. Let's call the ahj or fire marshal Let's let's take action on this. Uh, so hopefully hopefully we don't see too many tens out there But you never know. Okay. Are you guys ready? Let's see it. Do you drum roll for this or is it just like Okay, are you waiting for it? Are you ready? I can't wait any longer ready. Let's jump in. Oh This poor exit device. Yeah, is that exit device like vertically? Yeah It it is what it looks like It is Which is hard to believe that's what it actually is to two rim exit devices Installed vertically upside down and then somehow they got the push pull bars to activate Like these doors actually work from some sort of miracle. They work I mean this could be considered custom and recycling the first thing, of course I notice from you know, like I'm thinking energy efficiency and sustainability is the large gap Going down the center. Yeah Yeah You know, we always say If you can see the outside from the inside in this case, obviously with the glass door you can but you should not be able to see That much of it. So that's good. You can it's a very generous building owner That's paying to heat or cool the outdoors at this point You'd be surprised how much energy is wasted from something simple as this a little gasketing a little weather stripping goes a long way And I think a properly installed exit device goes a long way because I'm sure these doors could have been level and Square and plumb, but somehow this isn't working And it looks like they have the push bar screwed into the exit device yeah The exit bar the push actuates. Is it attached to the bottom bolt? So yes, they have strikes installed into the ground Which is also like rim strikes not not like what are they called the bottom strikes the floor strikes Oh, those are like The actual rim exit device strikes that you could run and trip over as you're exiting out the door in an emergency What is in the black section because it's like hard to see between I guess where the Would be interacting with the strike and the bar like yeah, what's in that area? Oh, I think it's just part of the the rim exit this this type of exit device A black section there for an extension. Well the glass door is providing daylighting. That's that's a lot all that looks good here It's very daylighting is important to a sustainable built environment. So Erin has a good point there There you go. Yeah, good. There is a little glimpse of hope in this photo My buddy Scott that sent this over he actually saw that someone was doing this all over this resort that he was at So this is like a hospitality environment He said that three or four exactly set up this way someone was getting creative Who thought this looked good to errant point two from a sustainability perspective like you said This is a great use of maybe one product reaching the end of its life and reusing it for something else So when we talk about product end of life recycling and circularity instead of it going to landfill It went back into uh into another project. It's impressive. Yeah, it's for business at its finest I mean those look pretty worn they could have used those from a different door and install them on this door Or maybe they did a remodel and they didn't order the right parts or I mean they're be as if they're sustainable in some way It's probably incredible. How many people walk by this opening and think don't think twice about it, right? But then people in our world they see it immediately and they're like, what is this? And I need to take a picture of it immediately And inspect it, of course. Yes, you can't unknow it. You just keep looking Okay, uh, if you were to give this a knocking score one two ten one not being very bad ten being This is pretty bad. I give it like a six. It's not like super egregious because we we got some sustainability going on here But uh, it's definitely not good. Yeah, I go with that. I was I was going around a five or so just because It's commendable on the creativity side of things but from an energy efficiency perspective Not not so good. Not great That that gap Part of me wants to go lower because I don't think there's any code or life safety issues Maybe there are I don't know the thing is is with surface vertical rods There's often a floor strike that sticks up now the rim strikes stick up much farther than those So I guess there is some life safety. I'll go for okay. Yes. I would completely agree with you I would say the only thing that would be really concerned about is the tripping hazard And then it's not really ADA accessible, you know, if you had a wheelchair How would you open up this door trying to push in on one of these exit devices and it's getting caught on your wheelchair So that would be my other call out. So maybe I would slightly hire that score a little bit but to be fair There's stairs right there. That's true. So if you're worried about ADA, this is not your exit Yeah, sure, hope you don't need to go out this exit Good catch. Good catch. Okay Let's jump into the next one If you want to be featured on a future episode of unhinged, please leave a comment down below. Thanks for watching