 The best kind of doors are the doors you have to explain. Welcome, welcome to Unhinged with the DoorDork. Today, we do have a very special nerd joining us, Mr. Leo Des. Maybe one of the only guys that might not need an introduction on this platform. Okay, next one, are you guys ready? Yep, boy. It's an interesting sign to be in a restroom. I think someone has a pretty strict bathroom. There's gotta be some sort of violation here from the employer's side. Yeah, it feels like there's other ways that you can solve for the problem that they have there, but man, there's just a lot to be unknown, right? Yeah, these like little cord key code. I mean, I've seen those in certain applications, but I think like on drawers or something like that, I've never seen on a full, like that's a door. Yeah, you hit that and it's gonna open a little bit and just like a little bit of peek. And actually you almost wonder that sign with also the ability to peek a little bit. Curious people might come out to be like, oh, I could get a glimpse of what's going on. Like why is there like a pit behind there that drops into like, you know, the center of the earth or like what is going on? They're appealing to our curiosity. Someone's asking me to go like look there, right? That's exactly, I'm always that one. This is not a door, it looks like a door looks like we need to investigate. Those locks are not meant to be used like this. They're meant to be used around a corner, the opposite way. So if somebody really wanted to get in here, minimal force to get through that. They're not securing anything. So I'm just like highly curious. And it's only a three combination. So I'm sure it wouldn't take that many guesses to figure out what word they're spelling or what date or whatever. I wonder if they're different combos or if they're the same combo. I mean, like if you had to use this in a like bathroom emergency situation, even if you knew the codes, it's gonna take you a second to navigate both of those and then use the bathroom. But as Mia said, you probably could just push your foot and then like lean into it a bit and it'll take that right off. Yeah, these ones look like they're almost like stuck. Yeah, like glued on. Sif. Yeah. These are like the toddler locks, like the toddler cabinet lock, just like one step up. Now I'm never connecting the dots. I'm like, I know I've seen these before somewhere. But like, what are they used for? Yeah, but you're like supposed to basically pull the force, like you're supposed to pit them against each other, pushing against this door. You probably need like max 10 pounds. Like anybody, even a toddler could probably like lean on this door and get it open. So it's like, rest my arm on it. Yeah, what do we do is just deter people like, oh, okay, it's gonna be a little bit more effort than it needs to be. And then you put the fine warning on top of it that you'll be terminated if you do it. So it's more deterrence than it is security, right? And it's not specifying who's employment. Like if I go, am I gonna get terminated? It's like, I don't work here, but if I use that restroom, I get like, I don't know, the language is a little harsh. Yeah, it seems like a culture thing, but yeah, it's a little weird. Yeah, I don't know if I enjoy working at this establishment. That's the kind of leadership style there you see. Yes, I mean, low knock on this, right? I don't really think it's about security at this point. Yeah, it's like deterrence. Yeah, and a final marks before we give an actual knocking score. I would guess who this employer was, but it would only be a wild stab in the dark. So my knocking score is gonna be, since we're only dealing with door openings, it's gonna be a one. I'm not gonna do any social commentary. Yeah, I would have a low one on this too. Yeah, not too knocking bad. Just thought it was funny, you know, caught my eye. But yeah, we need Paige to tell us. Paige, if you're watching, drop us a line of the backstory for this. Do you work here? Like tell us about the leadership here. Tell us a little about the culture here. Okay, final picture. You guys ready? Let's do it. This one hits you in layers. Wow, that middle picture is a bit trippy. There's a lot going on. Okay, now I got it. Is that tape, right? Yeah. And holy hell, I just got to the right. Yeah, yeah. It's time for a new door. Yeah. In locksmiths? Man, oh wow, there's even more. I didn't even see that on the far left. I like that they put their coffee on top of the... He's like, hold on. I need to set this down for a second. You need to take a picture of this. Yeah, I mean, these need a new door. Yeah, this is, I would say, almost a regio, just the hinges alone. That's where I was like, okay, yeah, tape down lock, oh, electric stripe, that's probably not working. They have a security issue going on right there. But then I was like, wait a second, this door used to be on pivots. Yeah. And then they like modified it with these hinges and aluminum storefront. You can tell it didn't go well several times. I think one good kick in this door is gonna fall off. Do we know what type of building this is on at all? It's in a hospitality situation. Okay. Which could not be a concern. There's obviously, there's a reason why there's access control on there. Probably convenience for, you know, a side entrance for hotel guests to come in and out. But with that not working, there's a concern there. Wow. There's just a lot there. It's a whole lot. You kind of get a glimpse. This is like a stairway exit or side entrance exit. So potentially if there is an emergency and loads of people are coming down this exit, there could be concern of people piling up right here. Especially when you look at, I hate, this is one of my biggest pet peeves where there's a push bar that doesn't actually do anything, right? People are gonna just run right into that. Like, oh crap, I have to hit this. So it might just be that extra step, but if there's 50 people running down the stairs, you could create some kind of life safety issue here. They don't even have that latch taped all the way in. And I wonder if it like occasionally still catches. Yeah. I think they need more tape. Or better tape. Yeah, that's like packaging. No, let's be real. They just need to start over. It's how many times, it looks like they've tried to put hinges on there like three, four times. Three or four times, at least. Yeah, and these ones are like old and rusted. Couldn't get them off or just didn't want to. And you can see they tried blue tape and they moved to the clear tape. Yeah, the painter's tape, that was a pet in it. I wonder what the closer is like on this. Oh yeah. You can see a glimpse. Yeah. Wonder if it's attached. Also, maybe we can give them better for the doubt. Maybe the place is under construction. They just haven't gotten to this area yet. You know, in the refurbishment, but they're sure they plan to do it. Cause to me, this is like a nine to 10. It's bad, especially with topicality. Yeah. I mean, think of what impression you're leaving your guests. Right? Lee, I know you're a big experience fan, right? Like the hardware and access control should be seamless into the experience of the overall building envelope. Like if this is the handshake of your door, like I wouldn't want to go into this building for many reasons. It goes beyond any of the safety concerns, security theater, like all of that's like completely gone. This is what is a nightmare in a lot of cases for what people are looking for. I mean, bright side, there's a great opportunity here. You don't have to really do a lot to do much better. All upside, we'll start at a nine just because there's glass still in there. So they've got some level of a barrier if you would of, but outside of that, yeah. It's pretty much sucks. Yeah. Okay. Is that your facial acting? That's fine. It's a nine. Yeah, that's pretty bad. Yeah, I'm not going to go 10 just because since the latches taped down, I don't think it's going to keep people in in a fire. So if there was some, if there was one more, like you're going to get trapped in, I would be at a 10. But basically this hotel has no security. I mean, yeah, I'm sure the individual rooms have security, but it's not comforting that somebody can come in the back way and just have at it. Most hotels don't have security roaming the halls, making sure that there's no unintended folks there. I would agree with you. I think overall eight or nine, life safety isn't really that big of a concern in this situation, but security, I would say that's pretty high up there. And then aesthetics and just the feeling that I get from looking at it. Like that's a 10 right there. The overall envelope of the door just not great. No. This is a redo. Like you said, just start over. Just start over. It's a good opportunity to change the experience just by redoing everything. We've hit zero. So now it is incrementally going to do it a little bit better. Yeah. Alexander. Yes. Thank you, Alexander, for letting us share this. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Lee. I appreciate you joining us today. Thanks for joining Unhinged. Join us for the next episode. Our doors are always open partially because they're unhinged. Nice. If you want to be featured on a future episode of Unhinged or if you have a picture to submit, leave a comment down below. Thanks for watching.