 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 because those doorfills are so bad. But most importantly, we have fun while we learn a little bit about doors. Today, we've got a very special guest, Mr. Anderson. That's my very best impression. I'm sure you haven't heard that one. Andy Anderson, I gotta give him a shout out. He's one of the original Dorks. I tried to scroll back and see where he first originally started following and commenting on my DoorDork posts, and I couldn't go back that far. So he's been the OG DoorDork, so welcome, Andy. Why don't you introduce yourself? Tell us what your company worked for and maybe a fun fact. I don't know, let's mix it up a little bit. Sure, yeah, so my name's Andy Anderson. People often don't believe that my name is Andy Anderson. I work for O&L Door Systems. We do commercial pedestrian doors and we do residential stuff too. We'll help out anybody. We also do overhead doors and docks. And so, I mean, I've expanded my knowledge just being here because it's not just pedestrian doors and where I grew up doing security and hardware and stuff like that. So I've always been excited to be here and every day I smile and try to bring in the revenue. That's awesome. Pedestrian doors are a whole another beast. Yeah. If you come from like the integration or the contract hardware side of things, that's different from pedestrian doors. There's so many more codes and compliance and knowledge that you have to be aware of. So you are truly knowledgeable, I'm sure. So I'm glad to have you on the show, it's gonna be great. Yeah, fun fact, let's try that. Well, I have a twin brother, we're not identical. People will refute that endlessly. And he finally is becoming a dork. He's a dork in the making. He finally left his job and a few years ago started doing doors with me. And then I sent him on his way to a different company with some friends of ours. And all of us, we like to do foraging for mushrooms and disc when we're not in front of openings, I guess. Disc golf. Nice. I carry my bag in my truck. I have a much smaller bag. You must have a, you're probably more into it than I am. And as always, you know her, you love her, me and Meryl. Me and Meryl. Happy to be here. Yeah. Fun fact, you wanna know it? I came up with a new one. Yes. I used to do and hope to get back to one day once my kids are older, antique tractor pulls at fairs. What? Yeah. Well, that's cool. John Deere for life, better dead than red. That's a good knock. I am assuming in the Pacific Northwest this is not popular. However, I was thinking the Minnesota area, especially with county fairs and stuff like that. I, actually my grandpa and I, when we were kids and stuff, he had an old international and we drove around a lot. He never wanted to go the John Deere way. Yeah, my grandpa and I did the pulls together and we had a fleet of John Deere's. Wow, tractor pulling, that's crazy. So for those who don't know how unhinged works, I will throw up a picture on our screen. We will knock and we'll slam on the door. We'll give our helpful tips or learning opportunities and we'll give it a knocking score, one being not too knocking bad and 10 being pretty knocking bad. Like this needs to be immediately addressed like what's called the AHA or the fire marshal and get this taken care of. Always wanted to do that. This is a violation. And they're more than often gonna call back just on that premise, whether it's related to it or not. I tried to be honest. That's good. That's a good way to live life in general. Try to be honest. Honest Andy. It's got a jingle. Are you ready? Are you waiting for it? Are we ever ready? I don't know. I don't even know if I'm ready for this one. Oh, no. Oh, that's a quick fix for you. At first glance, I kind of noticed there is a larger reader behind a smaller reader. The larger one has a growth going on it. It's like a baby, it's like a spore coming off of it. Yeah, I was trying to figure out what the duct tape is for. Is it to, is the larger reader falling apart and it's trying to keep it together? Are they taping the smaller reader onto the larger reader or all of the above? Probably a little bit of all of the above. That is awful. These old HID readers, back in the day, you could like hold your Prox cards like six feet away and it'd still catch you. And so you could have it attached to your car, you could drive by. My guess is why they put the updated reader on there as they probably upgraded their credential and that's, they just didn't do the work properly, to actually take off the older reader and terminate the new reader. I mean, the duct electrical tape makes it seem like they are definitely holding something up, but it's so tacky. I mean, a reader on a reader is not tacky. I mean, that's definitely tacky, but I completely agree. I hate, they got these massive ones that are like 12 by 12 everywhere. And then they always, eventually they downsize to this little petite one that's like into a three quarter. It's like, dude, do it right. Do it right or don't do it at all. What if it's just like VHB'd on there? What if they just like... Yeah, then two weeks later when the snow came, they had to put the electrical tape on. At some point, like being the technician to work on this, they had to like drill through that old reader to get the wire termination. Cause that's not a wireless reader. That's just like, imagine being called out to do that job, Andy, and like pulling out your drill. Like, I'm just gonna drill through this. This is how they want it. I don't know. I honestly, stuff like this, I tell them no way you saw it. You can find somebody else to scab it, but I have integrity or at least integrity enough to tell them the truth, but like I've had pride in my work and this would not be a prideful experience. I agree. That's a good mentality to have. Okay. Knocking scores once through 10. What do you guys think? May I do you wanna go first? I'm still debating. Sure. Yeah. I mean, it's ugly, but I don't know if it violates anything other than, I mean, we violated the big reader for sure. But I think it's other than aesthetics, it's low. So I'm maybe like a three, four? I don't know in that range. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I would go with a two, but if we were judging it by beauty and but it's hideous. And I walk away. Yeah. All it's missing is like a paper clip and some duct tape and someone, my guy read this. Yeah. Might as well put the paper clip, the your fob right next to it so you know where to use it. You know, you know this installation, if it was a keypad, you know that code would be taped up. Or written out with a Sharpie on the big people. Yep. OK, are you guys ready for the next one?