 The best kind of doors are the doors you have to explain. All right, welcome to Unhinged with the DoorDork where we get dorks and nerds together and we slam and knock on different doors while learning and have fun at the same time. We've got Mia Merrill here, the head door hardware nerd as your host today, you know me as the DoorDork. We'll be diving into some doors shortly, but Mia, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself to our fellow door hardware nerds? Yeah, thanks, thanks for having me, Benji, I'm really excited. So I am a senior product manager for the brand Sergeant Corbin Reston and Yale and I am also the producer, editor, everything else, door hardware nerd. So I am your head DHN reporting for duty today. DHN, we have to add an acronym, right? Always in this industry, always need a new one. Yeah, acronyms and part numbers, right? We'll welcome and I think normally we're gonna have other dorks and nerds as a panel on here where we can dive in deeper into some of these door hardware fails. But as of right now, why don't I just go ahead and pop up the first one and see what we think. Yeah, yeah, I'm excited to see what you got. Okay, Mia, at first glance, what do you see? This one's a doozy. Well, I don't know if it's just the red paint that's underneath the white paint, but this looks like a murder scene to me. Somebody has committed a crime here. Yes, someone should be locked up for damaging this hardware right here. Yeah, I mean, hopefully the electric strike still works so you can lock this person in the room, but yeah, maybe somebody was learning, maybe they were learning for how to do an installation. Well, yeah, you know what, we're always learning and hopefully this was on their own facility and not an end user or a customer of theirs and they're like, hey, here you go, you got your electric strike and stop. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I guess as long as they didn't hit any wires, we're probably good to go. Yeah, one thing that, this is one of those photos if you look even closer, like the worst it gets. Like there's a screw, like not all the way screwed and like coming undone. I mean, overall just a hack job, but I just don't think they were using the proper tools to make this happen. Yeah, so I personally have never done an electric strike install before, but I mean, I can tell that maybe they should've run back out to the van for something else. I think they used like a chainsaw or something that cut into this frame. Yeah, and on the backside, like on the wall side, did they cut like too far too? It looks like there's like a slot that extends further than the back end of the strike as well. Yeah, it's hard to see, but it does look like there's like a gap kind of hidden there. Maybe that explains the scrapes on the frame stop right there. Yeah, I would not be happy with this installation. I know we discussed the idea of giving it a rating, right? A knocking rating or a slamming rating, like how hard does this door slam or I don't know. Yeah, I mean, this is pretty egregious. So I would say from a customer satisfaction standpoint, like this would be like, if I was doing a one to 10 rating with 10 being like, I'm not a happy customer, this is probably an eight. With that rating scale, whatever we call it. Yeah. All right, let's see the next one. What else you got for us? Oh, no. Somebody did not adjust their closer correctly. Yeah, someone's having a terrible day. Or Jackson Pollock came back from the dead and maybe it's an architectural feature. Yes, yeah, it's a, it could be considered art. And man, that oil is a pain to clean up as well. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this where it's actually projectile, exploded oil all over the place. Yeah, this is a scary, another scary scene. This is, I mean, this is why we have those internal pressure relief valves in our closers so that this doesn't happen. I can't even, can you imagine if you were inside this room? Cause it looks like the inside. Yes, yes. When this happened. Like this has hit you in the face. This has covered your clothing. I can't imagine the day the person that this happened to is having. Like what was the rest of their day like? Yeah, no, walking in, especially if it was like a Monday morning or something. You're like walking in, you're tired from the weekend. You unlock the door and you open up and you're like, oh no, what happened? Yeah, I think I might have quit that day. I would have just quit and taken the rest of the week off. That would have been a pretty brutal start to any week. Okay, so as far as door knocking ratings, where do you think this one lines up? I mean, here's the thing, right? The install probably wasn't wrong. We don't even know what happened during the actual installation. Over time, the valves could have just drifted and somebody didn't adjust them properly. Whose fault is that? I don't know, but I would be so mad if I was the person that experienced this photo. This would be a 25 out of a 10 scale. Yeah, this is pretty bad. This is up there, definitely. Oh boy. Join us next time. Our door is always opened because it's unhinged. Don't forget to click like and subscribe.