 The best kind of doors are the doors you have to explain. All right. Welcome, welcome to Unhinged with the door dork. I almost forgot my own name, the door dork. We're door hard run nerds get together, we knock and we slam on different door fells. We learn, we laugh. Sometimes we even cry, but most importantly, we have fun while we dork out on some doors. Hopefully learn a little bit why we go along the way. Today, we do have a very special guest, Mr. Dan Glover. Dan Glover, why don't you introduce yourself, tell us what you do, and then maybe a fun fact. Sure. I'm Dan Glover. I'm a product manager with outside of the door group. Been with the door group. This will be starting my 19th year. So it's been a while and prior to that, I did 20 years in automotive, so we won't bring that up. But they have doors too, but it works in a completely different manner. So basically responsible for product development and all fun things from concept to customer for the door group and a fun fact. For 30 years, I've been a Kentucky Colonel. So, I guess I technically have to be called Colonel Glover, but only probably in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. So don't share that too much because it can get ribbed a little. So, which I don't mind. Well, Colonel Glover, welcome to the show. Now, Dan, coming from automotive too, that social media question that's been going around, are there more doors or wheels? You're like prime to answer this question. Well, it depends on whether you're talking light vehicle or heavy vehicle. Heavy vehicle, it's easy because you get 18 wheels. So that's obvious, but it depends on the design. You know, am I a three-door coupe? Usually it's wheels. I would say that's a safe bet. Okay. I'm personally Team Doors myself, but I know probably the minority. I think most people voted towards wheels, especially once they learned like Lego manufacturers, like some on billion wheels every year. I'm Team Doors because it's what pays the bills. That's right. And as always, you know her, you love her. This is Mia Merrill. I think she's on the left of my screen, but welcome Mia. You have another fun fact for us? I do. I was the editor of the yearbook, my senior year of high school. So I guess it's fitting that I've now moved into the digital space to produce this channel. Each one also yearbook. What? Maybe have an awesome yearbook. Oh, yeah. Or at least a door hardware nerd's yearbook. There you go. There you go. That'd be cool to do like throwback pictures. I put on my nerd glasses for you, Mia, because that is definitely a nerdy thing to do as the editor of the yearbook. And then I think I'm sharing another fun fact so the community can get to know us a little bit more as well. Fun fact about me is I used to be a Boy Scout. Never got my Eagle though. I was so close and I regret not getting that before I turned 18. But one thing I learned in the Scouts was how to start fire without a match. And I've been match-free since 2007. Yeah. I just made a wee blows as far as I got. I couldn't start a fire. So that was out. We blows, I'm a Scout. So close, so close. Good times. Yeah, so match-free. If you ever guys need starting a fire in a survivor situation, hopefully you have me along because yeah, okay. So for those who don't know how Unhinge works, I will share my screen. We'll show some kind of door hardware fail, door fail in this case and we'll react, knock on it, give any helpful tips and then give it a score, a knocking score. One being not so knocking bad and 10 being pretty knocking bad. Let's get this written up. Let's call the A-H-J Fire Marshal, get someone here to take care of this. How does that sound? You guys ready? Oh, absolutely. Okay, you guys ready for door number one, door number one. Oh, no. What's behind door number one? Oh, I saw somebody just share this. Yes, I started following Locksmith Journal after you posted something about it the other day. If you aren't following him, you probably should on Facebook. It's this random myth in Texas that just documents what he finds out on the road every day. It's brilliant and it's funny to see what he runs into but here's the first door. What do you guys think? I think it's wonderful. You've got an in-swing and an out-swing door in the same opening. It's just amazing. So which one goes to the restroom? Am I in the restroom or when it's closed or am I in the restroom now? I just don't understand them. But I do like it has a retainer at the bottom so you can at least keep it from swinging on somebody. Knowing context here. So this was like an old vault door, right? That leads to the bathroom. I'd be totally freaked out to go in there like because I'd be getting trapped in. Like, no, thank you. This would freak me out. I think it is cool like historically that they preserved it. I would be nervous. Yeah, especially because I can't really see how, if it did somehow close, I don't see any way to get out. That's kind of a problem, especially if all the latches go. Yeah, what kind of emergency egress did they have if that door happened to close or someone like decided to close you in there? That's probably a really heavy door in the first place to try to get out of. Like it looks like stainless framing around it. That's pretty nice. A little nice aesthetic feature. I know Sandy and Matini would be happy and we have an aesthetic play. I like the contrasting colors. Mia plays off of that. So you have a green appeal to those that are in the sustainability world. Can't tell what's on the other door. And I don't know if that's a light or if that's a mirror, which is another weird thing to have in a bathroom, but maybe it's blacked out with some tape. You just don't know for privacy. Maybe it's one way, two way mirror. I mean, you never know. Yeah, if it's a bathroom door, I hope that it's coming up for private sake at least. Yeah, I mean, they could have stalls in there. And so you have the light so that you can not open the door on somebody specifically. Yeah, still going into like a vault door would freak me out. Maybe it's a bathroom in a fallout shelter so that if it gets really bad, you can be safe from a nuclear disaster inside and outside. If you know what I'm saying. Bathroom slash tornado shelter slash. There you go. Okay, we're ready, we're good. So not too knocking bad, but I thought it was a really cool application for a restroom door. So I guess what we ranked that, what a three to four probably. I mean, I like what Mia said. Historically it's great that they preserved, you know, I'm sure that maybe in an historic building that was been converted or upgraded and repurposed. So this is an ultimate repurpose of a vault. So I don't know how you plumbed it. Well, other than a lot of times it's just a vault door applied to a standard wall sometimes. And when people break in, they tend to not try and go through the wall, which might be the easier access, but I didn't want to share any burglar tips with my fellow criminals out there, but a boy scout would figure that out, right? Mia would be improvising. I think now that I know more about doors, that yes, I would try to break through the wall as opposed to my walls not holding anyone back. So. Yeah, I think this is pretty low, especially if they just kept it there for historic purposes and it doesn't function. I don't see any rail violations here. So I think it would be, you know, I don't think it impedes anything. It's probably like a one or a two. And it's very purposeful because it's either or, if you look at the signage, it looks like it accommodates any gender. So you're good, including handicaps. So that's good. And I don't see the ADA violations, so we're good. Yeah, as long as that door doesn't close, there's no ADA. Exactly, yeah, with caveats, right? Right. That vault door ever closes. I don't know. Yeah, that's not ADA compliant, if they close it. Got it propped open for good, hopefully. Yeah. Okay, let's jump into the next one. If you wanna be featured on a future episode of Unhinged, or if you have a photo to submit, leave a comment down below.