Entry Doors & Hardware
Hardware schedules and pricing for closers, panic devices, low-energy operators and access-control-ready prep.
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Entry doors & hardware
Entry door and hardware retrofit at a medical office
A high-cycle main entrance rebuilt around ADA operators, panic hardware and access-control interfaces.
Multi-tenant medical office — Bergen County suburban campus
Openings
Main entrance vestibule pair plus two secondary egress doors
Hardware
Low-energy swing operators, rim panic devices, concealed closers
Controls
Card reader and electric strike interface, fail-secure at perimeter
Compliance
ADA opening force and closing speed, egress hardware at all doors
Cycle load
High-frequency public entrance with wheelchair and gurney traffic
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Problem
The vestibule doors had been fitted over the years with mismatched closers and add-on operators that no longer coordinated. Opening force at the exterior leaf exceeded what a patient using a wheelchair could manage, and the operator was being defeated by a closer spring set too heavy to compensate for a dragging bottom pivot.
The secondary doors had surface bolts added for security — a direct egress violation on doors serving an occupied floor. Any fix had to reconcile the building's security posture with the fact that egress hardware cannot require prior knowledge or more than one operation to release.
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Scope
- 01
Opening-by-opening hardware survey documenting existing frame prep, hinge type, threshold condition and control wiring, so the new hardware schedule was written against what is actually in the wall.
- 02
Replacement of dragging bottom pivots and out-of-square door leaves, because operator and closer adjustment cannot compensate for a door that binds mechanically.
- 03
New low-energy swing operators with coordinated closer spring sizing, actuators positioned outside the door swing, and adjusted for compliant opening force, backcheck and closing speed.
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Rim panic devices with electric latch retraction on the secondary doors, tied to the access-control system so the doors are secure from outside and free egress from inside — surface bolts removed entirely.
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Result
Opening force at the public entrance is within the accessible range with the operator both powered and unpowered, which is the condition that matters during a power failure.
Egress is restored to a single motion at every door on the floor, with security handled by the reader and strike rather than by hardware that blocks exit.
The hardware is now a single coordinated schedule instead of a decade of independent repairs, so future service is a parts-replacement task rather than a re-engineering task.
Installed condition
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