New exterior door latching issues
Seymey
20 days ago
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Comments (11)I had a similar experience as jrb451 when my mother's condo was for sale and vacant. The electric bill went higher than my own! The place was a 3 hour drive away, so I couldn't stop in to check it often. I mentioned it to the condo association's property manager, though, and after that the bill went back down to where it should have been. I suspect that someone with a passkey was hanging out in the unit....See MoreExterior door install issues - how to fix, what to tell GC?
Comments (6)Sorry for bringing this post back to life: My wife and I just moved to a new house. We got some guys to do all the renovations and the finished product was good and fine. Installed new doors, new tiles, the works. But after a night out we noticed the light from the inside seeping very noticeably from the sides of the door. My wife has OCD and it irks her just by looking at the tiny cracks. A friend highly recommended to call this door installation company (He said they do it fast and clean) and get them to install a new door with a perfect fit from the panels. Question: Is it more expensive to do it yourself? What do I need to buy if I do it? or should I just call the door installation company? I'm not really good at housework. (I have a health condition. Too weak) Thank you. (Sorry if my English is bad)...See MoreAndersen Emco 400 storm door. Help with re-attachment of latch.
Comments (10)If you read their warranty they cover everything for 10 yrs, and Hardware for 1 year. DOOR FRAME: EMCO Enterprises, Inc. (EMCO) warrants the door frame, hinges, and painted finish on EMCO® storm door products to be free from defects in manufacturing, materials, paint adhesion, or workmanship, under normal use, for ten (10) years or as long as the original consumer purchaser owns the home in which the door was initially installed, whichever is shorter. COMPONENTS: EMCO warrants the non-glass and non-insect screen fabric components of EMCO® storm doors (including brass and nickel hardware finish and the mechanical functions of locksets, closers, windows and insect screens) to be free from defects in manufacturing, materials and workmanship for a period of one (1) year from the date of original retail purchase or for as long as the original consumer purchaser owns the home in which the door was initially installed, whichever is shorter. Kick panel retention within the frame is not covered under this warranty....See MoreNew House - Garage Entry Door - Clarify Auto-Closing? Should it latch?
Comments (12)There is no national residential consensus code in the US that requires a fire rating for the separation wall between a house and a garage nor is an opening in such a wall required to be fire-rated or a "fire door". Such assemblies are required by building codes between different Occupancies and that is not the case for single-family dwellings. Instead, US residential building codes provide written prescriptive requirements for that separation wall and openings in it. Many jurisdictions modify the closer requirements but none to my knowledge requires the wall or door to be fire-rated. Here are the latest unmodified IRC requirements: Here is a typical US residential building code requirement for a door between a house and a garage: Often the option for a 20-minute fire-rated door is misunderstood. Fire ratings are only granted for "assemblies", not parts of an assembly. The intent of the IRC is to allow for the door "panel" of a fire-rated assembly to be used in an unrated frame with unrated hardware so the assembly is not fire-rated. Also there would be little purpose in requiring a fire-rated door in an unrated wall assembly. I don't know of any of this applies to the OP....See MoreSeymey
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