The Village of Lakewood is a small residential community with a club and recreation focus rather than a retail district. The commercial-scale doors here belong to clubhouses, recreation and community buildings and the village facilities, and they are used in bursts by large numbers of people.
Recreation and community buildings have an unusual door profile. They sit empty for much of the day and then take a whole season of traffic in a few hours, whether that is a morning rush, an event or a weekend. Doors have to cope with that swing without being adjusted between uses.
They are also public buildings, which means the openings need to work for everyone who comes through them, not just for someone who knows to pull a little harder. A door that needs technique to latch is a defect in that setting.
Clubhouse and recreation building entrances
An entrance to a club or recreation building combines a main customer route with a service route. The main entrance takes the public, and the service side takes deliveries, equipment and staff. Both need to close and latch reliably, and the main entrance also needs to handle groups arriving at once.
The recurring faults are a closer that cannot keep up with a heavy glass leaf, a threshold damaged by equipment crossing it, and latching hardware that has been adjusted to the point where the door no longer secures.
- Entrance and vestibule door repair on club and community buildings.
- Glass replacement in entrance doors and windows.
- Closer replacement sized for a heavy or frequently used leaf.
- Service and equipment door repair.
Interior doors in public buildings
Interior doors in a public building have to work for people who do not know the building. Doors should close behind a person without a push, latches should engage on release, and nothing should require a specific technique.
Where a door has been adjusted repeatedly to stop a slam, the result is often a door that no longer latches. Correcting the closer rather than the latch is the fix, and it is usually a matter of setting the closing force and the sweep speed to match the leaf.
Rated and egress doors in a public building
Public and assembly buildings carry rated doors and exit routes, and those assemblies depend on every component working. A propped stair door or a disconnected closer removes the protection the assembly was installed to provide, even though the door still looks correct.
Building and fire codes are adopted and amended by each state and enforced locally, so the requirement for a specific opening comes from the authority having jurisdiction for the address, not from a general assumption. [Insert source: adopted code editions and local amendments for the Village of Lakewood and McHenry County]
Arranging a visit and emergency call-out
Office hours are Monday to Friday 08:00 to 17:00 and Saturday 09:00 to 17:00, with Sunday closed. Emergency call-out is a separate service and runs 24 hours a day, including Sundays and holidays, for a door that has failed or will not secure.
Call (224) 833-4828 or (262) 277-9190, or email info@accuratecommercialdoors.com. On buildings with events scheduled, work is best planned around the calendar rather than around the fault.