Exterior Double Doors - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

Traveling Super · 05-07-2009, 09:01 PM

I am doing a lease build out and part of contract is installing a 6'-0" x 7'-0" set of receiving doors. Here is my question, does the flange on the astregal (sp?) go on the inside or the outside? Most of the ones I've seen are on the inside but to me that makes the opening smaller and I wonder if that meets ADA specks. I'm sure there must be a correct way just not sure what it is or why.

Thanks in advance for your input.

knucklehead · 05-07-2009, 09:07 PM

Depends on which way the door swings

Anti-wingnut · 05-07-2009, 09:17 PM

I normally put them on the inside, on the passive leaf. You are correct, that could make the door non ADA compliant, but no BI has ever brought that up.

Are you going to flush bolt down the passive leaf, or install an indexer?

Traveling Super · 05-07-2009, 09:21 PM

Doors swing out. So if the door with the flange is on the inside the other door is the active door which makes the opening smaller, but if the flange is on the outside that makes it the active door and the opening would be larger.

Traveling Super · 05-07-2009, 09:25 PM

Flush bolt

Anti-wingnut · 05-07-2009, 09:36 PM

Flange on the outside can also act as an anti-tamper device to protect the latch, if that is applicable.

If you use a flush bolt, that inactive leaf is no longer counted as a fire exit door, unless the flush bolt is activated by the panic hardware.

But I'm sure you know all this