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Know your strength

Today, I pulled a brand new door completely free of its hinges. There was a ching as the hinge pins fell onto the floor. I'd like to think I don't know my own strength, but the more likely explanation is that hanging the doors upside-down is just the latest in a long line of mistakes made by the folk who fitted our new doors at work.

(Examples: fitting the wrong handles; replacing the handles only to discover the correct ones smash against the entry keypad; using an electronic lock that burnt out on both door sets within weeks; a design of crash bar that doesn't open in emergency.)

Nah, they can't possibly have hung the doors so that gravity pulls them apart; I'm definitely stronger than I used to be.