My office is downstairs in the ground floor of the building where I work. It is also opposite the mens bathroom. Literally directly opposite to it. There used to be a problem with the door being propped open.
Originally, the door was being stuck open by natural forces of some kind and it was kind of annoying because you could hear the washing of hands, the flushing of toilets and urinals etc. Not really something you want to be constantly exposed to during your work day unless you work in the cleaning industry or somehow other related.
In any case, a sign was put up by request to ask people to keep the door shut. Can people read? I don't know, I don't think so because the door was continually being kept open. So then general admin upstairs asked FMO (facilities management office) to come and "fix" it. Well these three, yes, three, guys came down to take a look and they assertained that the door was weddging against the floor when the door was being pushed all the way back. Their solution, a door backstop placed before the wedging point so it wouldn't get stuck. Brilliant. They drilled a hole, put the backstop on, screwed it in, and voila, job done, lets go.
Unfortunately, they had a moment of blindness in not testing their idea. The height of the backstop attachment plate was high enough for the door to catch on it. To explain, the doorstop looks like this
_D
where the door comes in from the left, the _ indicating the plate where the screw goes through and the vertical line of the D is where the door hits against. The door was getting stuck on the _. I'm sure over time it would wear away the wood so it wouldn't stick, but it has been annoying me greatly for a while since people still can't read the damn sign. It affects me the most because I am in the direct line of the door while the others are not (in my office that is).
So, what do you do when you have a problem? You fix it, as engineers do.
The door originally came in at ----> _D
I took a screwdriver from my lab, 2 minutes later I returned the screwdriver. I turned the doorstop around 180° and now the door comes in _D <-----
Problem solved. I tested it just fine before returning the screwdriver.
Don't mess with me. I'm an Engineer.
LOL :D
Originally, the door was being stuck open by natural forces of some kind and it was kind of annoying because you could hear the washing of hands, the flushing of toilets and urinals etc. Not really something you want to be constantly exposed to during your work day unless you work in the cleaning industry or somehow other related.
In any case, a sign was put up by request to ask people to keep the door shut. Can people read? I don't know, I don't think so because the door was continually being kept open. So then general admin upstairs asked FMO (facilities management office) to come and "fix" it. Well these three, yes, three, guys came down to take a look and they assertained that the door was weddging against the floor when the door was being pushed all the way back. Their solution, a door backstop placed before the wedging point so it wouldn't get stuck. Brilliant. They drilled a hole, put the backstop on, screwed it in, and voila, job done, lets go.
Unfortunately, they had a moment of blindness in not testing their idea. The height of the backstop attachment plate was high enough for the door to catch on it. To explain, the doorstop looks like this
_D
where the door comes in from the left, the _ indicating the plate where the screw goes through and the vertical line of the D is where the door hits against. The door was getting stuck on the _. I'm sure over time it would wear away the wood so it wouldn't stick, but it has been annoying me greatly for a while since people still can't read the damn sign. It affects me the most because I am in the direct line of the door while the others are not (in my office that is).
So, what do you do when you have a problem? You fix it, as engineers do.
The door originally came in at ----> _D
I took a screwdriver from my lab, 2 minutes later I returned the screwdriver. I turned the doorstop around 180° and now the door comes in _D <-----
Problem solved. I tested it just fine before returning the screwdriver.
Don't mess with me. I'm an Engineer.
LOL :D
3 comments:
hehehe excellent
Engineers make the world go round. :)
Yep, to get something done properly, you have to do it yourself.
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