Rescue Door System

[Wongo]

I saw this on TV today http://www.specialisedsafetysolutions.com/products.htm


Why can’t they just put a door knob without a lock?

[silentC]

Because someone might walk in when you are on the loo.

It must have a two way hinge as well. But most privacy sets have a slot that you can put a screw driver in to unlock them from the outside anyway. Looks like the invention that nobody needs.

[Wongo]

Or keep a spare key?

[Stuart]

Imagine how much it costs cf a solution that is actually sensible?

[atregent]

Chainsaw. Perfect. Especially if the person who has collapsed is against the door, which would be the only reason you couldn't open it anyway.

I thought the regs required rooms like the loo and small bathrooms to have lift off hinges and a lock that can be opened from the outside anyway.

[Pulse]

G'day Wongo,

You sometimes see doors like that in hospitals, its a BCA requirement for certain class buildings if there is less that 1.2 or 1.4m (I think) between the loo and the door. I've had to put an outward opening door on a loo in a small shop. It's to get someone out if they collapse against the door.

Cheers
Pulse

[Stuart]

I thought the regs required rooms like the loo and small bathrooms to have lift off hinges and a lock that can be opened from the outside anyway.

In a private home? I doubt it.

[silentC]

Sure is. We had to swing our dunny door to open outwards.

[thebuildingsurv]

Lift off hinges are required in dwellings when pan is within 1.2 metres of door swing

[silentC]

Lift off hinges OR outward swinging door is required etc...

In NSW anyway.

[thebuildingsurv]

yeh or that BCA aussie wide reg

[Disston]

I know of an elderly person who had the following modifications to an inward opening toilet door
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1<!--[endif]-->Steel hinge pins replaced with breakable ones (some type of plastic, to break the door open from the hinge side).
<!--[if !supportLists]-->2<!--[endif]-->A tether from the top of the door (hinge side) to the architrave (to stop the door falling on the person inside).
<!--[if !supportLists]-->3<!--[endif]-->Nails removed on the door stops on the jamb and replaced with some screw eyes (to assist in manoeuvring the door in the opening with a person collapsed on the floor)
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I think the work was done by Veterans Affairs.

[Wongo]

My point was why go through all that trouble to solve a simple problem.

All the interior doors in our house have no locks. The rule is if the door is closed then someone is in there. Simple.

[silentC]

Doesn't matter whether the door is locked or not if someone has passed out on the floor, how are you going to open it if it opens inwards?

[Wongo]

I seeeeee....