How To Adjust a Commercial Door Closer
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2019
- How To Adjust a Commercial Door Closer:
We installed a commercial door closer for our office in a previous video and in this video we wanted to show two different ways to make adjustments on the closer after installation. The push of our door was a little heavy so I had to make it a bit lighter to ~5 lbs. Our close speed was too fast, something like 1.5 - 2 seconds, and per ADA needed to be a 5 second close so we tackled that adjustment also. As always please let us know if you have any questions or comments down below!
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Thank you for your helpful video. I , 70 years old women , fixed my entry door in apartment building after years of slamming. My management was not able to fix it.
Very nice! Glad we could help
Way to go! Go girl!
Badass! You're never too old. Well done!
I'm going through the same problem, it's more of they are either too busy to help or don't care
And our neighbors don't care enough to not slam the doors
I will buy an Allen key set and try it out when I get home! Hope it works!
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Now, why can't other videos be as short and sweet to the point and being precise?! Thank You!
I guess it’s because I don’t know how to add fluff. Glad we could help!
Mitchell Acoustical, that's what makes your video more attractive in my opinion. In most cases, people just want to know the specifics and not really a story or history lesson. Thank you! Subscribed!
Totally agree 👍
For 6 months we have had a door to our mobile office that slams with so much force that it shakes that the entire structure. Today I was finally fed up with it and this video helped solve that problem in a matter of minutes. Thank you for this video. It has changed my work experience for the better.
Glad we could help!👍
thanks bro! i'm a maintenance man for a school and this is the second time you enabled me to solve a vexing problem. I appreciate you
THANK YOU! I am now a professional door adjuster and will impress all my friends and landlord.
Glad we could help!
Oh my goodness, I cannot thank you enough! I suffer from loud noise trauma and my word, every single person who comes to visit cannot close a door behind them and it always slams and I go a bit crazy. I have now fixed it so it closes softly and nobody has to touch the door! You have saved me a lifetime of stress. Thank you and God Bless you!
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Fantastic video Kevin, thanks heaps - worked a treat on our new office door - no more slamming shut and annoying the neighbours!
This was a perfect video to help us fix a office bathroom door that closed to hard. Ours used a screw driver was the only difference.
Using this video to show a hotel maintenance man how to fix the room door closure was great!! I would have done it myself, except I didn't have any tools at all with me. 😂
THANK YOU!!!! We live in an apartment building and the front door of the building has been banging shut for weeks. It wakes me up. I watched your video and fixed it in a minute. You saved my sanity, thanks.
Ha awesome - glad we could help keep you sane!
Perfect video, We bought an office building and one of the doors would not always close. This video made it quick and easy, although now i feel like an idiot for not being able to figure it out on my own.
Ha glad we could help! 👍
Great job!!! Short, informative.
I just needed this... I moved to a condo building and for some fckg reason e everyone lets go of the door wide open and seem to run upstairs, and I can hear the door slamming at all hours.
Thank you very much. It's very useful and simple to follow. If it's too fast and too slammy, keep adjusting clockwise, otherwise, anticlockwise.
Thanks man. Someone drove their car through the front of my store and bent the frame for the door. It was driving me crazy because the sensor wasn’t lining up so I could hear when someone enters. This did the trick. Thanks man!
You’re welcome! Glad we could help
Thank you for posting this!
Great information and to the point no bs!
Extremely helpful and easily explained!!! Thank you!!
Thanks for this! My apartment door had about a 1.5 second close and it made it a nightmare to get out with my bike. So much better now that I've slowed it down!
Thank you, Glad we could help!
Yooo same, just bought a bike and kept getting crushed by the door, didn't know you could just adjust it with a screwdriver or alan key
Perfect! I recently became the de-facto building handyman for our condo building...this was really helpful!
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Excellent tutorial! Demonstrated and explained very clearly
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Thank you for this video. Made life SO much easier now we can adjust on our own.
Perfect! Glad we could help
Works like a charm now, thank you !
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Great video, Thanks!
Nice directions very helpful thank you
thnk u for creating videos like this...very helpful
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Just the information I needed...thanks.
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Great man... This is what i wanted..♥️ From India.
Great video kevin
Great video! Very helpful.
Thank you! Glad we could help
Great video, thank you for the to the point directions.
Thanks! Glad we could help!
Thank you for the video. I made the adjustments you suggested and the door is still heavy to open from outside and inside.
Also closes to fast. Any other suggestions?Thank you. Carol.
Thank u for ur helpful video
I had no idea until I saw your video. You saved me some money 💰 thanks 👼
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Bro, you are a life saver!
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C'mon you allowed fresh air , tee hee , chuckle chortle
Super helpful, thank you!
Happy we could help!
our bedroom shares a wall with our apt complex gate, this video freakin smacks . thank you!!
Very helpful video. Sweet and short.
Thank you! Happy we could help
Just a quick question which adjustment pin allows the door to open wider?
Fantastic, fixed it myself instead of putting in a maintenance request and waiting a month lol
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Thanks for the video! but did I miss which of the screws on each side to adjust?
If there is a casing over it, there will usually be 2 screws at the top, just remove screws and comes off easily.
I have an anderson storm door n the door adjuster is stuck in the open position so I had to disassemble it .the button on top is stuck .please advise
I didn't notice any difference on the latch adjustment. Could you elaborate what difference it made in this adjustment? Thank you
Very, very helpful
Glad we could help!
Just installed a new door and frame with a door closer. The instructions talked all about adjusting the length of the arm. Thanks for posting this video! Made it simple to adjust the closer.
And thanks for not making the video 10 minutes long! You really helped me out.
Glad we could help! Yea we try and keep them short if we can
Nice explanation. Clear video.
Thank you!
Thank you!!
I always adjust the the swing speed first then the latch speed after I’ve adjusted the spring tension always start with the spring tension first then swing then latch
Thanks!
Thank you for very helpful video
Glad we could help!
All I have to say is thank you. Our front door of my job has been swinging shut so hard it would shake the whole floor. Finally I got sick of it and googled the issue and was doubtful a video or anything would be available for it and BEHOLD! Thank God because it closed gentle! I think someone greased the inside too much too. Any ideas of how to fix that?
Glad we could help. With your question, are you talking about the hinges or the piston on the closer itself being greased?
I have a door that I installed that closes really nicely but when it goes past the 45° angle it don't want to come back in can you help me with that?
Thank you.
Nice 👍
You made three adjustments, not two. The third was the latch adjustment, which you did not explain at all. Still a helpful video, thank you !!
Which side does which ? I saw you adjusting on both sides but it was not clear about which side makes door heavier to open .( the wind is moving door partially open enough to set off sensor on alarm system)
It worked for me
does anyone know, how do you lock the hydrophilic door closer? Or, restrict the spring from allowing the door to be open? I can’t find it anywhere on the internet?? any help would be greatly appreciated ...thanks in advance!!
Thank you for the video. Our door has been driving us nuts and we had no idea how to fix it.
Glad we could help
thanks a lot - from China
Where can I find a pot belly closer adjuster in Orange County, CA?
What if you only have one adjustment screw ? Door when I moved in slammed close, no restriction
Nice job they also sell an ADA pressure tool to see if you’ve got the right force spring force to be ADA compliant interesting to note that an exterior door does not have to meet ADA pressure standards which seems odd to me, but you know there’s so many wind loads andpre-existing air pressures in the building going out the exterior doors
Our door closer is for a door swinging outside. We don't want the door to widely open (180 degree). How can we adjust it only swings no more than 120 degree? Please help!
How do you slow down an exterior door with an arm but doesn't seem to have the adjustable mechanisms?
Good thing I found this video
It was a heavy backdoor open
Nice video. Trying to get a door at work to close properly. Got most of it. But... right about a 1.5" from closing the door stops and then slowly closes. Guess that's latch speed adjustment?
Even with the latch speed not adjusted correctly. It's still lots better than the before.
Yes it should be latch speed. Glad we could help👍
Thanks
Thanks for video Mitchell. What can you do with exterior building door with commercial closer and someone was moving out and extended door too far and now it will NOT close? Thanks in advance.
Is the frame or hinges bent? Or just the arm of closer?
@@mitchellacoustical3119 Good call …it was the arm of closer. I bent it back and noticed a screw was missing so got a matching screw and adjusted the closer arm and it worked. At first I thought door frame off until I noticed the closer arm was all bent. Thanks for your response. Took a while to get the sweep closing at desired speed and same with latch since I wasn’t sure which way sped it up or slowed it down at first.
Is there one with a longer arm than 180 Degree? Our last one allowed the the door to swing wide open (Front door of apartment no wall blocking it) and the new one the door open 180 and within 2 days someone moving furniture in kicked the glass and spider webbed it.
Not that I’m aware. Over 180 would mean that your opening to you door would be offset by an angle. Are you sure you’re asking the correct angle?
Thanks for helping me fix my restaurant door that was slamming!
You’re welcome! Glad we could help👍
I am trying to buy they key did he say that that was a 530 second aone key?
My is locked in the open position. I adjusted it and it was fine. Then it started locking in the open position. What do I do now?
do all door closers have the same adjustments. I ask because some of the door closers in the building I own and manage, according to my memory only have 2 adjustment screws. And are they all marked with an "S" for sweep and a "L" for latch.
From my memory, there should be 2 on each side. So 4 adjustments total. I think it’s open swing, back swing, latch, and something else without looking at the instructions.
Great video!
I am trying to fix the entry door to my apartment, which always wakes me up when it slams shut. I am twisting the screws and I'm able to get to ideal closing speed, however at the last 2 inches until closing, all the mechanics stop and it smacks shut. How can I fix this? Is the problem the door, the closer, or the installation? Many thanks!
Yea that's the latch speed on the closer. There are 4 positions on the closer, so there should be 4 screws (2 on each side for adjustments). With all the different positions of a closer and mounting its hard to tell you which way to go on this, but there is a "latch" adjustment screw. So without seeing it, just trial and error. Thank you for the comment, hope I was able to help a little.
@@mitchellacoustical3119thanks for responding Mitchell. I'll keep playing with it. Cheers
This is great! Any advice on reducing the loud groaning sound that my door closer makes?
Hmm, could be that the piston inside needs oil. Maybe put some oil on the mechanical parts?
So, you started off explaining how to adjust the door closing speed; however, you yadda yadda yadda’d over how to change the latch speed. Didn’t even say which screw to adjust much less which direction. I give this a solid B.
Hey. My friends’ restaurant front door not closing when the kitchen fan is on. In one year they replaced 3 door closers. Every time kitchen fan is on, it creates so much pressure, that the front door opens. Any idea how to solve that? Thanks.
Need a vestibule to take out the positive air, or balance the HVAC system. Those are the couple of things I would look at first.
I must have a different model Yale door closer because it took an 1/8 hex key.
5 lbs, was interesting info; my seems to be much more then that has it is very hard to push thr door open. I moved the screws and it changed nothing; to the point of wondering if the screw would come out, can it? I also tried adjusting the other screws but only changes was the closing speed: very slow. Now, this door is not business building but home; garage to house. No wheel chairs or anything. No little ones. I am thinking it might be defective. Suggestions? Or isbthere something I am missing? Thanks.
Well the adjustments can be different from door to door. If its hard to push open can the actual door and frame be the problem? The screws can come out of the closer and spill the lubricant out of the cylinder. Maybe try another closer. Most closers come close to being 'set' when they come out of the box, only quarter turns are typically necessary.
Did you rotate BackCheck screw counterclockwise to reduce the opening force of the door??
I think that’s what we did on this door.
I’m having an issue where the closer is pushing the elbow of the arm up into the door frame.
Good information, 5 sec for ADA but left out the actual adjusting.
We adjusted what was needed for our particular needs on the back swing and latch
So my commercial door doesn’t shut cleanly- the adjustment worked where it I could adjust it to any length of time but the door is hitting just before the latch and stopping. Is there any way to add more force to the door closure?
They answered this question in one of the other comments, hopefully that helps!
what if it slams only when its like an inch from closing?
this help with new installed doors that are heavy to open
i know it's 3 years ago but does anyone look at these comments?? will this keep a door from SLAMMING shut if you adjust this? there's a door here that ppl are in and out constantly... it slams and shakes the entire front of the building. is this a thing where i can just adjust this closer and it should be ok?
the slamming could indicate that the piston in the closer is bad. You can try to adjust it, but if that doesn’t work try grabbing a new closer
So how do you stop and exit door I heard that door closed lightly and it's like wood on wood that's the problem that's in this apartment building right now it closes fine but if somebody pulls that f***** closed it's slams loud and shakes the whole building is there anything you can put in between to stop the wood on wood contact from slamming
Yea there is a thing called door silencers. Look those up, you can stick them inside the jamb where the door slams.
What did you do when you said you needed to adjust the latch? I followed these instructions and now my door won't latch
There should be another screw that you have to finely turn to get the latch to close.
Can u advise please how to adjust the door open angle ? Now it’s at 90deg I want the door to open lesser, maybe 60deg
We typically deal with ADA, and I think it has to open 90 degrees. I’m not sure they’re even made to go 60, unless you’re talking about 135 degrees?
When I install it I recall the guy said I can adjust it any angle I want .. so I’m not sure. :(
fruitfull!thanks
A slight breezes will slightly cause my door to open. What adjustment increases the tension so that it doesn’t do that?
We’ll if it latches it wouldn’t open, I’m guessing that’s what you’re asking. You’ll have to turn the latch set screw so that the last 2-3 inches it closes it has the psi to close.
@@mitchellacoustical3119 It's a door that goes outside. There isn't a latch unless I were to lock the door. It's a door to a business.
@@NodakSavage Same problem. Trying to fix our gas station door from blowing open. Theres no "latch" unless its locked.
I did the adjustments already, doesn’t change anything. How do I know if it’s broken? Can it be repaired?
Did you try all 4 adjustments? Try a 1/4 turn back and forth. You should notice if it was broken, the oil would have leaked out of the cylinder.
Thank you sir I fixed a couple of my hotel doors now they dont slam shut like a dungeon
Glad we could help!
How would you adjust for an exterior commercial door that opens with heavy wind gusts?
Honestly I don’t know if this is a solvable problem. Maybe a door stop in the floor?
@@mitchellacoustical3119 That came across my mind too except the door is an exit to an office(used all day). I think I'll just give the door more opening resistance to account for the wind.
Are all the commercial door closers the same?
They’re pretty typical. They’re piston driven
ADA is actually seven seconds and in a hospital you need to make that whisper, quiet clothes which it sounds like you’re missing the silencers in the jamb
What tool do you use to exactly
Allen key