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It's not about stopping the door from swinging, it's about stopping the handle from turning.
That being said, they could probably have just turned the handle up instead of down.
Of course I know people who would absolutely just try pushing down a couple times, give up, and call maintenance.
With this style of doorhandles up/down movement isn't transferred through the slab. They both serve the same function of retracting the plunger from the jamb, and don't require the opposing handle to move AT ALL. Likely due to safety concerns/regulations in high occupancy buildings, I'm comfortable saying all legal apartments have doorhandles that function this way.
If your apartment doesn't it's time to call health and safety because your landlord is breaking the law.
This is a fake shitpost for internet clout, same as it was 5 years ago when it was posted.
My house came with door handle on my outside gate that has both handles directly connected and only turns downward and not upward.
They definitely exist and are still in use some places.
Like most of bloody Europe.
Not quite a high occupancy building imo.
Codes are different (and actually enforced) when you have one property owner and dozens if not hundreds of tenants who all can sue the owner at a whim (in the US, anyhow).
Situations vary and as satisfying as it is to appear to know it all, one doesn’t due to the large variety of how things are throughout the world.
This post gives us a precise situation and the regulations are also very specific.
It's not a hard conclusion to arrive at.
That's also likely true, I was just commenting on if that's the outside of door, and there's no keyhole in the lever, it's incredibly unlikely you have to press down to open it.
I would scale a 3 floor building by climbing down balconies before I call maintainence to let me out. Or toss some rope out the window and climb down I guess.
But I think I would even try taking the entire handle off before calling maintenance. Or even straight up texting a family member and waiting a few hours.
My wife, on the other hand, is the "I tried to wiggle it lightly a few times so now I am giving up". Installed a new light last week, and it takes a split second to actually turn on. In the literal 600-800ms it takes to charge up, she flipped the switch 3 or 4 times, and loudly yelled about how the piece of shit we bought doesn't work. I simply went over and flipped the switch up and left it there to actually power up.
People like that 100% exist.
tbf I would definitely consider an 800ms delay on a light bulb as that light bulb not working and needing to be replaced
Taking the handle off is exactly what I’d do, no need to scale the side of a building lmao.
Unless this handle is ancient or was originally for an interior door, then this is just for Internet points.
Pretty much all modern exterior door knobs can turn from one side, even if the knob on the other side is being held in place. On older doors or doors made for interiors you can still find a spindle that connects one knob to the other.
However, in modern door knobs each knob is connected to the tumbler cylinder via independent shanks. So blocking one or destroying the outside knob doesn't trap the occupant inside.
Those types of loocks, where the handles are fixed together, are fairly common where I live and are still sold. The world is a big place.
For exterior doors....? More than likely those are meant for interior use, and someone is being cheap and installing them for exterior use.
Either that or they just appear to be affixed together, but will still operate the tumbler even if one is being held in place.
The reason they don't really use a single spindle anymore is because it makes them extremely easy to brute force. You can literally just knock the handle off and access and operate the latch assembly.
They are for whichever use the customer wants. When used in outside facing doors (or doors you want to actually lock down) it should be paired with a deadbolt, as it is here. You are not wrong in saying that the main reason to use this solution is cost tho.
Those locks dont have a locking mechanism (hence the deadbolt) they are just meant to keep the door shut
There are some that do lock the latch. In those cases removing the handless wont do you any favours since the assembly itself is locked in place. And there are others that dont lock the latch but have a deadbolt as part of the lock.