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Anonymous
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 02:08 pm: |    |
What is the difference between the two organizations and their recommended door specifications? |
George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA
Senior Member
Username: geverding
Post Number: 354
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 02:48 pm: | |
Not much. SDI does "standard" steel doors, and HMMA (part of NAAMM) does "custom steel doors". I have a one or two page sheet comparing SDI standard and HMMA custom specifications, and would be happy to email to you (or anyone else).
geverding@cannondesign.com |
Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED™ AP SCIP Affiliate
Senior Member
Username: lynn_javoroski
Post Number: 643
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 03:25 pm: | |
Thanks, George - ljavoroski@hga.com |
David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: david_axt
Post Number: 896
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 06:10 pm: | |
I ran into this odd fact recently.
On steel door frames.....
NAAMM calls out for an equal rabbet dimensions (1-15/16" both sides)
SDI calls out for an unequal rabbet dimensions (1-9/16" and 1-15/16" door leaf side)
I also believe that there are differences in allowed primers. |
Dave Metzger
Senior Member
Username: davemetzger
Post Number: 218
Registered: 07-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 10:13 pm: | |
So is that pulling a rabbet out of a hat, or what? |
J. Peter Jordan
Senior Member
Username: jpjordan
Post Number: 249
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 05:40 pm: | |
The unequal rabbet dimension is so that the same frame can accomodate doors of both 1-3/4-inch and 1-3/8-inch thicknesses. SDI does have a standard for 1-3/8-inch thick steel doors. |
Christopher E. Grimm, CSI, CCS, LEED®-AP, MAI, RLA
Senior Member
Username: tsugaguy
Post Number: 162
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 03:29 pm: | |
Is there any mention of resistance to water penetration in SDI (or HMMA for that matter)? Looking for something similar to that found in alum entrances storefront - there it is included in masterspec's performance requirements, along with field qc to test it, but there seems to be no similar text in hollow metal, or from what I can see in the standards either. |
John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP
Senior Member
Username: bunzick
Post Number: 961
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 05:14 pm: | |
The AAMA North American Fenestration Standard includes requirements for side-hinged doors, oriented principally to the pre-hung residential market, I think. However, (not having studied it recently) I suspect it could be applied to any type of side-hinged door assembly a manufacturer was willing to test.
As to hollow metal doors and frames, it is interesting to note that many manufacturers can make a product that meets either standard. |
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