How To Adjust a Commercial Door Closer

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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[LivingDeadGirl]

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!

[amanda]

THANK YOU! I am now a professional door adjuster and will impress all my friends and landlord.

[ritaruss]

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. 😂

[msaintjo]

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!

[utahdan]

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.

[brettkramer]

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 !!

[doorandlocktips]

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

[advancedtv]

I had no idea until I saw your video. You saved me some money 💰 thanks 👼

[patriciakerns]

Excellent tutorial! Demonstrated and explained very clearly

[Mostviews]

Great information and to the point no bs!

[robertdillon]

C'mon you allowed fresh air, tee hee, chuckle chortle

[randomgreatness]

Extremely helpful and easily explained!!! Thank you!!

[dietrichdietrich]

Good thing I found this video
It was a heavy backdoor open

[awilliams]

Thanks for the video! but did I miss which of the screws on each side to adjust?

[sacooper]

I must have a different model Yale door closer because it took an 1/8 hex key.

[carolblow]

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.

[jeffreytaylor]

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.

[Kariatansky]

This is great! Any advice on reducing the loud groaning sound that my door closer makes?

[wolfpackreceiving]

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?

[marydemar]

What did you do when you said you needed to adjust the latch? I followed these instructions and now my door won't latch