Doesn't it make more sense to allow the builder and homeowner to agree on what should be installed rather than inviting the government to demand one thing over another in the interest of making life easier for an occupant who may never purchase or even enter the dwelling?

Have these people never seen Jurassic Park?

This.

I've also heard zombies have trouble with doorknobs.

Installing levers is putting your lives, and the lives of your loved ones, at risk.

Won't somebody think of the children!

In the short story With Folded Hands, the robots that "protect" humans remove all doorknobs from doors, installing sliding doors with relays that only the robots can open and close...to make sure the humans are safe. They also remove all sharp objects and hard corners.

It's still one of the most terrifyingly prescient books I know of.

Read the article and don't be a schmoe.  It's all about the city of Vancouver and not the whole of Canada.  I have door knobs in my house and I will not abide by anything else. I do not want anything that contains levers or metal injected molded parts.

Door hardware can be big business depending on where you live.

When I was in the custom home business we did plenty of projects where the door hardware budget was $50K +.

 

Now we will have Canadian Knob Runners.  

Intercepted by government knob smashers?

Ouch.

Brilliant idea!!!11! Alas, too late - http://www.brinksppr.com/

But still: FBHO and FTMBDKN (fuck those milk-bagging door knob nazis)





 

Just wait until you're required to have doors that are easy to kick in, versus those that are secure.  You know, for fire codes.  Oh wait, we already have those.  They now have to open in rather than out.  

Just wait until you are required to give master keys to government entities - you know, for your own safety.  Oh, never mind, we already have those for commercial buildings, and the gov't is actively lobbying to get that extended to residential buildings.  In fact, under the guise of the drug war, they're looking to ban 'hardened entry doors', which may prevent agents from entering your home in an expedient fashion.  

So out of everything to complain about - handle levers versus round knobs?  Whatever.  I think we're missing the bigger picture.  

By the way, I might have critiqued the above as paranoid 'tin foil' nonsense about 5 years ago.  Not so much any more.   Here's my question of the day - if the government passed a regulation requiring you to give them a master key to your home, what would you do?

So robots are liberals?

I like the lever type handles, when we built 8 years ago we put them in our home.

BUT WHY IN THE FUCK IS THIS BEING MANDATED BY THE GOVERNMENT?


If the home buyer wants them, tell the builder and have them put in.

I'll just leave this here.....

If that dept of goverent has enough time to think up some dumb ass code like this they need to be refunded because they don't have enough real work to do.

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Have they been banned in Kali yet?????