Comments on: “Please Use Other Door”

By: Rickie

Rickie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:03:01 +0000

As someone that used to sit in a lobby that is close to the doors, one reason why someone might suggest using another door is to keep the cold air out and the hot air in! When people hold the door open for the person down the street, two blocks away, the lobby gets cold quickly. The upper management in my building could care less about the comfort levels of the guards, or receptionists that manned the desk or the people that sat there in their absence.

By: Jia Wei

Jia Wei — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:56:36 +0000

it’s a type of feng shui, which is good luck, where the people come in, the money doesn’t leave through the other door

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:55:08 +0000

Not all buildings design all of doorways in their building for customer use. Many businesses use these signs to direct customers away from entrances designed for employee or maintenance use only. This is so the customer does not walk through a door that could possibly lead to a maintenance area that is unsafe to the public or into deparmtnets with confidential and proprietary information.

Additionally, if customers wander into the wrong department or entrance, there may not be anyone at that entrance who is able to help them. It seems as though it would be more frustrating to wander around lost, looking for assistance, than to walk to the appropriate entrance where someone is waiting and ready to assist me.

By: Priyanke de Silva

Priyanke de Silva — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:41:19 +0000

What I am going to say may shock many of you. But (at least in Asia) the reason for this is due to various beliefs (including feng shui) sometime a door is deemed unfit for prosperity (good luck).

There is whole deal of ‘truth’ into door (window) placement and usage, and is practiced widely.

By: GC

GC — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:53:28 +0000

I am a General Contrctor and often an Astragal forces you to open one door before the other. The Astragal is an strip of metal that overlaps from one door onto the other. This helps prevent wind driven rain from entering the building. Often Double Doors are great for moving large items like furniture into and out of a building and also
have a nice scimetrical look. However opening both at the same time
leads to additional load on the HVAC system.

By: Charyl

Charyl — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:08:02 +0000

I work in an office that has one of those signs and the reason is that we took over two work spaces for rent and made it one office space. The door with the sign on it happens to go right into my personal office and I am not the receptionist, she is located at the other door. It frustrates me when people park in front of that other door and walk over to the door that leads into my personal office and try to get in. I am using that door as a window wall not a door. I am going to hang a blind on it with a bigger sign soon to hopefully make it look more like a wall than a door. I am sure that even new buildings were probably designed to have several entrances in case they were needed for multiple occupants, but like my business only have us as an occupant and also decided to block those doors off to the public. Maybe someone could come up with a way for the outside to not look like a door any more so people don’t get frustrated. Sorry to you people who have tried to enter my personal office space and was confronted with that pain in the butt sign.
Signed: PLEASE USE THE OTHER DOOR

By: andrea_orkin

andrea_orkin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:22:33 +0000

Great complaint!

By: David Jones

David Jones — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:07:23 +0000

I am also annoyed by these signs, but I have an explanation:

Business owners and architects alike want certain traffic patterns, but local governments (usually at the city level) can dictate the placement of the business’s front door. The loophole is that you can have a secondary door which becomes your primary door with the addition of a “Please use other door” sign.

In my town businesses are required to have a door which faces the street, but for whatever reason there will be instances in which the business owner prefers customers to enter from the side — perhaps because it is more attractive or more products can be displayed there.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:08:13 +0000

Hey great point! anybody out there who can give a good reason for this one?