You are absolutely correct, MRI rooms are a special breed of cat!

Another way to deal with this particular issue is planning... think 'maze' or 'chicane'. These electromagnetically-nontransparent doors are ridiculously expensive, and notorious for maintenance troubles.

I have sold and installed a few of these in Air Force facilities; avionics shop is a common place to find them.

I believe the end user is interested in doors that last. I don't blame them, maintenance is a headache for everybody. That is why I am looking for a most likely root cause, we can find a good solution. If the doors are indeed defective, the manufacturers will step up to the plate and replace them, but not in perpetuity because that isn't a defect, it's a misapplication. The sand and gravel guys don't use the mini-pickups for deliveries, they use vehicles intended for rough service. They don't two-step 'em, they spec 'em out.

In general, institutions are interested in better or best quality stuff. They have better things to do than mess around with rusty doors, door hardware that won't last, radios that won't work, vehicles that are troublesome (I wonder how many Cavaliers are fleet vehicles)...

I have no idea if any of this was made clear to my customer when the power company started buying doors from him. There is a science to just about everything, but this is (apparently) a well kept secret.

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I'm sure the power company isn't interested in cheap doors.....................not necessarily cheap, but not right for the application.

Since these guys have decided to involve you in the process, I'd say, "Fine, lets have a lunch meeting with you, (middle man), me, (Doorman), and a person from the power company that's in charge of these purchases."

In the meantime, find a door that will absolutely fit the bill on these substations...............extruded fiberglass, whatever. And tell them that these are the doors they need to be using if they expect long term service under these particular conditions. Standard steel doors won't last long term, and you won't be replacing any of them.

PS- After the meeting, look your middle man in the eye and say, " Look dude, you're making me look bad here. If your not sure what kind of door to use on a particular application, call me. If I don't know the answer, I'll find it".

You said that these were steel buildings and I'm assuming that there are steel casings on the equipment. If the doors are the only things experiencing problems, I'd find out what kind of paint they're using on everything else and see about getting the spec's changed to use the same material on the doors.

I'm still not seeing this as a "free doors from Doorman" situation.

Another thing you could do is get a Sherwin Williams industrial rep to have a look, diagnose the problem, and recommend one of their products that they will stand behind........................then if they fail, Sherwin Williams can buy new doors.