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I am in the process of buying this garage/shed, ~50yds from my house. it's been neglected for some time.
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they are sliding doors suspended on a sliding rail (heavily corroded), with a channel in the concrete for a pin to locate the bottom of the doors. I'd like to refurbish and retain the doors as per the one next door which has been recently renovated, but I can't really see how that style of door can be secured to a reasonable level.
my vague plan at the moment is to have a secondary door inside the the sliding doors that can be properly secured.
Internal roller door would be may suggestion.
Just use one door? Secure unused door with channel to outer edge of door bolted through wall (nuts inside)to prevent it sliding.
secure opening door in similar way but would need good covered padlock to remove channel.
also prevents lifting from bottom edge ?alarm it
Hasp that folds flat against the wall with a padlock loop screwed on the edge of the door? With the screws hidden behind the door when closed?
Perhaps two per door, one at shoulder height and one at knee height.
i should add, i need to get in/out fairly regularly and the full door width would be useful.
i think an internal roller door with a remote might be the answer. It has power.
four of these behind one of the doors, top and bottom, each side
https://www.amazon.co.uk/600mm-BLACK-GARDEN-STABLE-SCREWS/dp/B07DNWF9W7/
Then you can use the Enfield garage door bolts on the other one - again four top and bottom going down into the ground and up into an internal frame.
http://www.lockshop-warehouse.co.uk/acatalog/Long-D613-Enfield-Garage-Door-Bolts-.html
It'll stop anyone lifting the doors off the channels and mean you can lock from outside (you can get long keys for the enfield bolts - I used them on a beach hut.
Put a steel doors on the other side? Leaves the outside looking as if there's nothing worth nicking inside.
Make them into swing doors? can't be too tricky
I'd opt for either roller door behind or secure swing doors behind. Tart those sliding doors up like next door just to smarten the place up
some good ideas. it doesn't need to be fort knox so i think some of those enfield long door bolts might be enough. although once I get proper access to it, I can see how sound the doors are behind the boards that have been screwed on the bottom half.
it doesn’t need to be fort knox
So what do you plan on keeping in there anyway? Seeing as your iPhone XS stored the longitude and latitude along with all the rest of the image metadata, it would just be common courtesy to give us the rest of the details.
Use a poster so it looks like it's not there?
My parents have one of those in their stable block. We rebuild the wretched heap of junk every 10 years or so. It’s about as secure as a 300kg pile of timber and rot leaning against a wall can be. Chop it up, burn it and fit a roller.
Forgot to add: the sheets of plywood loosely screwed to the bottom half of the door is a tell-tale sign that the rest of it is knackered and has been "fixed" by a bodger. Behind that you'll find rot, four wheels "attached" to the rot and probably some silicone sealant preventing the rot from escaping to the plywood. I know 'cos that's exactly how my dad and I fix ours. We just glue and screw a new bit of plywood on when the wheel housings become so wobbly that it keeps derailing. Seriously: burn it!
So what do you plan on keeping in there anyway?
bears.
Well I finally took possession on Friday after a spectacular show of incompetence by the sellers solicitors.
Spent the weekend removing ivy from the back and fixing holes in the roof caused by removing said ivy.
Next step is a manually operated roller shutter door, looking at at a basic gliderol one for ~£400 that I think I can upgrade to electric at a later date.