kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
This is something that has been on my mind for a while because of some of the neighbors I have. I have a two car detached garage. It gets way too much attention from a certain segment of the population living in the apartment complex. I have taken to keeping the doors closed and locked even when I'm working out of the garage. I have a lot of easily pawnable tools.
The doors have a standard hand lock with a 12" bar attached. No garage door opener. When I'm not going to be opening them for a while, I add a padlock through the hole at the end of the bar.
Adding a double sided rolling door lock would require replacing a panel in each door. That's not a practical thing for me. But the current lock would support the addition of another bar to the opposite side. Problem I see is the other bar would be 5 to 6 foot long. So there would need to be some type of additional support to hold the bar at least somewhat level when the door is unlocked. I can't do rivets so I would have to use a bolt for attaching. And lastly, it would have to be a flat bar, not a folded bar. A folded bar would end up rubbing against the pillars built into the door panels.
But I've never done something like this, so if anyone has suggestions please share them. I would like to get this done over the summer so it's not a worry going forward. Alternate suggestions are welcome as well. (I am going to add an alarm so that if the doors get opened, I hear it.) The link below is to one that is as close to my existing lock as I could find. Garage Door Lock Set 1 Car Door Extension Spring - - Amazon.com
The doors have a standard hand lock with a 12" bar attached. No garage door opener. When I'm not going to be opening them for a while, I add a padlock through the hole at the end of the bar.
Adding a double sided rolling door lock would require replacing a panel in each door. That's not a practical thing for me. But the current lock would support the addition of another bar to the opposite side. Problem I see is the other bar would be 5 to 6 foot long. So there would need to be some type of additional support to hold the bar at least somewhat level when the door is unlocked. I can't do rivets so I would have to use a bolt for attaching. And lastly, it would have to be a flat bar, not a folded bar. A folded bar would end up rubbing against the pillars built into the door panels.
But I've never done something like this, so if anyone has suggestions please share them. I would like to get this done over the summer so it's not a worry going forward. Alternate suggestions are welcome as well. (I am going to add an alarm so that if the doors get opened, I hear it.) The link below is to one that is as close to my existing lock as I could find. Garage Door Lock Set 1 Car Door Extension Spring - - Amazon.com