Chin up bar for an apartment

Cyrus

Hi all

id love to have a chin up bar, my local park in blackrock has a few outdoor pieces of equipment but sadly no chin up bar.

I was looking at some of the ones on amazon that fit onto your door frame,

are any of these any use? are they safe to use in apartments, and do they mark the walls?

Alf Veedersane

Yes, they're safe to use in apartments.

They may or may not scuff your walls a little where nobody really looks.

Lucas Hood

I got something like this in lidl a few weeks ago and it's pretty good. Need to drill a few holes but who'll notice them above your door.

brownej

Just be aware that Appartment doors can be narrower than standard doors and the doorway pull up bar might not fit. you should check the width of your doorways before buying one.

Gumbo

brownej wrote: »

Just be aware that Appartment doors can be narrower than standard doors and the doorway pull up bar might not fit. you should check the width of your doorways before buying one.

Apartment doors should not be narrower than any other doors in other dwellings due to Part M of the current Building Regulations

brownej

kceire wrote: »

Apartment doors should not be narrower than any other doors in other dwellings due to Part M of the current Building Regulations

Cheers! I better tell my door frames that. Maybe the door frame chin up bar will fit then!

Internal doors can be as narrow as 2 feet which may be too narrow for some chin up bars.

Mellor

brownej wrote: »

Internal doors can be as narrow as 2 feet which may be too narrow for some chin up bars.

He was gettig at the fact that internal doors are suppose 750mm min (2 & a half foot in old money)
A 2 foot door is only going to be to a cupboard or something that's not a usable room (or the servant quarters ).

Regardless, even if you do have a tiny door somewhere, common sense would suggest using a different door.

brownej

Mellor wrote: »

He was gettig at the fact that internal doors are suppose 750mm min (2 & a half foot in old money)
A 2 foot door is only going to be to a cupboard or something that's not a usable room (or the servant quarters ).

Regardless, even if you do have a tiny door somewhere, common sense would suggest using a different door.

All I'm saying is to check that it will fit before buying.
I know from my own experience that a doorway chin-up bar would not fit any internal door in the appartment due to door frame width but it fit fine in internal doors in a house. I realise that my sample size of 1 is small but I extrapolated to the >100 other appartments in the complex and came to the conclusion that I may not be an isolated case.

Alf Veedersane

brownej wrote: »

All I'm saying is to check that it will fit before buying.
I know from my own experience that a doorway chin-up bar would not fit any internal door in the appartment due to door frame width but it fit fine in internal doors in a house. I realise that my sample size of 1 is small but I extrapolated to the >100 other appartments in the complex and came to the conclusion that I may not be an isolated case.

Did you try and use a chin up bar in the internal doorways of your apartment?

How old was the apartment block that doors were only 600mm anyway?!

conzy

My lats would get in the way in a 600mm door frame














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kkhornet

Ive something very similar to THIS
Does the job and theres no drilling or screwing required.