Making a lock for a sliding door

f140 · 10-03-2017 12:43AM #1

Have a shed that I want to be able to put a padlock onto, just to make life a bit awkward it any undesirables are around.

It is a sliding door that meets a cavity wall so not a whole pile to work with. So basically it will have to attach/be welded onto the sliding door which is just 2 inch box and something bolted (bolting is probably the only option to the cavity wall) to cavity wall.

Any advice here which would provide some sort of protection with the use of a padlock. Ideas? With pictures would be even better again

Zr105 · 10-03-2017 08:48AM

f140 wrote: »

Have a shed that I want to be able to put a padlock onto, just to make life a bit awkward it any undesirables are around.

It is a sliding door that meets a cavity wall so not a whole pile to work with. So basically it will have to attach/be welded onto the sliding door which is just 2 inch box and something bolted (bolting is probably the only option to the cavity wall) to cavity wall.

Any advice here which would provide some sort of protection with the use of a padlock. Ideas? With pictures would be even better again

Is the sliding door the only access to the shed? If you can get in some other way a simple latch catching it on the inside would be the easiest.

What sort of rail is it on? If it can't lift up a heavy drop bolt with a lock over it to hold it down could work, just give it say 6inches down into the ground so it's well caught.

Nekarsulm · 10-03-2017 01:26PM

Concrete and bolt either a lenght of RSJ or very big channel iron or angle iron at the end of the wall, where the door slides to.
Have a tongue on the door entering a slot in the RSJ.
Hole drilled in the tongue to take a good big padlock.
Box in the area where the padlock will be with heavy plate, so that you have to put your hand up 6 or 8 inches to get at the padlock.

Then they will just remove the cladding from the door.

Making a lock for a sliding door

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