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Cover for 3 square foot hole

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  • 19-01-2021 7:39pm
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    irishguy19772
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    I have an opening down side of slatted shed for access to water that I pump up when needed. Need access in case I need to bucket it up when pump gets frozen. I have it well covered now for safety reasons but wondering best way to secure it. Can buy or try to make something but want it on hinges if possible. Thanks for any advice. It is around 4 foot each side.


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    minerleague
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    irishguy19772 wrote: »
    I have an opening down side of slatted shed for access to water that I pump up when needed. Need access in case I need to bucket it up when pump gets frozen. I have it well covered now for safety reasons but wondering best way to secure it. Can buy or try to make something but want it on hinges if possible. Thanks for any advice. It is around 4 foot each side.

    Sorry cant picture what you trying to describe ( prob me having no imagination!) Do you mean a hole in side wall or a well in the ground??


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    irishguy19772
    Registered Users Posts: 378 ✭✭irishguy19772


    Well in ground


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    minerleague
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    irishguy19772 wrote: »
    Well in ground

    prob simplest solution is to buy a galvanized slatted shed agitation point cover ( not sure if they would be 4 foot square though ) Handy with welder ? make a square of 3x2 angle iron , 3" facing up and 2" facing in ( like a picture frame)
    weld on some rebar to bottom to concrete this in place. cut some lengths of channel iron to fit inside your frame, weld round galv piping to flat part of channel ( piping a small bit longer than channel ) at one end of each length. pass a solid round bar through all lengths and weld to your frame, jobs a goodun !


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    NcdJd
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    irishguy19772 wrote: »
    Well in ground

    I'll be doing a similar job for a neighbour of mine in the summer. Currently there is a plastic pallet face down with three sand bags holding it in place.

    Will be doing a reinforced concrete cover for it with a hook so he can lift it off with the loader in case of maintenance.

    In your own case, would a simple large steel manhole cover, that comes with a steel surround that you can place in a surround of concrete be an option ? There's a couple of irish companies i see that specialise in manhole covers doing a quick Google search. You can lift it off then by yourself if you need to get at it regularly.


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    _Brian
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    I was doing a job few years ago and got an engineering works to cut and fold stainless checkered plate to cover manholes.
    Lifetime job.

    Then I moved house 🙄


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    TheBoyConor
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    You need something along the lines of what is on page 8 of this document.... http://proflo.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fabricated-Steel-Brochure-2017-v1-LR.pdf

    EJ Co. (The old Kavanagh Foundry) do similar to order.

    You do need to have a bar grating under the cover so it can be inspected without the risk of falling in. And the cover ough to be lockable.

    Whatever you put in make sure it is galvanised. Nothing is more lethal than a cover that looks ok on top but is rotten to the core with rust.


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    GreeBo
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    Are the sides of the well/hole bricked up or is it just literally a hole dug in the ground?
    Would it make sense to build a small knee wall and fit a cover to that?

    If its just a cover sitting on soil then it probably wont be very secure and in frozen weather will freeze shut anyway...


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    dzer2
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    You can buy a concrete ring with a hole to suit a manhole cover from most concrete company's. It will be around 6" high. Most hatf wares have the man hole cover


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    foxy farmer
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    I saw a slatted tank done in a yard a few years back where there was a serious amount of water underground in the winter. Back filled the tank with big stone and in one corner dropped in a 9 or 12 inch corripipe with holes drilled in it. Left it at a slope so a slurry pipe could be put down if water was ever needed. He just put a mineral bucket over the end of it.


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