When I first decided I would use a 2×4 bar to close my shed instead of a combination of a latch and “something” to hold ONE of the doors closed, I went and bought “ordinary” 2×4 bar holders from Lowes or Home Depot (you can also get a traditional 2×4 closed bar holder or a traditional 2×4 open bar holder from Amazon (these are affiliate links)). I was pretty happy with these for Read more…
This short video says it all!
One of the reasons I came up with the secure 2×4 bar holder or the secure bar holder idea was because I received an 8×12 shed for FREE. All I had to do was move it. When I got it placed on my property, I noticed that the doors didn’t close all that well. In fact, they were never constructed very well – sag was something that would set in on my doors. It is Read more…
If you want to “bar your door”, or bar the castle gate, you need to have two things: A big bar – I wrote about “what is a bar” earlier Something to hold the bar – which is called (drum roll please) a “2×4 bar holder”. So a bar holder is just a “thingy” or device made to hold a bar. Many people think of these as a door security bar brackets. Many people want Read more…
A “bar” used as a door bar is a very long THING that is placed in front or behind of swinging doors to create a tough security barricade that is very secure, very difficult to kick-in, very difficult to breach method for keeping doors shut and invaders out. I say “THING” because a bar can be almost anything that is long and strong. Today, in most apartments or houses, I would think that the most Read more…