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How the BearMar Makes it harder to remove the bar

    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…

You have to have special latches for one of the sheds doors

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…

closed 2x4 bar holder that is NOT secure

What is a 2×4 bar holder?

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…

2x4 bar holder

What is a door bar anyway?

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…