How would you secure the people door of this coop?
It has double doors with no center post on the west end of the coop. The south door overlaps the north door. The north door came with a bolt latch screwed to the bottom of the door so that the bolt goes through a hole drilled through the metal edge plate of the floor (shown in second and third pictures). The north door also came with a hook and eye for the top of the door (shown in the fourth picture), When closed, the hook went diagonally up from the interior of the door to the interior side of the beam across the top of the door opening. The interior of the door is flush with the exterior of the door frame. The beam is between 3 and 4 inches wide.
The bottom bolt has not fit into its hole since we leveled the shed two months ago We haven't gotten to trying to drill a new hole for it.
A recent storm ripped the eye for the hook at the top of the door Out of the beam. I meant to replace it with something more secure but hadn't gotten to that either.
I think we can drill through the metal floor plate so the existing bolt will work.
The main problem is the top. Most latches I see assume there is a post available to hold the non-door piece of the latch. Or that there isn't the width of a beam to work around; which there is because I want it on the inside.
I'm having trouble seeing how they would latch to an overhead beam.
I could replace the hook and eye with a thicker, longer eye but can't put too big of one in without weakening the beam too much, especially with the damage done by the original eye ripping out.
The fifth picture is just to shown the whole inside on the doors. The green strap was part of leveling/squaring the building. It didn't stay there.
The sixth picture shows the construction of the north door. Outer layer is the bracing, middle layer is the boards, inner layer is either/both a battan or lip board. It lets the south door overlap the north door and still close flush to the siding.
The north door is intended to act like a wall most of the time. It does need to convert to acting like a lawn and garden shed without much repair due to whatever we do to use it as a coop now.
It has double doors with no center post on the west end of the coop. The south door overlaps the north door. The north door came with a bolt latch screwed to the bottom of the door so that the bolt goes through a hole drilled through the metal edge plate of the floor (shown in second and third pictures). The north door also came with a hook and eye for the top of the door (shown in the fourth picture), When closed, the hook went diagonally up from the interior of the door to the interior side of the beam across the top of the door opening. The interior of the door is flush with the exterior of the door frame. The beam is between 3 and 4 inches wide.
The bottom bolt has not fit into its hole since we leveled the shed two months ago We haven't gotten to trying to drill a new hole for it.
A recent storm ripped the eye for the hook at the top of the door Out of the beam. I meant to replace it with something more secure but hadn't gotten to that either.
I think we can drill through the metal floor plate so the existing bolt will work.
The main problem is the top. Most latches I see assume there is a post available to hold the non-door piece of the latch. Or that there isn't the width of a beam to work around; which there is because I want it on the inside.
I'm having trouble seeing how they would latch to an overhead beam.
I could replace the hook and eye with a thicker, longer eye but can't put too big of one in without weakening the beam too much, especially with the damage done by the original eye ripping out.
The fifth picture is just to shown the whole inside on the doors. The green strap was part of leveling/squaring the building. It didn't stay there.
The sixth picture shows the construction of the north door. Outer layer is the bracing, middle layer is the boards, inner layer is either/both a battan or lip board. It lets the south door overlap the north door and still close flush to the siding.
The north door is intended to act like a wall most of the time. It does need to convert to acting like a lawn and garden shed without much repair due to whatever we do to use it as a coop now.
