Ideas for Gate Lock

Hi all

I am looking for ideas for gate locks. The gate is 1.8m high and mounted between wooden posts which are bolted to concrete ones. We are finally getting round to securing the back garden and, as a result, need to be able to securely lock/latch the gate shut. The gate will be the only access round the house so it will need to be able to be unlocked from either side. Is there a key operated lock type specifically for gates. I'm not that taken with the rim lock type, as the gate is fairly smart/decorative.

Anyone got any ingenious lock systems which don't spoil the look too much?

TIA

Phil

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TheScullster
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Reply to
Vass

Funnily enough, I saw a key-operated gate lock - (un)lockable from either side - just the other day in Country Supplies (near High Wycombe). I think it was Australian and cost around 40 quid.

Very neat and pretty unobtrusive. Fits, IIRC, with just one or two screws. Sorry - that's all I remember. If you are interested and not in this area, I will look next time I go there - but that might not be for a few weeks. Let me know.

(Not a big web presence. :-( But found this: Country Supplies. Oakleaf Farm, Warrendene Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4LY. Tel,

01494 562 406. Fax, 01494 565 515)
Reply to
Rod

"Rod" wrote

Rod

Unfortunately I have no plans to visit that area any time soon. But have spent many happy times in the Cotswolds - not too far removed.

Phil

Reply to
TheScullster

TheScullster explained on 28/10/2008 :

Does it actually need to lock?

Just a none very obvious pin will often defeat passers by. On our front main drive gate we 'lock' it with nothing more than a carabiner.

Even invited guests cannot work out how to undo the lock.

Reply to
Harry Bloomfield

Can you not fit a concealed mortice into one of the posts ?

Reply to
RW

Hence leading to the "Billy No Mates" tag?

Reply to
Steve Firth

It depends on the gate, but I used a ledged framed and braced one, which simply took a normal mortice lock in one upright.

Colin Bignell

Reply to
nightjar

One idea is a code operated lock. Makes it handy if you want to be able to tell tradesmen or delivery people to leave stuff round the back.

Owain

Reply to
Owain

I have a home made ledged an braced gate on my side access. I fitted a

5 lever motice lock onto the T&G v jointd cladding (19mm thick) using a suitably eccavated block of wood boltec on with coach bolts. OK for 10 years

Malcolm

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Malcolm

"TheScullster" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@eclipse.net.uk:

A chain and padlock might be a good idea, with the chain fixed half and half to the post so it wraps around the gate.

Or a hasp and padlock that fixes to the post and wraps around the side of the gate and fixes back to your wooden jamb.

Or a metal "U" shape, drilled at the ends to take a padlock, screwed to the timber post, which then catches the side of the gate and can be secured.

Or a drilled boss on the post and a small drilled bar on the gate, where they come together, you fit a padlock.

Or hinge locks that stop the gate from swinging. They call them hinge locks, but they are actually bolts screwed through the hinge side of the gate and into the post. Baffles even the most expert crime prevention officer, because you don't see any type of locking mechanism at all. Great idea if you're going away on holidays.

Or a drop latch boss on the post that is drilled to allow a padlock to prevent the latch bar on the gate from being lifted.

Or. I think I'll stop there.

All of these ideas are none intrusive to the decor' of the gate or posts, so take your pick.

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BigWallop

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robert

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