Looking for a 3 point shed door lock

Mcluma · 2 Sep 2015

I bought the handle separate, but ANY handle will fit, these where bought from tool nation, i will have a look tonight on ebay for you and posts up some links of these alleged door locks

PS i like it everyday better and better, it locks on 3 places and PULLS the door shut on the top middle and bottom.

so if your door is in the slightest way warped or whatever it will pull it really tight. it actually feels like closing a vault door

Tadpole48 · 2 Sep 2015

Thanks Chris. I have been looking for so long. This looks absolutely perfect. My workshop has a lot of equipment and my new Planer Thicknesser arrived today - would be difficult to steal (took 3 of us to get it in!) but I just have a single mortice lock on one door and 2 internal bolts (top and bottom) on the other of the 2 solid wood doors. Looking for a new alarm system too as spiders keep setting off the motion sensors - not sure how to resolve that one though.

Mark

MMUK · 2 Sep 2015

Try Ironmongery Direct and search for Fire Exit Hardware.

Mcluma · 2 Sep 2015

On the alarm - use the pet friendly ones, its about how much heat the produce,

And MMUK is correct - its fire exit hardware

so look for
panic bar
push bar
fire exit
fire door hardware

and than things like this will come up

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hoppe-Arrone- ... 3372f1c373
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Briton-376-Em ... 4d3734f4db
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PUSH-BAR-PANI ... 235805703c

these will all work, however i wanted the ones with he special pullman latches, like in this one
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNION-PANIC-B ... 2ee0c74cb2

so you an actually close the door with a push and do not have to hold the handle down

Tadpole48 · 2 Sep 2015

Thanks MMUK, I had already looked at Irnmongery Direct and found most of the items cheaper on ebay and as I am tighter than a duck's *** ebay looks like the way to go.

Chris many thanks for the link I have ordered the 882T (last link you provided), I missed these because I searched using EMERGENCY, DOOR, EXIT, HARDWARE and PULLMAN - none of which are in the ebay title.

The other items I had already discovered and whilst I was about to go with the Briton hardware (the version with Pullman latches is around £90 plus their outside handle is another £50) they still were still only 2 point whilst the Union is not only half the price it is 3 point.

I'm not too concerned about fire regs. certification, I just want security which limits the choice quite a lot and influences the price.

My only concern is that the door handle that Union recommend (the 885) is not available anywhere so I can't get a price for it, but it looks as though Henderson do one that will fit (for around £30) - I'll wait for the hardware I've ordered first and examine the fitting before ordering a handle - I note that your mechanism could use virtually any handle but I don't think that's the case with the Union equipment (from what I can see the locking mechanism has to be in the door handle and none is provided in the bar fitting).

Thanks again

Mark