Hi,
I have 2 large cavities at my house. One under the balcony and one under the kitchen. Both were just covered by a piece of old ply.
I am putting a slightly better solution in. I’ve made a frame of 2b2 and will screw into the concrete/bricks so the opening to the cavity has a wooden frame. I am cutting a sheet of 6mm MDF to cover this and putting hinges on it so it’s a door of sorts to keep the rain/cats/opportunistic thieves out (I know 6mm MDF isn’t much of a deterrent but it’s going to take at least some tools and effort to get it open as I will be padlocking it shut). After all, windows are easily broken if someone’s determined!)
Anyway, the hinges will be fastened by screws into the frame and into the MDF - but the screws are like 20mm so will be miles through the board. Do I use bolts instead? If so, can I get bolts which are hard to unscrew from the outside? I have seen kind of bolts with domes on them for this purpose but don’t know what they are called.
Or do I just screw through with the screws and then cut off the excess with a hacksaw (seems like a bad job that)
Anyway, help appreciated!
thanjs
I have 2 large cavities at my house. One under the balcony and one under the kitchen. Both were just covered by a piece of old ply.
I am putting a slightly better solution in. I’ve made a frame of 2b2 and will screw into the concrete/bricks so the opening to the cavity has a wooden frame. I am cutting a sheet of 6mm MDF to cover this and putting hinges on it so it’s a door of sorts to keep the rain/cats/opportunistic thieves out (I know 6mm MDF isn’t much of a deterrent but it’s going to take at least some tools and effort to get it open as I will be padlocking it shut). After all, windows are easily broken if someone’s determined!)
Anyway, the hinges will be fastened by screws into the frame and into the MDF - but the screws are like 20mm so will be miles through the board. Do I use bolts instead? If so, can I get bolts which are hard to unscrew from the outside? I have seen kind of bolts with domes on them for this purpose but don’t know what they are called.
Or do I just screw through with the screws and then cut off the excess with a hacksaw (seems like a bad job that)
Anyway, help appreciated!
thanjs