My nephew Darragh had a light-bulb go off a couple of days ago and suggested using a bolt he had to lock our shed door open. I said ‘sure, go for it,’ thinking to myself that it seemed a fairly obvious idea.
Thing is, the way that door would bang if it was left open had irritated me for weeks, and I was constantly crossing the yard to close it, so the idea obviously wasn’t that obvious.
Protip: Darragh realised afterwards that he put the bolt too close to the edge of the door; now you can’t turn the bolt’s cross arm to the left or it stops the door from closing. Something to bear in mind if you’re doing this yourself. If you fix the bolt three inches or eight centimetres from the edge you can turn the cross arm either way.
