Garden Bench

[missprim]

Have just bought a garden bench, hope I get to use it !! My garden is quite open, not very private and I am worried that someone my take a fancy to my bench and have it away. What can I do to secure my bench so no-one can carry it away?

[carlton23]

If it has four legs, dig holes in situ and pour in some fast setting concrete.

[landscaper2]

You can get galvanised L shaped brackets that are screwed to the legs and slabs/concrete base.

[B00]

Is fancying benches and having carnal knowledge of 'em prevailant where you live then?

[carlton23]

Boo, lol

[carrust]

Boo. It is in Norfolk.LOL

[redman41]

Three little old ladies, sitting on a park bench.The town flasher comes by and shows them his ALL!The first little old lady had a huge stroke. The second little old lady had a little stroke. The third little old lady would have had astroke................but her arms weren't quite long enough.

[Clanad]

Rather than the effort of digging holes for the concrete see if your local DIY store has what we here in the U.S. would call steel fence posts. You can get them (at least here) in different lengths. The best for you would be 18 to 24 inches. They're a dark green in color and have a series of small holes thorugh the upper portion. Drive one or two with a hammer into the ground next to one or two of the legs of your bench (dependent on how much security you need). Then drill a 1/4 inch hole through the bench leg and insert a 1/4 inch bolt through one of the adjacent fence post holes (only about 6 to 8 inches of it should be showing above ground level) and through the fence post. Secure with double nuts and then, using a screw driver and your trusty hammer, damage the threads of the bolt near the tightened nuts. If you measure correctly you could even drive the fence post on the inside of the bench leg to make it less visible... done this several times here, never lost one yet...

[missprim]

Thanks for all your answers but I think I will go with the landscapers idea as it sounds more straight forward and simpler.x

[carlton23]

More costly though. A small bag of redimix is cheaper and less work.

[welshlibranr]

We have ours held down with metal brackets, which are attached to the frame of the bench and then to the concrete slabs, seems to work well, it's been there for a few years now, it's at the front of the house and in full view of the street, it's still there!.....................