Having conceived the construction of any type of fencing for your country house or during the construction of such an object as a car garage, in any case, the question arises of how to make the gate your own efforts.
Types of gates
Before you start purchasing various materials necessary for further construction, as well as starting the work itself, it is very important to understand in general whether you want sliding gates, do-it-yourself sliding gates quickly, or some other kind.
If you do not pay timely attention to all the various important details and thus choose a not so good design, you can unfortunately doom yourself to additional not only financial, but also time costs
One of the simplest options, which in practice is most often seen in a country house, is a swing gate with an additional built-in gate or right next to it.
This design of the gate consists primarily of two pillars. The gates of the gate, as well as the gates themselves, are mounted on hinges welded to the support posts.
Depending on the wishes of the owners of the house and the advice of the builders, they are sometimes fixed to the inside of the support, and sometimes to the outside. Actually in the future, this will affect how the gate leaves open - outward / inward.
Very often, if you look at the photo of the gates, you can see that they are made entirely of high quality wood. An important point that you should pay attention to: when creating the sashes, they should in no case be too massive. Otherwise, the load on the installed hinges and the support posts themselves will be too large.
You should always remember that parts for suspension in size, as well as in strength properties, should ideally correspond to the weight of the selected wings.
Despite the fact that this design has a huge number of very different advantages, unlike many others, it also has its drawbacks. For example, over time, the tilting of the pillars may occur, or, which also happens quite often, the sagging of the wings.
However, it should be borne in mind that such shortcomings can only occur in one case - if the installation technology was initially violated or if the weight of the leaves was incorrectly calculated.
Advantages of Sliding Gates
In the last few years, sliding gates have become especially popular. In principle, drawings of such gates can be found in the public domain on virtually any resource. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they have a subdivision into several subspecies and it is primarily necessary to choose depending on specific conditions.
It should be borne in mind that this option is suitable only if there is sufficient space along the fence that has been installed. Otherwise, when opened, the movable sash will simply not be able to move.
Thinking of making sliding gates, it should be borne in mind that their installation is somewhat more complicated than, for example, at a swing type gate. When installing this popular type of gate, on the sides of the driveway, rather bulky posts directly from white or red bricks are most often installed.
They are subsequently mounted on rollers. They support latches, and also brackets.
Lifting gates
This is ideal for later equipping them, for example, a garage.If you select the ideal protection in the form of a gate for closed access to the courtyard of the house, then this type of gate is not suitable because it limits the height.
At the same time, such gates should always be quite simple to open and, accordingly, be closed by slightly lifting and then moving the entire leaf sharply up to an even horizontal position.
Most often, the canvas for this type of gate is created from metal, which is subsequently sheathed either with high-quality wood, or any other material.
In any case, it is necessary to proceed to the installation of the gate only after absolutely all drawings and instructions have been studied in detail. Only then materials that may be needed are prepared and the structure is assembled.
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