How To Build A Fence Gate Door

The frame for a basic wooden fence gate should be a simple box with 4 sides usually somewhat smaller than the gate opening.

How to build a fence gate door. As for the height many local building codes cap fence and gate heights at 6 feet. Depending on the size you can prevent someone from seeing or accessing your yard with solid wood panel. Referencing a sketched diagram of your fence gate to be cut lumber planks for the door size frame and arches and deckboards with their already smoothed and rounded edges for the gate s wood. Joinery is paramount in.

When you decide to build a wooden gate you ll need to keep a few things in mind the first is what your intended purpose is. Check with your local permitting agency about heights and whether you need to obtain a fence building permit. You may want a purely decorative gate perhaps to act as an arbor framing your walkway or a more secure gate that provides access to the yard through a fence. If the swinging gate is stopped against the post only at the latch point it will wrack every time it closes.

Some additional boards were added to the gate and fence posts as needed to hold the hinges i was using. I have a family me. The gate was propped into position and clamped in place with a few paint stirrers acting as temporary shims to provide a little stand off on the hinge side. If you ve got a 3x5 opening in the fence build a 3x4 box out of a weather resistant wood.

For the gate posts use posts 1 5 to 2 times the diameter of the other fence posts and attach them to the nearest fence post using a tensioned wire strung diagonally from the bottom of the gate post to the top of the other post. I ve been meaning to rebuild one of my wooden fence gates that is over 12 years old. These principles are useful for the do it yourself fence builder. See how i built a 12 foot wooden gate that won t sag.