How To Fix A Gate Door

A simple tension line and turnbuckle between the corners lif.

How to fix a gate door. In this video i show why the gate is sagging and how to fix it. This is just a quick video showing how to fix a sagging gate. The problem must be pretty common because someone has already packaged and marketed a repair kit for exactly that purpose. How to install an anti sagging gate kit to keep a wooden gate on a fence from rubbing on ground.

If you d like to cosmetically fix the scars left in the old screw locations you can fill the holes with wood putty. When your gate sags and drags you need to repair it. A sagging wooden gate is a nuisance at best and can at some point become impossible to open. This is just a quick video showing how to fix a sagging gate.

This old house landscape contractor roger cook fixes a sagging damaged gate. It is a simple repair but takes some tim. The high tech solution is a hydraulic gate closer which gently pulls the gate shut and stops it at the right point. Slide the hinge right to left until the gate is plumb.

And finally when a gate swings too far that means the hinges are loose. The kit contains metal corner brackets cable and cable fittings and a turnbuckle. Installing an anti sag gate kit pulls that low corner up and toward the upper hinge to square the gate so it hangs straight. Wood gates always drop down toward the bottom corner opposite the hinges so that the gate is no longer square.

The low tech solution is to screw a 1 2 or 2 4 stop to the gatepost so the gate stops when it s flush with the fence.