How To Build A Sliding Fence Door

We always set the gate posts and corner posts with concrete so over time the fence doesn t drift and move out of alignment.

How to build a sliding fence door.

Place the batter boards just beyond where your fence corners will be located and run strings between them. Size of sliding gate. Repeat to attach the picket at the opposite end of the frame. See how i built a 12 foot wooden gate that won t sag.

The strings help you line up the posts. 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. My father owned a custom fence company for over 30 years. Using a drill driver drive 1 inch screws through the pilot holes and into the frame.

I decided to design my own. Drill a pilot hole and drive an additional screw through the picket and into the crosspiece. This fence gate opens into the yard with. For both practical reasons and convenience.

The existing gates were only a couple of years old and still worked fine you can see the making of them here but because of an uphill driveway they were. That would hold the gate closed. When it comes to the order in which you build start with the fence first. A simple demonstration of how to build a wooden fence gate using pressure treated lumber and stainless steel hinges.

Gate components apart from the gate i needed a track wheels guide rollers and some sort of latch the locking device on a door or window. I ve been meaning to rebuild one of my wooden fence gates that is over 12 years old. I have a family me. The kit cost 1850 and they saved over 3000 by doing it themselves.

It was delivered in queenscliff in victoria. Drill two pilot holes through the top and bottom of the picket and into the frame. I had no trouble obtaining most of the hardware from any number of fence and gate companies apart from a suitable latch. Aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate.

Mark the layout using string and batter boards.