How To Build A Sliding Fence Door

Aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate.

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. Keep the strings 6 inches off of your property line. This fence gate opens into the yard with. See how i built a 12 foot wooden gate that won t sag.

Drill a pilot hole and drive an additional screw through the picket and into the crosspiece. A simple demonstration of how to build a wooden fence gate using pressure treated lumber and stainless steel hinges. For both practical reasons and convenience. I had no trouble obtaining most of the hardware from any number of fence and gate companies apart from a suitable latch.

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. I ve been meaning to rebuild one of my wooden fence gates that is over 12 years old. When it comes to the order in which you build start with the fence first.

Using a drill driver drive 1 inch screws through the pilot holes and into the frame. I have a family me. 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. The kit cost 1850 and they saved over 3000 by doing it themselves.

Mark the layout using string and batter boards. It was delivered in queenscliff in victoria. I decided to design my own. We always set the gate posts and corner posts with concrete so over time the fence doesn t drift and move out of alignment.

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. I grew up working with my hands building fence. The strings help you line up the posts. Repeat to attach the picket at the opposite end of the frame.

My father owned a custom fence company for over 30 years.