How To Build A Sliding Gate Door

Make a steel tubing fence gate from making the frame to complete welding.

How to build a sliding gate door.

The first sharing how to build the barn door and the second will be talking about barn door hardware and installation in our attic family room. This sliding gate would have been valued at 5000 if a gate company was to build it. Diy sliding gate kit includes the sliding gate frame post wheels track and if required a sliding gate motor low voltage kit which can be powered by 12v upto 50 mtrs away. I decided to design my own.

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 aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate. Once the joinery is assembled with glue and screws attach the deckboards to the frame hang the finished gate with heavy duty gate hinges and swing the door open to let in the fun. This is going to be a two part series.

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. We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. Picture below the kit cost 1850 and they saved over 3000 by doing it themselves.