How To Build A Sliding Fence Door

I had no trouble obtaining most of the hardware from any number of fence and gate companies apart from a suitable latch.

How to build a sliding fence door.

It was delivered in queenscliff in victoria. See how i built a 12 foot wooden gate that won t sag. 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. Aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate.

I decided to design my own. Drill a pilot hole and drive an additional screw through the picket and into the crosspiece. Mark the layout using string and batter boards. We always set the gate posts and corner posts with concrete so over time the fence doesn t drift and move out of alignment.

A simple demonstration of how to build a wooden fence gate using pressure treated lumber and stainless steel hinges. Size of sliding gate. When it comes to the order in which you build start with the fence first. For both practical reasons and convenience.

I grew up working with my hands building fence. My father owned a custom fence company for over 30 years. I ve been meaning to rebuild one of my wooden fence gates that is over 12 years old. Place the batter boards just beyond where your fence corners will be located and run strings between them.

Repeat to attach the picket at the opposite end of the frame. The strings help you line up the posts. Keep the strings 6 inches off of your property line. 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.

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

That would hold the gate closed.