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How to install a DIY Gate Frame
Step One
Place 2 spacers under the gate. The arrows show the required gap under the gate. Normally, we use 50mm spacers.
Step Two
Bring the DIY gate frame to the middle, making sure that there is equal space on both sides.
Step Three
Hint: Make a spacer, approximately 10mm high, or larger, depending on the size of the gap, and use sticky tape to fix it to the frame, to hold it in place while you’re installing.
Attaching the hinges:
When attaching hinges, try to use only one hole, at first, in each hinge, before securing all the others! This helps if you need to straighten or move the hinge up or down, if you got it wrong.
When attaching hinges, try to use only one hole, at first, in each hinge, before securing all the others! This helps if you need to straighten or move the hinge up or down, if you got it wrong.
Last minute sag:
If everything looks great when you line up the gate, and when you attach the screws, but afterwards, when you stand back and look at your work, you notice it’s moved, then it means you’ve incorrectly screwed the fastener in the middle. Opening and closing the gate a couple of times will pull the hinge hard against the fastener, and the gate will start to lean over!
If everything looks great when you line up the gate, and when you attach the screws, but afterwards, when you stand back and look at your work, you notice it’s moved, then it means you’ve incorrectly screwed the fastener in the middle. Opening and closing the gate a couple of times will pull the hinge hard against the fastener, and the gate will start to lean over!
Pull of the Gate
Try drilling the fasteners close to the other side, because this anchors the hinges exactly where you want them. If you don’t drill them properly, the weight of the gate will cause the hinges to move!
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Cracking the gate:
If your gate doesn’t close perfectly, and there’s a gap on either the top or bottom, then maybe it’s not a gate problem, but a hinge problem! If your hinge posts are out of alignment, you can twist the gate frame before attaching the timber, so it aligns perfectly, when closed, with the catching post.
If your gate doesn’t close perfectly, and there’s a gap on either the top or bottom, then maybe it’s not a gate problem, but a hinge problem! If your hinge posts are out of alignment, you can twist the gate frame before attaching the timber, so it aligns perfectly, when closed, with the catching post.
The catching post is the post to which the gate will latch on to.
Gate Frame
Push or pull here
Place a block of timber here
Tip:
This is one thing I’ve done for years, and I recommend you do the same! I always grind a flat strip on the pin of the hinge, and I place grease on this area! This helps hold the grease in place, and every time the gate swings, a thin layer of grease is applied to the hinge, so this acts like a self lubrication system!
This is one thing I’ve done for years, and I recommend you do the same! I always grind a flat strip on the pin of the hinge, and I place grease on this area! This helps hold the grease in place, and every time the gate swings, a thin layer of grease is applied to the hinge, so this acts like a self lubrication system!
Grind Here
Looking at the hinge side
How to install a Swing Gate
Apply grease
after grinding
after grinding
The grease is stored on the flat surface you grind and each time the gate is opened and closed it wipes a thin layer of grease keeping the gate swinging like new.
Tip
If you can drill, or attach, holes 3 and 4 while the gate frame is in an open position, this will automatically straighten the hinges.
Holes 5 and 6 are the last holes you should secure.
If you can drill, or attach, holes 3 and 4 while the gate frame is in an open position, this will automatically straighten the hinges.
Holes 5 and 6 are the last holes you should secure.
