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Gate for less than $100.

Posted on 09/08/2009 by John

This isn’t a tutorial on building a gate. Its just my experience.

A few months ago I had a roller door installed. I thought about options for a gate because, its a bit weird having a roller door then next to it a big open area.
I thought it would probably cheaper if I build something myself. After a few hours of work with my dad one weekend we had one together and installed.

The gate consisted of:

- 7 wooden panels
- 1 thick wooden post
- 1 thin wooden post
- 1 Stirrup
- 1 Cement bolt
- 2 Post bolts
- Wood screws
- 4 Wood to metal screws
- 1 Tube Liquid nails
- 1 Lock

We first started by attaching drilling the hole for the cement bolt. I can’t remember what its called but its one that when you tighten the bolt part
it expands locking it in place. The 1st one we bought didn’t work too well. So back to the hardware store looking for other options. There was one with a different
design. This one worked and locked the stirrup in place.
This part of the house possibly has an asbestos external paneling so I didn’t want to drill into it. Instead we ran a line of liquid nails and pushed the post hard up
against the wall.
It was only really to hold it there until we got the top brace in place anyway.
Mounting the other side was easier. It was simple to drill through the wood into the metal frame of the carport, then to mount using the special wood to metal screws.

Next was the gate itself.

This was a simple task of laying out the panels to the required width. Then we cut another two pannels to the width of the gate for the braces.
The next step was to screw it all together. We now had panels all screwed together with a Z shaped bracing.
There were a few small offcuts, with one of these offcuts we screwed it to the back of the gate where the lock was to go.
The paneling was about 1cm thick which was not thick enough to handle the lock.

The last part of the project was to mount the hinges, then hang the gate and attach the lock.

If you do this project yourself, ensure you get a lock that goes the right direction, or is reversible. The lock I got was reversible but it was
a lot of fiddling around trying to put it back together.

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Location:	Kenya, Eldoret
Activity:	Farming

Gate for less than $100.

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