How To Build A Sliding Fence Door

When it comes to the order in which you build start with the fence first.

How to build a sliding fence door.

A simple demonstration of how to build a wooden fence gate using pressure treated lumber and stainless steel hinges. 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. This fence gate opens into the yard with. 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.

Keep the strings 6 inches off of your property line. It was delivered in queenscliff in victoria. See how i built a 12 foot wooden gate that won t sag. The strings help you line up the posts.

We always set the gate posts and corner posts with concrete so over time the fence doesn t drift and move out of alignment. Size of sliding gate. Drill a pilot hole and drive an additional screw through the picket and into the crosspiece. That would hold the gate closed.

Aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate. Repeat to attach the picket at the opposite end of the frame. Drill two pilot holes through the top and bottom of the picket and into the frame. I ve been meaning to rebuild one of my wooden fence gates that is over 12 years old.

I grew up working with my hands building fence. Mark the layout using string and batter boards. Using a drill driver drive 1 inch screws through the pilot holes and into the frame. 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.

I decided to design my own. This sliding gate would have been valued at 5000 if a gate company was to build it. The kit cost 1850 and they saved over 3000 by doing it themselves. Place the batter boards just beyond where your fence corners will be located and run strings between them.

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