How To Build A Sliding Fence Door

Aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate.

How to build a sliding fence door.

Keep the strings 6 inches off of your property line. I decided to design my own. I ve been meaning to rebuild one of my wooden fence gates that is over 12 years old. I have a family me.

Place the batter boards just beyond where your fence corners will be located and run strings between them. For both practical reasons and convenience. Using a drill driver drive 1 inch screws through the pilot holes and into the frame. My father owned a custom fence company for over 30 years.

It was delivered in queenscliff in victoria. Mark the layout using string and batter boards. That would hold the gate closed. A simple demonstration of how to build a wooden fence gate using pressure treated lumber and stainless steel hinges.

Drill two pilot holes through the top and bottom of the picket and into the frame. The strings help you line up the posts. When it comes to the order in which you build start with the fence first. 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 grew up working with my hands building fence. 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 always set the gate posts and corner posts with concrete so over time the fence doesn t drift and move out of alignment. This fence gate opens into the yard with.

Drill a pilot hole and drive an additional screw through the picket and into the crosspiece. Repeat to attach the picket at the opposite end of the frame. Size of sliding gate. I had no trouble obtaining most of the hardware from any number of fence and gate companies apart from a suitable latch.

This sliding gate would have been valued at 5000 if a gate company was to build it.