Making A Timber Garden Gate

Making a timber gate yourself rather than buying one readymade or hiring a tradie can save you money as long as you know what you re doing.

Making a timber garden gate.

If it is wider you must make and hang two gates which will meet in the middle. Generally a side gate or garden gate is about 1800mm 6ft high. When you decide to build a wooden gate you ll need to keep a few things in mind the first is what your intended purpose is. The gate i m going to show you how to make is a through wedged morticed and tenon jointed gate with a flat top gate with protruding joggles the pointy bits on the top corners.

Make sure the fence posts can support a gate if you already have a fence. This job is a whole lot easier than you might imagine form the price of gates at garden centres and diy sheds. A gate is the perfect finishing touch to a garden as well as improving safety and privacy. This project explains how you can make ledge and brace gate or garden door starting with the timber.

A side gate or garden gate is usually placed to protect certain areas and or to keep kids or pets in intruders or animals out or even just for privacy. Design and hardware are what make a wooden gate operate well for decades. The key is understanding a few basics about gate building and you can build any design gate you want. These instructions can be adapted for construction of custom hidden panel lattice or driveway gates.

The gate shown is open boarded you can see through it and is 915mm high to the top of the joggles 850mm to the top of the top rail and 750mm wide x 70mm thick. You may want a purely decorative gate perhaps to act as an arbor framing your walkway or a more secure gate that provides access to the yard through a fence. Measure the entry at the top and bottom as they can easily be different. Building a garden gate is a fantastic diy project.

Make a diy arbor style garden gate like numbers 2 3 4 and 9 with this step by step diy garden arbor post from smartgirls diy. As with all outside lumber any of the framing wood. Depending on the size you can prevent someone from seeing or accessing your yard with solid wood panel. The size of the gate should not be greater than 4 1 22 m in width.