How To Build A Sliding Fence Door

I ve been meaning to rebuild one of my wooden fence gates that is over 12 years old.

How to build a sliding fence door.

I decided to design my own. For both practical reasons and convenience. Size of sliding gate. Place the batter boards just beyond where your fence corners will be located and run strings between them.

I grew up working with my hands building fence. Drill a pilot hole and drive an additional screw through the picket and into the crosspiece. The strings help you line up the posts. Aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate.

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 sliding gate would have been valued at 5000 if a gate company was to build it. Mark the layout using string and batter boards. It was delivered in queenscliff in victoria.

A simple demonstration of how to build a wooden fence gate using pressure treated lumber and stainless steel hinges. That would hold the gate closed. Drill two pilot holes through the top and bottom of the picket and into the frame. I have a family me.

Keep the strings 6 inches off of your property line. I had no trouble obtaining most of the hardware from any number of fence and gate companies apart from a suitable latch. My father owned a custom fence company for over 30 years. We always set the gate posts and corner posts with concrete so over time the fence doesn t drift and move out of alignment.

See how i built a 12 foot wooden gate that won t sag. Using a drill driver drive 1 inch screws through the pilot holes and into the frame. 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.

Repeat to attach the picket at the opposite end of the frame.