How to build a gate?

avantra

Where can I get free plans to build a wooden side gate to our property? (2m x 1m). Looked on the net and can't find.

BTW, I am trying to put something a bit more decent than few planks nailed together in a Z frame

ormus

wickes sell back gates for approx 40 quid.
roughly 2mx1m.

i cant see you making one for less than that.

olias

avantra wrote: »

Where can I get free plans to build a wooden side gate to our property? (2m x 1m). Looked on the net and can't find.

BTW, I am trying to put something a bit more decent than few planks nailed together in a Z frame

That's how you make a gate!

Olias

Norman_Castle

http://www.diydata.com/projects/build_gate/garden_gates.php

I typed "side gate plans" into google!.

WestonDave

We've got one of the Wickes ones - they are pretty decent kits that give you a number of options (i.e. whether to cut it off to make a round top, or leave it flat, how wide you make it etc). We had to put one in pdq when our house was broken into after the previous side gate disintegrated during a gale. One Sunday afternoon was all it took to get said item from Wickes and put it together with my dad before hanging it.

Ebe_Scrooge

Ditto the above ( we've got 2 ). Very easy to put together for anyone with the slightest amount of DIY experience, which I'm assuming the OP has as they are talking about building one from scratch.