How To Build A Sliding Gate Door

Use a straightedge to mark a centerline down the door s two inset panels.

How to build a sliding gate door.

6installing the gate and making the end stop. The other problem with sliding doors is that they re trickier to seal. But if you want a door that s easy to build and install easy to operate and doesn t take up much space then it s hard to beat sliding doors. Line the panels up side by side and mark were you want to trim them to length.

We cut them to length using the miter saw. That will allow the plywood to fit into the 4 by 6 foot wooden frame. Make a steel tubing fence gate from making the frame to complete welding. Use a pencil to mark where the hinge should go on the post and then put the gate down.

Posted on august 20 2009. If you re worried about bugs or small creatures getting into the shed consider hinged doors instead. We inserted the panels into the door centering the panels in the opening. Jeff gorton.

How to make a sliding gate. 3preparing the grade for the track. Install hinges and attach the gate to the fence. Then we drilled a couterbore and held the panels in place with a fender washer and a 1 kreg screw.

Starting at the top rail butt the mitered ends of two pieces of similar thickness and color together at the centerline forming an arrow. 4installing the track and measuring the gate height. After the hole has been dug pour a few inches of gravel in the hole to help with drainage. How to make a sliding gate step 1 use a tape measure pencil and circular saw to mark and cut a piece of plywood 45 inches tall and 69 inches long.

Put the gate into place supporting it on the bottom with a 2x4 1 5 inch off ground. Prop up the gate and screw the hinges into the gate and attach the hinges to the post. Once the joinery is assembled with glue and screws attach the deckboards to the frame hang the finished gate with heavy duty gate hinges and swing the door open to let in the fun. 2the gate plan wheels and the latch design.

Set the post into the hole and fill in around it with concrete. So if the post is 4 inches wide the hole should be no less than 10 inches wide. 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 aug 16 2013 introduction time to replace the double hinged driveway gates with a single sliding gate.