Making A Garden Fence Gate

You can purchase a gate for your wire fence but with a little work you can also save some money by building your own.

Making a garden fence gate. Print this project im going to show you how to make a simple timber picket gate in 30 minutes or so. When youre ready to build the gate youll want to make a frame out of 2 by 4 boards cut to the appropriate lengths then install slats or pickets to. How to make a picket fence gate in about 30 minutes. The process to build and install a custom fence gate is straightforward.

Additionally before you start the project make sure to contact your local or national utility location service so you know where to dig safely. Next cut angled cross braces and attach them to the top and bottom planks so they look like an x across your gate. Thanks for checking it out. 10 gorgeous garden gates youll want to copy.

Finish by cutting flat. More about seamster this instructable covers how i built a simple wooden fence with locking gate. The dimensions of the gate frame must be determined based of the gate opening area. To build a wooden gate start by measuring your gate opening and cutting top bottom and side planks that are slightly smaller than the opening.

When we originally started our garden 2 years ago we just wanted to grow a lot of food for our family in a really small area. Then use deck screws to attach the top and bottom planks to the side planks making sure its square. Gate wise unless you include hanging a sheet of plywood as a gate this is the simplest gate you could possibly make as its just a legged and braced gate there are no awkward joints to cut. Once we had achieved that we started looking at ways to make that space more beautiful.

To make a fence gate youll need to start by installing a pair of posts to support the gate. First we enclosed the entire garden with 8 foot mesh 1 inch square mesh because the deer and rabbits got most of our fall garden. Find and save ideas about garden fences on pinterest. I got an old sewing machine when i was just a kid and ive been hooked on making stuff ever since.

More by the author. Ive been meaning to rebuild one of my wooden fence gates that is over 12 years old. A square 2 x 4 frame is constructed out. The gate is essentially a braced rectangle with the wire mesh attached over it.

If you need to fence in an area for a garden or a small animal enclosure an inexpensive and easy to build wire mesh fence may be your best option. My name is sam and im a community manager here at instructables. The sag was so great that the gate wouldnt latch two days later and by the end of the week the gate had sagged into a complete parallelogram that no longer fit between the gate posts. Build a wooden fence and gate.