Wood Driveway Gates In Los Angeles? Fantabulous!
August 11, 2011
I'll be focusing on wooden driveway swing gates for this article.
Building large wood driveway gates that perform as expected is a test of engineering skill as well as building skill and experience. There are weak links that must be solved by your builder; not many wood fence builders have this mastered yet. The devil is in the details of the wood driveway gate designs. Let's look at a few of these.
First there's the hinge post or posts if it's a double swinger wood driveway gate. The post must be more than strong enough to do the work that you'll be asking of it, obviously. What is that work? Well, it's holding up the gate for as many years as possible without bending or failing and breaking. Most wood fence builders haven't figured this one out yet! As a result their "solutions" include: steel hinge posts, too shallow of holes for the post, extending the posts too high in order to rig a cross-member to hold them apart which keeps them from bending, extraneous and unnecessary diagonal cables, support wheels for the gate to roll on, or just giving up and telling the customer that they must rest against each other while in the closed position! OMG, statements of admitted disqualification! I have personally solved the wood driveway gate hinge post issue, that answer is detailed and photographed in an earlier article in this BLOG!
You want your driveway gates to stay in alignment, not sag, not fall apart. You want them to perform and last like you know they can, provided they're built correctly! I know this. I build them correctly. I started with the attitude that this design challenge CAN be solved. And I solved it, wasn't too difficult.
There are a few other factors or components of the design and build that must be taken into consideration since they all work together in concert, or not if you cheap out and get a crappy builder! Sorry but this is the truth and I believe you do want to know, right? Is wood driveway gate construction an art? Sure why not!
The hinges have to be strong enough, and you need enough of them. This of course is relative to the size, weight and other factors of the gate itself, its location and expected service repetitions.
This actually gets somewhat intricate overall because the details seem to have children right before your eyes, and they all keep demanding to be amply solved. These include the lag bolts for the hinges: What type, brand? How many? How big? How strong? Then there's the frame! On heavy gates I've had to really get creative! But I solved it by coming up with and building custom wood and metal driveway gates specially designed for the job! Even the fasteners that I use for the gate frame contribute to the difference between my builds that you can count on, and the built-to-fail gates constructed by hopeful-but-unsure builders hurrying for your check! "Build-it-and-run" is what I call them! Why? They run so they're gone and paid when you discover they gave you a crappy build.
Every gate that I build is a custom gate. It's custom built specifically for its unique situation and circumstances. I climb on and swing on my gates to test them to make sure they're good enough. Anybody else do that? I don't think so. Custom wood driveway gates yes! Cheap wood driveway gates no! How about electric wood driveway gates? How about 100% solar powered automatic wood driveway gates? That would be a definite "Yes!" to both.
To call them wood fence driveway gates just doesn't do them justice in my opinion. In my online albums are several photos of wood driveway gates that I've built! There are both horizontal and vertical designs. If you've got a custom concept call me and I will build it right!
Call, text or email me for a quote.
I'll be focusing on wooden driveway swing gates for this article.
Building large wood driveway gates that perform as expected is a test of engineering skill as well as building skill and experience. There are weak links that must be solved by your builder; not many wood fence builders have this mastered yet. The devil is in the details of the wood driveway gate designs. Let's look at a few of these.
First there's the hinge post or posts if it's a double swinger wood driveway gate. The post must be more than strong enough to do the work that you'll be asking of it, obviously. What is that work? Well, it's holding up the gate for as many years as possible without bending or failing and breaking. Most wood fence builders haven't figured this one out yet! As a result their "solutions" include: steel hinge posts, too shallow of holes for the post, extending the posts too high in order to rig a cross-member to hold them apart which keeps them from bending, extraneous and unnecessary diagonal cables, support wheels for the gate to roll on, or just giving up and telling the customer that they must rest against each other while in the closed position! OMG, statements of admitted disqualification! I have personally solved the wood driveway gate hinge post issue, that answer is detailed and photographed in an earlier article in this BLOG!
You want your driveway gates to stay in alignment, not sag, not fall apart. You want them to perform and last like you know they can, provided they're built correctly! I know this. I build them correctly. I started with the attitude that this design challenge CAN be solved. And I solved it, wasn't too difficult.
There are a few other factors or components of the design and build that must be taken into consideration since they all work together in concert, or not if you cheap out and get a crappy builder! Sorry but this is the truth and I believe you do want to know, right? Is wood driveway gate construction an art? Sure why not!
The hinges have to be strong enough, and you need enough of them. This of course is relative to the size, weight and other factors of the gate itself, its location and expected service repetitions.
This actually gets somewhat intricate overall because the details seem to have children right before your eyes, and they all keep demanding to be amply solved. These include the lag bolts for the hinges: What type, brand? How many? How big? How strong? Then there's the frame! On heavy gates I've had to really get creative! But I solved it by coming up with and building custom wood and metal driveway gates specially designed for the job! Even the fasteners that I use for the gate frame contribute to the difference between my builds that you can count on, and the built-to-fail gates constructed by hopeful-but-unsure builders hurrying for your check! "Build-it-and-run" is what I call them! Why? They run so they're gone and paid when you discover they gave you a crappy build.
Every gate that I build is a custom gate. It's custom built specifically for its unique situation and circumstances. I climb on and swing on my gates to test them to make sure they're good enough. Anybody else do that? I don't think so. Custom wood driveway gates yes! Cheap wood driveway gates no! How about electric wood driveway gates? How about 100% solar powered automatic wood driveway gates? That would be a definite "Yes!" to both.
To call them wood fence driveway gates just doesn't do them justice in my opinion. In my online albums are several photos of wood driveway gates that I've built! There are both horizontal and vertical designs. If you've got a custom concept call me and I will build it right!
Remember:
"Save Money-Do It Now. Don't Wait For Price Increases."
Call, text or email me for a quote.
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