We make entry: select gate structure

Types of gates for country site: hinged, sliding, folding

How to choose the gate, so that they are comfortable, beautiful and flawlessly served for many years? In this article we consider the features of different types of gates and the experience of their application FORUMHOUSE participants.

Content

• What type of gates suited to your site
• How to determine the parameters of the gate
• The design, the advantages and disadvantages of swing gates;
• The design, the advantages and disadvantages of sliding gates
• Folding doors: how to make your own hands

Types of gates for country sites

Entrance gates are divided into several types depending on the manner in which the flap is opened. In suburban households are the most common:

• swing gates (they are folding or sliding);
• sliding doors (they are sliding);
• folding (they foldingovye).

swing gates

This is a classic entrance gate: swing gates did centuries ago. Over the centuries, their design has not changed much, and the advantages and disadvantages stayed the same.

Edis

Member FORUMHOUSE

How many centuries ago, they are fixed to the fence hinges. The only thing: the loop, under the influence of technological development, is now used bearing, so that the gate go exceptionally soft and the complete absence of the Hinge squeak.

The advantages of swing gates

• easy installation;
• opportunity to the gate;
• you can choose almost any shape and fit nicely into the overall design of the gate area.

Disadvantages swing gates

• "Eat" a lot of space on the site. It is possible to make such gate opening outwardly, but automatic swing gate in most cases open flaps inward portion;
• require constant cleaning of the zone of the action of snow and ice.

Andrei-AA

Member FORUMHOUSE

I now have the old swing. Winter weary batter snow and ice, to open them. Now I plan to only sliding, without the upper beam to the truck passed. And without the lower wheel - and then the snow is almost no need to clean.

Swing gates are suitable for large areas, the dimensions of which allow to open the gate, without inconvenience to drive, park the car and close the shutters without obstacles.

Structurally, the hinged gates are divided into:

• folding;
• single leaf. Single wing gate fit narrow and long sections.

The diagram below shows the swing gate device. The design consists of:

• Supporting pillars;
• Frame folds;
• Filler flaps (wood, corrugated board, sandwich panels, thin sheet steel, and so on. N.)
• loops;
• Stiffeners and bracing;
• A stopper bolt (for fixing the gate), the lock.
• In addition, the mechanism can be set to automatically open.

To support posts are not loose and flaps do not sag, they are placed in a rather solid foundation buried.

Don'ts leaf swing gates with heavy metal, so as not to increase the burden on the supporting columns and loops.

Use the hinged gate will be more convenient if you set tabs:

• at the bottom, in the center of the opening gate - the gate to remain in the closed position.
• spring clamps that do not allow wide open flaps to close spontaneously.

Eglis

Member FORUMHOUSE

It is necessary to provide protection against accidental opening and closing, so that the machine does not crumple or not to pinch your finger.

Loop - an important component of design hinged gate. If they are set correctly, the design is durable and will last a long time. As can accommodate hinges on the doors, shown in the diagram below, but, in any case, would require at least four loops with rod diameter of 12 mm or more.

• to mount hinges was durable to the slats and the poles need to weld the plate thickness of 5-6 mm;
• between the support pillars and gate valves must remain 5-15 mm wide gap;
• loops need to be welded in the opposite direction - then flaps are removed from them.

Member of our portal c nickname DyadyaVovan I did swing gates "on precepts FORUMHOUSE».

DyadyaVovan

Gates wanted to swing, with the ability to subsequently mount the drive to open all year round without any problems. And without the top bridge.

Gates are on a common foundation of tape on it - three brick pillars with internal reinforcement. They are made of proftruby with wood paneling.

DyadyaVovan

The principle is described repeatedly in the forum. Cook solid structure, then cut into two separate flaps.

Sliding gates

Sliding doors consist of a leaf, which moves along the fence on roller guides. This type of gate is popular as well as swing, although it has not an age-old history. And all because of that they can be successfully installed where it is impossible to put the swing gates.

Edis

They are equipped with a special at the base of the profiled beam, moving on two rigidly fixed roller carriage. This system saves space on the site and does not require much attention in the winter.

Sliding doors are recommended wide areas with a deficit of space between the fence and the garage: the main thing that the fence was quite extended and could accommodate the full length of the gate leaf.

hart77

Member FORUMHOUSE

At my dacha complex terrain, narrow street and post prevent the installation of swing gate. The result - a sliding door.

The diagram below shows the sliding gate device designs.

It consists of:

• guide column;
• foundation;
• moving the carriage rollers;
• rack rail;
• rail;
• gate leaf;
• drive.

Advantages of sliding gates

• easily withstand even a very strong wind loads;
• compact, require no free space in front of each other;
• to open the sliding doors in the winter, it is not necessary to clear the snow and break the ice;
• They are comfortable and reliable.

Disadvantages sliding gates

• must be cleaned regularly castors - in the summer of debris from the winter snow;
• it is impossible to install sliding doors, if the fence is no room for cloth rolls back;
• they are significantly more expensive swing.

 lath frames made of wood, corrugated or sheet metal.

Sandwich panels on sliding gates can only be installed in a garage, entrance gate, this material is not recommended.

Sliding doors sliding doors can be divided into three types:

If the width of the opening cantilever gate - four meters, then on either side need six meters of free space.

In a separate article we have collected for you the best examples of sliding gates, made by the participants of our portal.

folding doors

If the site is small, or the gates are provided in its corner, normal sliding or sliding gates put there, but you can make folding. They telescopic flap, consisting of several pieces that fold and open, like an accordion. It is rather expensive gate, so in the private housing construction, they are used infrequently. But they are very reliable, and can be a great way out of a difficult situation.

Ksenia_M

Participant FORUMHOUSE

The narrow road, entrance to the garage on the edge of the area (sliding can not be obtained), the garage is 7.8 meters, swing will not be closed if the machine will be faced with a garage. I ponder the option with folding gate.

Here's how to implement this idea member of our forum with the nickname mednagolov. On a folding structure width of 4 meters 20 centimeters (for the passage of the truck), he stopped, because the gates were provided in the corner of the plot - recoiling was not there to do, would swing open partitioned off the road and lifting - restricted height entry.

​mednagolov

Member FORUMHOUSE

Start by setting columns, thick-walled tube 150, a length of 3 m. Gate leaf height of 1.5 m. Under the gate to the ground clearance of 15 cm.

Setting the pillars of our users gidrourovnya marked out the horizon. Valves made of shaped tubes 25 × 50 mm (horizontal) and 20 × 40 mm (vertical). Baited tack on pillars polutorametrovy vertical tubes. Horizontal welded to the vertical for the entire length of the gate. Spaced at equal parts and weld the remaining vertical tube - to get to the gate frame.

Then welded awnings, boil the whole body (except for the pillars nazhivulek), cut through the grinder proftruby over canopies and cut nazhivulki.

Frame folding doors ready, it remains to fix the decking.

These gates are used for several years and are very pleased with its owner.

conclusions

As you can see, all types of gates have their strengths and weaknesses. And in order to choose the entrance gate, you need to consider:

• their main function;
• terrain: if complex, the hinged gates are not suitable;
• dimensions and configuration houses adjoining portion: spacious portion suitable folding hinged gate, narrow and long - single leaf;
• the location of the gate - in the corner of the plot is better to make folding gates;
• then, as it will be located relative to the gate roads and streets;
• the width of the roadway.

Any type of gates can be automated. Participants FORUMHOUSE install a wide variety of automation systems, from the console to the sensor, which responds to the weight.

In the event of a power outage makes the system razblokiratora emergency gate, so you can open them manually.

On FORUMHOUSE can read more about the different types of gates. Want to do Sliding doors with their hands? This is real! Find out, how to weld hinges to swing gates. Check out the video, which tells about the installation automatic swing gates.

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