Entrance gates: how to choose the best option

The material: features sliding and swing gates, to determine the optimal width of the structures, the choice of material filled wings

Today the market offers a different entrance gates: simple and modern without automation, which are opened and closed using the remote control. The gate can be welded or assembled. To fill the valves offered a variety of different materials. To choose the best for your site gates, read our article, in which we, together with the leading marketing specialist of "Alutech Door Systems" Roman Kostyuchikom, answers to pressing questions.

Content:

• The main elements of swing and sliding gates
• The choice of structural elements
• Calculation of the width of the opening
• Which gate is more durable

Elements of the entrance gate

Before you buy or make your own gate for a country house, it is necessary to deal with them constructive. So you will understand the principle of work of the gate and make an informed choice. In the photo below - the scheme hinged gate.

Depending on the design of swing gates, doors open to the outside - on the street, or inside - the courtyard. Filling the wings also varies. This may be a steel sheet, a tree or a more modern and durable materials: extruded profiles, sandwich panels or Rolled profiles.

Swing gates are attached to the posts by means of hinges. To open the gate smoothly and without squeaking, it is better to use a modern version of the loops - three-section.

Now consider sliding gates.

Classic sliding door - a self-supporting structure. At the base of the gate - tire, which moves by means of roller bearings (manually) or the drive (automatic). Cloth sliding gates, as well as swing, may have a different filling - shaped sheet, board, and Rolled aluminum profiles, sandwich panels, etc...

Advantages and disadvantages of hinged and sliding gates

The first thing thinks the owner of a country house, choosing the entrance gates, - what kind of design is better. Consider FORUMHOUSE user questions.

PDP

user FORUMHOUSE

As I understand it, the pros sliding gates - almost do not need to clean the snow. They take up less space on the site, they will not warp, as the swing. But the swing, like cheaper. Prompt, which gate is better?

According to the participants of the portal eglis, swing gates safer than sliding. They require virtually no maintenance. They are easier to deliver automation systems.

Andrei-AA

user FORUMHOUSE

To open the swinging doors in the winter, it is necessary to remove the snow. I will remodel at the gates recoiling. Snow bothered to clean.

As you can see, opinions are divided. How to proceed?

Roman Kostyuchik

And swing and sliding gates are reliable and safe, provided that they are properly installed. But each type of gate has its own peculiarities. For operating swing gates, t. To. Their doors open outwards or inwards, requires more space. Sliding door moving along the fence. Accordingly, it is not required to clean the snow to open the valves, thus saving valuable land area.

The optimum width of the entrance gate

The second issue of interest to developers: what should be the width of the opening to install the gate.

Alexeey2010

user FORUMHOUSE

Advise the optimal width of the opening at the gate. If you make 3500 mm, to be convenient to use them?

taneko

Participant FORUMHOUSE

It seems to me that the 350 cm - this is the standard size for the gate. Let us make us a span check under cars.

And here YunyyStroitel It is going to make a five-meter gate. Why? If you leave the aperture 3500 mm, taking into account that the road to the site is narrow, the machine will have to be rotated at an angle, and the truck does not will call.

Roman Kostyuchik

The standard width of the opening for the gate - 4 m Modern manufacturers offer a gate that closes the openings of a width of 5 m, but there are times when you need the gate lesser or greater width... Select gates for a specific portion more convenient if the manufacturer can make the design with a pitch of 5 mm in height and width.

By the way, to cover a wide aperture (9 meters), you can put a counter sliding doors.

On the optimum size of the gate is largely influenced by the width of the access road and the dimensions of the equipment. For example, the width KAMAZa - 2500 mm excluding the mirror. If the truck will stop off at the station in a straight line, it is sufficient and three-meter gates. If the width of the access road less than four meters, the truck would have to drive into the gates at an angle. Therefore, in some cases, not enough for a five-meter wide.

121353

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Plus a large gate - they are convenient to call in the winter, especially if a number of passes deep drainage ditch. It is very frustrating when one wheel of a car in her failed and the car got stuck. Well, if the neighbors together and pull out, and if not, what do you do?

The material from which to make the entrance gate

Usually when it comes to what the gates put in the user's head there is a picture - construction welded from metal with a corrugated steel sheeting filling.

dyrkin

user FORUMHOUSE

I decided to make the gate width of five meters. They and ZILok and KAMAZ will pass. But confuses the problem of sagging folds. I want to make the gate of the metal profile independently of the pipe section of 3x6 cm, with a wall thickness of 3 mm.

But does this justify the decision? After all, technology is not standing still. If you can buy ready-made modern gates, which are collected by the principle of design, have more than 20 options for filling the valves and operation period of not less than 15 years.

Roman Kostyuchik

When choosing a ready-gate payattention to the type of design: the team or welded, as well as the material of manufacture. Door without welds, made of aluminum, more reliable, ie. K. They, unlike steel, do not rust. This is important because the gates are all year round in the open and exposed to the negative effects of rain and snow.High-quality entrance gatepainted wear-resistant paint, do not fade in the sun. I should add that the leaf swing gates is better to hang on the pole with the help of three-section of overhead loops. This eliminates the likelihood of sagging.

Cloth finished gate can be filled:

• extruded aluminum profiles;
• sandwich panels;
• Rolling profiles;
• wood, metallic profiled sheet or mesh.

These materials can be combined with each other, creating unique solutions.

Another advantage of modular aluminum gate - you can replace one type of filling on the other, promptly repair the damage, without dismantling and without dismantling the whole structure if necessary.

conclusions

By choosing an entry group should be taken responsibly. After all, the goal - is the calling card of the house. Before you order a product, you should weigh the pros and cons of different types of doors, calculate the optimal size of its section, to determine the kind of control (automatic or manual), to pick up the filling canvases. It is also important to remember that the gates should be in harmony with the facade of the house and roof, garage doors, shutters and other exterior elements.

To make an informed choice on the basis of practical experience, we recommend you to study the topic, what to choose - sliding or hinged doors? and read the article - how to make cheap sliding doors with their hands.

In the video - choice of the nuances and the installation of automatic sliding gates.

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