Thread: Panel side gate sagging

Originally Posted by Col

The proper way to make a ledge and braced gate. Braces notched to rails. Otherwise the fixings are doing the bracing and once timber dries out and weight of the the timber in the gate stresses the fixings they will loosen.

Col

Yes that would definitely be much much more stable. Sadly I've never see one in practice.

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Originally Posted by DaveVman

Yes that would definitely be much much more stable. Sadly I've never see one in practice.

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I made many of these years ago. Site sheds had these doors before modern aluminium site sheds came about and around the wharves in Melbourne the dockside toilets had these doors. if out of the weather the rails were square edged but those likely to be in the weather the rails were beveled at the top edge for rain to run off and all boards were painted together usually with red lead paint. Some I made were screwed together and some were nailed through with the points of the nails bent over or clenched and punched in below the surface to lock the facing boards to the rails and braces. The notch was marked out using the angle on the end of the sliding bevel gauge rule. The good old days......When I had a job........

Col
Lara

Col,

That drawing brings back memories....looks exactly like the back of our old Dunny door when we used to have the timber "thunderboxes" in the backyard in Brissie.

Originally Posted by skot

Col,

That drawing brings back memories....looks exactly like the back of our old Dunny door when we used to have the timber "thunderboxes" in the backyard in Brissie.

The only memory of our outback dunny, other than the pong, was pinching my bum in the cracked wooden seat.

Col.