Any tips on fabricating a wooden gate for a deck from ACQ lumber? How would you keep it from sagging and corner/joints loosing up?
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There are all kinds of ideas. But what kind of design are you looking for and how big of a gate.
easiest way is simple flat frame with "L" brackets and angle piece going from bottom hinge to top opposite corner. so it looks like a rectangle with a "Z" in it. then boards are face nailed to outside of frame. pretty basic but works.
designs are limited only by ones imagination though, and depend somewhat on what the fence looks like.
some heavy gates will have a turn buckle to prevent or fix sags. they run from lower corner opposite hinge side up to the top hinge side. the great thing about them is that they can be tightened when and if the gate ever sags. and they actually work very well.
Simpson make a varity of hardware to do just wahat you want..
available at the BB's everywhere..
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with ACQ, you are goingto have to use hardware and or diagonal braces.
I make gates that don't sag with red cedar and clear firusing lock joints and good glue or epoxy, but tht is not posssible with the CQ PT because the SYPi s an unstable wood and it will shrink and move, busting the joints apart,
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I built a couple of under-deck doors out of redwood, with frames lap-joint glued together with resorcinol. Granted they're relatively sheltered, but they've held up fine for about 20 years, and, though I put turnbuckles on them, they're still hanging loose.
Built a couple of pt gates for a fence last year (both about 3'-0" wide, enough to get the mower in and out). I set the latches high enough that the gates can be supported by them when they're closed. That way they're supported on both sides, rather than one side where they pull continually on the hinges. It means lifting up slightly to close them, but not a big deal.
Also devised a way with one of the gates so it sets into the fence when fully opened and is supported by the fence itself. Has worked well so far.
I used hinges that have a sleeve on gate and a pin on the post so that it can float up or down and a wheel on other edge. Has worked well so far.