Timber gates
Timber Pedestrian Gates
A single walk-through gate built from the same palings as the fence, hung on posts sized to carry it.
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Supply & installation
Timber gates
The gate is the part of the fence that moves, so it is the part that has to be built for load. Pedestrian, single, double and driveway gates, made from the same palings as your fence.
Four configurations
Start with the opening
How wide the opening is, and what has to get through it, decides whether you need one leaf or two. Everything else follows from that.
Timber gates
Single Timber Gates
One gate leaf across the opening, built and hung to match the fence it sits in.
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Timber gates
Double Timber Gates
Two leaves meeting in the middle. The usual answer for a wide opening, and easier to hang and keep true than one long leaf.
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Timber gates
Timber Driveway Gates
A vehicle opening in timber, set out so the gates clear the driveway, hold their line and match the fence.
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Which fence is the gate joining?
A gate is made from the same palings, cut to the same height and finished to the same top line as the fence it sits in. Pick the fence and the gate follows.
Treated pine Single Paling gates Pedestrian, single, double and driveway gates built from the same palings.
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Treated pine Lap & Cap gates Gates built lapped and capped so the capping line carries across the opening.
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Treated pine Lapped Only gates Gates built lapped with paling tops finished to the same line.
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Australian hardwood Hardwood Single Paling gates Hardwood gates built to match, with hardware sized for the extra weight.
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What decides a gate
Four things we work out at the measure
01
Opening width
A wide opening on a single leaf puts a lot of leverage on the hinge side. Past a certain width, two leaves are the better answer.
02
Posts
Gate posts carry the weight of the leaf and every swing of it. They are sized and concreted for that load, not treated as ordinary fence posts.
03
Ground and fall
A gate needs clearance to swing without catching. Sloping or uneven ground under the opening changes how the gate is hung and how much gap is left underneath.
04
Which way it swings
Inwards, outwards, and which side the hinges go on all depend on what is behind the opening — a path, a driveway, a step or a garden bed.
Timber gates we have built
Our own work. Tap any photo to see it larger.
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Painted timber double driveway gates with lattice top panels installed across a residential driveway in Sydney
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White painted timber picket double gates installed at the driveway entrance of a Sydney home
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Treated pine timber fence installed along a narrow paved side access path between two Sydney homes
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Treated pine timber fence built along a narrow brick paved laneway at a Sydney property
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Treated pine timber fence enclosing a small courtyard with paved surface at a Sydney property
Timber gate questions
How wide is a timber pedestrian gate?
Wide enough to walk through comfortably, set by the opening it has to serve. The width is measured on site rather than assumed, because side paths vary a lot.
Can a pedestrian gate match my existing fence?
If your fence is single paling, lap & cap, lapped or hardwood, a matching gate can be built in the same style and timber. Bring a photo of the fence to the site measure.
When should I use a double gate instead of a single gate?
When the opening is wide enough that one leaf would be heavy and prone to dropping, or when there is not enough clearance for one long leaf to swing. Two leaves are lighter each and need less room.
Will a wide single gate sag?
Any gate leaf can drop over time if it is too wide and heavy for its hinges and posts. That is why the opening width, the timber and the hardware are considered together at the measure.
Why choose a double gate over a single gate?
For a wide opening, two leaves are each lighter and easier to hang than one long leaf, they hold their line better over time, and each leaf needs less clearance to swing.
How do double gates stay closed?
Usually a latch where the two leaves meet, with a drop bolt into the ground holding one leaf so the other can swing freely.
Do you build timber driveway gates?
Yes. Timber driveway gates are built to match your fence, most often as a pair of leaves meeting in the middle.
What affects how a driveway gate is built?
The width of the opening, the fall of the driveway, how much clearance the gates have to swing, and how the gates need to be secured. All of that is checked at the site measure.
Before you order a gate
Specification
Timber fence heights
Height is the specification people are most confident about and most often wrong about, because the number you have in your head is rarely the number that matters on site.
5 min read Cost
What affects timber fencing cost
We do not publish per-metre prices, and any timber fencing website that does is quoting a fence it has not seen.
7 min read Gates
Timber gates guide
Gates are the part of a fence that moves, which makes them the part most likely to give you trouble. They are also the part people specify last, when the decision has already been constrained by everything else.
6 min read Free site measure & quote
Send us the opening and we will work out the gate
Tell us roughly how wide the opening is and what has to get through it. A photo of the opening is worth more than a measurement on its own.
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