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We had some building work that resulted in needing to remove a section of fence at the back of the house that backs on to turnaround/extra parking area - the fence was rotten and 25 years old and pretty much fell down anyway
While the building works carried on the gap was 3.8m and so one of those temporary building fences filled the hole and allowed easy opening and closing (drawback was it left the garden rather exposed to viewing by all but hey ho all you could see was scaffolding building materials and a ruined garden Not helped by a Concrete lorry digging it self down when the footings went in - took another one to pull it out
View attachment 16399
Garden is only a small one (typical housing estate) made slightly smaller by a two storey extension to the house and doubling the size of the garage but it's now restored to usable (very low maintenance - it's shrubs, small trees, bamboo, brick weave and decking) but I still needed to fill the gap in the fence back up with something other than a temporary fence panel.
So having invested in a welder that behaves as it should I had the equipment (Portamig 185) the easy access to the rear garden had become increasingly useful so I wanted to retain it - a gate facility seemed like a good idea.
So gates it was (should have taken pictures as I went along but as I started Sat lunchtime - there were 22 blokes kicking a pigskin around and I'm not a football fan)
I already had a plan on how I was going to construct them - If I'd thought about it I'd have asked quesations from the knowledgeable bunch on here but it hasn't turned out too bad so far
3mm Angle Iron and 2mm Flat plus some wood (I want the gates to look like normal vertical ship lap fencing when it's completed (just like the rest of the perimeter fence)
Divide the gap by 2 add allowance for eye bolt hinges and then knock up two rectangular frames but first I needed to find the best settings for the welder
Power guide on here said 8 (C2 F2)for 2.6-3.3mm and 9 (C2 F3) for 3.1 to 3.8
Used an ofcut to try out the settings
Argo-shield Light (10L/Min) & 0.8mm Wire
Right is 8 (C2 F2) Wire Speed 6
Left is 9 (C2 F3) Wire Speed 7
And on the reverse it's the other way round
I liked 9 better so settled for that and just used 8 when I was welding the 2mm flat steel
Saturday afternoon had one frame completed and braced and the other in progress - they turned out pretty square and just a mm or two difference corner to corner and spot on width wise all the way up
In contrast to previous projects I really enjoyed my time (much better that watching football IMHO)
Picture of the finished frames - I knew they would be a bit flexible until the wood went in to stiffen them up (and they were!!) Of course I should have taken pictures of the welds before I painted them with red oxide and then gloss black but I didn't think and I was dead happy with pretty much all of them so just cracked on
Sunday had both frames primed and painted and tonight I've been mainly drilling holes and fixing the bearers (these will provide the wood to nail the ship lap onto it and stiffen up the frames)
Close up of the installed bearers
Being a bit anal all the screws are centred and equally spaced on every rail () but I do like how it's turned out and it's remarkably rigid - be even better (FLW) when the ship lap facia is nailed on
I'll upate again if people are interested (comments welcome) once I get the eye bolts and pins to hang them on the 4x4 posts that are already concreted in and have been for about 4 months!!!
While the building works carried on the gap was 3.8m and so one of those temporary building fences filled the hole and allowed easy opening and closing (drawback was it left the garden rather exposed to viewing by all but hey ho all you could see was scaffolding building materials and a ruined garden Not helped by a Concrete lorry digging it self down when the footings went in - took another one to pull it out
View attachment 16399
Garden is only a small one (typical housing estate) made slightly smaller by a two storey extension to the house and doubling the size of the garage but it's now restored to usable (very low maintenance - it's shrubs, small trees, bamboo, brick weave and decking) but I still needed to fill the gap in the fence back up with something other than a temporary fence panel.
So having invested in a welder that behaves as it should I had the equipment (Portamig 185) the easy access to the rear garden had become increasingly useful so I wanted to retain it - a gate facility seemed like a good idea.
So gates it was (should have taken pictures as I went along but as I started Sat lunchtime - there were 22 blokes kicking a pigskin around and I'm not a football fan)
I already had a plan on how I was going to construct them - If I'd thought about it I'd have asked quesations from the knowledgeable bunch on here but it hasn't turned out too bad so far
3mm Angle Iron and 2mm Flat plus some wood (I want the gates to look like normal vertical ship lap fencing when it's completed (just like the rest of the perimeter fence)
Divide the gap by 2 add allowance for eye bolt hinges and then knock up two rectangular frames but first I needed to find the best settings for the welder
Power guide on here said 8 (C2 F2)for 2.6-3.3mm and 9 (C2 F3) for 3.1 to 3.8
Used an ofcut to try out the settings
Argo-shield Light (10L/Min) & 0.8mm Wire
Right is 8 (C2 F2) Wire Speed 6
Left is 9 (C2 F3) Wire Speed 7
And on the reverse it's the other way round
I liked 9 better so settled for that and just used 8 when I was welding the 2mm flat steel
Saturday afternoon had one frame completed and braced and the other in progress - they turned out pretty square and just a mm or two difference corner to corner and spot on width wise all the way up
In contrast to previous projects I really enjoyed my time (much better that watching football IMHO)
Picture of the finished frames - I knew they would be a bit flexible until the wood went in to stiffen them up (and they were!!) Of course I should have taken pictures of the welds before I painted them with red oxide and then gloss black but I didn't think and I was dead happy with pretty much all of them so just cracked on
Sunday had both frames primed and painted and tonight I've been mainly drilling holes and fixing the bearers (these will provide the wood to nail the ship lap onto it and stiffen up the frames)
Close up of the installed bearers
Being a bit anal all the screws are centred and equally spaced on every rail () but I do like how it's turned out and it's remarkably rigid - be even better (FLW) when the ship lap facia is nailed on
I'll upate again if people are interested (comments welcome) once I get the eye bolts and pins to hang them on the 4x4 posts that are already concreted in and have been for about 4 months!!!
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