When it comes to your options for fences and gates, how many of you have a walk gate for your home?
When it comes to your options for fences and gates, how many of you have a walk gate for your home? These gates, also known as walkway gates, serve as portals through your fence and are vital points of entry and exit. You can ignore it all you want, but sooner or later you will have to face facts that your walk gate is starting to sag. Once it does, how do you go about fixing it?
Fixing the Hinges
The first step to repair your walk is to try repairing the hinges. First, determine the reason why your walk gate started sagging in the first place. With any luck, it’ll be easy enough to restore it. If the hinge on your walk gate has come loose, all you have to do is re-tighten it. If that’s all you need to do, count yourself lucky and slap yourself on the forehead, wondering why you didn’t get to it any sooner than you did. After that, you can move on with life and spend some more time in the backyard gardening or mowing the lawn.
Propping It Up
Sometimes, a simple fix isn’t enough. Maybe the walk gate is sagging because it doesn’t have enough support. In this case, you could try propping it up with some braces. The bracing technique can be accomplished with some steel cables and an anti-sag gate kit you can pick up at your local hardware store. Screw corner brackets onto the top of the fence where it meets the hinge. Then follow this same method on the bottom of the fence, but on the latch side instead. Along with the steel cable and a turnbuckle, you can knock the sag out of your walk gate right away.
Getting Professional Help
Lastly, you could also rely on professional help, especially from your friendly experts from Hercules Custom Iron. If the posts and concrete that hold the gate in place are the sources of the problem, here is where you shouldn’t go it alone. The right fence professional will know the correct post size, wall thickness, and concrete setting to make sure your walk gate returns to full attention in no time.
Choose Hercules Custom Iron
Whether you would like your walk gate or aluminum fence to be repaired, replaced, or would like an iron fence (period!), the pros at Hercules Custom Iron are ready to help. For more information and to learn how we can meet your custom fencing needs, contact Hercules Custom Iron online or giving us a call at 1-800-331-2590. We will ensure your investment serves your family for years to come! For updates and to see projects we’re working on, visit us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+, and Pinterest.