Hi Brad serves a dual purpose. Depending on what the soil conditions are. We decided it would be best to keep the gates from creating a cantilever effect for they are heavy. Our area has softer soil conditions. A little bit of over engineering with your concrete work will ensure your gate will remain stable and straight. Softer soil conditions some gates tend to settle. Planning your entire project out is key. Electrical, irrigation Etc. Your concrete pour and your posts elevation are the most critical part of your project. Good luck with your project, hope that helps. I'll try and answer any question you have
Our gate system was very similar and I wouldn't wish this design on my worst enemy. Accidents happen whether it be a random drunk or delivery driver. Once they tweak the hinged post you will quickly realize the financial flaw in this design. When designing a gate system you MUST consider post replacement. This layout would likely require 50% demo to replace a post.
“Well Captain, it seems there was some form of primitive civilization in this area at one time. Almost nothing remains, other than this double gate and these stone-clad pillars.” ~ explorers, circa 3515 AD.
Our ompany builds custom designed gates....If you need a gate supplier let me know. You can google us ....J.C's Gates and Fab in Gaylesville AL. I really like the way you did the gate psot and columns. Those should last at least a couple generations. Great job!
HI Will, yes it is a little over built on purpose. Seen a lot of gates and columns start to lean after about 20 years I'm not worried about this when going anywhere....lol.
Fantastic job! We are currently building our home & will be adding fencing & a gate also. You made it quite easy to incorporate what you did in our plans. Question: what is the dimensions of the gate, and, what model is it. Thanks.
Gate looks great! I’m about to start a project similar. I’m curious, the trench you did through the driveway, is that only for the electric or is that for strength? Just curious as I hadn’t planned on doing that.
is it easier putting all the corner stone on first? my dad completes it course by course and i am just now getting into building these on my own so im doing some research
David, appreciate the video but wish you had done a voice over instead of numbing soundtrack. Looks like a great project, however. Nice workmanship. Any issues now that some time has passed or is there anything you wish you had done differently? Did the gate manufacturer provide any drawings for this installation?
This wasn't a planned teaching video. But, in retrospect a little more explanation of the pictures would have been more helpful for people. Sorry about the crappy music that is a RU-vid thing. No there are no instructions but the things you have to be concerned about are the elevation of the gate and any wiring that you're going to need has to be well thought out. One of the important photographs how you keep the posts perfectly straight and at elevation make sure you use a builder's Transit. Nope would not change a thing. Measure it a thousand times and pour that concrete once!
Great looking columns! Did you have to do anything to the cinder blocks before applying the stone to them? I see a lot of people wrapping their posts with Durarock but it seems the block would have the same property as the durarock and stick well. Did you use just regular mortar? This is my first time so thanks to anyone who can answer!
No you can actually make your columns out of wood and wrap them in Dura Rock but you wouldn't want to do that unless they were covered like a under a roof. Straight Stone over the block is perfectly fine just make sure you keep wetting the area before you place a stone so it sticks good
Nice work ! What wall thickness did you go for the square tubing ? I’m doing a similar gate but total width is 12ft 6 . I used .083 wall thickness is this ok or should I have went with thicker material ?
Good job 👍🏽 boss had few ? What where the size of the columns? And what was the size of the footings I plan to do my gate first and then my drive way because I know I can do a lot of the labor work my self as far as the gate and the fence goes just trying to save a couple of dollars.
Purchased the stone locally. That is a Owens Corning Southern ledgestone Chardonnay is the color. The caps for the columns we had made here locally at a concrete cast place. The gate itself comes as a kit I believe you can purchase from Tractor Supply or one of the other suppliers of gates. We currently have two GTO operators that have had no issues since we installed them 5 years ago
Sorry I didn't get back with you until now Trevor it's kind of a Creature Feature the post come with the gate and they are a set. As far as how far start your block work from the post really depends on how you want it to look I had a goal in mind I was trying to keep a small dog in the yard so mine's pretty tight. Before we locked in the blocks and set them up we took some preliminary measurements based on the mortar whip plus the stonework and still had enough to work it in. Good luck with your project I'll try and answer any questions you have if you're trying to do something similar
Hi Jake came as a gate kit. I used to make them at Tractor Supply I'm not sure if they still handle those or not. Our gate has worked flawlessly since the first day of operation.
We use the GTO product. Purchased it all together with the gates. Lot of people told us that the operators would last for a very short period of time but we have had wonderful success with these. Don't forget to incorporate your outside keypad wiring as you're doing your construction it will always work better than wireless from the keypad.
We did all the labor ourselves can't put a value on that but I picked up the gates and the polls as a kit they came with the duel GTO actuators for 1200 used, around 500 for the concrete pour. Stone and lights another 650. These are approximate but they're not too far off. I had a ton of people telling me that the GTO actuators with last two years and fail and I'm going to be honest with you they have worked flawlessly from day one and they were over two years old in the Box new when we purchased them used. Lot of time patience and labor
Cheap gate with the wrong arch, adjustable hinges because you will be adjusting them next year or so even though that you have connected both gate posts … All that expensive concrete, block , stone work but cheap openers that will fail within a year or two Go back to the drawing board 😉
Hi Brad good morning. You must have a gate or fence company or something because your comments are oosing with vial and jealousy. Those public comments make you look petty. Our gate project is just fine. Along with the hinges and bolts and operators. It's been years now with no issues. Nothing has been adjusted, Nothing has failed. If you don't like our little video that washer designed to help a do-it-yourself person get an idea of what's involved in a project similar to this, then you should just move along to the next video. Thanks for watching have a beautiful day.
