I want to put a gate up down the side of my house and was after some advice on the best way to hang it with limited room for posts etc.
The gap has a brick wall on one side (the house) and on the other side there is a fence, the fence is constructed of wooden panels between concrete posts.
The gap is 122cm wide.
The problem comes from the fact that I have a trailer that occasionally I need to move down the side. The width of the trailer is 115cm. So I only have 7cm left to play with. I don't mind it being tight and a bit of a hassle to get past as it won't be a regular occurance but it needs to be possible.
The gate will be used on quite a regular basis as a gate to walk through.
The gate will be approx 6' high and wooden. I have some wood to reuse - it's quite thick (atleast 10mm) so the gate will be quite heavy - not a cheapy overlap panel one.
I had thought of using those peg and eye type hinges so that the gate can be lifted off. The lower peg could be mounted high enough so that it is above the height of the mud gaurd on the trailer. I'm sure these would be OK mounted directly to the wall but wasn't sure if you could mount them to the concrete fence post.
I was also think the gap was quite wide to put a single gate all the way across, so was going to put a small one on the post side and a larger one from the wall.
So any advice would be appreciated, and advice on mounting to a concrete fence post would be good too.
Thanks
The gap has a brick wall on one side (the house) and on the other side there is a fence, the fence is constructed of wooden panels between concrete posts.
The gap is 122cm wide.
The problem comes from the fact that I have a trailer that occasionally I need to move down the side. The width of the trailer is 115cm. So I only have 7cm left to play with. I don't mind it being tight and a bit of a hassle to get past as it won't be a regular occurance but it needs to be possible.
The gate will be used on quite a regular basis as a gate to walk through.
The gate will be approx 6' high and wooden. I have some wood to reuse - it's quite thick (atleast 10mm) so the gate will be quite heavy - not a cheapy overlap panel one.
I had thought of using those peg and eye type hinges so that the gate can be lifted off. The lower peg could be mounted high enough so that it is above the height of the mud gaurd on the trailer. I'm sure these would be OK mounted directly to the wall but wasn't sure if you could mount them to the concrete fence post.
I was also think the gap was quite wide to put a single gate all the way across, so was going to put a small one on the post side and a larger one from the wall.
So any advice would be appreciated, and advice on mounting to a concrete fence post would be good too.
Thanks