Do you want to equip the entrance to the yard of your home or the country area with a new gate? Do not hurry to buy the first falls. Examine all the advantages and disadvantages of existing types of gates. Browse the photos of the retractable gate on the Internet, and select the appropriate option. If you have little place in the courtyard, we advise you to install a sliding gate. They open, moving in the length of the fence. Thus, save space, and do not interfere with transport move.

How to choose a sliding gate

Those who have the necessary technical knowledge and abilities in construction and electrical installation will be able, without much effort, to make at home, roll back the gates with their own hands.
There are snapshots of three types: console, suspended and on wheels.

• The cantilever gate has a carrying mechanism strengthened on the lower side of the gate. When moving, they do not come into contact with the ground, and nothing holds them from above.
• The gate of the suspended type has a guide on the device, and therefore they limit the passage of transport of large dimensions. Such gates are valid on roller carts. They are used most often in rooms and facilities that are limited from the upper side or in warehouses and hangars.
• In the third type of the gate, on the lower edge of the canvas, the wheels are attached, which, when opening and closed, move along the rail located in the doorway of the gate. They require constant care, as they will not move if the rail is clogged, covered with snow or ice.

If you ask the opinions of experts, or look for reviews about the retractable gate on the Internet, you will see that the majority prefer the gate of the console type.

In this article we will tell how to make yourself a rollback gate.

Draw a scheme of the future design in which:

• rama of the gate, with the guide rail screwed to it;
• roller supports that are fixed on the foundation;
• terminal roller;
• the lower trap - serves as a support for the closed gate and prevents lateral swings;
• the upper trap - does not allow the canvas to swing during lateral wind;
• the upper stopper with two rollers, which limits the lateral rolling when the gate is open or closed;
• adjustment stand;
• foil for rail rail;
• channel;
• foundation.

Retractable gates have two main components: functional and console (counterweight) part.

Calculate the total length of the door of the gate. To make the gate easily moved and did not load overly roller supports, the functional part must have a length equal to half of the width of the opening. The length of the cantilever side depends on the following parameters:

• what width is the passage,
• from the weight of the finished gate,
• from the loading of roller supports (from the selected components).

The process of manufacturing a rollback gate has three main points:

• construction of the foundation;
• manufacture of the door of the gate;
• installation of finished design;

If desired, the fourth, optional moment may appear: automation of the gate.

Construction of the foundation for homemade rollback gates

To serve for a long time, you need a solid foundation that meets the following requirements:

• Drop the pit for 30-50 cm deeper than the level of ground freezing. It is necessary so that the site does not shift during the defrosting of the soil after the long, cold winter. Then it will be very difficult to remake the foundation.
• The length of the foundation is determined by separating the width size of the width.
• Dock the width of the foundation about 50 cm. Instead of a mortgage detail, use a width channel more than 12 cm. Dock the scope for the foundation as close as possible to the fence, respectively.
• For reinforcing design, use the reinforcement with a diameter of 12 -14 mm. At the bottom of the holes to lay, about 10 cm crushed stone.
• Do so that the top of the foundation together with the sash of the installed gate went on zero with the surface level in the gate zone.
• Mounting item Mount strictly in a horizontal position using the level, so that the gate does not shift after installation. And if you connect automation, the actuators will periodically fail.
• Install the wires for automation in corrugations so that the bundle goes to 5-7 cm from the edge of the channel, in the place where the drive will be connected.
• Check out everything carefully.
• Pour the construction of concrete. Use for this dry mixture M200 or M250 or concrete with a strength of 200 kg / cm ².
• Check again all levels and marks.
• Give cement to become 4-5 days.

These were the principles of bookmark the foundation, but you can perform the basis for one of the 3 existing types.

1. Monolithic single foundation. Remove the ground, along the fence, towards the gate rollback. Set the mortgage part along with the reinforcement frame to the recess so that the upper part is in the exact horizontal position. Mount the longitudinal axis of the channel close to the fence, parallel to the movement of the gate. Secure and concrete design.
2. Pile monolithic foundation. This is the most economical type of foundation. Create two monolithic reinforced post and hide them in the soil. Connect the schweller pillars, which later set roller supports. Calculate the distance between roller supports. As close as possible to the fear, you try, a conventional garden brown, a hole depth of about 2 meters and a diameter of 20-30 cm, connect them with shallow trenches. Make a special mortgage detail. Install it at the level of the road surface and fill it all concrete. Do not forget about the horizontal position of the chavellor.
3. Foundation on screw piles. At the same time, the type of foundation does not need difficult works associated with land and concrete. They provide the ability to set the gate on the same day as the foundation and significantly reduce the time of work. Select two-meter galvanized or pile epoxide to avoid corrosion. Pour the concrete inside each pile. To install piles, you will need a large physical force of at least 4 men. To attach roller supports on the foundation, you will need a mortgage detail. Make it from the channel and breed to its lower part of the reinforcement with a diameter of 10-12 cm.

Making a gate

For the manufacture of the gate, get:

profiled steel pipe 60 x 40 x 2 mm; 40 x 20 x 2 mm; 20 x 20 x 2 mm;

• 10 kg of electrodes;
• profiled sheet;
• primer;
• anti-corrosion paint;
• console equipment kit;
• automation set for retractable gate.

If you want, the gate can be built in the gate and gate. To do this, you need a mechanical lock with a handle and loop.

To work, you need:

• free smooth, playground,
• welding,
• machine for cutting pipe or Bulgarian.

The tail of the structure can make a rectangular or triangular, at your discretion.

Follow all the details and cut the desired length at an angle of 45 degrees, for a stronger docking profile pipes. Do not forget to deduct from the height of all vertical blanks 10 cm for the lower lumen, connect them and welcome continuous seam.

Installation of retractable gate

Before mounting the gate must pass more than 7 days on hot days, and two weeks in a cold, wet period. Start using the design only after 2 weeks in the summer, and 4 weeks in cold weather.

The guide attach to the gate frame gradually, from one edge to another, in a checkerboard, making intermittent welding seams. In order for the design does not begged, do not make welding seams, first from one then, on the other hand.

All the finished design thoroughly read, cover up, and cover the layer of primer. When dry, cover the paint layer.