Metal swing gates with a wicket: convenience in the garage

Every car owner who has his own garage knows perfectly well what the correct entrance to the garage means. After all, every day in order to take a car and after putting it in the parking lot, you have to open the garage door for the night. This is where the most interesting begins, to be precise, it is precisely at these moments that the car owner begins to understand what is missing in the device of his garage.

Soon it becomes clear, because during the construction it was necessary to make a garage metal gate with a wicket, and not just two doors. But the situation is quite reparable, let's see what can be done in this case.

The photo shows a typical example of metal swing gates.

Gate device and operation

Typically, the garage door, made of metal, such a way as a conveyor, used for many years. All gates of the same type and rarely used something new. As a rule, the first and most important element in a gate device is protection against the entry of third parties.

Few people think about how much weight the finished product will have, and often during installation there are difficulties with the installation of door leaves.

This is what is included in the finished design.

• A box, usually a channel that has a fairly large weight.
• The skeleton of the gate is made of a metal corner, although it is not much, but it also weighs a lot.
• The casing of the gate frame is usually sheet metal, and its width starts from three millimeters.

This assembly assembly weighs pretty well

All this makes the assembly really heavy, and when in use such a structure often has to be opened and closed, then you begin to regret that you did not make metal swing gates with a wicket.

Door opening in the gate

Having a gate at the garage door is undoubtedly a convenience compared to those owners who do not have one. For example, if you need to get into the garage, but not in order to take the car, but for another purpose, you no longer need to open the padlocks and open the gate completely.

Having a gate at the gate does not need to open the sash

The doorway is very convenient in winter, if there is no need to open the gate, then you can enter through the door, without having to clear the snow in front of the garage.

Information! As a rule, in the winter during severe frosts the swivel mechanism of the padlock freezes and the key turns out to turn and open it. To open the lock you have to warm it up. The internal lock on the door is less prone to freezing, thus you always get into your garage without any extra hassle.

How to make a gate at the ready gate

We think that it will not be possible to make a gate in such gates with our own hands, and we will have to take someone as an assistant, since it is simply not realistic for one person to work with such a bulky construction.

The plan-drawing of the future gate with a doorway

After all, ideally, you have to redo one door and cut the door into it. To do this, as a rule, you will need a certain set of tools, if you have one, then you can ask for help to remove the half of the neighbors' door in the garage and get to work.

Here is what you need to have on hand:

1. Welding machine, respectively, it needs electrodes and a mask.
2. Bulgarian, in our case, preferably large. Cutting wheels to her.
3. Metal corner or shaped tube. It depends on what material you have used on the crate of the gate.
4. Roulette, construction corner, chalk for marks on the metal.
5. Hinged door hinges.
6. Hammer and chisel.

This is all you need if you decide to redo your own gate. But there is another way you can use it. You can use the services of the company, which is engaged in hardware, in particular, the manufacture of gates and gates, and they will do everything for you and even install the finished product.

Especially in order to find out how experts can easily cope with this task, watch the video in this article, perhaps you will choose this option to rework your gate.

Dismantle the trim and assemble the frame

Well, before you start cutting the doorway, you need to remove the existing trim from the frame of the gate section.

Usually:

1. sheet metal is fixed to the corner by welding;
2. trim just grab in several places.

You also have to tack these tacks grinder, and if you need to knock down a chisel and a hammer.

When the trim is dismantled, then:

1. we set it aside;
2. We begin to prepare the box for the gate.

Be sure to accurately make all the dimensions of the future door, and then cut out unnecessary elements from the frame of the sash.

Frame assembly on the prepared workspace

Information! Before you start such work you need to prepare a workplace. The assembly of such products should be carried out on a horizontally flat surface! This instruction is the first rule when working with metal structures. Only in this way you will avoid the skew of the frame and maintain the plane of the leaf.

Now that you cut the opening, you need to:

1. assemble around the perimeter the box to which the new door will be fitted;
2. for these purposes it is more expedient to use a metal corner.

Since the door should fit to the box, the corner is installed with the release and the door fits tightly on this base.

Now it's time to start assembling the door frame, since you already have the size of the opening, you need to assemble the frame taking into account the existing size. Be sure to frame the doorway should go inside the box on the door leaf.

Install the trim and weld the hinges

When you are finished with the frame, after having welded all the welds, you can proceed to the installation of the skin in its rightful place.

But first:

1. in sheet metal, if it is a whole sheet, you need to cut an opening;
2. if you have a panel of typesetting, of several sheets, then you have to combine the installation.

As a rule, there should be no problems when installing the cladding sheets on the crate, first of all, you still have old welding places that will help you to return the metal to its place. It is not excluded that it is necessary to clean, grind, the places of cuts by the grinder for a more snug fit.

Mount the trim on the frame section, tacking around the perimeter

The door frame is also faced. When the trim is finished, you must install the hinges on the metal gate and weld them to the door leaf. To do this, you can install the door structure in the finished doorway, and on the spot, carefully measuring all the hinges to weld.

Well, here it remains only to hang half the gate in place, and your work is finished. Mount the ears for a padlock or embed the internal lock can be later, when the gate will be assembled.

Offer for private house owners

If you have a country house, then you must have paid attention to the garage sectional door with a wicket.

In the photo one of the variants of the gate in the sectional design

Recently, such designs are more and more used for the device of garage rooms in private possessions. Thanks to the different colors of the front part of the gate, they fit perfectly in almost any home design.

Conclusion

Such designs allow you to equip the entrances where there is not enough space and there is no possibility to use the usual swing. The price for such gates is quite affordable, and not much higher than for metal structures. We hope that our information will help you in choosing the gate for the garage.