We make garage gates with our own hands

To make garage gates with your own hands means to guarantee yourself reliability and safety.

To date, the types of gates are different, these are the usual ones, consisting of metal doors, with a lining of wood, roll, wooden, lifting, gates from the profile pipe, automatic or combining manual and mechanical drive.

The locks and visor of the garages are also varied.

To make garage gates with your own hands you can, relying both on your preferences and on the building of the garage.

What are the gates?

Swinging - the most common. They are used not only for garage constructions. There are metal, wooden, lockable on external bolts, with sheathing of corrugated board and others.

If you make a drive to them, you can turn them into automatic.

Sliding gates are located on the entrance side of the garage and require a large enough space, as the door, opening the garage parallel to the front wall, moves to the side.

Required element of sliding gates is a lock that prevents the sash from falling out of the garage, otherwise you will need repair.

The photo below is a sliding gate.

Basically, they are automatic, in some models for the opening of metal doors use a manual drive.

The swing-and-swing door is a profile pipe construction that rises upwards. Having reached the ceiling, the door position changes, is installed parallel to the floor.

At the heart of the mechanism is the articulated lever, guides and retainer.

Unfortunately, in cold climatic conditions this kind is desirable to use only in the garage in which the insulation is made. Often, this design requires repairs in winter time.

You can heat the garage with the same sheets of corrugated board, planking in wood, in garages attached to the house, they are used for heating central heating pipes.

In the video below - self-made automatic gates from the profile pipe and corrugated board.

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Lifting-sectional is a door consisting of sections, when opened, it is refracted and placed under the ceiling thanks to special guides.

The work is carried out by a spring mechanism and a chain drive, which starts the electric drive. They are made of corrugated board or wood, not forgetting about warming.

Foto. Automatic lifting gates

Rolling doors - like shutters, consist of aluminum plates, which when assembled are assembled in a special box.

As a protection, roller doors are rarely used, because they are not very reliable in terms of safety. Constipation on such gates resemble a door lock.

Use roll-up doors if the garage is inside a protected area or as a door between the garage and the house if the building is combined.

In the video below the automatic rolling shutters, we use the drive instead of the key.

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All presented views can be opened manually, or can be automatic. For the latter, an electric drive is required.

Manufacture, installation, installation, insulation - stages of work

When choosing the type of doors, remember, they must be practical and durable, open regardless of the weather conditions.

So, the drive at hoisting-sectional and lifting-rotary gates in sub-zero temperatures can simply freeze and require repairs.

Traditional swing gates remain the most reliable in any weather, and making them is not so difficult.

In any case, the insulation of doors and the premises itself is mandatory. Do not forget about this, starting the manufacture of garage doors.

The first stage - we make measurements, draw drawings

Any design begins with drawing works. Drawings of garage gates correctly to do at a stage of designing of all garage. Draw a project, determine the size.

The height and width of the structure depends on the size of the machine. The distance between the hull and the door frame is not less than 30 centimeters.

The maximum width can be 5 meters, standard, more commonly used in construction - 2,5-3 meters. The height is 2-2,5 meters.

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Swing doors consist of three components: frame, sash, hinges. The frame is made from a steel corner, 65 mm thick.

For casement frame we take corners or a profile of steel, 50 mm thick, covered with sheet iron( wood paneling is applied later).For fastening doors we use hinges.

Drawing the drawings and determining the material, calculate how much it will take.

The second stage - the manufacture of frame frame

Installation of garage doors must be done during the construction of the garage.

Frame( inner and outer parts) must be installed during the formation of the front wall, and only after its installation can continue construction.

The 65 mm steel corner must be cut( it is better to use the "bulgark" for this) in 4 parts, equal to the width of the door opening, and into 4 parts, the length of which is equal to the height of the opening.

It is necessary to arrange the prepared parts, weld them, paying attention to the angles, which should be exactly 90 degrees.

Welding is best done by a lapped method. Be sure to make sure that the corners do not "lead".Outside, the frame needs to be ground, a smooth surface will ensure the perfect fit of the leaf to the frame.

In the photo you can see how the frame for garage doors is installed.

The third stage - we form the frame of the

leaflets. The frame of the leaflets should be slightly smaller than the gate itself, so that they will be tightly adhered to the outside of the frame. We take a steel corner or a rectangular profile.

Cut 4 pieces, 10-15 millimeters shorter than the height of the frame, and 4 more parts, the length of which is equal to half the width of the doorway minus 30 to 35 millimeters.

To weld a smooth frame, lay out the parts on a flat surface, preferably inside the finished frame. The angles should be exactly 90 degrees.

In order to prevent changes in the wings, to strengthen them in the middle of the interior of the structure, you need to weld another piece of steel corner.

Fourth stage - installation of door leaf gates

Two sheets are cut from steel sheets( at least 2 millimeters thick).The height of the doors should be longer by 3 to 4 centimeters than the height of the garage opening, but the widths of the paintings will be different.

The width of one sheet will be 1 to 2 centimeters less than the width of the frame, and the other sheet, on the contrary, is 2 centimeters wider.

The welding design needs the following way. Above and below the canvas will go for a basis of 1 - 2 centimeters.

A leaf of smaller width( opens with the second one) is welded so that 1 centimeter remains to the edge of the frame, the second sheet on the contrary, will extend beyond the framework structure by 2 to 4 centimeters. Such a method will allow the flaps to fit tightly.

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According to the welding rules, the sheets are welded first in the corners and in the middle, so that they do not deform, and only then every 10 -15 centimeters are welded all the canvas.

We finish the installation of the leaflets, covering them with sheet iron, weld the loops. From below, the loop is welded to the frame, and above to the sash.

The fifth stage - installation of the gates in the garage

The installation of door frames must be done at the construction stage of the garage. We connect them together, welding at a distance of 60 centimeters from each other 4-centimeter strips of metal.

After the frames have been formed, we finish the construction of the front wall of the garage. There should not be any space.

With the help of reinforcing bars 20-30 centimeters in length( you can use iron pipes) we mount the frame into the wall. We have rods in places of seams.

From above, make the overlap. Mostly it is a metal or concrete beam. Check the progress of the garage doors.

The sixth stage - we fix locks and bolts on the gate

The locks and bolts complete the installation of our structure.

One of the wings will be closed on the locks inside the garage, fixing on the ceiling and in the floor, for these purposes we drill holes 5 centimeters deep.

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The second door will be closed on the locks, which are included in the first leaf in specially prepared holes for them. Outside, the garage construction can be secured with a padlock.

Seventh stage - warming of garage doors and garage

If you make a garage gate with your own hands, do not forget to make a warm-up. The most common material to make insulation is foam.

It is located on the inside of the leaflets, top is lined with a lining of wood. In addition to polystyrene foam polystyrene, roll warmers, corrugated board.

Profiled sheeting is a versatile material, under it you can put any insulation, they can both cover the walls, and not to collect a large garage, make a visor.

The advantage of the profile construction is its easy dismantling and repair. From the profile pipe it is possible to make the gate itself, and having hooked the drive to them, the automatic gate will be obtained.

The eighth stage - the design of the

After the installation and insulation of the doors is done, the garage doors need to be brought into aesthetic appearance.

The garage door is painted both from the outside and from the inside.

In the photo you can see a vintage visor over the garage door.

Do it carefully in order to prevent the appearance of corrosion.

One more protection of the garage door from moisture ingress will be a visor. Doing its installation, do not forget to calculate its bearing capacity, how much load the visor can withstand.

The visor can be made from remnants of metal sheets, corrugated board, strengthened on pipes or steel plates.

Canopy made of wood is not recommended.