Do-it-yourself swing gates for a garage: production and installation


Garage doors are a very important part of the entire garage. They protect it from breaking, cold and precipitation. Today, many different companies and manufacturing enterprises offer their services for the manufacture and installation of shutters for garage-type premises. Such firms do everything professionally, but quite expensive. Is it possible to build such structures yourself? If so, how to make a garage door with your own hands, and what is needed for this? This article will try to answer all of these questions.

First of all, it is worth clarifying what types of garage doors exist today:

  1. Swing - old, good and proven garage doors. Our grandfathers made them, and they never let them down. Making such a garage door with your own hands is quite simple.
  2. Retractable - a fairly new type of gate. Sliding gates to the garage imply the presence of one or more leaves, which, when opened, move off to the side. It is customary to use such shutters only in large rooms with a fairly large side space for the doors to move in, or as a gate to the courtyard.
  3. Up-and-over doors in the garage are a single leaf, which, when opened, rises and is fixed under the ceiling. Such a system is a very big plus for owners of garage spaces, as it saves space inside and in front of them. The disadvantage of folding gates is the likelihood of freezing of their mechanisms and systems in severe frosts. That is why such shutters are suitable only for heated rooms. Making them yourself is difficult, but possible.
  4. Overhead sectional doors consist of several panels that, when opened, drive under the ceiling. The advantage of such a system is considered to be the same space savings. Its disadvantage can be called the impossibility of creating such a gate at home.
  5. Roller shutters are a lattice of aluminum plates, which, when opened, go up and hide in a special compartment. The disadvantage of such a system is the impossibility of home production, fragility and unreliability, as well as poor thermal insulation.

As can be seen from this list, at home it is easiest to make only swing gates. It is their production that we will consider in the article.

Handmade production

Before you make a gate to the garage with your own hands, you need to create their scheme. The drawing of the garage door should display all the components of the structure and them.

Swing gates in the garage consist of three main parts:

  • Frames for the opening (internal and external);
  • Shutter frame;
  • Cloth for shutters.

Dimensions

When drawing up drawings of garage doors with your own hands, it is advisable to adhere to the following requirements and tips:

  • The width of the shutters should be such that the distance from the sides of the car to the garage box is at least 30 cm;
  • The standard for the width of garage doors is a width of 2.5-3m, and a maximum of 5m;
  • The height of the gate directly depends on the height of the car that will stand in the garage - the standard for cars is 2-2.2m, for minibuses - 2.5m.

What do you need to stock up for work?

In order to make a swing garage door, you may need the following materials:

  • Metal corners 65x65mm;
  • Reinforcing steel rod;
  • Steel strips 3-4mm thick and 2-3cm wide;
  • Reinforced hinges;
  • Cloths of steel 3-4 mm thick or corrugated board.

Of the tools useful:

  • Measuring tape;
  • Square;
  • Level;
  • Bulgarian;
  • Welding machine.

frames

Before building the entire garage, it is advisable to stop at the fifty percent stage of building its walls in order to build a gate frame into them.

Algorithm of actions in the manufacture of a frame for the gate:

  1. We cut out eight segments from a metal corner, four of which will be equal to the height of the garage opening for the gate, and four to its width.
  2. We lay out on bricks or other materials of the same height four parts of the first frame at an angle of 90 ° - be sure to make sure that all its parts are in the same plane.
  3. We fix the segments of the corner between ourselves by welding, while regularly checking compliance with the angle of 90 °. It is advisable to weld the corners with an overlap - this technique will provide a better hitch.
  4. We carefully clean the outer part of the outer frame from traces of welding, since it is very important that there are no gaps between the wings and the frame.
  5. We do the same procedure with the second frame.

Shutter frame

When making a frame for sashes, the following instructions should be followed:

  • We cut out four pieces from a metal corner or a rectangular profile, each of which should be 10-15 mm shorter than the height of the gate frame.
  • We cut out four more segments, each of which will be equal to the value of half the width of the frame minus 30-35mm.
  • We lay out the resulting pieces of the profile on a flat plane and set angles of 90 ° between them - for convenience, you can impose a profile on an already welded frame.
  • We weld both frames in turn.
  • In the center of the frames in a horizontal position, we weld one more piece of the profile to strengthen the structure.
  • We carefully grind the traces of welding on the side of the frame to which the leaf blades will be attached.

sashes

The algorithm of actions in the production of gate leaves is as follows:

  • From sheets of metal we cut out two rectangles of the appropriate sizes.
  • The height of the rectangles should be 3-4 cm higher than the height of the garage opening.
  • The width of one of the rectangles should be 1-2 cm more than the width of the frame, and the second, respectively, should be equally less.
  • We weld the cut sheets of metal to the sash frame so that their upper and lower edges protrude 1.2 cm above the frame.
  • We weld the smaller sash in such a way that a frame peeks out from under it 1 cm wide.
  • We weld the large sash so that it overlaps the edge of the frame by 2-4 cm.
  • The resulting indentation is necessary for a tighter joint of the doors.
  • In the process of welding sheets, it is advisable to first grab them a little along the edges and center of the frame, and only then carefully weld the entire sheet in increments of 10-15 cm.
  • Welding at the corners of the gate is desirable to grind.

Door and frame connection

In order to connect the sashes and the frame, it is necessary to use reinforced hinges. Their upper part must be welded to the leaf, and the lower part to the gate frame. For greater welding coupling, welded pieces of metal and a reinforcement tab can be used.

A metal strip 5-7 mm thick can be welded to the junction of the upper part of the hinges and the sash. The reinforcement tab must be welded from the inside.

When the welding work is completed, it is necessary to test the entire structure for strength and effectiveness. During testing, it is desirable to pay attention to the following points:

  1. All parts of the structure must be in the same plane.
  2. Shutters should be adjacent to the frame and point to each other.
  3. When opening / closing the sash should be easy to walk and not cling to anything.

Mounting

As mentioned above, it is advisable to mount the gate frame even at the stage of building a garage, when only half the height of the walls has been erected. It is necessary to install the frame in the unfinished opening, making sure that it is correctly installed vertically and horizontally.

For greater strength and accuracy, both frames are best welded together with metal plates 4 cm wide. The plates must be attached to the frames every 60cm.

When the frame is ready, you can continue to lay out the walls of the garage, while it is desirable that the entire space between the frames be bricked up. In the process of laying, it is necessary to wall up the frames themselves. To do this, they need to be welded to 3 rods of reinforcement on each of their sides. It is desirable to take rods with a length of 20-30 cm. In the course of laying, they must be embedded in the seams between the bricks.

At the final stage, the upper part of the frame must be fixed with an overlap - a concrete or metal beam.

When the masonry dries and sets, it is advisable to test the new gates - they must be opened and closed, listen to see if there is any opposition during these actions.

If the tests were successful, then you can start cutting locks, installing latches and welding on special lugs for a padlock.

It should also be said that, if desired, swing gates can be made with a gate. Such a convenient device allows in winter, without the need to drive the car out, not to open all the shutters completely and not to let cold air into the garage. We hope you are?

We hope that this article will help you build your garage and make high-quality and inexpensive swing gates for it.



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