Timber gates - Essential Choices 

 

 

Wooden gates - Boarded gates

Wooden gates for driveways. Wood gates, close boarded and electric gates - security, deter opportunist thieves and criminals as well as the casual 'out for a walk' fraternity strolling across your lawn. Our children, and pets, with timber gates will be safe from speeding traffic and undesirable callers.

So, worries about youngsters and pets playing near the passing traffic and vagrants or all-comers wandering around to your back door disappear when your new wooden gates arrive. Timber gates can smarten the old place up a bit. Wooden gates - swing gates - boarded, made for your dimensions, your satisfaction and protection.  

Timber gates add distinction to the security and appearance of our homes. Choose wooden gates made from renewable timber resources, from ecologically managed forests. Some manufacturers work to old traditional standards, best joinery standards, with mortice & tenon, dowel joints and stop chamfers to the stile and rails. Rail and brace crossings bolted with zinc plated bolts. And that's for the manual boarded gates.

Choose gate manufacturers - traditional craftsmen. Many years of experience and some gifted craftsmen have produced timber gates that are different. Non standard one-off sizes can be found.

The truth is that wooden gates for driveways - made to measure, give you better timber gates which passers-by will admire and you will covet for many years to come. A secret of longevity for wooden gates starts with driveway gate design.

Four others are:

  1. use good quality hinges and gate furniture designed for wooden gates
  2. good craftsmen to make your gates 
  3. effective installation process
  4. the gate's 'Finish'.

Whatever material is used to protect driveway wooden gates, it should be used before exposing any timber to the British climate's weather. NEXT