Hi all.
I'm making a gate to protect a set of steps for when kids are in the garden. It's quite wide at 1090mm and about 800mm high. So far I have a 38mm x 6(3?)mm frame consisting of two vetricals with two cross beams. Glued Morticed and Tenon joints using Wickes' own finest (spit) treated timber.
Looking at various images of gates online, and gates in DIY stores and on various gardens there seems to be no consistancy in how the cross brace is cut. Some are cut so the pressure is put onto the vertical posts, some onto the cross beams and a few onto both. Most are all the way into the corners, but yes, some go half way across on one side, or both sides... Decoration and image are a portion of the design reasoning I'm sure.
So, whats the most durable way of bracing a simple wooden picket gate frame like this please? Is there a carpentry tutorial on the web somewhere that will explain the stresses behind the bracing and why it goes where it goes?
Thanks.
Mike.
Some differing braces online.