Much easier to adjust a pair of nuts, than lifting the weight of a heavy gate to pack the hinge. My drive gates are wide, heavy and need to match in the middle.
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5 years ago
Hanging a gate
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5 years ago
It happens that Bill formulated :
Might you be able to turn the holes in the fixed part of both hinges, into horizontal slots to allow the needed adjustment?
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5 years ago
They all say that, why would they advertise that they are absolute rubbish?
We employed a fencing specialist company to continue a line of quality fencing panels, which he had already done a section of, a few months before. Matching what was there. The final panel to our rear boundary needed to be a 1/3 panel long so I had them quote that as a separate job. The cost was near double the cost of the other panel sections installed cost, but I accepted it.
The full panels were all absolutely fine, apart from the 1/3, where they had simply cut a panel down and loosely wedged it in place against a tree, so I took issue and asked them to either fix it properly or refund the cost of that extra panel job. It would not have survived the first high wind.
It could have been easily solved with some simple metal brackets, but they did neither, so I took them the small claims court. I got a refund plus court costs.
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5 years ago
You don't lift the weight of the gate when adjusting, you get the plates true on the walls by packing and then put the gates on the hinge pins.
Trivial to pack the plates true before putting the gates on.
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5 years ago
Tim J expressed precisely :
Getting them true and straight is fine, but they will still need some fine adjustment to account for wear and sag. Threaded adjusters make it so very easy, without lifting the gate off or supporting the weight.
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5 years ago
Mine havent and its been 45 years now. I did use big bolts for the pins, 15 mm or so.
Threaded adjusters make it
Sure, but would have been a wast of time with mine.
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3 years ago
You been taking "helpful lessons" from someone?
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3 years ago
(Psst! Its woddles in his new pyjamas)