After enough time, a sagging gate on your property is inevitable. Battered by wind, rain, and snow and scorched by the sun on a daily basis, gates bear the brunt of the elements and begin to sag. A sagging gate makes your yard look tired and unattractive. Worse, a sagging gate will not close properly—a hazard for children and pets. The good thing is that sagging wood gates can be fixed easily and inexpensively. You'll first tighten up the hinges or replace them. If that doesn't do it, you can attach an anti-sag kit—guaranteed to fix the sag. Your wood gate may be sagging for two reasons: the gate's hinges are no longer tight or the gate itself has sagged out of square. With repeated opening and closing, the screws that hold the hinges to the posts begin to loosen. You can tighten up the screws or add longer screws that do a better job of grabbing into the wood. Gate hinges are strong but sometimes they can bend, especially under extreme weight. In some cases, the gate hinges may rust or bend. Replacing the hinges will fix this problem. The gate must form a nearly perfect square or rectangle to fit in its gate opening. Enough openings and closings will cause this square or rectangle to distort into a parallelogram. Tightening screws does help, but often it is not enough. An inexpensive anti-sag gate kit is exactly what you need to force that parallelogram back into a proper square or rectangle. Anti-sag kits consist of two corner braces, four cable clamps, and a metal turnbuckle, along with a stranded steel cable and fasteners. These kits work for gates up to 6 feet high and 4 feet wide.
Whether the gate is shaped as a square or a rectangle, square is still the proper term for either gate when all four angles of the shape are at 90 degrees (or a perfect L-shape). It's best to fix your sagging gate in dry weather. Wet wood expands, making it more difficult to calculate the right size and shape of the gate.
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