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Handyman Repair For A Sagging Wood Gate

  
  
  

handyman gateWood gates always seem to be calling for a handyman. Wooden gates are heavy and get slammed and pushed and generally abused. Over time, the fasteners will lose their grip and the weight will cause the latch side to sag toward the ground. You know it is time for a repair when you have to lift the gate just to move it.

Basically you want to give the gate some support so that it doesn’t drag anymore. There are a few things you can do to make the gate operational again. You can install a piece of angle iron (or for that matter a piece of lumber) on the back of the gate that goes from the bottom of the latch side up to the top of the hinge side. Before you secure this piece though, I would set the gate to the correct height. Stack wood scraps under the latch side of the gate until you have the correct height and then secure the support to the gate.

Better still would be a turnbuckle. It stretches along the same path, but you can adjust it by turning the mechanism in the middle. Each end is secured using a hook or other fastener and then adjusted by turning the buckle in the middle. You can raise or lower the gates latch side in this manner.

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