Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Finished Gate



We´re calling this a success since it stays up, opens and closes, and we didn´t get divorced.  A win!

The posts were sunk 50 cm and set with a cement collar.  The ground by the creek is permanently softer and wetter and will need some shoring up, but for the moment they´re plumb.



The wood is green chestnut we got from a place in Palas de Rei.  It´s very heavy.  We´ll wait until next Spring/Summer to put on a finish of some kind.



Now, I hum the Dallas theme song every time I come home.

10 comments:

  1. It looks great. We have a small gate and barrier across our drive to keep out next-doors marauding goats which love to eat my flowers.

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  2. Thanks! We learned a lot. If yours keeps out goats, it must be pretty secure:)

    I want to plant a thorny rose on one side and put some more fencing on the other.

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  3. It looks lovely Coco, I hope it doesn't take as long as ours has to get a weather proof coating on it though, three years and counting!.

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  4. It certainly could! I like that silvery color wood goes, but V likes things ¨finished¨ and if it lasts longer, well I can´t argue.

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  5. a good gate..a simple thing of beauty

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  6. Hi, Coco!

    What a beautiful gate; so graceful! The thorny rose is a great idea, too: double-duty as beauty and barrier.

    Pam

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  7. Hi, Coco!

    What a beautiful gate; so graceful! The thorny rose is a great idea, too: double-duty as beauty and barrier.

    Pam

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  8. Thanks all! Need to cap the posts and be done with it. Frankly, the simplicity comes from our relative ignorance of construction and the grace is accidental, but we´re pleased. Now we´re getting used to having to open and close the thing.

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  9. Hi Coco,

    A very nice looking gate. Well done! The diagonal cross bracing is a good idea too. Did you copy that design from another gate in your area? I often look at how other people construct things before starting projects. Sometimes the best ideas are other peoples!

    Cheers. Chris

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  10. Thanks Chris. The design is basically ¨proto-gate¨, based on uprights, crosses and a diagonal brace. There are gates of all shapes, sizes, designs, and states of disrepair around here, but ¨wrought iron¨ seems to be the material of choice. We thought about pickets but I decided it would look too busy. So V put them on the side fence (and I hate them, but there you go).

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