Double side gate Help needed.

[Benchwayze]

Hi Mark,

A rough (very rough) sketch... Obviously you cut two mirrored tenons.
Yes, pegs would be a good idea, even draw-bore.
Yes the end posts could keep the tenons together.

HTH

 

[OPJ]

The trouble with using treated timber is that the moisture content can be much higher than what you would expect to find in kiln-dried joinery-grade timber. In some cases (as in the company I used to work for), you may find the timber is not seasoned at all, which does explain the movement and twisting, etc.

If at all possible, you should buy yourself some sawn, untreated timber (joinery-quality, such as redwood, not spruce), do all the machining and cut your joints before sending it off to the yard to be pressure-treated or "tanalised".

Once you start cutting and planing timber that's been pre-treated, you are effectively breaking the seal and will only have to re-treat it again any way (the chemicals barely penetrate ¼" deep at the best of times).

 

[Markymark]

Thanks

I think I have commited myself to wood yard timber. But thanks for the good advise. I may take your advise for the gates. This needs to be very stable.

I will bore joint the tenons.


Mark