How to make a wooden door?

When we are at home and we are creative, we want to greatly improve the facade of the house, or alternatively, kill time doing things that are not difficult and that can save us a lot of money, that is, occupy our free time. weather, here we will show you how to make a wooden door

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Materials to use to make a wooden door

Screwdrivers and hand tools, including gloves and, if applicable, drills and wood cutters.
Saws, can be simple or circular.
Wood or sheets of wooden beams for the frame.
Nails and screws.
Hammers.
hinges
Screw.
Wood protector for humidity.
Wood sheets, depending on the design you want the wooden gate.

These materials can vary depending on the design you want for your gate, as well as the particular taste of each person. but in most cases the mentioned materials are the basic ones to make any wooden gate in other cases materials are added.

wooden gate

Step 1: Delimit the space✔

delimit the space who will use the door.

Step 2: Place two beams✔

Place two vertical beams on each side of the space where the wooden gate will go, these will be attached directly to the ground and to a wall next to it to prevent the gate from falling

Step 3: Make the door structure✔

Knife the door structure this can be linear or, failing that, perpendicular, that is, forming a cross on the gate doors

Step 4: Door Project✔

Once you have the project you need to cut all the wooden planks or beams to the same size for the door to fit perfectly

Step 5: Secure the door✔

To fix the door you must use nails on each beam both at the top and at the bottom.

Step 6: door hinges✔

Place the hinges on the sides of the doors or on only one side of the door to allow the opening and closing movement of the door

Step 7: Door lock ✔

Place the latch at an easily accessible height to the adults of the house, and that’s it. The latch should be placed half on the gate door and half on the support beam (if it is a one-door gate). In the case of a two-leaf wooden door, the latch should be placed right in the middle of the full door that is, joining the two leaves of the gate.

Step 8: Shield wooden door✔

Do not forget to put the wooden protector on the end so that the wood lasts much longer and avoids humidity after the rain

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How to make a cheap wooden door?

Wooden garden path entry gates are the cheapest to make, how can you do them with only lag or scrap wood that may be left over from a hardwood floor or wood room.

The materials that we mentioned at the beginning are easy to get most of them you have at home, and the ones you certainly don’t, your wife’s father, or some other relative.

It’s time to innovate and not let the economy take away our inspiration to improve the facade of our home.

If you want to save much more on the wooden gate, you can do it without the need for wooden sheets, on the contrary, you only make the secondary structure with wooden boards or beams, paint and that’s it, you have a very vintage wooden gate.

The only thing you can spend a little more money on is waterproof wood, but you can opt for a waterproof paint that can be used on wood and thus improve the appearance of the wood itself.

Do not stop making a wooden gate for the house, get down to work and start making the door with the help of family members.

How to make a two-leaf wooden door?

Two-leaf wooden doors are one of the easiest and simplest to make, sometimes they can be mounted on already-made fences, or vice versa. in large spaces such as the entrance to the garden.

Step 1: Have materials and tools on hand. 👈

You’ve got all tools and materials that we mentioned above.

Step 2: Measure the space where the door will be 👈

measure the input space or space that the wooden door with two leaves will occupy

Step 3: You fix the beams where the frame will be. 👈

The frame that will be attached to the joists. that will rest on the wall of the garden entrance, that is, first measure the beam with the wall and trim it, and then make the frame.

Step 4: Make the frame and attach the hinges. 👈

Let’s make the frame with the hinges already attached from the beginning, these will be installed 10 to 15 cm below the beginning of the wooden beam.

Step 5: Build the gate frame 👈

We have the frame and we begin to elaborate the structure of the gate as if it were a single leaf gate .

Step 6: Check the separation measures 👈

the difference is that the vertical beams that will support the wooden sheets will be 20 cm apart but right in the middle of the frame, the separation will be 10 to 5 cm.

Step 7: Split the door frame in two. 👈

Once we have the gate structure, let’s cut with the saw right in the middle of the frame both at the top and at the bottom, at the same level, there can be no errors. Then close each box, leaving you with two door frames of the same size but each one is the size of half the space where I intended the door to be.

Step 8: Place the horizontal beams 👈

we put two horizontal wooden beams to finish fixing of the vertical beams, these will be fixed with screws and hammers.

Step 9: fix the padlock 👈

We must place the padlock between the two sheets, Right in the middle of the door making sure that the beams of the structure support it very well.

Step 10: Cover the structures with the wooden sheets. 👈

We proceed to place the wooden sheets according to our taste in front of the gate, that is, the side that faces the street, covering the secondary structure that we made to support it.

It is important to note that the lock can also be installed on the wooden panel, but indoors.

How to make a wooden gate for a fence?

A fence, as we all know, is much smaller, that is, the gate to be built is smaller, so you will use less wood or you make much smaller ones, and the use time is much less than that of a large door.

Step 1: Put a beam 👈

In case we already have the fence made and we want to make an entrance with a small gate, we need to put a wooden beam diagonally across the fence.

Step 2: Fix a piece of wood diagonally👈

Put the diagonal between the two wooden beams a space remains in the middle of them, a piece of wood will be placed there, on which the screw will be placed.

Step 3: Trim the sides 👈

We proceed to cut the sides of the fence. that is, we give it the shape of a gate, to install the hinges.

Step 4: Fix the hinges 👈

It is important to make the cuts first, so that know which side of the fence to lean on .

Step 5: Cut and attach a piece for the lock👈

Fix the part with a screw at the middle height of the gate, then install the lock.

Step 6: Cut the rest of the wooden pieces👈

You cut the wood traces to complete the gate, placing the top supports and the missing vertical beams

Step 7: Paint the door 👈

Put varnish, like termite poison this will help your door last longer. Paint it in the color of your choice.

Step 8: Enjoy your new door 👈

Clever, start using your door!

If you want to build a separate wooden gate for a fence, that is, isolated from the fence structure, you can also do it but in this case you can do it with a single leaf, that is, it has a single opening door.

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To make this gate close, you just need to attach the hinges on one side of the fence and the gate, and on the other side the bolt is placed, which can be fixed at one end to the fence and at the other to the gate.

The gate is a very rustic and essential gate model in farms and country houses, making it extremely easy . Just have wooden boards, screws, wooden rain guard, hinges, and the latch.

Step 1: Measure the space 👈

Measure the space where the door is It will be installed.

Step 2: Put a beam 👈

Put a wooden board or beam at each end of the entrance, which will be attached directly to the ground.

Step 3: make a small door 👈

we take half of the total space for the door and we make a small door from wooden planks as follows:

you place two wooden boards or beams at the ends of this measure vertically.
Horizontally you lay the wooden boards. with a separation of approximately 10 cm.
And finally you place a board perpendicular to the door.

Step 4: make another door 👈

You make another door the same way, securing each board or beam with screws.

Step 5: Install hinges and latch 👈

you install the hinges at the ends of the doors and the latch between the two doors.

Step 6: door ready to use 👈

We already have a gate type gate.

Those Doors are the easiest to make, you can paint them as you like, it is important to note that the beams on the sides of the door must be well attached to the ground, otherwise the door may fall.

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