The Home Improvements Thread (2)

[WAslayer]

Awesome, I need 3. It will be a normal style gate with vertical bars, nothing fancy.

Well, I can give you base line of what to expect based on gates I had made up.. 2.1x 0.9 with 40mm square tube, 25mm square tube and 10mm square bar as doggy bars, with 3 hinges, galvanized and powder coated and installation came to just over 5k per gate..

 

[The_Mowgs]

Well, I can give you base line of what to expect based on gates I had made up.. 2.1x 0.9 with 40mm square tube, 25mm square tube and 10mm square bar as doggy bars, with 3 hinges, galvanized and powder coated and installation came to just over 5k per gate..

Thanks, could you send me a picture please?

Im looking for something like this

 

[WAslayer]

Thanks, could you send me a picture please?

Im looking for something like this

Yup, that's exactly what it looks like.. 40mm square tube for the frame, 25mm square tube for the verticals top and bottom and 10mm square tube for the doggy bars at the bottom..

 

[ElixirCoder]

Progress pics

 

[maumau]

Yeah, these cheap off the shelf diy gates you buy from builders are near useless.

I also avoid trellidoor after a R4k gate they installed by my brother in law was just nicely pulled out of the wall within seconds.

That's a horror. What did Trellidor have to say about it?

AFAIK they're quiet proud of their good reputation.

 

[Steamy Tom]

In fairness if the gate was pulled out of the wall it points to shoddy installation, not necessarily a shoddy gate.

 

[SAguy]

In fairness if the gate was pulled out of the wall it points to shoddy installation, not necessarily a shoddy gate.

Yip, Trellidoor fitted it themselves. They used your everyday nail in anchors, probably like 8 x 60mm... but they installed it so far towards the edge in the doorway that they essentially screwed it into the plaster, not the brickwork.

A grown man could easily pull it out the wall

 

[Gozado]

Progress pics

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Wow, you must have been working impressively carefully around the perimeter of the pool, since you don't seem to have covered the pool, yet you've managed not to fill it with black yuck!

 

[Gozado]

Yip, Trellidoor fitted it themselves. They used your everyday nail in anchors, probably like 8 x 60mm... but they installed it so far towards the edge in the doorway that they essentially screwed it into the plaster, not the brickwork.

A grown man could easily pull it out the wall

I'd be interested to hear more about recommendations for mounting such gates securely, to avoid this kind of flimsiness.

 

[ElixirCoder]

Wow, you must have been working impressively carefully around the perimeter of the pool, since you don't seem to have covered the pool, yet you've managed not to fill it with black yuck!

Pool’s going to be emptied, ground down and relined anyway so not too bothered about it

 

[Steamy Tom]

I'd be interested to hear more about recommendations for mounting such gates securely, to avoid this kind of flimsiness.

you just want to use proper anchors and secure it to a sturdy surface, i.e not on the edge of the opening but where it can securly seat to the brick work

 

[TedLasso]

Pool’s going to be emptied, ground down and relined anyway so not too bothered about it

Size of pool and estimate of doing this? I guess relined with marbelite?

 

[Smokey mcpot]

Thanks, could you send me a picture please?

Im looking for something like this

You know where to find me for those. Simple and effective.

Like @SAguy Said, these off the shelf gates are very poorly made. I wish I still had the picture of the gate someone bought from builders. The thieves just bent the gate and got inside. It was really that weak.

I can also tell you guys how to bypass these xpanda type gates, but wouldn't want that out in the open since I have one of them in front of my sliding door. The only reason I haven't changed it is because we have some sort of unwritten deal with criminals that they only do a random house break in every 2 years in our area and they dont do any houses in my crescent because we've got CCTV all around the crescent... yeah I'm bragging that my area is rather quiet lol

 

[Mars]

Any gate needs a frame all the way around it to be secure. If your'e bolting it directly to a wall then the weakest part of the gate is the wall.

Ive had trelly doors that run inside a trame with tracks top and bottom, thats the way to go if you don't have space for a swing gate. Otherwise a gate inside a frame is the most secure.

 

[ElixirCoder]

Size of pool and estimate of doing this? I guess relined with marbelite?

No relined with fibreglass

pool is 8x4 and is gonna cost about R65k to redo :/

 

[Mars]

No relined with fibreglass

pool is 8x4 and is gonna cost about R65k to redo :/

R65k seems high to me. My pool is also about 8 x 4 and cost me R22k 2 years ago. I can't imagine it tripling in price over 3 years.

Edit - It was 3 years (fkn 2020) but still.

 

[ElixirCoder]

R65k seems high to me. My pool is also about 8 x 4 and cost me R22k 2 years ago. I can't imagine it tripling in price over 3 years.

Edit - It was 3 years (fkn 2020) but still.

There’s some other modifications that will be taking place with the pool

 

[SAguy]

My countertops are going in

 

[Steamy Tom]

My countertops are going in

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bra i dont mean to be funny but my spidey senses tingling

 

[Gozado]

you just want to use proper anchors and secure it to a sturdy surface, i.e not on the edge of the opening but where it can securly seat to the brick work

Any gate needs a frame all the way around it to be secure. If your'e bolting it directly to a wall then the weakest part of the gate is the wall.

Ive had trelly doors that run inside a trame with tracks top and bottom, thats the way to go if you don't have space for a swing gate. Otherwise a gate inside a frame is the most secure.

Please, would either of you be so helpful as to post pictures of "wrong way to do it" vs."right way to do it"? Thanks.