DOUBLE OFF-SET GATES

In Consideration of the 60″+_ Rough Opening for your Garden Gate

It is rare that anyone passes through a door that is less than 32″ width. Only closet doors and pantry doors meet this criteria, and as a result, creating a gate at such a narrow opening will find your visitors passing through with shoulders turned–an unaware reaction to having so seldom confronted any openings or doorways less than 32″.

For this reason, and because many landscaped walkways and paths default to 60″ width, we offer this page to illustrate a few options available beyond that of a double gate with two equal 30″ single gates and folks shuffling along sideways as if they were shadows.

In the images below, you may also want to take note of the walkway–it’s width and where the gate posts are in relation to the walkway. Sometimes the posts are outside the walk, sometimes within the walk, and at other times they have been cut into the walk to where their outside edges are flush with the outside of the walk.

OPTION A

Wide Single-Span Gate at 60″ +_

Gate #31-10 in Fremont, CA
Rough opening between jambs: 69″. Height to spring-point: 72″. 2-¼” thickness.

Double Off-Set Gates

OPTION A

Wide Single-Span Gate at 72″

Gate #87-1 in Pasadena, CA
Net gate width: 72″. Height from grade: 72″. 2-¼” thickness.

Double Off-Set Gates

OPTION A

Wide Single-Span Gate at 57″

Gate #101-2 in Berkeley, CA
Net gate width: 57″. Height from grade: 57″. 2-¼” thickness.

Double Off-Set Gates


OPTION B

Double Off-Set Gates

Double Off-Set Gate style #53-5 in Kailua, Hawaii. With a walkway at 67-1/2″ width. Against the stone wall on the right, a jamb was mounted directly to the block core. The jamb thickness equals the distance from the block core to the outermost stone, plus 1/2″ for swing clearance to clear the stone. To the jamb the post is lagged, eliminating the need to set this post through the existing walk surface and into the ground.
Shown with matching fence style #22

Double Off-Set Gates

OPTION B

Double Off-Set Gates

Gate style #38-7

The Double Off-sets come in all shapes and designs. The #38-7 rough opening is 65″.
Right gate: 42″. Left gate: 22″.

Double Off-Set wood gates #38-7

OPTION B

Double Off-Set Gates

Gate style #20
Rough opening: 67-7/8″. Right Gate: 42″. Left gate: 23-⅞”

Gate style #20

The three hardware requirements for double, or double-off-set gates:
Gate latchGate stop–Cane bolt

Shown approaching the gate from the property side (Facing the street). From the street, the gate swings in toward the property.

gate

Below is a list of links to the Double Off-Set gates scattered throughout the galleries. Follow the links and use your Back button to return to this page.


OPTION C

Single Gate with Narrow Flanking Panels

Gate style #2-12
Rough opening 65″. Gate net width: 42″ net
Flanking Panels: 6-½” net. Posts 3-½”

Gate style #32-4
Rough opening 72″. Gate net width: 42″ net
Flanking Panels: 10″ net. Posts 3-½”

wood double gates

OPTION C

Single Gate with Narrow Flanking Panels

Gate Style #7-14 in the Houston, Texas.

wood gate with flanking panels

Gates style #60-1 with matching grid flanking panels.

grid gates and fence panels

Below is a list of links to Option C examples