How To Measure Up For Pedestrian Gates

A Simple Guide

How to measure up your pedestrian gate

Our pedestrian gate, can add both style and security to your home and garden. If you are looking to buy a new wooden side gate for your property, you will need to know how to measure up and get the correct size.

Measuring your gate opening

Start by measuring the overall gap, take an accurate measurement from the top and bottom of the opening, where appropriate, as these may differ.

Always use the narrowest measurement.

Where possible, we recommend fitting the posts before measuring. However, if this is not possible deduct the post sizes from your overall measurement. Allow 10mm clearance gap either side of the gate and this leaves the size of your gate.

For example, your narrowest measurement is 1200mmW, take off the post sizes from this measurement i.e 100mm each side, 1200mm - 200mm = 1000mmW. Take off the 20mm for clearance, giving you a gate side of 980mmW.

If the posts are already there, measure the gap between the posts, again measure the top gap and the bottom one. Deduct 20mm from this size and that's your finished gate size.

The height of the gate is entirely up to you. Standard gates are normally 1.8mH, however you can have whatever you like. Just remember that the gap will need to be approx 20mm up from the gate to allow for clearance.

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