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Gates: A Guide to Choosing the Right Type for Your Home
Start here to choose a gate for your house: measure the opening, think about traffic and privacy, match your style, and check the rules before you buy.
Gates and Entrances
Gate Buying Tips
How to choose a gate for a house, driveway or lot.
10 Affordable Gate Options for Your Home
Ten lower-cost gate types and finishes, from pressure-treated wood to galvanized chain link and kits, with the trade-offs of each and no price figures.
Gates and Fences: A Guide to Choosing the Right Combination
Pair a gate with the fence beside it so height, material, color and post spacing read as one line, and so the gate works as well as it looks.
Gates for Driveways: A Guide to Choosing the Right One
Choose between swing and sliding gates for a vehicle entrance by weighing slope, setback space, how often cars pass and the safety features automatic gates need.
How to Choose the Right Gate for Your Property
Read your whole lot before choosing a gate: boundary shape, neighbors, buried utilities and the paths people actually use to approach the property.
How to Choose the Right Type of Gate for Your Home
Compare how single swing, double swing, sliding and folding gates operate, and which daily habits and spaces each one suits best.
Tips for Choosing the Right Gate for Your Property
A short, ordered checklist of questions to settle before you compare gates: rules, purpose, opening, use, privacy, upkeep and budget.
Tips for Selecting the Right Gate for Your Home
Judge a gate by hinges, latches, frame bracing and finish quality, the details that decide whether it hangs true and lasts for years.
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