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The top of the gate has a strip of copper over the top of it to keep water out of the end grain on the vertical stiles.
The fact that it uses a standard door latch rather than a gate latch means the fit has to be more precise, and they sold that as a feature. But they didn’t sell the joints on the gate loosening up enough that it would no longer latch after four years. I wonder if they used TB I instead of II or III.
The cable and turnbuckle fix was what I initially went shopping for, but this looked a lot more appealing to my sweetie, so here we are.
As for making a replacement, I also need to make or buy two new doors for my shop due to poor fit on the doors there from the same (out of business) company, and that’s a bigger deal, because the current doors let any rain falling when there’s an east wind in to ruin the shop floor right inside the door.
The fact that it uses a standard door latch rather than a gate latch means the fit has to be more precise, and they sold that as a feature. But they didn’t sell the joints on the gate loosening up enough that it would no longer latch after four years. I wonder if they used TB I instead of II or III.
The cable and turnbuckle fix was what I initially went shopping for, but this looked a lot more appealing to my sweetie, so here we are.
As for making a replacement, I also need to make or buy two new doors for my shop due to poor fit on the doors there from the same (out of business) company, and that’s a bigger deal, because the current doors let any rain falling when there’s an east wind in to ruin the shop floor right inside the door.
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