Thanking you in anticipation. Skip to content. Search Search our store. Unless the doors are truly heavy, a pair of hinges will be just fine. My answer is that there are no hard and fast rules. Whatever works best for you. Suggestion: Bend the hinge at 90 degrees and offer it up to the inside edge of the door surround not traditionally laying flat on the surround face. Mark around the hinge and chisel out a rebate.
Fix the hinge in place. Comments Leave a comment Name. RIchard Spall on Apr 27, I found this article very helpful, especially the remarks about the various ways to attach the hinge to the door frame. Spotlight On.
Read Article Read Article. House Tours. All Rights Reserved. Site by BAO. Strap hinges make an impression in a way that butt hinges do not. Strap hinges are usually comprised of a strap and pintle.
Ordinarily the pintle is attached to the gate post and the strap is attached to the gate. Strap hinges are visible when the gate is closed, so they add to the appearance of the gate. See our selection of strap hinges. There are a few variations in the category of heavy duty gate strap hinge. One is the H hinge , which is a hybrid of a butt hinge and strap hinge. Along the same vein, we have sets of stainless steel lag pintles and center hinges , which are visible when the gate is closed, but are also modest in size.
Butt hinges are the type of hinge you see on your bedroom and bathroom door. They do the job and keep to themselves—the only visible part of the hinge is the cylindrical barrel. Available sizes are mm, mm, mm, mm, mm and mm. Available finishes are galvanised, black, premium black and stainless steel, though not all sizes are available in all finishes. As with the Band and Gudgeon hinges, normal domestic use is one third the width of each gate.
For heavy duty use, then half the width of each gate. Again, for anything over mm 7ft high, then a third adjustable hinge should be added. Reversible hinges differ from the Band and Gudgeon hinges, as the pin is actually attached to the band. Rather than having a hinge plate, you have two hinge cups that sit above and below the hinge pin. Again, a surface mounted hinge, the band and cups attach to the gate or door with screws and like with both the adjustable and Band and Gudgeon hinges there is a coach bolt to go through the hinge and out the other side of the gate or door.
As with all the hinges above tee hinges excepted , you just need to drill the coach bolt hole with a bit of care. They are a bit nicer looking Phwoar! Finish-wise, the reversible hinges are available in galvanised, black, premium black black over galvanised.
As the name suggests, traditionally used on Field gates and the great thing about these is depending on how you fit them they can allow the gates to swing both ways! Unlike all the other hinges mentioned above, field gate hinges wrap around the gates, which is why they are also known as wrap around hinges. This is due to the fact that on a field gate, the top hinge sits on the gate stile vertical upright and along the top rail.
The bottom hinge only has the gate stile to sit on, so is shorter. So when purchasing field gate hinges in sets, bear in mind that the size given is usually the length of the top hinge. A hinge packer would usually be in the same timber as your gates are made from. The sets being:. These are similar to the Band and Gudgeon hinges in that you have the hinge that wraps around the gate and then you have a mm square plate with the hook or hinge pin upon it, which fixes to the gate post.
Top hinge is the same between these and the aformentioned field gate hinge sets on square plates; however, the bottom hinge is in two pieces and clamps around the heel bottom of the gate stile vertical upright. The bottom hinge then has a bolt tightened through it which also allows adjustment of the gate, so again you can move the gate around once fitted, though only from the bottom hinge as the top hinge is fixed.
These are as above, but rather than having square plates to hang the gates from, you have a hook to drive and hook to bolt. The hook to drive is a fearsome looking pointy thing technical term! Hook to drive is usually used for the bottom hinge. The hook to bolt is a long threaded bar with a hook on one end. The threaded bar goes through the post after a hole has been drilled, a bolt is then tightened to secure the hook to bolt in position.
The field gate hinges and hinge sets can be found in the Field gate and equestrian section of our shop. Below is a list for applicable hinges and the sizes of the pins. All sizes are correct at time of writing this!
Both the adjustable hinges and band and gudgeon hinges can be lifted from the hinge pins if somebody is determined enough to do it. It does tend to be more of an issue on smaller pedestrian gates than larger driveway gates but fear not, you can stay one step ahead of this by simply fixing the top hinge pin upside down. Again this can be a problem; you can get around this by substituting a couple of the screws for coach bolts making sure the bolts tighten on the inside or by using anti-vandal non-removable screws.
As an extra security layer on outward opening garage doors, it is recommended that you fit hinge bolts. These are protruding bolts that sit in the edge of the door one just below the top hinge, one just above the bottom hinge and as the doors close they locate into a receiver in the door frame.
These are very inexpensive to buy and quite simple to fit. Due to the amount of garage doors we make, I always recommend these yet few people want them! Once the mortar has dried, you can hang your gates!
All sizes given above have been checked by ourselves and our suppliers and are correct at time of writing. Is there such a thing as a cranked reversible hinge? I want to fix hinges to a length of wood that is fixed flush with the front of my house, so that the gate can open outwards. I wanted the gate to be flush with the front of those, hence a cranked hinge, but as the hinge is on the outside, I wanted to make sure it was secure i.
Is there another hinge that would do this? A normal reversible hinge will allow the gate to sit flush with the gate post, as will the adjustable gate hinges. Thanks for the in-depth blog about hinges. Wondered if you can help, all the gates you have on here, all the hinges are. The field gate hinges however are hung from the middle of the inside post. Can you suggest another hinge that I could use so the hinge is coming from inside the post not at the back. Many thanks. Thank you for a very detailed guide to gate hinges.
My question is: how does adding a gate castor affect the size and number of hinges required? Thank you.
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