The gates of a private house or cottage are the first to welcome guests. They should look nice and harmonize with the entire design of the site.
By design, the gates for summer cottages can be swing, sliding, automatic and with manual drive. As a rule, they are made of sandwich panels, corrugated board or wood. The most popular swing structures. This is a two-leaf product consisting of a supporting frame and its lining. Such designs open both inward and outward.
Advantages that swing gates have for giving:
- simple, strong and reliable design;
- installation of the drive allows you to remotely control the opening and closing of the valves;
- when choosing a good cladding and after painting, they have a respectable appearance;
- convenience in operation.
Disadvantage: require a lot of space when opening.
Sliding gates for giving are becoming more widespread . A guide is mounted in a special foundation along the fence along which the panel moves on rollers. Their main advantage is space saving. There is no contact with the ground, which does not cause difficulties when they open in any weather, even in heavy snow. Facing is selected for the design of the fence and facade of the house. Typically, such devices operate in automatic mode, but sometimes the progress of the car is controlled by a built-in photocell.
The disadvantage of such designs is the higher cost associated with a large number of components.
Most often, gates for summer cottages are made of corrugated board - a metal building material with high rates of strength and durability. To increase resistance to adverse external factors, its surface is coated with a different color with a polymer coating, which increases the mechanical strength indicators.
Using corrugated board gives the gate practicality during operation, ease of processing. Products look modern and beautiful. They can easily be made independently by the owner of the site. Such gates for summer cottages can be both sliding and swinging, and rotary-lifting.
Benefits:
- Relatively light weight, which allows to simplify the delivery and installation of the structure, and when installing the drive, you can buy it less powerful, and therefore cheaper;
- durability. The correct technology for manufacturing the material allows a service life of up to 25 years. No special care is required, the design tolerates adverse weather conditions;
- beautiful appearance. They fit perfectly into any site design. It goes well with natural stone, facing bricks, ceramic tiles or metal.
- The relatively low price allows them to be widely used.
For the convenience of getting to your site, a gate is made for giving with a gate, which can be mounted in a sectional frame or stand separately. The second option is more complicated. In this case, it is additionally necessary to carry out the whole range of works on its installation.
Advantages of a door with a built-in gate:
- no need to install it separately;
- at the entrance, exit is not required to open the gate;
- cheaper installation of a gate.
Disadvantages:
- weakening of the gate structure;
- the threshold creates some inconvenience, you can not ride a bicycle or drive a car.