We had a pair of old gates which had languished at the side of the house for goodness knows how long, probably removed from the driveway when the house became offices during the 1990`s. At first inspection we found the gates to be partly rotted where they had been stood on solid ground for years, first thoughts were to dispose of the gates and buy new, but against the advice of my sons who most definitley wanted me to throw them in the skip and buy new, consideration had to be given to restoring them. The romantic in me decided to restore and reposition at the end of the driveway to afford privacy and security to the rear of the building as originally intended.
After stripping the rotten panels we were surprised and encouraged to find we had a substantial hardwood frame, with some remedial work this would give us a good start, with a replacement support strut and a little care and attention we thought we could restore the old gate to its former glory so project gate restoration began.
All the metal fittings were carefully removed and shot blasted back to bare metal ready for re-painting in gloss black, new tongue and groove panelling was purchased to make good the gate ready for priming and gloss painting in a heritage green colour which would match the impressive front door.
The end result turned out quite well I think!
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