Timeline for Metal gate in hot weather
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| Jul 19, 2011 at 15:32 | comment | added | Piotr Kula | Yea- your posts subsided most problably because of the severe hot conditions and caused the sand to 'shrink' - usually means that the ground before foundation was not compacted properly.. You might have to take down the affected post and redo it- make sure to properly compact the ground under it with materials that struggle to adsorb water- eg old rubble,stones, etc. water it- wait 1 or 2 days (in hot conditions) let dry then rebuild the post... | |
| Jul 19, 2011 at 14:11 | vote | accept | btt | ||
| Jul 19, 2011 at 14:11 | comment | added | btt | This gate is 36" wide. I just measured both the top and the bottom, and both are 36" exactly. I also measured the top and bottom of the gateway between the posts, and it is an inch more narrow at the top than the bottom, so I suspect it is indeed movement of the posts. That's disappointing because that seems a lot more difficult to get repaired. | |
| Jul 19, 2011 at 13:50 | comment | added | Piotr Kula | yea im talking about mm - black was a very popular colour for gates- and the longest ones I installed was a pair of 4.5metres long and 2.4m High that made an isolation cage between the farm and public road. :D on a private game lodge in the centre of the scorching bush.. no problem till today :) | |
| Jul 19, 2011 at 10:25 | comment | added | Ian Turner | @ppumkin, that is a fair point although issues such as the amount of shade, the material for the gate, the surface colour of the gate, the temperature when the gate was installed etc. can all have an effect so what happens to one won't necesserily happen to another. The amount of thermal movement would however be expected to be small, measured in mm rather than cm. | |
| Jul 19, 2011 at 9:38 | comment | added | Piotr Kula | yea i agree- but mostly with the actual posts moving. In South Africa we also got about 104f and I dealt with metal structures and gates and the expansion/contraction was not that bad. Are you talking about several inches/cm? | |
| Jul 19, 2011 at 8:10 | history | edited | ChrisF♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2011 at 8:09 | history | answered | Ian Turner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |