Sliding Driveway Gate #2-1,
in Petaluma, CA (Sonoma County)
Single-Span Sliding Driveway Gate mounted onto an exposed steel frame.
--Illustrating a drive grade that slopes to the left, as well as down toward
the house. The Gate must slide open to the left, toward the dropping grade. And
because the slope is as much as 8", we have elected to follow that slope
in the gate construction, lest we're left with a sizable gap.
Three
options when presented with sloping grades:
1) Introduce a black rubber sweep dadoed to the bottom for drops
of 2-6".
2) 'Partial Racked', as shown here,
where the top rail is level, and the bottom rail runs parallel
to the slope, and consequently, the lower panels grows increasingly
longer. This
acknowledges the visual slope, but does not confuse our eye with how a
slope alone might distort the entire gate geometry.
Seen here: Driveway Gate 10
3) Severe slopes leaves us no alternative
but to create a full 'Full Racked', where
all horizontal rails are parallel to the sloping grade.
Seen here: Gate #78
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