How to Build an Iron Gate

An iron gate is beautiful and can be incorporated into any type of landscape. Iron gates or timeless and with some minor maintenance, mainly just painting, it will last forever. Driveways are a great place for an iron gate as it symbolizes the entrance to your home.

Things you’ll need:

• Shovel


• Cement


• Yard stick


• Tape measure


• Sandpaper


• Primer and paint


• Wheel barrow

1. Locate a level hard surface to place the new iron gate. A driveway is ideal but as long as the landscape is suitable you can build the iron gate anywhere.


2. Measure the area that you will be placing the iron gate and mark it down on a piece of paper. Decide if you will be designing your own gate or if you will be choosing a pattern out of a book.


3. Order the gate and start to prepare the area that you will be placing it.


4. Dig post holes at least 3 feet deep and 8 inches in diameter.


5. Mix your cement in your wheel barrow using a shovel as a mixer. Just follow the manufacturer's suggestions on the consistency you need.


6. Place the iron gate poles in the post holes and start to fill around them with cement.


7. Assemble the gate per the manufacturer's recommendations. You may want to ask for some help from a friend as iron pieces can be extremely heavy. You will need them for the extra support.


8. Sand the iron gate to make sure that it is ready for you to paint. Wipe it off so that no dust is left on the gate because paint will not stick to dirt.


9. Prime the new iron gate and paint it. Allow to dry thoroughly before you try it out. It is probably a good idea to paint the gate while it is open so that it does not stick closed when the paint dries.