Cedar or Redwood, we prefer to use a much higher quality wood for our gates as well. We take pride in standing behind our values of delivering quality by the means of using this heavier/more expensive Mahogany wood as opposed to the softer/cheaper Cedar/Redwood. We use Mahogany wood for some of the same reasons that major door manufacturers use Mahogany.

Some our reasons are as follows:

When selecting Mahogany boards to be used for a gate, we look at each board for certain wood grain patterns to use, as well as wood grain patterns to stay away from. A particular board that appears to be nice and straight one day may warp or twist in the future after your gate has been installed. This can become quite a headache as door locks may not work properly. This can be due to not knowing and /or selecting a poor wood grain pattern.

The “Barn Door” type of hinge CLICK HERE FOR SAMPLE is commonly found on an economy line of gates, and is a surface mounted hinge that is screwed to one of the outside faces of the gate. This type of hinge lends itself to a much quicker installation as the gate can easily be positioned from right to left or even up or down , before the gate is secured into it’s final position, as opposed to the timely calculations of the standard door hanging process. The type of door securing hardware that is normally used in conjuction with the common gate hinge or “Barn Door Hinge”, is typically a simple metal handle that has a thumb latch to open the gate CLICK HERE FOR SAMPLE, or even more simple, a common gate latch that has a string coming through a small hole in the gate in which you can pull on this string to open the gate.