Awkward size to build a side gate?

[NHW]

This is the side of my house. Having abit of work done with resin at the moment. After it's been poured and it has set id need to make a side-gate.

The only support that I have on the right side would basically be the concrete fence posts me and my neighbour share. Which isn't a problem but moreso the height, as they are only 1.5m in height, meaning technically most people can just look over the gate (not that there's anything to actually see).

my thing is moreso that the gate would look wider than it is taller, when most gates are the opposite.

I also have 2 options whether to fix the framing to either the chimney stack which makes it a little less wide or the house itself (measurements shown in pic)

With both options I feel like I'd still have to have 2 doors (open from the middle) and not just 1 door because I feel that would just look abit too big and also stability-wise it may be too heavy. Something like this :

But problem with this type of door also is that I wouldn't want to drill a hole into the ground for the bottom latch because it would be resin.

Any better/further ideas I could think of? Thanks in advance for any advice

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

You really ought to have sorted this out, long before progressing to foundations for the resin. You cannot hang a gate from the fence post, because the weight on one side will likely cause it to eventually tilt. Any post you add, depending upon depth, might well do the same, unless you make that side a none opening 'gate'.

If both sides really must open, then one way to allow that, is by digging below the path, to form a wide !____! with a concrete base. The !, being the gate hinge posts.

 

[Tigercubrider]

You could build a “goal post” system so there is a rail 6 feet 6 off the ground
Then one gate can be left closed unless needed.
One post could be screwed to the house, the other (maybe ) to the fence post and the horizontal acts to brace the fence side.

The horizontal need not be a massive timber, it could be a 25 or 35 mm metal tube with key clamp type fixings. That way it’s still removable if a digger or similar needed access.

 

[foxhole]

Agree with Tiger, you can put a decent timber over the top and secure gates there rather than into ground.

 

[NHW]

You really ought to have sorted this out, long before progressing to foundations for the resin. You cannot hang a gate from the fence post, because the weight on one side will likely cause it to eventually tilt. Any post you add, depending upon depth, might well do the same, unless you make that side a none opening 'gate'.

If both sides really must open, then one way to allow that, is by digging below the path, to form a wide !____! with a concrete base. The !, being the gate hinge posts.

Thank you for that info, it's helped me think about just having 1 opening gate and I guess I could alter the size of the moving one to whatever dimensions I wish so it's not exactly 50/50, just so I have a wider moving gate.

 

[NHW]

You could build a “goal post” system so there is a rail 6 feet 6 off the ground
Then one gate can be left closed unless needed.
One post could be screwed to the house, the other (maybe ) to the fence post and the horizontal acts to brace the fence side.

The horizontal need not be a massive timber, it could be a 25 or 35 mm metal tube with key clamp type fixings. That way it’s still removable if a digger or similar needed access.

Ahhhhhhh, thank you for this suggestion. Never thought about this to be honest, especially regarding the metal top bracket to act as a brace and like you said if any equipment needs to come in. But tbh the whole of the back has been redone already so I'm 'hoping' there's never a need for a digger to go back there again haha

So the moving side would be the side closest to the house wall and the side on the fence side would be non-movable. I'm guessing I can also do like a 60/40 split instead of exactly 50/50. Just so I have a larger moving side?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Bi-fold gates would work but they need to be built very well.

 

[Tigercubrider]

You could use any % split of gates that you want.
If the bar above doesn’t need to move, many people around where I live make the bar support a tiny sloped and tiled “roof” , which also discourages climbing over.
Personally I would tend to hinge the lesser used side rather than fix it.
Almost all of our doors ant work are 2/3 split - Allowing bigger access now and again.
It could bolt to the ground and to the overhead if you want.