Introduction

Gates with Face Mounted Aluminium Slats have the slats screwed Horizontally or Vertically to the front of a No-weld box section frame with screws coming from the back through the frame concealed with clip on covers giving a unique clean look possible only because there are no welds and no screws visible. Swing gates can go up to 4m wide x 2m high and sliding gates 6m wide x 2m high. Gates wider than 1.5m with slats fitted horizontally require one or more middle stiles (as illustrated) fitted every 1.5m or so.

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Sliding gates do require a sliding gate channel see No-weld sliding gates and No-weld Telescopic Sliding Gates to learn more.

No-weld frames and aluminium slats may have many different finishes  READ MORE

What's included in a No-weld Face Mounted Slat Gate DIY Kit?

Kits come pre-cut and drilled ready to assemble. Gates with horizontal and Vertical slats available.

Getting a Quote and Ordering

You can get an instant quote for a DIY gate kit or if there's an installer in your area full installation from one of our Instant Quote pages:

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Things to Consider 

Slat widths. The most popular slat width is 65mm, which is 16mm thick but you can also have 38mm, 90mm, 100mm or 150mm wide slats all 16mm thick.

Gate Height or Width verses Slat Gap. No-weld Face Mounted Slat Gates can have any gap or no gap at all.

The exact gap depends on how the slats fit into the chosen height or width, if you want a gate 1500mm high with 20mm gaps you will require 18 x 65mm slats with an actual gap of 17.368mm.

If there's no gap at all the exact height of the gate will be determined by the slat count. That is if you want a gate 1500mm high using 65mm wide slats with no gap you will need 23 x slats, which will be 1495mm high if they are mill finish. If powder coated this adds 0.3mm per slat, which may not seem much more but the extra 0.3mm x 23 = 6.9mm so the gate will in fact be 1501.9mm high. The stiles would need to be cut to this length. 

Making No-weld Face Mounted Slat Gate Kits yourself.

If you're in the gate or fence business and want to save money as well as get jobs done faster (customers like it done fast), you can do so by making No-weld slat gate kits up yourself. All you need is a good mitre saw, lengths of No-weld framing, slats and hardware. If you keep No-weld materials in stock you could custom make slat gate kits up yourself in a matter of hours onsite, assemble them and then install, so you don't need a workshop just somewhere to store the material and a suitable vehicle. This will give you a significant edge over your competition both time wise and price wise.  

You can order No-weld framing, slats and hardware at the No-weld Online Shop.  

Making these gates requires mitred cuts, for technique on how to mitre cut No-weld Framing accurately and cleanly with no burrs and drill holes for corner brackets see our our Guide to Cutting and Drilling No-weld Framing. There are other styles of gates too see What can be Made with No-weld. 

Trade Customers 

If you become one of our trade customers we can pass work onto you for free for No-weld gates, infill panels and fencing. You can either work as a fabricator only for others to install or as a fabricator and installer. See below on how No-weld On Frame slat gates are assembled.

For more information see our No-weld for Trade and Wholesale page 

Place the pre-cut and drilled frame members on clean blocks of polystyrene foam or similar non-scratching material laid out on a flat surface with the open back faces up.

Frame members will have holes pre-drilled into their open back for the corner brackets and for screws to go through the frame to the front wall so the slats can be screwed on from the back and screws not seen.

Corner brackets are required to hold the frame together. These are fitted by sliding them into the ends of the top and bottom rails to begin with, which have grooves in both sides to help guide the bracket in.

Then slide the stiles onto the corner brackets of the top rail. The stiles also have grooves either side to help guide the brackets in. 

Gates with horizontal slats wider than 1.5mm require one or more middle stiles (one every 1.5m or so) that are screwed to the frame with small angle brackets pre-fitted to the main frame. Slide the top of any middle stiles onto these brackets.

Then slide the bottom rail onto the end stiles followed by any middle stiles.

Then fit four larger tek screws into each corner bracket using a cordless drill in the pattern illustrated to hold the frame together for now. 

Once screwed together check the diagonals of the frame to make sure it is square, if not loosen all bracket screws, adjust the diagonals so they are the same then tighten the screws back up again. The rest of the screws can now be fitted.

Lay all the slats with caps already fitted down on two lengths of non-scratching material flat on the ground. Carefully measure the position of the slats to get their spacing correct.

Place the frame on top of the slats making sure the slats align with it correctly then screw the slats on from behind checking the alignment of the slats as you go. There will be two screws either edge of each slat per frame member.

Covers are then clipped into the back of the frame to cover the screws. See Guide to Fitting No-weld Hardware for technique on how to do this. 

Once the covers are fitted hardware such as hinges, latch, stop or guide rail can be fitted to the back of the frame. See Guide to Fitting No-weld Hardware.