The garden gate is an important part of a home, and it requires the suitable hinges. To homeowners, investing in high-quality hinges ensures smooth operation, durability, and security for your garden gate entry.

It is common to use traditional spring hinges for garden gate entry, but over time they eventually fail to function effectively. Some hinges are too small and weak to hold the gate’s weight, leading to sagging. Many are not weatherproof, resulting in rusty, corroded, and squeaky closure. Additionally, some traditional spring hinges won’t close properly, compromising safety.

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What Features Your Garden Gate Entry Hinges Should Have

There are 3 important features the garden gate hinges should have to ensure an optimal functionality.

1) Weatherproof

The garden gate is constantly exposed to a variety of environmental conditions, like UV rays from the sun, rain, and humidity. If the garden gate entry hinges are not made of weatherproof material, it will eventually malfunction. It is recommended to find hinges that are weatherproof with warranty to guarantee long term use.

2) Heavy Duty

To prevent sagging and misalignment, the garden gate entry hinges must be heavy duty to support its weight. Moreover, they provide the necessary durability for frequent gate operation.

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3) Spring Loaded Mechanism

To enhance safety at the garden gate entry, the spring-loaded mechanism is necessary.
This mechanism provides a self-closing operation that maintains a perfect gate closure every time, preventing unwanted entry while providing convenience.

All-in-One Solution for Your Garden Gate Entry

Waterson self closing spring gate hinges are designed to provide a perfect closure of garden gate entry, giving durability and functionality with more features than expected:

  • Load Bearing Capacity: Waterson hinges efficiently support significant loads – three hinges can bear over 260 lbs, and four hinges up to 440 lbs.
  • Soft Closing and Anti-Slam: Protect the door and frame from sudden impacts, preventing injuries and eliminating disruptive slamming noises with controlled closure
  • Durable Material: Made with 304 and 316 stainless steel, corrosion-resistant, and guaranteed by the warranty for heavy, long-term use.
  • Low Force Opening: Hinges that allow smooth and effortless door operation, enhancing user experience, especially in high-traffic areas.
  • Adjustability: Allows precise control over door-closing speed with 3 adjustable settings to meet specific requirements in garden applications.
  • Sleek and concealed design: Enhances the aesthetic appeal while maintaining functionality in outdoor garden environments.

With Waterson self closing gate hinges, the garden gate entry will be corrosion free, durable, and perfectly closed too.
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Besides the garden gate entry application, Waterson Hinges has been trusted in various other specific applications such as for soft closing church doors.

Usually a garden gate will have two spring gate hinges. However, depend on the specification of each door will have different hinge ranges & applications.
Use hydraulic spring gate hinges with Oil-controlled dynamic braking responds effectively to sudden wind changes without leakage.

Waterson Self Closing Spring Hinges for Classroom Doors

Waterson self closing spring hinge combine an overhead closer and hinge into one attractive component with optional hold-open and door-stop features. These hinges are ideal for commercial openings, gates, and glass doors. The hinges are easily installed and adjusted to comply with ADA & ICC A117.1 requirements for opening force and to assure quiet, secure closing. Made with stainless steel, Waterson soft close door hinges meet NFPA 80 and are UL 3-hour fire-rated, as well as being suitable for both interior and all-weather exterior openings. See all our features.

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Please note that Waterson closer hinges start from a size of 4″x4″. If you’re in need of smaller self-closing hinges, we’d recommend checking out some other resources! Also, we only provide single acting closer hinges. Thank you.

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