You're standing in the hardware aisle on Saturday morning, latch in hand, because your vinyl gate caught fine last month and now it bounces open unless you lift it and push. That doesn't always mean the latch wore out. It often means the gate moved, the post settled, or you bought a side-yard latch for […]
Most advice on a self-closing and self-latching gate gets the first half right and the second half wrong. People shop for a spring hinge, watch the gate swing shut, and assume the job is done. It isn't. A gate that swings closed but doesn't secure itself is still a failure point. Around pools, that mistake […]