On Sat, 16 May 2009 09:57:00 -0700 (PDT), bryan
wrote:

Hi,

I need to put a small 48" high fence gate across a narrow (30 inches
or so) opening. It is between my house and separate garage.

Are you saying the gate has to be in the middle of the passage and not
at an open end?

What kind of gate do you want to use? And how thick is it? You'll
have to give up an amount of passage width as much as the thickness of
the gate. At least an inch right.

So you can mount some wood that is an inch thick and put the hinge on
that, so that the gate goes from an L relationship to the wood to an I
relationship when the gate is opened, and the whole thing is no
thicker than the gate part is.

The opening is so narrow, that I can't narrow it further with hinge
and latch posts.

I dealt with hinges above.

Latch posts? The standard black iron gate latch (with the black iron
gate handle) is desgned to screw on from the front or the side. You
can screw it right to the garage or house, or you can make your own
latch that is even narrower. Or you can use the kind that has a little
hole in the fence with a string running through it that pulls up the
latch.

You can attach everthing to the garage wall especially, which probably
isn't finished on the inside. If you need strength, you can back up
the wall on the inside with a 2x4 or something.

Or you can get --- don't know the name --- the kinds of hings that
have a big iron eye that screws into the wall, 2 of them, and two
L-shaped pieces, where the long side mounts to the gate and the short
ends go down into the open eyes. The metal rod that makes the eyes
and hooks is usually a half to 3/8" inch in diameter I think.

If you did this right, you would still lose the thickness of the
gate** when the gate was open, but when looked at from side A,
assuming the gate opened in the direction of side B, you might not
need to see any hinge or anything other than the gate at all. The L
piece would be on the back of the gate, mounted a half inch back, to
allow room for half of the eye. Again you'd back up the garage wall
on the back with a twox4 to hold eyes which hold the weight of the
gate.

**The gate plus the hinge at one end, just the gate at the other end.
..

Can anyone think of a small gate kit (either wooden, iron, PVC, or
aluminum) on the market?

Or I can build one. Any thoughts on making it roll? Should I keep it
within a frame?