Install Diagonal Anti-Sag Braces (X-Brace)

our folks let's talk reinforcement typically reinforcements of these skates to prevent them from sagging you want a reinforcing piece that runs from the PO side of the highest point clear across the entire gate towards the opposite end lower side this is your reinforcing piece that prevents your gate from sagging now in my situation I want to tackle two things make it aesthetically appealing kind of like a farmhouse you kind of look and number two give it extra reinforcement so I'm gonna do a double X reinforcement here to accomplish this if you don't have a protractor here's the dummy way of doing it take your 8 foot board of the 2x4 cedar lay it across exactly where you want that miter cut to go take a pencil establish the markings bring it to your miter saw or just use your circular saw establish that cut make sure it's nice and snug that way the screws can actually tighten everything together now for the second X with a second X we don't need to waste a nice long material of stock that we've already have the cedar instead I'm using scrap pieces and line it up exactly where I want to make this cut now I'm also gonna use a full 8 foot board just to make sure it's nice and straight establish those markings bring them to my saw establish the cut make sure it's snug cut make sure it's on the longer side instead of the shorter side again you want this method to be snug that way and I'll actually reinforce are you finally cleaning up my