Gates

Gates can be designed to blend in with or to complement your fence. Garden or entry gates offer an opportunity to dress your fence up, to blend in or to punctuate a long fenceline and to draw the eye.

Driveway gates need a little more thought. There are two main ways of engineering driveway gates: swing and slide. Driveway gates are also a major candidate for automation.

Automation

What a wonderful world we live in when we can press a button and the gates open to welcome us home.

Swinging and sliding gates can both be automated. The remotes for automatic gates can generally be integrated with the existing remotes of roller or panel lift garage doors.

Most automated gates are powered by 24 Volt motors. A low voltage line is run back to the house to source the power and a transformer is located in a weather proof enclosure close to a power point.

Swinging gates with two leaves need power to both sides of the entry to drive both units; sliding gates only need power to the side the gate slides into.

When gates are automated insurance companies will consider them locked; adding to the security of your home.

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  Swinging gates

  • Tradtional
  • Require extra room for gates to close
  • Can be automated

  There is nothing more gracious than passing through a pair of automatic swing gates.

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  Sliding Gates

  • Allow for extra parking
  • Run on a roller on a convex track
  • Require less space than swinging gates

  With higher density living and security being a high priority, a sliding gate can often be installed where a swinging gate will not work.