Automatic gates and security solutions
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New automatic gates, barriers and access systems designed and installed for domestic, commercial and industrial sites. Plus the servicing, repairs and compliance testing to keep them running.
Most of our work is specifying and installing new automatic gates, barriers and access systems. We also service, repair and certify what is already there.
Swing, sliding and bi-folding automation designed around your entrance, your traffic and your site. Supplied, installed and certified.
Read moreBring an ageing or non-compliant system up to current safety standards without replacing the gate itself.
Read moreFault diagnosis that finds the cause, not just the symptom, with out-of-hours attendance when an entrance has failed shut or failed open.
Read morePlanned maintenance that keeps the system safe, keeps the documentation current and catches wear before it becomes a callout.
Read moreControl who gets in, from a single video intercom on a private drive to credential-managed access across a multi-site estate.
Read moreRising-arm barriers, automatic bollards and road blockers for car parks, service yards and sites that need vehicles managed rather than stopped.
Read moreIndependent force testing, risk assessment and documentation: the evidence that your powered gate meets its legal obligations.
Read moreNot because they are badly built, but because nobody measured the forces or wrote anything down. If the public, residents or your staff can reach the gate, that gap is your liability.
We carry out independent inspection and calibrated impact force testing, and issue a report you can act on, whether or not you use us for the remedial work.
BS EN 12453
Safety in use of power operated gates
Sets the maximum impact forces a powered gate may exert and how they must be measured. This is what force testing tests against.
BS EN 13241
Product standard for industrial and garage doors and gates
Covers the product requirements a powered gate installation has to meet before it can be placed into service.
SMSR 2008
Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations
A powered gate is machinery. It must be risk-assessed, safeguarded, and supplied with a declaration of conformity.
HSWA 1974
Health and Safety at Work Act
Whoever controls the site has an ongoing duty to keep the gate safe in use, not just at the point it was installed.
Every installation and upgrade runs the same sequence, so you always know what stage the job is at and what has been proved before we leave.
Locations are kept to town level, standard practice on security work.
Our workshop sits in south Leicestershire, which puts Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Birmingham within easy reach. Sheffield, Manchester and London are covered on planned maintenance rounds, with project and contract work taken on further afield.
Yes. A powered gate is classed as machinery under the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008, which requires it to be risk-assessed, safeguarded and supplied with a declaration of conformity. Impact forces are measured against the limits set out in BS EN 12453 using calibrated test equipment. If a gate can be reached by the public, by residents, by children or by employees, whoever is responsible for the site also has a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act to keep it safe in use. We carry out the testing and issue the documentation.
Yes. We run an out-of-hours emergency callout for gates that have failed open or failed shut, so a fault outside office hours is dealt with rather than logged for the next working day. How soon we can be with you depends on where the site is and what else is running, so we will tell you honestly when you call rather than quote a blanket figure. Sites on a maintenance contract take priority over ad-hoc callouts. If the entrance is insecure right now, phone rather than using the contact form.
Yes. Most of our repair work is on systems we did not install. We work on all the mainstream manufacturers including CAME, BFT, FAAC, Nice, Ditec and Roger Technology, and on older or discontinued boards where a like-for-like replacement is no longer made. In those cases we will tell you honestly whether a sympathetic repair or a control-board retrofit is the better value.
It depends on the gate, the ground and the traffic, so we quote after a site survey rather than over the phone. As a rough guide, automating a pair of sound existing swing gates on a domestic driveway is the least expensive option; a new sliding gate with groundworks, ducting, a new power supply and access control is considerably more. What we will not do is quote a low figure and then discover the groundworks. The survey is free and the quotation is itemised so you can see what each element costs.
Annually as a minimum for a lightly used private driveway. Six-monthly for commercial sites and anywhere the public or residents can reach the gate. Quarterly for high-traffic industrial entrances. Frequency is driven by duty cycle and by who uses the entrance: the more movements and the more untrained users, the more often it needs checking. Every service visit should include a re-test of the impact forces, because they drift as the gate wears.
Tell us about the entrance and we will come and look at it, then specify the gate and operator that suit the opening, the traffic and the site. Surveys are free and quotations are itemised.
