Automatic gates and security solutions

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Installation

Automatic Gate Installation

Swing, sliding and bi-folding automation designed around your entrance, your traffic and your site. Supplied, installed and certified.

Mesh sliding gate on its track at the entrance to a distribution yard

An automated entrance is only as good as the survey behind it. We start on site: gate weight and leaf length, ground levels and fall, post condition, duty cycle, power routes and how vehicles and people actually approach the opening. That determines the operator, not the other way round.

We install electromechanical and hydraulic systems from the manufacturers we trust to still be serviceable in ten years (CAME, BFT, FAAC, Nice, Roger Technology and Ditec) across underground, articulated-arm, linear ram and sliding rack configurations. Where an entrance sees heavy or continuous use, we specify to duty cycle rather than to the lowest price.

Every installation is handed over with a risk assessment, force-test results, a declaration of conformity and a documented handover. That is not an optional extra on a powered gate; it is what makes the installation legal.

What this covers

  • Site survey, load calculation and operator specification
  • Swing gate automation: underground, articulated arm and linear ram
  • Sliding gate automation with rack, post and ground-track works
  • Bi-folding and speed-gate installations for restricted openings
  • New gate fabrication and installation, steel or timber
  • Automation of existing manual gates where the structure allows
  • Groundworks, ducting, foundations and 230V supply coordination
  • Photocells, safety edges, warning beacons and induction loops
  • Force testing, risk assessment and declaration of conformity
  • Handover, user training and documentation pack

Specified to duty cycle

A domestic operator fitted to a site with two hundred movements a day will fail, and it will fail out of warranty. We size the motor to the actual traffic and tell you the honest cost of doing it once.

Compliant from day one

A powered gate is machinery under the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008. Ours leave site force-tested to BS EN 12453 with the paperwork to prove it.

Serviceable in ten years

We install mainstream European hardware with a UK parts chain, so the system can be maintained by anyone competent, not just by us.

Installation we have installed

  • Black vertical-bar swing gates on a gravel entrance to a rural property
  • Large cantilever sliding gate closing an industrial access road, with a rising-arm barrier alongside
  • Black bar gate and matching railings at a contemporary home, with a flush-mounted entry keypad on the pier
  • Vertical-bar boundary railings and automated gate across a new block-paved driveway
  • Mesh-infill sliding gate at the entrance to a commercial unit
  • Pair of mesh-infill swing gates across a commercial site entrance

Need installation?

Surveys are free and quotations are itemised. Tell us about the entrance and we will come and look at it.

Recent work

Related jobs we have done

  • Long mesh sliding gate spanning a wide yard entrance
    IndustrialNottingham

    Sliding gate on a continuous-duty distribution yard

    The brief
    A 9m cantilever sliding gate on a yard turning around 300 vehicle movements a day. The previous domestic-grade operator had failed twice in eighteen months.
    What we did
    Heavy-duty sliding operator specified to continuous duty, new ground track and drainage, induction loops for free exit and HGV detection, traffic lights on the pedestrian crossing point. Now on a quarterly maintenance cycle.
  • Timber gates with intercom and keypad at the entrance to a rural property
    DomesticLeicestershire

    Rural swing gates with solar-assisted operation

    The brief
    A farmhouse 180m from the nearest practical mains point, where trenching a supply to the entrance was quoted higher than the gates themselves.
    What we did
    24V DC underground operators on solar with battery backup, GSM video intercom on a mobile signal rather than a wired handset run. Full automatic operation with no trenching and no supply upgrade.

Get a quote for automatic gate installation

Tell us about the entrance and we will come and look at it. Surveys are free and quotations are itemised.