Gates

Gates

If a fence is going to fail somewhere, it fails at the gate. It's the only part with moving loads, and it's the part you touch every day.

Why ours don't sag

A wood gate frame is a rectangle held together at the corners, hung off one edge, and swung several thousand times a year. Over time the corners work loose and the rectangle becomes a parallelogram. That's the sag. It isn't bad building, it's geometry plus weather.

We build gate frames from 16 gauge welded steel, powder coated black, hung on steel gate posts rated to 112 mph. The frame doesn't rack, so the gate keeps its shape. When the pickets eventually weather, you re-picket the same frame.

The manufacturer warrants these frames for a limited lifetime. Same terms as the posts: original residential purchaser, replacement material, coastal environments excluded.

A wood gate with vertical boards and rounded tops, hung on black steel posts with black strap hinges and a black thumb latch handle, set over a concrete pad.

What we build

Single walk gates, double drive gates, and oversized entry gates for farm and property entrances. Commercial grade hinges and latches on everything, self closing and self latching where pool code requires it.

Two horizontal slat wood gate leaves on black steel posts, with ornate black strap hinges on the centre post and a black latch with a drop rod on the adjoining leaf.
A gate leaf part way through assembly: a black steel perimeter frame with timber rails across the top, middle and bottom, filled with vertical boards, and black hinges and a latch fitted to one stile.
Close view of a wood gate built from vertical boards, with two black strap hinges and a black lever latch, framed by a capped top rail and set against a painted brick wall.

Gate sagging already?

If an existing gate has dropped, tell us what it's hung on. Call or email and we'll tell you whether it's worth re-hanging or worth rebuilding.

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