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This side driveway in St. Johns was three pieces in one project: a driveway gate, the fence beside it, and a pedestrian gate.
All three were built in cedar inside black steel frames, and all three went up in a single day. A week later we came back, mounted the control box on the house wall, and added LiftMaster LA400UL swing operators to the driveway gate.
The driveway gate is now automatic, and the fence and pedestrian gate match it.
More on this kind of job: read our guides, Wood, steel, or aluminum gates and What a driveway gate costs.
Services on this job: Gate installation, Custom fabrication, Openers & automation. More about our work in St. Johns.
Good to know
Yes. We fit the pedestrian gate with an electric strike or magnetic lock and wire it into your existing access controller. DoorKing, LiftMaster, and Linear systems all support multiple entry points on one set of codes and credentials. If you'd rather see visitors before letting them in, a DoorBird or ButterflyMX video intercom at the walk gate lets you answer and unlock from your phone.
Once your gate is fabricated, most residential installations take one to two days on site: setting posts, hanging the gate, mounting the operator, cutting loops, wiring, and programming access. Concrete footings need time to cure before the gate hangs on them, so some projects split into two short visits. Custom fabrication adds lead time up front, which we give you when we quote, and we stick to it.
Automated gates fall under the UL 325 standard, which requires entrapment protection, typically photo eyes and contact edge sensors that stop or reverse the gate if something is in its path. The standard also expects pedestrians to have their own entry separate from the vehicle gate's travel path, which is one of the main reasons we build walk gates. Every automated gate we touch leaves with working safety devices, and we test them on existing installs too.
More answers on our custom fabrication, gate installation pages.
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