About Haisley Gate Services
A gate company started in Ann Arbor in 2014, known for finding the real cause of gate trouble.
Henry Richardson
Founder; finds the real cause of a gate’s trouble before anything is replaced.
Henry Richardson started Haisley Gate Services in Ann Arbor in 2014. He works with homeowners, property managers and small business owners across Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Saline and Dexter, on jobs that run from freeing one stuck gate to setting posts and hanging a new entrance gate with an operator.
He is known for tracing gate trouble to where it starts. Slow openers, random stops and sensors that trip for no reason usually come down to alignment, wiring or a limit setting that has drifted, and those are the first places he looks.
A gate that drags is often a sagging post or a worn hinge, not the motor people tend to blame. Before I call a job finished, I cycle the gate again and again, make sure it reverses when something blocks it, and test the sensors, remotes and latch. New crew members watch me diagnose first, then run those checks themselves while I review their work on site.
Henry
What the Company Does
The work covers the whole gate, from the posts in the ground to the keypad at the end of the drive:
- Gate Repair: sagging hinges, worn rollers, bent tracks, latches and leaning posts.
- New Gates: swing and sliding gates, with posts set and the gate hung level.
- Gate Openers: operators fitted and wired, limits set, burned-out motors replaced.
- Keypads and Intercoms: keypads, intercoms, remotes and safety sensors, programmed and tested.
- Gate Maintenance: routine care that catches wear before the gate stops.
Driveways and Commercial Lots
Some calls are a single walk gate that will not latch. Others are a slide gate across a business lot that cycles all day, or a property manager with an entrance gate and a stack of remotes to sort out. The causes of trouble are the same in each, and so is where to look: the gate itself, then the opener, then whatever tells the opener to move.
The gates in the photographs show the range: flat-panel aluminum and woodgrain composite leaves, railing and mesh sliders, swing gates on steel posts and brick piers, and the keypads, sensors and operators that run them. More of them are collected under Photographs.
If You Have Never Hired a Gate Company
Most people call a gate company once every few years, usually when something has stopped working. It helps to know roughly how a job goes before the first call: what gets looked at, when the work is agreed, what happens if a part has to be ordered, and how the gate is checked at the end. Our Process walks through it stage by stage, with a short list of things to have ready.
When you call, say what the gate does and when it does it, what kind of gate it is, and whether it has an opener. A photo or two emailed after the call helps as well.
Talk to the People Who Come Out
Describe the gate and what it is doing, and the visit is arranged from there.