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Photographs of the Work

Gates and the parts that run them, in their own colors, grouped by the kind of work.

Sliding Gates

A sliding gate moves sideways along the fence line instead of swinging into the drive, so it suits a driveway that slopes up from the street, a short drive where a car parks close to the gate, and commercial entrances that cycle all day. It needs room beside the opening for the gate to slide into, roughly the gate’s own length again.

Most of the trouble on a slide gate lives low down: rollers that wear flat, a track that gets bent by a tire or packed with grit and ice, and guide rollers at the top of the post that loosen. The operator sits at one end and drives a rack along the gate, so a gate that rolls hard by hand will strain the motor too.

  • Black horizontal-slat sliding gate across an asphalt driveway beside a brick pier, its slats casting striped shadows on the drive
    Slatted sliding gate
  • Golden oak woodgrain sliding gate with an arched picket top, its opener and keypad post at the right end, across a gravel drive
    Woodgrain sliding gate and opener
  • Black steel railing sliding gate with ball finials closed across a paver driveway, a keypad post standing at its left end
    Railing sliding gate
  • Green welded-mesh sliding gate closed across an asphalt access road, with matching mesh fencing running off to each side
    Commercial mesh sliding gate
  • Golden oak woodgrain sliding gate with an open picket top, closed against a green steel post beside a mesh fence
    Woodgrain slider at its catch post

Swing Gates

A swing gate turns on hinges, as one leaf or a matched pair, and needs a clear arc on the side it opens toward. It is the simpler gate to build and the one most people picture for a driveway, but it puts all of its weight on the hinge post. That is why a swing gate that sags is so often a post or a hinge problem rather than a gate problem.

In Michigan the arc also has to stay clear of snow, and a post that heaves with the frost can leave a leaf scraping the drive in late winter even when it closed square in the fall.

  • Gray aluminum double swing driveway gate with a curved picket top and a keypad on the right post, fallen leaves on the drive
    Double swing driveway gate
  • Black aluminum flat-panel driveway gate with a matching walk gate, set between a wooden board fence and a house wall
    Flat-panel driveway and walk gates
  • Woodgrain composite swing gate leaf in a black aluminum frame, closing over herringbone pavers beside a red brick pier
    Woodgrain swing gate leaf

Keypads, Sensors and Hardware

The parts that make a gate automatic are small next to the gate itself: a keypad on a post, a pair of photo eyes facing each other across the opening, a motor bolted at the foot of a hinge post or an operator standing at the end of a slide. Each one has to be lined up and wired so that the gate opens for the right people and stops, then reverses, when something is in its way.

Hardware closes the list: brackets, guide rollers, latches and lock boxes. They are the smallest parts on a gate and the ones that most often decide whether it closes cleanly.

  • Dark woodgrain double swing gate on black steel posts, a keypad on the left post and a swing motor bolted at its foot, over a freshly dug gravel drive
    Swing gate with keypad and motor
  • Closing end of a black slatted sliding gate between buff brick piers, with a pair of photo-eye safety sensors mounted facing each other
    Safety sensors at the gate end
  • Brick pier with a round photo-eye sensor set into it, beside a black railing sliding gate and its operator post
    Photo eye and operator post
  • Green welded-mesh gate on a square steel post, its brackets and lock box in close view, set in a mesh security fence
    Mesh gate post and lock

A Gate Like One of These

Whether it is a repair to one of these kinds of gate or a new one, say what you have and what you want it to do.

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