Automatic Gate Installation in Lancaster, CA

A motor pushes a gate every cycle, all year. Any sag, any hinge worn out of round, any post that has shifted in its footing shows up fast once that happens. So the work begins at the frame. We square it, brace the span, rebuild or upsize the hinges, and weld a plate that carries the operator's load into the frame rather than the infill. Sleeves go through the tube so sensor wiring runs inside the steel instead of strapped along it.

The property decides the operator class under UL 325, not the size of the gate. A single family tract home is Class I, which covers one to four families. An apartment complex is Class II once it reaches five units, even if its gate is narrow. Class III is an industrial yard the public does not enter, and Class IV is a guarded gate with security staff. Tell us which one you are before the frame is drawn.

ASTM F2200 governs how a powered gate is built. The gate must not fall more than 45 degrees from vertical if it comes off its hardware. On Classes I, II and III, a horizontal slide gate needs positive stops at both ends, guards on weight bearing exposed rollers 8 feet or less above grade, and screening so a 2.25 inch sphere cannot pass, up to 72 inches or the top of a shorter gate. The fence it covers when open counts too. Swing gates do not carry the screening rule, and Class IV gates fall outside these slide gate provisions.

Existing gates can often be reworked rather than replaced. Small gates that need it come back to our Division Street shop to be squared and braced on the table. Posts and runs set in concrete get welded where they stand. The shop is open weekdays 8 to 5, with someone on call on weekends.

This work runs out of our shop on Division Street in Lancaster. Read the full automatic gate installation details, or call (818) 220-8704 and we will come out.