A driveway gate is the one part of a perimeter with a motor on it — the piece that has to perform on demand, every day, and still stop someone who wants in. We specify the automation first and build the gate to suit it: an operator sized to your real traffic, safety loops, backup power, and a manual release, fabricated in our own shop and drawn for your site before any steel is cut.
Pasadena holds a large number of landmark districts — Bungalow Heaven, Prospect Park and more — and a street-facing gate, fence or wall in one needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission on top of the building permit. Citywide, a front-setback fence is capped near four feet and has to stay at least half open, with any block finished in stucco. We confirm landmark status and design to those limits before fabrication.
Pasadena gate work is front gates on landmark-district bungalows that need a Certificate of Appropriateness, driveway gates on large Linda Vista and San Rafael lots, and garage gates for multifamily buildings, all drawn to the city's front-setback rules.
A driveway gate is the one part of a perimeter with a motor on it — the piece that has to perform on demand, every day, and still stop someone who wants in. We specify the automation first and build the gate to suit it: an operator sized to your real traffic, safety loops, backup power, and a manual release, fabricated in our own shop and drawn for your site before any steel is cut.
Grade, span, power and how vehicles approach the entrance.
You approve the design and hardware before steel is cut.
Welded and finished in our shop — not drop-shipped.
Set, automated, and tested at every safety device before we leave.
Scoped to your property, not a flat per-item rate. These are the factors that move the number, in the order they usually matter.
Most driveway gates are fabricated and installed within four to six weeks of drawing approval, depending on span and finish.
Often yes, and HOA approval as well, depending on the city. We handle the drawings and submittals, including fire-department access requirements.
Every install includes battery backup and a manual release, so the gate keeps cycling through an outage and can always be opened by hand.
Name, phone and ZIP. We walk it before we price it.
We protect people, property, and peace.
