Electric gates and driveway automation in Amersham
Picture the gate opening as you turn into the drive, with no walk down to the road to let anyone in. Amersham is one of our strongest areas for homes, and our team fits gates across long private drives, automates gates that are already there, adds intercoms, and repairs whatever make somebody else installed.
Gates that suit Amersham homes
Amersham is really two places. Old Amersham sits in the valley, with a long historic High Street, listed buildings and a conservation area, and Amersham on the Hill grew up around the railway a mile away. Between and around them, and out through the Chiltern villages, are the houses that tend to end up with a gate: set back from the road, screened by trees, and reached by a drive long enough that walking down it in the rain to let someone in soon gets old.
So most of our Amersham work is for homes, and a lot of it is automation rather than new gates. Plenty of houses here already have gates, sometimes decades old and often good ironwork worth keeping, and what people really want is for them to open from the car. If the gate is sound, that's usually straightforward. If it's dropping on its hinges, we'll tell you at the survey.
A conservation area or a listed house changes the conversation, it doesn't end it. We make to a drawing and a site measurement, so a gate here is usually designed around what will be accepted and what suits the house, then engineered to open reliably afterwards. Our commercial work in Amersham is smaller: the town centre car parks, the trade and light industrial units, and the schools.
What we do for Amersham homes and sites
Automating the gates you already have
Motors, controls, safety devices and a manual release added to a sound existing gate, so you keep ironwork worth keeping. We check the frame, the hinges, the piers and the ground first.
Intercoms and keypads at the end of the drive
Video or audio panels at the road that you answer from inside the house or from your phone, with a keypad for the people who come regularly.
Servicing, repairs and safety testing
Planned maintenance and call-outs for gates, barriers and bollards at the town's car parks, trade units and schools, whatever the make.
Nearby areas
- Chesham
- Rickmansworth
- Aylesbury
- Watford
- Berkhamsted
- London
What Amersham homeowners ask us
Our gates are old but good. Can they be automated rather than replaced?
Usually, yes. It's the most common job we do in Amersham. We'll check whether the frame and hinges will take the extra work, whether the piers or posts are solid enough to carry a motor, whether the gate moves freely by hand all the way through its travel, and where the nearest power supply is. Sometimes hinges or posts get replaced as part of the job. If the gate isn't worth automating, we'll say so at the survey, not on the day. Automated gates.
We're in the conservation area. Does that rule out an electric gate?
No, not in itself. It usually affects the design and the materials rather than the automation, and that's a conversation with Buckinghamshire Council before it's one with us. Because we make to a drawing, we can build to whatever design has been agreed.