Electric gates and railings in Barnet
Barnet is where our Hertfordshire routes meet London. Driveway gates and railings on the Victorian and Edwardian streets, automation for gates already on the drive, and commercial gate, barrier and bollard work across the borough.
Gates and railings in Barnet
Barnet is a London borough that still reads as a set of towns: Chipping Barnet and High Barnet at the top of the hill, then Whetstone, Finchley, Mill Hill and Hendon spreading south. The housing stock is largely Victorian and Edwardian with substantial detached and semi-detached property, a great many conservation areas, and frontages that originally had railings before they were taken out.
That gives us two clear jobs here. Railings across front boundaries, made to the run and to a pattern that suits the house rather than cut from a stock panel. And gates across driveways, which in Barnet is as much about stopping the drive being used by everybody else as it is about security. Both are made in our own workshop in Berkhamsted and fitted by our own teams.
The commercial side is the borough's trade counters, small industrial units, managed blocks and car parks, where the work is barriers, bollards and access control, and where whoever manages the site needs a record of what has been done. Barnet is close enough to our Hertfordshire routes that it is a normal call rather than a special trip.
Typical jobs in Barnet
Railings on Victorian and Edwardian frontages
Garden and boundary railings made to the run, fixed into the ground or into the top of an existing wall, in traditional patterns or plain vertical bar.
Driveway gates and automation
Gates made to the opening, automated, with an intercom or keypad at the road. Access is usually the thing that shapes the job in a London borough, so we survey before we quote.
Barriers, bollards and maintenance on commercial sites
Car park barriers, bollards and controlled entrances on trade units, managed blocks and commercial car parks, maintained on any make with a documented job report every visit.
Local questions
There is nowhere to park and the drive is narrow. Is that a problem?
It is the normal condition in Barnet rather than a problem, but it does need planning rather than discovering on the day. We look at access, parking and how material gets to the opening at the survey, and factor it into the quote. Where groundworks are needed on or near a public footway there may be a permit to arrange, and we will tell you that up front.
Do you cover the whole borough or just High Barnet?
The whole borough, and the boroughs around it. Barnet sits on the routes our engineers already run between Hertfordshire and north London, so Whetstone, Finchley, Mill Hill, Hendon and Totteridge are all normal calls.