Electric gates in Berkhamsted
This is our home town, so a gate here is a job on our own doorstep. Our workshop and offices are in Berkhamsted, everything we make is made here, and our engineers set off from here every morning.
Gates that suit Berkhamsted
Berkhamsted is a market town in Dacorum, strung out along the valley between the A41, the canal and the West Coast Main Line, with the castle ruins at one end and a High Street that's changed a good deal in twenty years. The houses are a real mix: Georgian and Victorian frontages in and around the centre, a large conservation area, and substantial detached property climbing the hills on either side.
That mix shapes most of what we do here, and the right gate depends on which part of town you're in. On the hills there are long private drives where people want a gate across the entrance, or want the gate they already have to open from the car. In the middle of town it's railings and boundary ironwork, on frontages where how it looks matters as much as what it does. Along the A41 and out towards the industrial estates it's vehicle gates, barriers and bollards on commercial sites.
We bought our premises here in 2014, from a man who wanted the building to pass to a local metalworking business rather than to the highest bidder. That's a Berkhamsted sort of transaction, and it's one of the reasons we're still here. If you're local and you'd like to see how something is made before you order it, you're very welcome to come and have a look.
How we help around Berkhamsted
Driveway gates and automation for hillside homes
Long drives with a slope, which is usually what decides whether a gate swings or slides. We'll survey the fall of the ground before we quote anything, then make the gate to fit the opening.
Servicing and repairs, just down the road
Planned maintenance and call-outs on any make, whoever installed it. Because we're based here, an emergency call in Berkhamsted is minutes rather than hours.
Barriers and bollards for local car parks and yards
Car park barriers, rising bollards and controlled vehicle entrances for the town's commercial and industrial sites, fitted and looked after by our own team.
Close to Berkhamsted
- Tring
- Hemel Hempstead
- Chesham
- Aylesbury
- Watford
- Amersham
Berkhamsted questions, answered
Are you actually based in Berkhamsted, not just covering it?
Yes. Our workshop, our offices and our fabrication are all here, and have been since 2014. It's not a satellite address or a mailbox. Gates and railings for Berkhamsted properties are made a few minutes from where they're fitted.
We're in the conservation area. Will you make a gate to match the house?
Yes, and here that's the normal job rather than the unusual one. We make to a drawing and to a measurement, so we can work to a design that's been agreed or match ironwork already on the property. If you need to, settle the planning position with Dacorum Borough Council first, then we'll happily talk you through how it opens.