Electric gates and railings in St Albans
A gate or a run of railings that looks as though it has always belonged to the house makes the right first impression, and in St Albans that's what people ask us for. It's one of our strongest residential areas: driveway gates made to suit the house, railings across period frontages, automation for the gates you already have, and repairs on any make.
Gates and railings that suit St Albans
St Albans is a cathedral city built on a Roman one, with a great deal of listed and period property and a large conservation area covering much of the centre. In practice, a gate or a run of railings at the front of a house here is usually judged on how it looks before anybody asks how it opens, and it often has to sit alongside something original.
That suits us. A run of railings for a Victorian frontage in St Albans is drawn, measured on site and made in our own workshop to that measurement, taking the fall of the pavement and the line of the wall into account. It's the same for a pair of driveway gates: made to your opening rather than cut down from a stock size, so they look right from the day they go in.
The commercial side of St Albans is smaller than Watford's but real: the business parks and industrial areas on the edges of the city, the car parks, and the schools and public buildings that come with a city of this size. They bring barriers, bollards and controlled entrances, looked after with the same maintenance arrangements we run across the county.
What we make and look after in St Albans
Railings for period frontages
Garden and boundary railings made to fit the run, in traditional patterns or plain vertical bar, fixed into the ground or into the top of an existing wall so they sit comfortably with the house.
Driveway gates and automation
New gates made to the opening, or automating a sound gate you already have. The site survey is free, and we'll tell you honestly if a gate isn't worth automating.
Barriers, bollards and servicing for commercial sites
Car park barriers, bollards and controlled vehicle entrances on business parks, schools and public buildings, looked after on any make.
Near St Albans
- Watford
- Hemel Hempstead
- Luton
- Barnet
- Potters Bar
- Hertford
St Albans questions
Our house is listed. Can you make railings that suit it?
Yes, in principle. We make everything to a drawing and to a site measurement, so we can work to a pattern that matches ironwork already on the property or nearby. What we can't do is tell you what will be permitted: on a listed building or in a conservation area that's a conversation with St Albans City and District Council, and it's worth having before anything is made.
Do you cover the villages around St Albans as well as the city?
Yes, happily. Wheathampstead, Redbourn, London Colney, Sandridge, Park Street and the surrounding villages are all inside our normal patch, and several sit between St Albans and towns we already run routes through.