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Automatic Gate Installation Plano
New driveway gates, and automation added to a gate that has never had an operator on it. Electric gate installation and gate opener installation across Plano. Free estimates. Licensed and insured.
- Free estimates
- Licensed and insured
- Installed to UL 325
Plano · West Plano · Frisco · Allen · Murphy · Richardson
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Tell us about the driveway and the gate you have now. The estimate is free.
Three ways in
You may not need a new gate to get an automatic one.
Most companies that install automatic gates in Plano sell gates. So the answer to “can my driveway be automated” tends to arrive as a quote for a gate you did not ask about. We repair gates for a living, which means we spend all day looking at hardware and can usually tell you whether the gate standing in your driveway is worth automating. Sometimes it is not. When it is, that is a much smaller project.
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Automating a gate you already have
The most common installation we do, and the one almost nobody advertises. The gate stays. We add the operator, the safety devices, the entry hardware, and the power. If the gate is sound and hangs square, this is the shortest path to an automatic gate.
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A new automatic gate on an existing opening
The posts and the driveway are already there, the gate is not — or the one that is there is past saving. New gate, new operator, sized to the opening and the slope you already have.
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A gate and an operator from scratch
New opening, new posts, new footings, new gate, new automation. This is the longest version because the concrete has to cure before anything is hung on it.
Have a manual gate now? Call {phone} and describe it — length, material, whether it swings or rolls, and how the driveway sits. That is usually enough to tell you which of the three you are looking at.
Before anything is dug
What actually gets decided on an installation
An automatic gate is four systems in a trench coat: the gate, the operator, the way people get through it, and the devices that keep it from closing on someone. Every one of them has to agree with the other three. Here is what gets settled before anything is dug.
- Slide or swing
- Driveway slope decides this more often than taste does. A swing gate needs level ground through its entire arc and room to swing without hitting a parked car. A slide gate needs a clear run of fence line to retract into. If your driveway rises toward the house, you are probably sliding.
- The operator has to match the gate
- Operators are rated by gate weight, gate length, and cycles per day. A residential operator on a community entrance will fail early — not because it is a bad operator, but because it is being asked to do a job it was never rated for. This is the single most common installation mistake we get called in behind.
- Power at the gate
- The gate needs electricity, and most driveway openings do not have it. Trenching from the house is often the longest and most expensive line on an installation estimate. Solar is a real option on low-cycle residential gates and a poor one on a gate that runs forty times a day.
- How people get in
- Keypad, remote, phone entry, or a loop that opens the gate for a car leaving the property. Decide this before the trench is dug, because the conduit run depends on it.
- Safety devices are not an upgrade
- Photo eyes, reversing force, and entrapment protection are part of the installation, not a line item you can decline. A vehicular gate is built to UL 325 and ASTM F2200. We install to those standards because a gate that closes on a car is the installer's problem before it is anyone else's.
- Approvals before excavation
- Automating a driveway gate involves electrical work, and that generally means a permit. If you are in an HOA, the board usually has something to say about gate style and height. Both are cheaper to sort out before the concrete goes in.
Built to last
Installing a gate you will still like in year five
The gates we get called back to repair the soonest are almost never failing because of a bad part. They are failing because an operator was undersized, a post was set shallow, or the safety devices were mounted where they would nuisance-trip and somebody eventually unplugged them. Those are installation decisions, and they are cheap on the day and expensive for the next decade.
We size the operator to the gate you are actually putting up and the traffic it will actually see. We set posts for the load. And we commission the safety devices before we call it done, the same way we do on a repair call.
Weighing a new gate against fixing the one you have — or trying to work out what an installation runs before you call? Ask us on the phone. We will tell you which way a gate is headed and roughly what the project looks like, including the swing-versus-slide question, before anyone comes out.
Want the market figures first? We put the published third-party numbers side by side inwhat automatic gate installation costs.
Scope
Where installation ends and other work begins
If you want a gate designed and built to a drawing rather than chosen from what is available, that is custom work: we design, fabricate, and install those in house. If the gate is going up but you have not settled how residents, guests, or delivery drivers get through it, that is access control. And if you have an automatic gate already and it has stopped behaving, that is a repair, not an installation.
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