Flavours of Gate Companies

Our Head Office Location

We are often asked as part of an initial inquiry, "where are you based?"

Interestingly, Google Searches focus on local business and services, it assumes and, in its way, educates that everything you need is close by. Whilst we would like all our jobs to be close to our location, we realised a long time ago that is not very realistic, not just for us, but for any company looking to provide a service in the automated gate industry.

So, we decided to explain a little bit about how the electric gate industry is structured and works.

Different Types of Gate Companies

In general, gate companies can offer a range of services, from full installation and after sales support to those that focus on Maintenance and Emergency Call Outs, like us.

Sometimes you find that other organisations from associated industries such as Fencing; CCTV and Alarms etc. will also offer automated gate services, we call this the "Jack of all Trades" approach.

In our experience, the best gate companies focus on their core service, in our case this means electric gate maintenance. We couple this approach with... to read more