Automatic  Gates

Automatic Gates Keep Out More Than The Others

Wooden gates by traditional craftsmen. Gate specialists who blend the best of traditional methods with superior up-to-date practice. That's a good mix don't you think?

Many years of experience and many gifted craftsmen have proved the best techniques for making the best wooden gates include some old techniques.

When you see automatic wooden gates that looks so good as this pair you say it was put there yesterday. But "No" says the man. "They've been there for 6 years within a day or two." It makes you wonder why so many others we see are a mess.

Then you might think, as I did, "But the windows in my 100 and odd years old house are wood and the timber lintel on an outside wall was absolutely perfect when it was taken out during alterations. "So what's the secret?"

I'll tell you later.

Yes it's true that wooden gates for driveways look good at first.

Wooden gates, automatic wooden gates. Made to measure driveway Gates. Everything about them is perfect. All look good, especially when using the best of centuries old designs for constructing wooden gates. 

But does the vision last for 50 years? As ever the answer to that is "Well, Yes and No"

When they're made to measure - just for you - you'll have better timber gates which passers-by will admire for for many years to come. When a few other things all come together then its party time.

Automatic wooden gates.  Let's talk about the lifespan.

The lifespan of automatic wooden gates - timber gates if you prefer to call them that, is dependant on some fairly obvious, but not always considered characteristics. And if the formula is correct they can last for 50 years or more.

Let's call them secrets shall we?

1. One secret of longevity for wooden gates starts with driveway gate design.
2. Choose a craftsman whose heart and soul is in the design and making his wooden gates.
3. Secondly non-standard one-off sizes suitably scaled for your home site.
4. Installed with correct type of hinges to ensure maximum rigidity on
5. Posts to do the job properly and hold your wooden gates for as long as the gates shall live.
6. Gate finishes.
7. A bit of this and a bit of that.
8. Make it difficult for thieves to pinch 'em.

Best of all you get your made to measure wooden gates unique for your own drive. Not someone elses driveway. You'll see some variations on a theme at Variations of made to measure wooden gates on the Links Page. What's that? Why call them secrets? Only because some don't know about the list of 9. Shortly we will have a page entitled "Grotty Gates" to prove the point.