Electric gates

Beames

Member
Location
South wales
We fit SEA electric gate systems on what we install. It’s good kit and the technical guys know there stuff. Make sure you use a Gate Safe registered installer when you get it installed. As they will advise you on all the safety features that you need to include to prevent damage to people and vehicles using the Gates.
 

Ukjay

Member
Location
Wales!
Hope you are sitting down when you get the quote for it fitted.

We were quoted £25k for a cantilever gate 4.5mtr opening.
Needless to say, will do the fabrication of the gate and groundwork ourselves. Then get the automation / safety beams etc fitted afterwards, as there is no way on gods earth it comes anywhere near that kind of money.
All power etc is there already!

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rtc

Member
Try contacting Overwrought Ironwork in Nottinghamshire. They purely do cantilever sliding gates, bespoke for each customers requirements. All galvanised, and available with safety edges, automation and access by phone, keypad etc, solar panels / wind turbines for installations away from power sources. They have been manufacturing and installing across GB for the last 20yrs.

There will certainly be multiple examples near you in Wiltshire if you wanted to talk to a previous customer.

I say “they” as it’s my parents company as a diversification from the farm. Contact on 01623 861033 or [email protected]
 

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
Hope you are sitting down when you get the quote for it fitted.

We were quoted £25k for a cantilever gate 4.5mtr opening.
Needless to say, will do the fabrication of the gate and groundwork ourselves. Then get the automation / safety beams etc fitted afterwards, as there is no way on gods earth it comes anywhere near that kind of money.
All power etc is there already!

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How much? We had ours installed 3? years ago, 8m cantiliver sliding gate, 1.5 m tall, gsm intercom etc etc £10k installed. Only thing we did was dig hole and concrete foundation. Had 3 quotes and all were similar, have they really gone up that much?
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Make sure you use a Gate Safe registered installer when you get it installed.

Waste of time I find - GateSafe is like Red Tractor. DHF credited are better....but still nothing to hold them to.

Try and find as reputable a firm as possible though - plenty of rogues out there who don't know their thing. Plenty of good installers are mega money though - used to doing police forces, schools, and other big money contracts.
 

snarling bee

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
We have had a Turnpikes gate since 2011. Probably a 100 movements a day. Wore the hinges out on the gate, otherwise not much trouble. Built by a farmer for farmers to self install. Ours was about £5k, not sure what they are now. There are lots of options for access. We have intercom, fobs, keypad, and phone. Phone access is great as 99 phones can be programmed in to effectively be used as remote openers.
 

rtc

Member
Generally you’ll get what you pay for. Bespoke will always cost more than the self installed mass produced varieties. £25k sounds outrageously expensive for that opening though. Most of the cheaper ones try to cut corners on things like galvanising or thinner sectioned steel.
As the other commenters have said, there’s plenty of cowboys out there. They get the hardware okay but bodge the electrics. People who’ve asked the parents for a quote, then gone elsewhere and come back a couple of years later for a replacement.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Generally you’ll get what you pay for. Bespoke will always cost more than the self installed mass produced varieties. £25k sounds outrageously expensive for that opening though. Most of the cheaper ones try to cut corners on things like galvanising or thinner sectioned steel.
As the other commenters have said, there’s plenty of cowboys out there. They get the hardware okay but bodge the electrics. People who’ve asked the parents for a quote, then gone elsewhere and come back a couple of years later for a replacement.

The big boys are just as much cowboys I found. Charge a big whack based on reputation.....then sub the work out to a man on his own to make it happen.
 

Ukjay

Member
Location
Wales!
How much? We had ours installed 3? years ago, 8m cantiliver sliding gate, 1.5 m tall, gsm intercom etc etc £10k installed. Only thing we did was dig hole and concrete foundation. Had 3 quotes and all were similar, have they really gone up that much?

I was thinking circa 10K, then obviously gobsmacked when they told us - I obviously advised them we will not be using them as I have a good idea what the componants cost and there was no way they could justify that price tag as it is simply loading the top end for profit.

Still not got it fitted yet - but is about the third down on my current list.
 

rtc

Member
The big boys are just as much cowboys I found. Charge a big whack based on reputation.....then sub the work out to a man on his own to make it happen.
Dads company do everything themselves (apart from digging and pouring cement for the base pads which are left to customers but they are provided exact drawings to work to). Found out too many times that if you subcontract out the installation or electrics, it’s done substandard and then no one is happy.
The company isn’t a “big boy” (dad plus two men in the workshop who’ve been with us for 15-20yrs) or “cowboys”, they’ve just been doing it successfully for 20yrs, which speaks a lot.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Dads company do everything themselves (apart from digging and pouring cement for the base pads which are left to customers but they are provided exact drawings to work to). Found out too many times that if you subcontract out the installation or electrics, it’s done substandard and then no one is happy.
The company isn’t a “big boy” (dad plus two men in the workshop who’ve been with us for 15-20yrs) or “cowboys”, they’ve just been doing it successfully for 20yrs, which speaks a lot.

Sounds to me an ideal firm to work with.
 

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