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Swing, cantilever sliding, tracked and bi-folding gates for commercial and industrial sites, with infill matched to your perimeter. Installed across Wigan, Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Supply only delivered UK-wide.
Opening width, site postcode, and whether you want manual or automated.
Same product, two very different jobs. Here's how to tell which one you need.
Manual gates suit lower traffic access points. A properly built swing or sliding leaf, drop bolts into ground sockets, a decent lock, and nothing to service. Cheaper to buy, cheaper to own, and it still works in a power cut.
Automated gates suit sites where vehicles come and go all day, where access needs controlling from a gatehouse or office, or where the leaf is simply too heavy to move by hand. They cost more and they need power run to them.
Not sure which way to go? Send us the opening width and how often it gets used, and we'll tell you straight.
Usually the site decides, not preference. Run-back space, gradient, headroom and traffic frequency narrow it fast.
Hinged and swinging through an arc. Single-leaf suits openings from around 3m up to roughly 5m to 6m. Double-leaf covers wider openings, commonly up to around 8m to 10m combined. Both need swing clearance and dislike a gradient at the threshold, because each leaf needs consistent ground clearance right through its arc.
Self supporting on rollers with no ground track. The right answer on uneven ground, on sites with debris or snow, and where heavy vehicles would destroy a track. The catch is run-back: it needs a clear straight run alongside the opening of roughly 1.3 to 1.5 times the clear opening width. No run-back, no cantilever.
Tracked sliders can be lighter and cheaper to engineer than cantilever, but need a level, well drained run kept clear of debris and ice. Bi-folding needs roughly half the run-back of a straight slider and cycles faster, which suits tight sites and busy car parks. Telescopic gives a wide opening where run-back is limited.
A gate should read as part of the fence, not an afterthought bolted into it.
| Palisade | Matches a palisade run, same pale profile and top. |
|---|---|
| 358 anti-climb mesh | Where the perimeter is 358 and the gate must not be the weak point. |
| Twin wire mesh | Matches an 868 or 656 run. |
| Vertical bar | Full visibility into the yard, which suits surveillance. |
| Solid or privacy | Where screening the site matters as much as securing it. |
| Composite | Where appearance leads, on business parks and private developments. |
| Why it is not just a look | A solid leaf presents a continuous surface to the wind where mesh, bar and palisade let it through. That means higher wind loading for the same leaf size, which means heavier posts and foundations, and on an automated gate a motor sized with enough margin to move and hold the leaf safely in a gale. Infill is a specification decision. |
| Swing motors | Underground rams keep the mechanism out of sight. Above ground articulated arms are easier to get at for servicing. |
|---|---|
| Sliding motors | Rack and pinion drive at the base of the leaf. |
| Single or three phase | Single phase 230V covers most commercial entrances. Three phase suits heavier leaves and higher cycle frequency, and needs the supply to be there or run to the gate. |
| Duty cycle | How much of the time a motor can run before it needs to rest. A busy distribution yard will destroy a motor rated for light domestic use, so cycle frequency is one of the first things we ask about. |
| Manual release | A key operated declutch so the gate opens by hand in a power cut or a fault. Not an optional extra. |
| Battery backup | Keeps the gate and its safety devices working through a mains failure. Matters most where the gate is the only way in and out. |
| Soft start and stop | Ramps the motor instead of slamming to full speed. Less mechanical stress, and it contributes directly to meeting the force limits. |
| Access control | Keypads for small teams. Fobs and proximity readers where you need per user access you can revoke and an audit trail. Intercom and video intercom to vet visitors. ANPR to open for known vehicles and stop queuing. GSM and app control where nobody is on site to manage access. |
| Loops | Loop detectors and free-exit loops set into the surface, both to open for an approaching vehicle and, critically, as a safety device that holds the gate open or stops it closing while a vehicle is in its path. |
Drop bolts into ground sockets to hold a leaf closed or open, sized hinges that match the leaf weight and wind loading rather than the catalogue default, and locking to suit how often and by how many people the gate gets opened: padlock hasp, euro cylinder, slam lock or keyed drop bolt. Where security is the point, a shrouded or armoured padlock guard over the hasp is a cheap upgrade that defeats bolt croppers.
Survey, supply and install within roughly 20 miles of Standish: Wigan, Chorley, Buckshaw Village, Leyland, Coppull, Preston, Bolton, Skelmersdale and the surrounding parts of Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
Gates fabricated to your opening and delivered anywhere in the UK. Note that on an automated gate, whoever puts the finished installed gate into service carries the responsible person duties described above, so if you are installing it yourself, make sure you know what that means before you order.
Gates we have supplied and installed for commercial and industrial sites.
Fencing is priced by the metre, and the figure moves with the job. Four things decide it:
Tell us those and we can give you a real number rather than a guess. Site surveys are free and there is no obligation. We will confirm in writing what safety documentation comes with your gate.
Four steps from first message to a finished job.
Run length, height and the site postcode is enough to start.
We look at the ground, the access and the risk rather than guess at it.
Specification, quantities and a realistic programme, in writing, with no obligation.
We agree a date and phase the work so your site keeps running.
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Including the safety and compliance questions most suppliers skip.
Swing gates need clear space for the leaf to travel through its arc and do not like a gradient at the threshold. Sliding gates run along the fence line instead, which suits tight approaches, sloped ground and heavy vehicle traffic. Cantilever sliding needs run back space of roughly 1.3 to 1.5 times the opening width. It is usually the site that decides, not preference.
Yes. Once motorised a gate is legally machinery under the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008. The finished installed gate needs a technical file, a Declaration of Conformity, UKCA or accepted CE marking and user instructions, and it must meet BS EN 12453 in use.
Force limitation plus safety devices. BS EN 12453 caps the force a gate may apply, and whichcap applies depends on the gap: 400N where part of the body could be crushed, 1400N wherethere is impact but no crushing risk, with the force falling to 150N within three quartersof a second either way. Where a gate cannot stay inside those limits on its own, pressure-sensitive safety edges stop and reverse it the moment they touch something. Photocells are asupplementary measure, not a substitute, because a beam can be stepped over.
The site owner or occupier carries a continuing duty to keep it safe under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 and section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. That duty runs for the life of the gate and does not end at handover.
Regular servicing is part of that duty, because motors, hinges, rollers, safety edges and photocell alignment all wear. Frequency should follow the manufacturer's instructions for your installation and reflect how much the gate actually cycles. A busy delivery yard entrance needs checking far more often than a gate used twice a day.
Yes, and on a low traffic access point it is often the sensible choice. Manual swing and sliding gates use drop bolts, ground sockets and padlock or cylinder locking. They avoid the machinery obligations that come with motorising, and there is nothing to service.
Keypads, fobs and proximity readers, intercom and video intercom, ANPR for known vehicles, GSM or app control, and loop detectors including free-exit loops. What suits you depends on how many users you have, whether you need an audit trail, and how much traffic queues at the entrance.
Yes, significantly. Solid or privacy infill catches the wind where mesh, bar and palisade let it through. That raises the wind loading for the same leaf size, which drives heavier posts and foundations, and on an automated gate a larger motor to move and hold the leaf safely.
Cantilever gates span wide openings but need run-back along the fence line of roughly 1.3 to 1.5 times the clear opening. Tracked sliders can work with less run-back but need a level, well maintained track. Telescopic gates give a wide opening where run-back is limited. The available space beside the opening usually decides it.
Sometimes, but it has to be assessed rather than assumed. The existing leaf, posts and foundations were built for a manual gate, and motorising it makes it a machine that must meet BS EN 12453. We will survey it and tell you honestly whether it can be done safely or whether a new gate is the better spend.
A compliant powered gate installation should hand over a Declaration of Conformity, a riskassessment, the results of any force testing carried out and the user instructions. Tell uswhat your site or your insurer needs and we will confirm in writing, before you order,exactly what will be provided with your gate.
Tell us the opening width, the site postcode and whether you want manual or automated, and we will come back with options and a written quote.
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