Ten golden rules about your driveway gate

Ten golden rules about your driveway gate

In this article from the Royal Gate website, we reviewed the rules and tips for maintaining your driveway gate, which are the golden rules for keeping entrance gates in good condition.

The gate does not work manually

Before turning your gate into an automated driveway gate, you have to make sure that it can work normally in manual mode. If it shows any signs of an irregular working process, these problems will not just disappear when you turn it into an automated gate.

 Avoid installing automated gates on ascending surfaces

This position of the ground surface will put a lot of pressure on the automation, and you will have to buy some more equipment to make it work. It isn’t impossible, but if you can avoid it, we suggest that you do so.

Using the wrong equipment

Never use equipment that is not specified by the manufacturer of the gate! You have to buy the correct equipment because if you do otherwise and your gate malfunctions, you will not be able to file a complaint, and your guarantee will no longer be valid.

Provide drainage if necessary

If your motor will be installed below the ground surface, you have to provide it with a fitting for drainage. If the water has nowhere to go, the motor will not function properly.

• Be responsible! Don’t try to install the gate yourself.

If you save some money by not calling a professional for this job, it may end up as a disaster. There are licensed technicians who should install your driveway gate and who will take legal risks for the installation. You don’t want to be held responsible for a disaster that could have been avoided if you had just called the right person.

Beware of the wind

If you are living in an area where there is a lot of wind, you would want to think before you pick your future gate. You should then definitely avoid closed-boarded wooden gates. ‘Open railing’ gate might be a better solution, but even this gate will not work perfectly
Depending on the strength of the wind.

Gate controllers

It is really important, as I have stated above, to explain to the technician how and what the gate will be used for. This way, the technician will be able to provide you with the best solution for opening and closing your gate. Choices you will have are vehicle detectors, keypads or card access, radio remote controllers, ground loops or probes, GSM via your mobile phone, or push buttons.

Don’t forget about pedestrians and visitors

If you don’t have a separate entrance, you will have to think about ways for pedestrian visitors to enter your estate. There must be a way of letting the household residents know that they are at the entrance. The best solution is usually an intercom. You can add a video camera too. You can choose to use a keypad and also decide whether your gate will open both leaves partially or only one leaf, so that pedestrians might enter.

• You have to provide access for regular visitors like postmen, gardeners, etc.

This can be done by a time clock, which would decrease security measures on the gate at a specific time of the day and therefore allow specific persons to enter your estate more easily.

Total gate security

If you want to be completely sure that it is not possible to forcefully enter through your gate, think about adding some extra locks to the gate, or, if it is really necessary, add some posts in front of or behind the gate.

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• If you have an account with us, please send your request directly from your customer panel.
• Please click here to send your information and request directly to our customer hub, and let us know your preferred dates to schedule a visit.
• If you are in Greater Vancouver, BC, our technician will come to your address and resolve the problem.
• To have on-site technical services for your installed automatic driveway gate, if you have an account with Royal Gates, please send your request directly from your customer’s panel.
• If this is your first service request, and looking for our recommendations, please send some pictures from the gate operator, main control panel, and receivers or your remote control to us using WhatsApp at 778 384 2800 or by email to retcc.ca@gmail.com.
• You can click here to send your information and request directly to our customer hub, and let us know your preferred dates to schedule a visit.
• You will be contacted within one business day.

–>  To get an estimate for your required driveway gate, you can click on “Fast Estimate”.

• If you want to continue, please submit the form, your request will directly come to our customer hub, and we will make contact with you within a maximum of one business day.
• To create a custom quote, need more information like design, dimensions, your address, name, and email.
• You can click here to send your information and request directly to our customer hub, and let us know your preferred dates to schedule a visit (If necessary).
• If you are in Greater Vancouver, BC, our technician will come to your address.
• Please send some pictures of the driveway, posts, and the electric sources to us using WhatsApp at 778 384 2800 or by email to retcc.ca@gmail.com.
• You can click here to send your information and request directly to our customer hub, and let us know your preferred dates to schedule a visit.
• You will be contacted within one business day.