About Gatepower
The gates we build here at Gatepower are attractive and designed to add to the ambiance of your property, in addition to adding privacy and security for your home. We offer automatic gating and access control services for both residential and commercial clients.
We are a family-owned business based in Barnard Castle and have been serving customers in the North East England area for many years especially in Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Durham & North Yorkshire, but we extend our services throughout the UK. We take pride in providing expert service and high quality gates at reasonable prices wherever you are.
Our team have extensive backgrounds in manufacturing decorative automatic gates. We offer both swing gates and slide gates with top quality workmanship. Our team pay very close attention to detail and make gates that are guaranteed to work correctly and look great.
All of our products come with a guarantee that we stand firmly behind. For more information, contact us for a professional, friendly consultation. We are all set to help you in any decision making you may have. Our aim is to ensure our customers are always happy. This can only be accomplished by focusing on high quality workmanship and customer service.
Our plan is to provide you with a good quality product and we promise this, by making sure that every gate sold is made with care and of the finest materials that meet our high safety standards. At Gatepower, we place our customers’ needs first, ensuring complete satisfaction.
We are considered a leader in the fabrication and installation of automatic gates. Such pride is taken in our quality gates that you can always feel secure with our products.
If you’re in need of a residential driveway gate or commercial security gate, we’re the experts to call! Not only do we provide comprehensive services, we also listen to your ideas and goals in order to create a secure and beautiful addition to your property that will enhance its appearance, add value, and dramatically increase your security.
Contact us today by phone or email for more information or to get a free non obligation estimate. We will respond very quickly with plenty of ideas and options for you.
TELEPHONE 01833 695184
MOBILE 07761 575310
Email info@gatepower.co.uk
Iron Gates
The Best Wrought Iron Gates
Our wrought iron gates come in a range of styles and sizes and can be as basic or as ornate as you wish. All our Gatepower gates are galvanised and spray painted or powder coated to a very high standard of workmanship.
Our wrought iron gates style adds class to any commercial or residential driveway, garden or entrance while enhancing privacy and security.
Our Process
We manufacture a full range of bespoke gates including swing and sliding gates, with or without automation.
Choose from straight, arched or bow top gates in various gauges of wrought iron and a wide selection of railheads, all built to your personal specification.
Our Gates
We fabricate custom wrought iron gates in various styles to meet our customers specifications. Custom wrought iron gates are available in several operating options including Slide, Single Swing, Double Swing, or Cantilever and can be fabricated to match existing iron fencing or courtyard gates.
Once the driveway gate is installed, we can add a gate opener, telephone entry system, or reconnect existing operators and access controls that may have already been in place. It is important to have one our technicians come out and look at the property before making a final decision on style, so that we can give you the best options for your particular situation. Adding a new driveway gate will completely transform the look of your home and give you added security for years to come.
Wrought Iron
Wrought iron gates have always been known for their endurance and strength. All our gates are made by hand to create a finished product that is one-of-a-kind.
Wooden Gates
Are you looking for high quality Wooden Gates for your path or driveway? We can help. We have a variety of wooden gates to complement every home including engineered timber to improve strength. This substantially reduces incidents of warping and twisting. Whether you are searching for Driveway Gates, Field Gates, or Garden Gates, we can accommodate your specific requirements. All our gates are manufactured and assembled by hand to each client’s requirements.
Automated Wooden Gates or not?
We offer both standard wooden gates and automated electric gates.
Sliding or swinging?
There are many wooden gates options available from swing to sliding gates, matching pedestrian side gates, inset doors in gates and more.
Your Choice of Wood.
Our gates come in a choice of materials from pressure treated softwood to hardwoods including Idigbo, Sapele, Iriko, Cedar and Seasoned Oak. You can then have them stained or unstained, varnished or unvarnished, painted or unpainted.
Design
There are many wood and wood/iron mix designs of gates available to suit your personal requirements. Shapes available include arched, bell top and flat top.
The wooden gates joints are mortised and tenoned, the gates are manufactured and assembled by hand, which means each one receives individual attention. Whether you want to spend a little or a lot, we have wooden gates to suit budgets of all sizes.
Automatic Gates
There are many advantages of using an automatic gates system from security to opening and closing your gates from the comfort of your home or car.
Wood or Metal
This is down to personal taste and what suits the location and application the best. We can recommend some automatic gates options for you to choose from, but we can build anything in any material to your specification and style.
Swing or Slide
The layout of your property will determine your choice of automatic gates to either slide on tracks or swing on side hinges. If your drive slopes upwards towards your house this would prevent the installation of side-hinged gates that swing inwards, therefore a sliding gate would be the practical option. Sliding gates offer the highest level of security – swing gates can be vulnerable to determined ramming. The sliding gate system also takes up less room when operating and gives full driveway access even if approaching at an angle.
Gatepower offer sliding gate designs in both timber and steel that accurately replicate many swing gate designs if wanted.
Accessories
As well as the automatic gates themselves, Gatepower can provide a range of accessories including radio remote controls, intercom systems, safety photocells, digital keypads, induction loops and entry controls.
Garage Doors
Gatepower Electric Garage Doors
Whatever your garage needs, Gatepower can supply & fit the right electric garage door for your property, from roller shutters to up & overs and sectional garage doors.
How They Work
Contrary to popular belief, the electric opener does not provide the actual lifting power to open heavy electric garage doors. Instead, most of the actual lifting power comes from the counterbalance springs attached to the door. These springs are under tension to lift the electric garage door via steel counterbalance cables. The electric garage doors opener provides only a small amount of force to control how far the door opens and closes. In most cases, the electric garage door opener also holds the door closed in place of a lock.
When the remote transmitter sends a code, it generates a new code using an encoder. The receiver in the garage, after receiving a correct code, uses the same encoder to generate a new code that it will accept in the future. Because there is a high probability that someone might accidentally push the open button while not in range and desynchronize the code, the receiver generates look-a-head codes ahead of time. Rolling code is the same method of security used on cars.
Industrial
Gatepower designs, manufactures, installs and services a large variety of highly reliable and cost effective steel and iron automatic gate systems for high traffic industrial applications. Our gates meet or exceed the most demanding strength and reliability specifications in the industry.
We only use the highest quality hardware to complement our custom gate systems. Our gate operators are ideal for heavy-duty industrial & commercial environments. Our custom gates are specifically engineered to our customers’ individual security needs by our experienced staff.
Swing Security Gates
Swing Security Gates can be opened manually or be automated. They will close openings of up to 24 feet for a single gate and up to 48 feet with use of a double security gate. These are ideal for locations where there is not enough room to roll or slide a gate (like alleys or where the access road is right along the perimeter). They will always look good at an entrance.
Gatepower swing security gates are manufactured from the highest quality materials by skilled craftsmen to meet the highest standards of workmanship in the industry. All are welded with reinforcing corner gussets for unparalleled strength and durability.
No matter what type or style of fence you choose, matching security gates in standard and custom sizes are always available to match your fence design.
We ensure that the gates and automation equipment can withstand even the highest amount of traffic flow to protect your business effectively.
Sliding Security Gates
Sliding Security Gates provide a unique, high-security solution and are common in larger commercial & industrial applications. For a variety of reasons as sliding gates can either be single-leaf or twin-leaf and they do not encroach into the driveway or yard area as they slide either side of the opening. Where there are rising driveways, sliding security gates are ideal since they do not have to “rise up” the driveway and provided there is sufficient room for one or two leaves to slide in one or either direction beyond the opening.
Sliding Gate Systems are the most secure automatic gate systems around, as due to their operation and positioning, when closed they are almost impossible to open. They are held in place by the tracking system, drive motor, and other features of the installation, such that they cannot be wedged apart except by extreme force.
Sliding Gates normally run back and forth on grooved or circular wheels along a level horizontal beam fitted with a channel. The motor will drive the gate back and forth using a rack and pinion mechanism on the gate, powered by a cog at low level on the gate motor. This configuration however does require that the ground is relatively level and that a steel beam can be sunk into the ground the full length of the gate in both the open and closed positions. Any sliding security gate in such circumstances requires to slide at least its own width either side of the opening, also taking into account the width of the motor.
An alternative method of operation is the Cantilever System. Here there is no sunken steel beam the full length of the gate plus itself again. Instead the entire security gate is suspended on a relatively short cantilever system involving wheels set in a channel (rather like the wheels of a train carriage). The “overhang” of the gate beyond the opening is usually around 30% to 40% of the nominal gate width and the entire gate pivots on the cantilever wheels. It then operates by running back and forth on these cantilever wheels. The gate motor principle is the same (i.e. toothed rack and pinion), with the motor being located in roughly the same position as with a standard sliding gate system.
Barriers
Gatepower barriers are designed to offer long term reliability, efficiency and durability. The mechanics which drive our electric arm barriers ensure that operation of the barrier is smooth.
Systems
All our barrier systems integrate with the latest access control systems including key pads, proximity cards, Intercoms and ticket machines.
The Process
We review your site for traffic flow, grades & safety before recommending the appropriate system.
Options
Accessories include beam lights, warning sirens, stop/no entry signs, vehicle detector loops, card readers & intercom posts. Our range also includes HGV and dual height posts. Skirts are also available.
Gatepower Electric Garage Doors
Whatever your garage needs, Gatepower can supply & fit the right electric garage door for your property, from roller shutters to up & overs and sectional garage doors.
How They Work
Contrary to popular belief, the electric opener does not provide the actual lifting power to open heavy electric garage doors. Instead, most of the actual lifting power comes from the counterbalance springs attached to the door. These springs are under tension to lift the electric garage door via steel counterbalance cables. The electric garage doors opener provides only a small amount of force to control how far the door opens and closes. In most cases, the electric garage door opener also holds the door closed in place of a lock.
When the remote transmitter sends a code, it generates a new code using an encoder. The receiver in the garage, after receiving a correct code, uses the same encoder to generate a new code that it will accept in the future. Because there is a high probability that someone might accidentally push the open button while not in range and desynchronize the code, the receiver generates look-a-head codes ahead of time. Rolling code is the same method of security used on cars.
Cameras
Security Cameras
Security Cameras have become as normal in everyday life as wall clocks, exit signs, and smoke alarms.
You can’t be everywhere at once, but your video surveillance system can.
Whether you are in need of an infra-red (IR) outdoor dome camera to keep an eye on your house, business or yard while you are out of town, a license plate camera to keep track of every vehicle that enters your gated community, or an indoor wall mount camera, Gatepower can provide a versatile and dependable system to suit any budget.
Rugged, compact, with an attractive design and all-weather performance. These features make up our range of high quality Surveillance Cameras. The cameras are useful for residential, commercial and industrial applications. Suitable for installation in almost any environment, the camera systems we use have proven effective in the most demanding site locations, such as casinos, correctional facilities and schools.
Our Cameras
Using the latest in modern technology such as Video Analytics, ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition), High Definition security cameras and IP (Internet Protocol) based CCTV equipment, you can be sure our systems are always at the cutting edge of CCTV security.
Our surveillance systems provide outstanding image clarity, powerful and easy-to-use features, and simplified access to live and stored video.
For Your Home
Professionally installing a security camera system will make your home and family safer and will reduce your insurance costs.
Watching your home and family has never been easier when you use our surveillance cameras system. Watch who is going to your house, what they are doing when they coming and left while you’re out on the town.
For Your Business
Business owners who invest in surveillance equipment can save money and make sure that their investment is safe from thieves.
Video surveillance also provides valuable insights into your operations that would otherwise be unattainable and should be an integral part of your company’s security plan.
In addition to providing a visual record of incidents at your company, the presence of surveillance cameras can be a powerful deterrent.
