Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros provides professional gate services in Plantation, FL — Broward County, incorporated April 23, 1953, population 91,750 at the 2020 census. From driveway gates and wrought iron gates to emergency gate service, our insured team serves Plantation homes and businesses.
Plantation property owners near Broward Boulevard, the Plantation Historical Museum, University Drive count on Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros for gate installation and repair in Plantation. We bring the same gate work we are known for in Fort Lauderdale to every job in Plantation, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (844) 938-4596 for a free gate estimate in Plantation, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation. Se habla español.
Gate in Plantation, FL
Plantation takes its name from the Everglades Plantation Company and its unsuccessful attempt to grow rice on drained land here. Before the twentieth century the whole area was Everglades wetland under two or three feet of water for much of the year, and the drainage that made it buildable started with a two-year federal contract entered in 1909.
The city incorporated in April 1953 and reached 91,750 residents at the 2020 census across 22 square miles, with the golf course that opened in 1950 still at its center.
The land history is not a footnote for gate work, it is a design input. Drained Everglades ground is soft, and post footings that would be adequate on coral rock will let a heavy gate lean here within a few years.
We size and pour footings for the actual soil rather than to a standard detail, and on wide or heavy leaves we will specify a deeper pier than a client is expecting and explain why.
Lots are generous with real driveway depth, so dual-swing ornamental steel entrances are common, and the mature tree canopy means we check overhead clearance carefully before ever recommending a vertical pivot.
Gate work we do in Plantation, FL
Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros covers the same range of work in Plantation that we do in Fort Lauderdale — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Aluminum Gates — Aluminum is the default answer within a few blocks of the water, and it is a good one, but it is not the immune material some brochures imply. It corrodes differently and more slowly, and it fails in places steel does not.
- Wood Gates — Salt does not eat wood. It eats everything holding the wood up.
- Sliding Gates — A ground track through a Fort Lauderdale driveway is a channel that collects water, sand and salt, then holds all three against steel wheels. It works beautifully for two years and becomes a service call every month after that.
- Swing Gates — A swing gate is a hinge with a large decorative flag bolted to it. On the water that is the whole engineering problem, because a hinge is a bearing, and a bearing in salt air is a wear part with a countdown on it.
- Cantilever Gates — Cantilever gates are the right answer on a Fort Lauderdale property for one reason above all others: nothing touches the ground. No track to fill with sand, no wheels sitting in a puddle of brackish water after a high tide.
- Bi-Fold & Vertical Pivot Gates — These exist because of geometry, not because of features. When a driveway is too short for a swing arc and there is no side yard for a slide to park in, folding or lifting the leaf is sometimes the only way a gate fits the property at all.
See the full list of Fort Lauderdale services, or call (844) 938-4596.
About Plantation, FL — and why local matters here
Plantation sits in Broward County with a population of roughly 91,750 at the 2020 census, close enough to Fort Lauderdale that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Broward Boulevard, the Plantation Historical Museum, University Drive.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Plantation properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Broward County, and a gate contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Plantation
Call (844) 938-4596 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Plantation, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not. Se habla español.
We also serve Sunrise, FL and the rest of Broward County. Everything starts at the Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros homepage.
Popular services in Plantation: Driveway Gates and Wrought Iron Gates.
We also serve Sunrise, FL and Broward County.