Every Gate Service We Offer in Fort Lauderdale, FL
One team for every gate job in Fort Lauderdale — from driveway gates to emergency gate service.
Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros handles residential and commercial gate projects across Fort Lauderdale and Broward County. From driveway gates to emergency gate service, every service below is handled by our own team and backed by our workmanship guarantee.
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Our Gate Services in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Driveway Gates
A driveway gate on a Fort Lauderdale waterfront lot is the most exposed metal on the property. It hangs in salt air, it moves, and every moving part is somewhere corrosion starts working long before the finish shows a mark.
Wrought Iron Gates
Real iron near the water is a commitment rather than a purchase. Chloride finds steel through any break in the coating, and on a lot off the Intracoastal that first break arrives a good deal sooner than the brochure photograph suggests.
Garage & Parking Gates
Parking gates on the barrier island sit in the worst spot on the building. The ramp mouth funnels wind driven rain and salt spray straight down onto the operator, the slab pitches toward it, and the assembly cycles a few hundred times a day.
Ornamental Steel Gates
Two ornamental gates can carry the same drawing, the same alloy and the same welds, and one will look sound in ten years while the other is bleeding rust at the pickets. The difference is almost always what happened to the metal before the color went on.
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.
Automatic Gate Operators
An operator is an electric motor, a gearbox and a circuit board living outdoors within reach of salt spray. Nothing about that combination is naturally durable, and the difference between a four year unit and a fifteen year unit is mostly how it was housed and wired.
Access Control & Keypads
A keypad on a waterfront driveway is a small sealed box that gets rained on, splashed with salt, and pressed by a wet hand several times a day. Almost every failure we see is water getting into it or corrosion getting under it.
Telephone Entry Systems
Most single family clients who ask for a telephone entry system do not need one. What they actually want is to let a visitor in without walking to the street, and there are two cheaper ways to do that before you buy a directory unit.
Safety Sensors & UL 325 Compliance
UL 325 asks a simple question of every automatic gate: if this leaf closes on a person, what stops it. The answer has to be two independent means of entrapment protection, and on the water the second one is usually the one that quietly stops working.
Gate Motors & Solar Power
We install solar gate systems and we talk most Fort Lauderdale clients out of them. On a typical waterfront lot the panel is the wrong answer to a problem that a trench solves permanently and for less money over the life of the gate.
Custom & Estate Gates
The more sculptural a gate is, the more places water can sit in it. That is the tension in every estate gate on the water, and it is resolvable, but it has to be resolved at the drawing stage rather than during fabrication.
Security Fencing & Perimeter
A waterfront perimeter has an open side and there is no getting around it. You can secure three boundaries of a property on the Intracoastal, and the fourth is a seawall with a dock on it, which changes what the fence is actually for.
Commercial & Industrial Gates
The marine yards along the Dania Cut-off Canal and the New River run the hardest environment for a gate anywhere in Broward. Bottom paint dust, pressure wash runoff, hauled boats dripping salt water across the apron, and a perimeter that is half chain link and half water.
Welding & Gate Fabrication
Welding for the water is a different craft from welding for a dry climate, because a weld is a metallurgical discontinuity and salt attacks discontinuities first. Most of what we do in the shop is aimed at leaving as few of those as possible.
Emergency Gate Service
Two kinds of emergency call come in from waterfront properties, and they need different responses. The gate will not open, which is urgent and usually electrical.
What each of our services covers in Fort Lauderdale
Open any service to see exactly what is included before you call.
Driveway Gates
A driveway gate on a Fort Lauderdale waterfront lot is the most exposed metal on the property. It hangs in salt air, it moves, and every moving part is somewhere corrosion starts working long before the finish shows a mark. Siting comes first anyway.
- driveway gates Fort Lauderdale
- gates for the driveway
- automatic driveway gates
- electric driveway gates
- motorized driveway gates
- metal driveway gates
- double driveway gates
- driveway gate designs
- driveway gate ideas
- driveway gate cost
- heavy duty driveway gate hinges
Wrought Iron Gates
Real iron near the water is a commitment rather than a purchase. Chloride finds steel through any break in the coating, and on a lot off the Intracoastal that first break arrives a good deal sooner than the brochure photograph suggests. What kills an iron gate here is the inside of the tube.
- custom wrought iron gates
- ornamental iron driveway gates
- iron entrance gates Fort Lauderdale
- iron estate gates
- arched wrought iron gates
- galvanized and powder-coated iron gates
- wrought iron gate repair
- iron gate re-welding
- rust removal and re-coating
- hand-forged scrollwork and finials
- iron gate hinge and post replacement
Garage & Parking Gates
Parking gates on the barrier island sit in the worst spot on the building. The ramp mouth funnels wind driven rain and salt spray straight down onto the operator, the slab pitches toward it, and the assembly cycles a few hundred times a day. Ground floor garages near the beach take on water.
- garage gate installation Fort Lauderdale
- roll-up garage security gates
- parking garage entry gates
- garage security gate doors
- automatic garage gate opener
- overhead security grille gates
- sliding garage gates
- condominium parking garage gates
- garage gate access control
- parking barrier arms
- garage gate repair
Ornamental Steel Gates
Two ornamental gates can carry the same drawing, the same alloy and the same welds, and one will look sound in ten years while the other is bleeding rust at the pickets. The difference is almost always what happened to the metal before the color went on. Powder coat is not a corrosion barrier by itself.
- ornamental steel driveway gates
- tubular steel gates
- galvanized steel gates
- steel picket gates
- horizontal slat steel gates
- steel privacy gates
- steel gate powder coating
- steel gate fabrication Fort Lauderdale
- heavy-gauge steel gate frames
- steel gate repair and re-welding
- matching steel fence and gate
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. The first is galvanic pairing.
- aluminum driveway gates
- marine-grade aluminum gates
- rust-free gates Fort Lauderdale
- powder-coated aluminum gates
- aluminum swing gates
- aluminum slide gates
- aluminum privacy gates
- waterfront property gates
- aluminum pool and pedestrian gates
- aluminum gate repair
- aluminum fence and gate packages
Wood Gates
Salt does not eat wood. It eats everything holding the wood up. That inversion is worth saying out loud, because clients on the isles often rule out a wood gate for the wrong reason and then buy the wrong version of one.
- wood driveway gates
- cedar gates
- wood gates on steel frames
- horizontal slat wood gates
- wood privacy gates
- wood and iron combination gates
- sagging wood gate repair
- wood gate staining and sealing
- custom wood entry gates
- ipe and hardwood gates
- termite-resistant gate framing
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. The problem is not the track, it is that nothing drains here.
- sliding driveway gates
- rolling gates Fort Lauderdale
- track slide gates
- V-track and roller gates
- sliding gate operators
- sliding gate repair
- slide gate roller replacement
- commercial rolling gates
- slide gate track cleaning
- waterfront slide gates
- sliding gate safety sensors
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. The bearing choice drives everything else.
- swing driveway gates
- single swing gates
- dual swing gates
- swing gate openers
- in-swing and out-swing gates
- swing gate hinge replacement
- sagging swing gate repair
- swing gate post setting
- articulated arm operators
- underground swing gate operators
- swing gate safety sensors
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. Everything moves instead through two roller truck assemblies mounted on posts, which means all the wear and all the corrosion concentrate into two small components.
- cantilever slide gates
- commercial cantilever gates
- no-track slide gates
- cantilever gate rollers
- marina and boatyard gates
- cantilever gate repair Fort Lauderdale
- heavy-duty slide gates
- flood-prone driveway gates
- industrial yard gates
- cantilever gate operators
- warehouse perimeter gates
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. That describes a real slice of Fort Lauderdale.
- bi-fold gates
- vertical pivot gates
- fast-opening gates
- short driveway gates
- space-saving driveway gates
- bi-folding speed gates
- vertical lift gates
- high-cycle gates
- bi-fold gate operators
- secure fast gates
- gates for narrow waterfront lots
Automatic Gate Operators
An operator is an electric motor, a gearbox and a circuit board living outdoors within reach of salt spray. Nothing about that combination is naturally durable, and the difference between a four year unit and a fifteen year unit is mostly how it was housed and wired. Start with the enclosure.
- automatic gate openers
- gate operator installation Fort Lauderdale
- LiftMaster gate operators
- DoorKing gate operators
- FAAC gate operators
- slide gate operators
- swing gate operators
- underground gate operators
- gate motor repair
- Class I-IV gate operators
- gate remote programming
Access Control & Keypads
A keypad on a waterfront driveway is a small sealed box that gets rained on, splashed with salt, and pressed by a wet hand several times a day. Almost every failure we see is water getting into it or corrosion getting under it. Water gets in from below far more often than from above.
- gate access control Fort Lauderdale
- gate keypads
- card and fob readers
- smartphone gate access
- video intercom gates
- exit loop detectors
- gate remote controls
- multi-user access codes
- cellular gate entry
- gate access control repair
- delivery driver gate codes
Telephone Entry Systems
Most single family clients who ask for a telephone entry system do not need one. What they actually want is to let a visitor in without walking to the street, and there are two cheaper ways to do that before you buy a directory unit. A telephone entry system earns its cost when there are many households behind one gate.
- telephone entry systems
- gate call boxes
- DoorKing telephone entry
- cellular call box installation
- gated community directory
- condominium gate entry system
- video call box Fort Lauderdale
- telephone entry repair
- gate directory programming
- visitor access management
- landline to cellular conversion
Safety Sensors & UL 325 Compliance
UL 325 asks a simple question of every automatic gate: if this leaf closes on a person, what stops it. The answer has to be two independent means of entrapment protection, and on the water the second one is usually the one that quietly stops working. The first means is inherent to the operator, which senses resistance and reverses.
- UL 325 gate compliance
- gate photo eyes
- gate safety edges
- entrapment protection gates
- gate loop detectors
- ASTM F2200 gate safety
- gate safety inspection Fort Lauderdale
- gate sensor repair
- gate reversing sensors
- HOA gate safety audit
- gate safety retrofit
Gate Motors & Solar Power
We install solar gate systems and we talk most Fort Lauderdale clients out of them. On a typical waterfront lot the panel is the wrong answer to a problem that a trench solves permanently and for less money over the life of the gate. Three things work against solar here.
- solar gate openers
- solar powered gate motors
- battery backup gate systems
- off-grid gate operators
- gate motor replacement Fort Lauderdale
- 12V and 24V gate motors
- solar panel gate kits
- hurricane power outage gates
- gate battery replacement
- low-voltage gate wiring
- gate motor troubleshooting
Custom & Estate Gates
The more sculptural a gate is, the more places water can sit in it. That is the tension in every estate gate on the water, and it is resolvable, but it has to be resolved at the drawing stage rather than during fabrication. Ornament creates traps.
- custom estate gates
- luxury driveway gates Fort Lauderdale
- waterfront estate entrances
- designer entrance gates
- monogram gates
- laser-cut panel gates
- arched estate gates
- custom gate design
- gate and column packages
- bespoke gate fabrication
- matching pedestrian gates
Security Fencing & Perimeter
A waterfront perimeter has an open side and there is no getting around it. You can secure three boundaries of a property on the Intracoastal, and the fourth is a seawall with a dock on it, which changes what the fence is actually for. That reframing is useful.
- security fencing Fort Lauderdale
- commercial perimeter fencing
- welded wire security fence
- anti-climb fencing
- marina and boatyard perimeter
- ornamental security fence
- galvanized chain link fence
- security fence and gate packages
- aluminum perimeter fencing
- waterfront property fencing
- perimeter fence repair
Commercial & Industrial Gates
The marine yards along the Dania Cut-off Canal and the New River run the hardest environment for a gate anywhere in Broward. Bottom paint dust, pressure wash runoff, hauled boats dripping salt water across the apron, and a perimeter that is half chain link and half water. Gates on those sites corrode from the ground up.
- commercial gates Fort Lauderdale
- industrial gate installation
- marina gates
- boatyard and dry stack gates
- gated community entrance gates
- HOA gate service
- self-storage gates
- commercial gate repair
- high-cycle gate operators
- commercial gate maintenance contracts
- condominium gate systems
Welding & Gate Fabrication
Welding for the water is a different craft from welding for a dry climate, because a weld is a metallurgical discontinuity and salt attacks discontinuities first. Most of what we do in the shop is aimed at leaving as few of those as possible. On stainless, the heat of welding can precipitate carbides at the grain boundaries next to the bead and leave a narrow zone that corrodes preferentially.
- gate welding Fort Lauderdale
- custom metal fabrication
- mobile welding services
- gate frame repair
- aluminum and stainless welding
- on-site gate welding
- handrail and railing fabrication
- gate post replacement
- dock and seawall metalwork
- structural steel repair
- gate hinge welding
Emergency Gate Service
Two kinds of emergency call come in from waterfront properties, and they need different responses. The gate will not open, which is urgent and usually electrical. Or the gate will not close, which people treat as less urgent and which is actually the one that leaves a house standing open.
- emergency gate repair Fort Lauderdale
- 24 hour gate service
- gate stuck open repair
- gate stuck closed repair
- same day gate repair
- gate operator emergency service
- hurricane gate damage repair
- vehicle impact gate repair
- gate security lockout
- HOA emergency gate service
- after hours gate technician
What Fort Lauderdale property owners ask us
Which gate services does Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros handle?
Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Fort Lauderdale and Broward County. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.
Can I combine more than one service in a single job?
Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling gate work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.
Do you give free estimates for every service?
Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.
What Fort Lauderdale Customers Say
We are on a canal and our last gate rusted through in four years. These guys galvanized the steel before coating it and used stainless hardware throughout. Three summers in and there is not a mark on it.
Short driveway, sidewalk right at the property line, and two other companies told us a gate was impossible. They measured the back-run and put in a slide gate that clears perfectly. Clean work.
They drew up elevations for our HOA architectural committee before fabricating anything, which saved us a rejection. Gate went in on schedule and the columns match the house exactly.
Our operator died in the middle of storm season. They came out the same afternoon, found a fried control board rather than selling us a new motor, and added a battery backup we should have had all along.
Wide opening for the horse trailer and no power anywhere near the road. They sized a solar and battery package properly and showed us the math. It has never once run out of charge.
Our board asked for a written safety report on both entrances. They found photo eyes that had never been aligned and force limits turned all the way up by a previous company. Fixed both and documented it.
Service Areas
Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros serves Fort Lauderdale, FL and surrounding communities including: