Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros provides professional swing gates in Fort Lauderdale, FL for residential and commercial properties across Broward County. 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. Sealed cartridge bearings are clean and quiet and cannot be maintained. Greaseable barrel hinges are less elegant and can be flushed with fresh grease once a year, which pushes out the salt and the water that got in. On waterfront installs we generally specify the ugly serviceable one, and we show owners where the fitting is. Ask to be shown the zerk fitting at handover.
Posts are the second failure point, and they fail at ground level. A steel post set in concrete in sandy saturated soil corrodes hardest right at the grade line where wet meets air. We either use a heavy aluminum post, or a steel post that is galvanized and then sleeved and sealed at grade so the transition zone is not exposed. A post that snapped at the surface was rusting inside its own footing for years.
Then there is the arc. A swing leaf needs clear space to open into and the driveway apron on many isle lots is short, so the gate wants to swing inward across the parking pad you actually use. Bi-parting halves the arc. Swinging outward over a public sidewalk is generally not acceptable and we will not design it that way. On a sixteen foot opening that decides whether a parked car clears.
For anything wider than a car and a half, we push toward a pair rather than one long leaf. A long single leaf puts a big overhung moment on one hinge set, and that moment plus salt is what tears a hinge plate out of a post. Three hinges rather than two spread the same load, and a thrust bearing at the bottom barrel carries the vertical component.
The operator you hang on a swing gate matters as much as the hinge. A linear actuator has a screw and a tube exposed along its whole travel, and salt gets into the seal at the rod end. An articulated arm keeps its mechanism inside a housing and puts the load through linkage instead. Underground hydraulic units look tidy and sit in a pit that fills with groundwater on these lots, which we avoid.
Hardware to check on an existing gate: hinge play, latch alignment and whether the drop rod still drops. Those three tell you the state of the whole assembly in about a minute.
With 15+ years of experience, our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — wrought iron and ornamental steel fabrication, marine-grade powder-coated aluminum, cantilever and roller slide gates, LiftMaster, DoorKing and FAAC operators, Class I-IV operator classifications, UL 325 entrapment protection — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Fort Lauderdale and nearby communities including Pompano Beach, Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
What We Handle
Everything our swing gates in Fort Lauderdale covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of swing gates work in Fort Lauderdale, FL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- 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
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Fort Lauderdale services.
Materials, equipment and how we do swing gates
The difference between swing gates that lasts and swing gates that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with wrought iron and ornamental steel fabrication, marine-grade powder-coated aluminum, cantilever and roller slide gates, LiftMaster, DoorKing and FAAC operators, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Fort Lauderdale job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of gate work in Broward County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do swing gates outside Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros covers Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding communities of Broward County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Swing Gates in Pompano Beach, FL — Broward County, incorporated as the Town of Pompano on July 3, 1908, population 112,046 at the 2020 census
- Swing Gates in Oakland Park, FL — Broward County, incorporated as Floranada on November 25, 1925, population 44,229 at the 2020 census
- Swing Gates in Wilton Manors, FL — Broward County, incorporated as a village on May 13, 1947, population 11,426 at the 2020 census
- Swing Gates in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL — Broward County, incorporated November 30, 1927, population 6,198 at the 2020 census
- Swing Gates in Lighthouse Point, FL — Broward County, incorporated as a town on June 13, 1956, population 10,486 at the 2020 census
- Swing Gates in Deerfield Beach, FL — Broward County, incorporated as a town on May 12, 1939, population 86,859 at the 2020 census
Start on the Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 938-4596 and describe the job.
Why Fort Lauderdale Chooses Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros
- ✓Over 15 years installing and automating gates across Broward County
- ✓In-house metal shop — we weld and powder coat our own gates rather than drop-shipping them
- ✓Marine-grade aluminum and hot-dip galvanized steel specified for coastal salt air
- ✓Waterfront, canal-front and marina-community gate work is a specialty, not a sideline
The standards behind swing gates
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The swing gates work we do in Fort Lauderdale follows published industry standards: DASMA is the standards body for door and access systems, and UL Solutions publishes UL 325, the safety standard for automatic gate operators. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every swing gates project in Fort Lauderdale gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 938-4596 for a free swing gates free estimate in Fort Lauderdale, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.