Our services in Geelong
Everything we do for Geelong and the surrounding area. Pick a service to see what’s involved, what it costs and how soon we can start.
Automatic Sliding Gate Installation
A sliding gate is the default choice for a large share of Geelong driveways, and for reasons that have nothing to do with looks. It doesn't need room to swing, so it suits narrower blocks and driveways where a swing gate would foul a parked car, a retaining wall or the slope of the drive. On the many sloping blocks around Highton, Wandana Heights and the Barrabool Hills, a slider is often the only automation that works cleanly. The trade-off is that a sliding gate needs clear space to one side of the opening to slide into, and either a level track or a cantilever setup depending on the ground. We work out which your site allows before quoting, rather than selling you a gate that won't fit the way you park.
Automatic Swing Gate Installation
Swing gates are what most people picture at the entrance to a home or a Bellarine acreage block — a single leaf across a modest driveway, or a grand double gate that opens from the middle. They suit wider, flatter frontages, and they carry a look that a lot of Geelong homeowners want that a slider can't quite match. The catch is that a swing gate needs level, clear ground through the whole arc it swings across, and somewhere to sit when open without blocking a path or a parking bay. On a driveway that slopes up or down from the street — very common around Highton and the hills — a swing gate can foul the ground as it opens, which is the first thing we check on site. Where the ground suits it, a well-set-up swing gate is hard to beat.
Electric Gate Motors & Openers (incl. Solar)
The motor is the part of an automatic gate that does the actual work, and it is the part most often got wrong. An under-sized opener on a heavy steel gate, a budget unit with no local parts supply, or standard plated hardware on a Bellarine frontage that sees salt air every day — that is the usual story behind a gate that fails a few years in. We supply, fit and replace gate motors and openers across Geelong, from Highton and Belmont to Leopold, Ocean Grove and Torquay, matched to the gate's weight, its daily cycle count and the site it lives on, including solar-powered setups for rural-residential blocks with no easy mains power.
Gate Automation Retrofits
Plenty of Geelong homes have a perfectly good manual gate — a timber pair on a Newtown frontage, a steel slider in Belmont, a farm gate on a Wallington block — that the owner is tired of getting out of the car to open. A retrofit adds a motor, safety sensors and remote or keypad control to the gate you already have. Where the gate is a suitable candidate it costs a fraction of a new automated gate and keeps the gate you chose in the first place. We tell you honestly whether yours is a candidate before quoting.
Automatic Gate Repairs & Servicing
When an automatic gate fails it fails at the worst time — you're late, the car's boxed in, and the gate is either sitting open with your property exposed or shut with you locked out. Most of Geelong's gate companies are fencing generalists set up to sell you a new gate, not to come and fix the one you have, which is exactly the gap we built this service around. We repair automatic sliding and swing gates across Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surf Coast, whatever brand of motor is on them, and we'll tell you honestly whether you're looking at a straightforward repair or a motor that has reached the end of its life. Before you do anything else, find your manual release key and disengage the motor so you can move the gate by hand — that gets your car in or out while the repair is booked.
Intercom & Access Control
An automatic gate is only as convenient as the way you open it. A remote in the car covers the family; it does nothing for the courier, the visiting relative or the holiday-house guest who arrives while you are at work in Geelong. Intercoms and access control close that gap. We fit video intercoms, keypads, remotes and phone-app systems to new and existing gates across Geelong and the Bellarine, wired or wireless depending on the driveway, so you can see who is at the gate and let them in from the kitchen or from the other side of the country.
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