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Start by testing everything running on a battery, and everything linked to your armed response. Batteries fade without warning, so the gate motor, the alarm panel, the electric fence energiser, wireless sensors and beams can all look fine until the power goes off. Send a test signal from the alarm and the electric fence, press each panic button, and make sure the control room receives it. Test the manual override keys, which open your gate and garage door by hand when the power's off, and keep them somewhere safe. Before you go away, save your service provider's number in your phone. Small faults are the ones people learn to live with. A beam gets taped over, the gate gets left open "for now", and one night, "for now" runs out. On a site visit, we test all of this first.

Yes. A consultant visits and walks the whole property before anyone mentions a price, not only the boundary. They stand where a stranger would stand and look at what a stranger would see: the gate, the walls, the doors, the dark side passage and the way people come and go each day. Your property decides what goes in, so no two quotes are the same. A steep driveway, a narrow garage or a busy estate entrance each changes the gate, the motor or the system. Where a job needs them, we draw up drawings and plans, so you can see what's going in before it's made. You then get a detailed written quotation, which explains what each part does. Nothing is ordered, made or installed until you approve it.

Yes. We design access control, intercoms, CCTV, alarms, electric fencing, and gate and garage automation as one system for your home or business. Designed together, each part warns the next. The fence picks up someone cutting or tampering with it, the alarm goes off, and the camera sends a clip to your phone, so you see what set it off. Designed apart, each one sits in the dark, waiting for somebody else to notice. Your property decides the design. A home at the end of a long, narrow panhandle driveway needs something different from a factory yard or an estate with one shared entrance. You deal with one company from the first site visit to the next service. Our service department keeps a record of every system we install, so whoever comes out knows what's on your property.

Yes. Our service department repairs gate motors, sliding and swing gates, garage doors, intercoms, boom gates, alarms and electric fences, including systems other companies installed. We find the cause first. Lightning strikes, faulty equipment, damaged cabling and weak batteries cause most faults. If a car has bashed or bent your gate, we assess the damage, quote and repair it, and our factory is set up for fast gate repairs. Most faults give a warning first. The motor groans for a month, then hesitates for a week. Call us while it groans, not on the night it stops halfway with you outside. Clients with a service level agreement, a service contract with us, get 24-hour access to our technicians, including nights and weekends. Everyone else can book a call-out Monday to Friday, with Saturday mornings by appointment.

Yes. We install boom gates, turnstiles, fingerprint and face readers, tags you hold up to a reader, keypads and visitor intercoms at estates, complexes, offices and factories, and access control for homes too. Every entrance is controlled and monitored. Access can be set per person, per group and by time of day, so a cleaning team gets in between 6pm and 9pm and at no other time. The system keeps a record of every entry. When the side gate opens at 3am, you'll know whose tag opened it. The traffic decides the design. Four hundred cars at 7:30am need a different entrance from a complex with ten units. A boom at a busy entrance works harder than most, so it needs regular servicing to keep the queue moving. When someone moves out or leaves, you can delete their access the same day.

They keep working on backup batteries, as long as the batteries are healthy. Gate motors, garage door motors and alarms run on a battery, and mains power keeps it charged. When the power goes off, the battery takes over. Load-shedding drains it again and again, so a battery fades over months without a sound. You find out at 7pm in the rain, with the street dark and the gate stuck halfway. How long a battery lasts depends on its age, its size and how often the gate opens. A busy estate gate drains a battery far faster than a home gate opening a few times a day. Have each battery tested regularly, and replace a damaged or flat one before the night you need it. Know where the key for opening the gate by hand is. For longer outages, solar or backup power keeps the gate, alarm and cameras running.

Yes. Our factory designs and manufactures custom driveway gates, pedestrian gates, burglar bars, security gates and balustrades in steel, for homes, estates and businesses. Each one is measured on site to fit the opening, with no gap left at the bottom. Your opening and its surroundings decide the gate before the look does. A sliding gate needs a stretch of wall beside the opening, a swing gate needs clear space behind it, and in Johannesburg a swing gate should open into your property, not over the pavement. Then choose the look: plain, slats, Clearview (a tight steel mesh you can see through), laser-cut designs or ornate wrought iron, with high-end finishes. Where the job needs them, we draw up plans, so you see the gate before it's made. We can automate a new driveway gate while we install it.

Whenever it needs one, not on a fixed date. Test it regularly, and book a service at the first sign of trouble: a groan, a slow open, a gate stopping short or a remote working only up close. How hard the gate works decides how often it needs a service. A home gate opening a few times a day goes longer between services than a busy gate at an estate or business, and heavy gates and single swing gates work harder than most. A service checks the battery, the motor, the track, the wheels, the safety beams (which stop the gate closing on a car) and the remotes, so small wear is fixed before it stops the gate. It's also when we delete old remotes. Somewhere, one of them is still clipped to a sun visor in a car you sold years ago.