Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros Blog

Every post here answers a question Fort Lauderdale property owners actually ask before they hire anyone — what work costs, which materials are worth the upcharge, how long a job really takes, and the shortcuts that look fine for two years and then do not.

The writing comes from the same people doing the work in Fort Lauderdale, FL and Broward County, which is why the numbers are specific and the advice sometimes tells you not to spend money.

Skip the articles and go to the page for what you need — each one covers pricing, scope and how to start:

• Driveway Gates in Fort Lauderdale — Driveway gates change how a Fort Lauderdale property reads from the street more than any other single thing you can add to it, and choosing one is mostly a question of what the site will physically allow rather than which photograph you liked. Before anybody talks about scrollwork we measure four things: the clear opening width, the driveway depth from the sidewalk to where a car actually stops, the slope both across and along the drive, and what electrical power exists anywhere near the street.
• Wrought Iron Gates in Fort Lauderdale — Wrought iron gates are the entrance most Fort Lauderdale homeowners picture first, and in this climate they are also the ones most often built badly, because heavy steel hides its sins for about three seasons before it starts confessing. We forge and weld custom wrought iron and ornamental iron driveway gates in our own Broward County shop from solid bar and heavy-wall tube, not the thin decorative stock that dents if a bumper looks at it sideways.
• Garage & Parking Gates in Fort Lauderdale — Garage and parking gates are a different problem from a driveway gate, and on the condominium-heavy stretch of coast Fort Lauderdale occupies they are frequently the more pressing one. A parking structure is the softest point on most buildings: it is the one opening that has to admit vehicles, it is usually out of sight from the street, and it is shared by dozens or hundreds of people who all have a different view on how long to wait for it to close behind them.
• Ornamental Steel Gates in Fort Lauderdale — Ornamental steel gates give you the look and strength of wrought iron at a lower price and a lower weight, which makes them the practical middle of the Fort Lauderdale market. Where traditional iron is solid bar, ornamental steel is tubular section: less mass on the hinges, less load on the operator, and a cheaper gate to automate and keep automated over twenty years.
• Aluminum Gates in Fort Lauderdale — Aluminum gates are the correct answer for most waterfront and near-water property in Fort Lauderdale, and we say that as a shop that makes more margin selling steel. Aluminum does not rust.

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