Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros provides professional wood gates in Fort Lauderdale, FL for residential and commercial properties across Broward County. Wood gates look spectacular in Fort Lauderdale and fail quickly when they are built the way most people build them, which is a solid timber frame trying to carry its own weight across a driveway. South Florida is a genuinely hostile place to be a wooden gate: driving rain for half the year, humidity that never really drops, UV that chews a finish off in two summers, and termites that read an untreated bottom rail as an invitation. The answer is not more expensive timber. It is a welded steel frame carrying the load with the wood applied as cladding, and it is what we build unless you specifically ask otherwise. The frame gets galvanized or blasted and powder coated first, the cladding gets fastened with stainless screws through slotted or oversized holes so the boards can move with the seasons, and no board sits close enough to grade to wick water out of a puddle. Western red cedar is our default because its natural oils resist rot and insects, it takes a stain well and it stays reasonably stable through a wet season. Cypress is a good regional alternative with a similar character. Pressure-treated pine is the budget option and we will build it, but we will also tell you it moves more and wants refinishing sooner. Ipe and other dense tropical hardwoods look extraordinary and weigh a great deal, so they belong on a slide gate or a dual swing with serious hardware rather than on a wide single leaf that a residential operator has to move ten times a day. Design runs from vertical board-and-batten to horizontal slat, ranch rail, and the mixed wood-and-iron gates that suit a lot of Fort Lauderdale frontages: an ornamental steel frame and top with cedar infill behind it, so you get privacy without hanging a solid slab of timber that acts as a sail every time a squall rolls through. On any automated wood gate we take a hard look at leaf weight first, because timber is heavy and a gate that is fine on hinges will still eat a residential operator. Maintenance is the honest part. A wood gate here wants penetrating oil or a UV-stable stain every two to three years and the hinges checked annually. We also repair rather than replace where it makes sense: re-squaring sagging leaves, welding in a hidden steel corner brace, replacing individual boards and re-hanging on heavier hardware.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and 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 wood gates in Fort Lauderdale covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of wood gates work in Fort Lauderdale, FL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- 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
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 wood gates
The difference between wood gates that lasts and wood 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 wood 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.
- Wood Gates in Pompano Beach, FL — Broward County, incorporated as the Town of Pompano on July 3, 1908, population 112,046 at the 2020 census
- Wood Gates in Oakland Park, FL — Broward County, incorporated as Floranada on November 25, 1925, population 44,229 at the 2020 census
- Wood Gates in Wilton Manors, FL — Broward County, incorporated as a village on May 13, 1947, population 11,426 at the 2020 census
- Wood Gates in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL — Broward County, incorporated November 30, 1927, population 6,198 at the 2020 census
- Wood Gates in Lighthouse Point, FL — Broward County, incorporated as a town on June 13, 1956, population 10,486 at the 2020 census
- Wood 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) 511-2320 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
Every wood 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) 511-2320 for a free wood gates free estimate in Fort Lauderdale, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.