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Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Bel Air homes and businesses
Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Bel Air, CA
Bel Air's canyon roads and private drives set the terms for a gate: which weekdays the installers can work, what the fire department needs at the pillar, and, near Mulholland, which materials are allowed. Nothing is built until you approve the drawing. Our fabrication partner of 15 years builds it, our licensed installers put it in, and our phones are answered 24/7 for gate and garage door repairs.
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Gates in Bel Air
What building a gate in Bel Air actually involves
Bel Air properties are defined by their entries. Long driveways off Bel Air Road, Stone Canyon, and the streets above Sunset end at gates that have to carry the whole first impression of the house — and then open reliably for family, staff, and deliveries a dozen times a day. Our fabrication partner of 15 years builds those gates from drawings you approve, in wrought iron, steel, and wood on steel frames, and we engineer them for the driveway they are going on.
Nearly every Bel Air lot is hillside, which brings LADBS hillside review to the permit and slope to the design. Swing gates need room and the right hinges; slide and cantilever gates need a run along the property line; footings need to suit the soil on the hill. We measure all of it at the estimate. Bel Air is inside the City of Los Angeles; if your project needs an LADBS permit, we can take care of it for an added fee.
Security and access control are part of every Bel Air conversation: video intercoms, phone entry with one-time codes, anti-climb fence runs, and operators with battery backup so the gate works through an outage. We install the system as one piece and walk you through every control before we leave.
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Local conditions
What changes the build in Bel Air
Weekday hours for exterior work
Bel Air falls under the City's Hillside Construction Regulation district. Exterior construction runs Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays are for interior work only, and floodlit work after 6 p.m. is banned. Concrete and earth hauling is held to midday hours. Footing pours, setting the leaves and the final operator test all have to fit those windows.
Mulholland's material list
Within 500 feet of Mulholland Drive, the Mulholland Scenic Parkway Specific Plan limits fences, gates and walls visible from the road to rough-cut unfinished wood, native-type stone, split-face block, textured plaster, and black or dark-green wrought iron or chain link. Dark iron fits that list easily; a painted white leaf or polished metal does not.
Private roads and gated enclaves
Where a gate crosses a private street or shared access road, as at the entries to several Bel Air enclaves, LAFD sets the equipment: a red Fire Department Access box or approved Knox key switch beside the gate, full opening within 10 seconds, 20 feet of clear width, and fail-safe opening if both power and battery are lost.
Areas we cover in Bel Air: East Gate · West Gate · Upper Bel Air · Roscomare Valley · Bel Air Crest
Services
What we build and fix in Bel Air
Residential Gate OpenersOperators wired for an LAFD override switch and set to fail safe where the gate crosses a private road.Learn More 
Custom Wrought Iron GatesBlack or dark-green wrought iron that sits within the Mulholland corridor's material list, drawn to the scale of an estate frontage.Learn More 
Security GatesEntry gates, pedestrian gates and perimeter runs for associations that manage a private road and its access list.Learn More 
24/7Gate RepairService for leaves that drift, bind or stop short on a sloped approach, and operators that strain under a heavy estate gate.Learn More Gate repair in Bel Air
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Gates we've built
- Double-gate automation
Commercial entry detail
Steel security fencing
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Bel Air FAQ
Questions we hear in Bel Air
Answers specific to Bel Air. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.
Yes. We draw the driveway gate, pedestrian gates, fence runs, and railings as one set, and our fabrication partner builds them all to that drawing — same picket profile, same finials or scrollwork, same finish — so the whole property reads as one design.
It may. LAFD's key-box standard calls for an approved Knox key switch on gates that restrict fire-department vehicle access to residential properties, and LAFD decides how that applies to a given lot. Ask early on a long drive, because the answer changes the pillar wiring. We confirm it before the pillars go up and run conduit before they're capped, so nothing has to be cut in later.
Decide it now, not during an evacuation. LAFD traces the city's fire-zone rules back to fires that include the 1961 Bel Air Fire, and Bel Air Estates is still listed in the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone. A gate stuck shut can strand a visitor's car in a narrow street or keep yours in the drive. Most operators can hold the gate closed on battery or open it when mains power drops; pick one, and try the manual release once.
The list covers fences, gates and walls visible from Mulholland Drive inside the 500-foot inner corridor, so a gate below the road or screened by the slope may fall outside it. City Planning decides what counts as visible. The plan's review process is aimed at projects visible from the drive, so we provide photos taken from Mulholland for the submittal.
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What do you need?
- A new gate
- Gate repair
- Make my gate automatic
- Fencing
- Garage door
- Commercial, HOA or apartments
- Not sure yet
No obligation. It takes about a minute, then we call to schedule. Prefer to talk? (818) 782-6180