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Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Canoga Park homes and businesses
Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Canoga Park, CA
Canoga Park fits storefronts, apartment courtyards and small older houses into about four square miles, so its gates range from a bungalow walk gate to security that meets Sherman Way's design rules. 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 Canoga Park
What building a gate in Canoga Park actually involves
Canoga Park is the working heart of the west Valley: post-war tracts and older bungalows on flat lots, apartment buildings along Sherman Way and Vanowen, and light-industrial blocks along Canoga Avenue and the rail line near Warner Center. The gates we build here split the same way — a cedar or steel driveway gate for a 1950s ranch house, a slide gate with fob access for a twelve-unit building, a security gate for a yard that needs to close behind every truck.
Flat lots make automation simple in Canoga Park; the challenge is usually the age of what is already there. A lot of the driveway gates on these streets went in decades ago with operators that are now humming, reversing, or dead after a hot summer. We diagnose on site with a written price, and when a retrofit makes sense — new operator, safety sensors, keypad and remotes on the existing gate — it is one of the best-value jobs we do.
Canoga Park is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS. Our office is across the Valley in Van Nuys, and estimates are free and easy to schedule.
- Custom Gate Design Since 2006
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Local conditions
What changes the build in Canoga Park
Owensmouth-era bungalows
Canoga Park started in 1912 as the town of Owensmouth and took its current name in 1931, and the older blocks near downtown still have small houses with short front walks. A low walk gate and fence in wood or simple iron, scaled to a narrow lot, suits them better than a tall driveway gate, and keeps the porch in view.
Where the river starts
The Los Angeles River begins in Canoga Park, where Arroyo Calabasas and Bell Creek meet, and their concrete channels run behind homes and businesses here. If your lot backs onto one, the channel itself usually isn't part of your lot: a new fence or gate stays on your side of the line, and any opening toward the channel needs the permission of the agency that owns it.
Exit gates on apartment courtyards
Apartment buildings along Sherman Way and Vanowen often secure their courtyards with a pedestrian gate that is also the way out. A gate on an exit route has to open from the inside without a key or special knowledge, so it gets a lever or push bar on the inside and a lock that only controls entry from the street.
Areas we cover in Canoga Park: Downtown Canoga Park · the Sherman Way corridor · the north edge of Warner Center · the Canoga Avenue light-industrial strip
Services
What we build and fix in Canoga Park
Commercial FencingDecorative perimeter fence for Sherman Way businesses, built to the corridor overlay's material rules.Learn More 
Security GatesCourtyard, parking and yard gates for apartment buildings and light-industrial lots, with egress hardware where the gate is an exit.Learn More 
Custom Wood GatesCedar or redwood walk gates and low fences, on steel frames, scaled to Owensmouth-era bungalows.Learn More 
Fence RepairCar-damaged or rusted frontage sections rebuilt to match, so a storefront or fence line stays consistent.Learn More Gate repair in Canoga Park
Garage doors in Canoga Park
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Gates we've built
Arched wood garden gate
White panel gate
Arched wood side gate
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Canoga Park FAQ
Questions we hear in Canoga Park
Answers specific to Canoga Park. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.
All the time. Many Canoga Park driveway gates date from the 1970s through the 1990s. If the gate is square and the posts are sound, a retrofit — new operator, UL 325 safety sensors, keypad and remotes — costs far less than a new gate. If it is past saving, we say so and show you the replacement numbers.
Not in the commercial corridor overlay between Eton and De Soto. It prohibits razor and barbed wire, corrugated or other solid metal fencing, plywood and rustic wood fences, and plain undecorated walls. What it allows is decorative masonry or wrought iron, built as tall as zoning permits, with planting such as bougainvillea along the top in place of wire, as the overlay itself suggests.
You can gate your own lot's opening onto the alley, but not the alley itself; most alleys are public right-of-way, and putting anything in one takes a city permit. The gate has to stay on your side of the line and either slide or swing inward, so it never sits in the alley when open. Sliding it along the back fence usually keeps it out of the alley entirely.
Usually a closer and latch that actually work, plus a reason not to prop it. A hydraulic closer sized to the gate pulls it shut every time, a latch that catches without slamming keeps it there, and an access system residents find easy removes the excuse. Some buildings add a door-position alarm that alerts the manager when the gate stays open too long.
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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