Virginia Longmuir
4 years ago
“I have used Method for repairs and upgrades to my driveway gate and garage door. They are always on time, courteous and the work is great.”
Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Granada Hills homes and businesses

Granada Hills has an Eichler historic district, a horsekeeping district against O'Melveny Park and a Spanish-style main street, and each one asks something different of a gate. 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 Granada Hills
Granada Hills was laid out with room to breathe. Old Granada Hills, south of Rinaldi, is ranch houses on wide lots with long frontages; north of Rinaldi, in the Knollwood area, the streets climb into the foothills and the driveways climb with them. Both call for gates with some presence — double swing gates in iron or wood, matched fence runs, a pedestrian gate beside the driveway — and both are drawn for the specific lot before anything is cut.
The foothill streets are where design matters most: a driveway that rises from the street rules out a plain swing gate, and a slide or cantilever gate along the property line is usually the answer. Granada Hills is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS, with hillside review on the parcels that need it. We confirm the requirements for your address, and if a permit is needed, we can take care of the paperwork for an added fee.
Estimates are free and written, automation is installed to UL 325 and ASTM F2200, and 24/7 emergency service covers the whole neighborhood.
Local conditions
The Granada Hills Equinekeeping 'K' district covers single-family lots in the northwest corner of the community, north of Rinaldi Street, and the community plan describes them with access paths for horse trailers. The driveway gate on one of those lots is a trailer gate first: wide, set back so a rig can stop clear of the street, and hung to swing clear of the corrals.
The Granada Hills Specific Plan aims for consistent Spanish Colonial roofs and facades along the Chatsworth Street commercial core, and its design review board looks at work there, including the apartment blocks between Andasol and Genesta Avenues. A security gate or fence on those properties should read as part of that look, which points toward wrought iron.
The deodar cedars along White Oak Avenue between San Fernando Mission Boulevard and San Jose Street are Historic-Cultural Monument No. 41. On those blocks, widening a driveway apron means working around the roots of monument street trees, and pruning street-tree roots takes a city permit, so the practical move is usually to size the gate to the driveway you have.
Areas we cover in Granada Hills: Old Granada Hills · Knollwood · Balboa Highlands · the horse lots near O'Melveny Park · the Chatsworth Street business district
Services
Custom Wood GatesSimple side and rear gates in wood over steel, the kind of modest design Balboa Highlands' HPOZ review looks for.Learn More
Most RequestedDriveway GatesWide trailer gates for K-district lots north of Rinaldi, set back so a rig clears the street.Learn More
Automatic & Electric GatesOperators and sensing laid out so a long truck-and-trailer rig clears the opening before the gate closes.Learn More
Commercial FencingWrought-iron fence and gates for Chatsworth Street storefronts and apartments under the Specific Plan.Learn More Gate repair in Granada Hills
Garage doors in Granada Hills
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Metal sliding driveway gate
Arched wood side gate
Swing gate operatorVirginia Longmuir
4 years ago
“I have used Method for repairs and upgrades to my driveway gate and garage door. They are always on time, courteous and the work is great.”
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