Hagit Eden
6 years ago
“I had the pleasure working with Method Doors & Gates, great prices, very professional and friendly, arrived on time, Replace my garage door, excellent job highly recommend.”
Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Hollywood homes and businesses

Five historic districts, a specific plan written around Hollywoodland's 1923 granite walls, and gated garages on busy apartment blocks: a Hollywood gate often answers to more than one rulebook. 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 Hollywood
Hollywood is two very different gate problems. In the flats — the dense blocks between Sunset, Franklin, and the 101 — it is multifamily and commercial: garage gates that cycle all day, pedestrian gates with intercoms, and security that holds up on a busy street. In the Hollywood Hills — Beachwood, Outpost, Whitley Heights, the streets off Mulholland — it is steep driveways, tight openings, hillside footings, and gates that are as much architecture as security.
On the two sides of Franklin the work differs. For the buildings that means high-cycle operators, fob and phone-entry directories, and anti-tailgate detection; for the hillside homes it means slide and cantilever gates designed around the grade, wrought iron or steel drawn to suit a 1920s Spanish house or a modern glass one, and operators with battery backup. Hollywood is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS, with hillside review and, in the HPOZs, City Planning's historic review first.
Our Van Nuys office is just over the hill. Estimates are free and written, and repairs are dispatched 24/7 — a stuck garage gate on a forty-unit building is treated as the emergency it is.
Local conditions
Whitley Heights, Spaulding Square, Sunset Square, Hollywood Grove and Melrose Hill are Historic Preservation Overlay Zones. Every exterior change inside them, landscaping included, goes through City Planning, and the review type depends on whether ZIMAS lists the house as contributing. Each district has its own preservation plan, so a gate that suits one may not suit the next.
The Hollywoodland Specific Plan covers the original 1920s tract at the top of Beachwood Canyon. New fences and walls must stay at least 3 feet back from the front lot line and no taller than 6 feet, and nothing, fences included, may attach to the 1923 granite walls and stairways in the public right-of-way. A gate post beside one needs its own footing.
LADOT's driveway guidelines ask for at least 20 feet of queuing between the property line and an entry gate serving up to 100 parking spaces, and 40 feet up to 300, so waiting cars stay off the sidewalk. Where a gated drive is a required fire lane, LAFD adds an override switch and fail-safe opening on power loss.
Areas we cover in Hollywood: Hollywoodland · Hollywood Dell · Nichols Canyon · Hollywood Knolls · Spaulding Square · Sunset Square
Services
Security GatesGarage and perimeter gates for apartment buildings, planned around queuing room and LAFD's override where it applies.Learn More
Custom Wrought Iron GatesIron picket and slat gates drawn for the opening and the grade; projects in Hollywood are in our gallery.Learn More
Ornamental IronworkRailings, window grilles and gates in period profiles for Spanish Colonial and Craftsman houses in the HPOZs.Learn More
Commercial GatesHeavy slide gates for commercial lots, loading areas and service yards along Hollywood's boulevards.Learn More Gate repair in Hollywood
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Ornamental iron entry gates
Commercial iron entry
Commercial entry detailHagit Eden
6 years ago
“I had the pleasure working with Method Doors & Gates, great prices, very professional and friendly, arrived on time, Replace my garage door, excellent job highly recommend.”
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