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Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Lake Balboa homes and businesses
Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Lake Balboa, CA
Lake Balboa's lots are flat and its houses mostly post-war, so the questions are practical ones: where the driveway runs, how wide the curb cut is, and how people reach the front door once the drive is gated. 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 Lake Balboa
What building a gate in Lake Balboa actually involves
Lake Balboa is one of the neighborhoods closest to our Van Nuys office, so estimates are easy to schedule. The streets are post-war ranch houses and mid-century tracts on flat lots around the Sepulveda Basin, with a growing number of remodels that want a gate to match a new facade.
That mix suits the way we build. A horizontal cedar slat gate on a steel frame for a modernized ranch house, a black steel picket gate with matching fence for a traditional one, a keypad at the street and remotes in the cars — drawn for the opening, built to that drawing by our fabrication partner of 15 years, and installed by our licensed installers, most of whom have worked with us for more than ten years. Lake Balboa is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS; if your project needs one, we can take care of the paperwork for an extra charge.
A bent leaf, a rusted bottom rail, or a section of fence a car backed into can be pulled, rebuilt by our fabrication partner, and reinstalled.
- Custom Gate Design Since 2006
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Local conditions
What changes the build in Lake Balboa
Driveways that run beside the house
Many Lake Balboa ranch houses have a driveway running down one side to a garage at the back. Setting the gate even with the front of the house keeps it out of the front yard, where tall fences and gates are restricted, but the side yard is narrow there, so one swinging leaf or a gate that slides along the fence fits where a pair of swinging leaves won't.
Walk gates beside the drive
On these lots the front walk often meets the driveway, so once the drive is gated, visitors need another way in. UL 325 calls for a separate pedestrian opening wherever people walk through, and a walk gate with its own latch or keypad keeps guests, mail and deliveries out of the vehicle gate's path.
Gate now, fence later
Plenty of Lake Balboa frontages still have the chain link or wood fence the house came with. If this year's budget covers only the gate, we draw the whole frontage anyway and build the gate to that drawing, so fence panels added later match its spacing, height and finish.
Areas we cover in Lake Balboa: the blocks near Lake Balboa Park · the Balboa Boulevard corridor · west of Van Nuys Airport · north of Victory Boulevard
Services
What we build and fix in Lake Balboa
Most RequestedDriveway GatesSingle-leaf swing and slide gates sized to side driveways and the curb cut in front of them.Learn More 
Residential Gate OpenersKeypads at the walk gate and remotes for the drive, so visitors and cars each have their own way in.Learn More 
Residential FencingFrontage fence designed with the gate now, so it can be built this year or matched panel for panel later.Learn More 
Gate Opener InstallationAutomation for the manual gate you already have, after we check that it's square and its hinges and posts will take an operator.Learn More Gate repair in Lake Balboa
Garage doors in Lake Balboa
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Lake Balboa FAQ
Questions we hear in Lake Balboa
Answers specific to Lake Balboa. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.
Close. Our office is on Cabrito Road in Van Nuys, next door to Lake Balboa, so estimates are easy to schedule, and emergency calls — a gate stuck open or closed — are answered 24/7.
Often, with a Bureau of Engineering permit, since the apron sits in the public right-of-way. City rules set a residential apron at 10 to 18 feet along the curb, and going wider takes a BOE-approved deviation; a street light in the way adds an excavation permit. A gate can be wider than the apron, though, so sometimes the apron can stay as it is.
Talk to the neighbor first. California's Good Neighbor Fence Act presumes adjoining owners share responsibility for a boundary fence, so drilling it for hinges or a latch is a joint decision. It's often simpler to set the gate's post on your side of the line, which leaves the wall alone and avoids loading it with a moving gate.
Decide before the gate is drawn. LA Sanitation's carts have to reach the curb every collection day, so either the walk gate is wide enough to roll a full cart through without a fight, or the carts live outside the gate in a screened spot beside the drive. A low enclosure in the same material as the gate keeps that corner from looking like an afterthought.
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What do you need?
- A new gate
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- Make my gate automatic
- Fencing
- Garage door
- Commercial, HOA or apartments
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No obligation. It takes about a minute, then we call to schedule. Prefer to talk? (818) 782-6180