Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Los Angeles homes and businesses
Hancock Park's side driveways, Silver Lake's hillside streets, a Mar Vista tract landscaped instead of fenced: across the City of Los Angeles, the planning layers on each address decide what a gate there can be. 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 Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a city of gates. From the hillside estates above Sunset to the Spanish bungalows of Mid-City, the industrial yards of the Eastside, and the apartment corridors of Koreatown and the Westside, a driveway or pedestrian gate is part of how the city lives — and every one of them was either built for its opening or adapted to it. We build for the opening. Since 2006 we have designed and installed custom gates across the city, from a single cedar side gate to a commercial entry with directory access control.
Working citywide means knowing LADBS. Most Los Angeles addresses permit through the Department of Building and Safety, with additional review in hillside, coastal, and historic overlay zones, and the automated-gate safety standards — UL 325 and ASTM F2200 — apply everywhere. We confirm the requirements for your parcel and draw the gate to comply, and if it needs an LADBS permit, we can take care of the application for an added fee.
This page covers the City of Los Angeles neighborhoods that don't have a page of their own. If yours does — Encino, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Hollywood, Brentwood, Bel Air, and the rest — you will find local notes there. Either way the process is the same: a free, written, on-site estimate; a drawing you approve; a gate built by our fabrication partner of 15 years and installed by our licensed installers.
Local conditions
Los Angeles has more than 30 HPOZs, and each preservation plan is written around its own streets. Hancock Park's houses mostly sit 50 feet back, with side driveways running through a porte cochere; its plan sends front-yard fences to staff review and exempts side- and rear-yard ones. The Gregory Ain Mar Vista Tract was landscaped to open up space between houses, not to fence it.
LAFD counts Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Mount Washington among its Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone communities, and their narrowest streets can be posted as Red Flag tow-away zones to keep routes open. A gate set at the curb leaves your car in that lane while it opens; a car length of setback keeps the street clear.
In much of Mid-City and the Wilshire-area neighborhoods, garages open onto a rear alley. A gate there shouldn't swing out over the alley, which is usually public right-of-way, so the choices are an inward swing, a slide gate along the back fence, or a bi-fold where space is tight. Alley gates take knocks from trucks, so posts and stops are built heavier.
Areas we cover in Los Angeles: Hancock Park · Windsor Square · Los Feliz · Silver Lake · Mount Washington · Mar Vista
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Ornamental IronworkRailings, grilles and window guards drawn to match existing period ironwork where a preservation plan asks for it.Learn More 
Most RequestedDriveway GatesSide-driveway gates set back toward the house, the arrangement a porte cochere driveway already suggests.Learn More 
Gate Opener InstallationMotorizing a gate worth keeping, with the operator out of the street view; starting at $5,000 – $7,000.Learn More 24/7Gate RepairHinge, latch and operator repairs on older gates across the city, with a written, itemized quote first.Learn More Gate repair in Los Angeles
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