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“We had gates installed by Method. They did such a great job. They gave us the best customer service and really tried to please us all the way. The job was well done at a reasonable price. I highly recommend this company.”
Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Mission Hills homes and businesses
Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Mission Hills, CA
In eastern Mission Hills, toward the Mission and the San Fernando city line, streets still follow the Spanish-era grid set 45 degrees off the compass, so many lots meet the street at an angle. We measure the angle and draw the gate for it. 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 Mission Hills
What building a gate in Mission Hills actually involves
Mission Hills sits around the old San Fernando Mission, and the neighborhood's mid-century tracts and ranch houses lean traditional: Spanish and ranch-style homes that suit a solid wood carriage gate, a picket iron gate with a modest arch, or a simple horizontal slat design in cedar. The lots are flat, the driveways are straightforward, and most of the work is about matching the house and automating the gate so nobody has to get out of the car.
The neighborhood also has a commercial edge along Sepulveda Boulevard and near the 405/118 interchange, where we build slide gates, security fencing, and access control for yards and multifamily buildings. Mission Hills is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS. We confirm what your project needs, and if that includes a permit, we can take care of the application for an added fee.
Every automated gate we install in Mission Hills carries UL 325 and ASTM F2200 safety devices, and repair calls are answered 24/7 with a written price on site.
- Custom Gate Design Since 2006
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- Permit Help When You Need It
- 24/7 Emergency Gate Service
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Local conditions
What changes the build in Mission Hills
Lots on the Mission's angled grid
Eastern Mission Hills keeps the Spanish Colonial-era street grid, skewed 45 degrees from north. Where those streets meet the ordinary grid, lots get angled frontages and driveways that hit the curb off-square. We set hinges and posts to the actual property line and check a slide gate's run against the angle instead of assuming a square corner.
Hillside streets north of the Mission
North of the Mission, streets bend with the terrain instead of running straight like the flat tracts to the south. If ZIMAS puts a lot in the Hillside Area, side and rear fences top out at six feet rather than eight, and a gate on a sloped drive gets its bottom edge raked to follow the slab.
One entrance for a whole park
Several mobile-home parks cluster near Brand Boulevard and Sepulveda, each behind a block wall with a single driveway; one has 95 homes on one entrance. A gate there carries every resident, guest, delivery and ambulance, so it needs a heavy-duty operator, a visitor call system and a place for cars to stop that keeps them off the boulevard.
Areas we cover in Mission Hills: the blocks around the Mission and Brand Park · the hillside streets north of the Mission · Brand Boulevard · the tracts south of the 118
Services
What we build and fix in Mission Hills
Most RequestedDriveway GatesGates fitted to angled frontages on the Mission grid, with posts set to the true property line.Learn More 
Residential Gate OpenersHeavy-duty operators and visitor call systems for parks and complexes that run every car through one entrance.Learn More 
Residential FencingFence on irregular lot lines, stepped or raked where the streets north of the Mission climb.Learn More 
24/7Gate RepairRepairs for aging swing operators, sagging hinges and cracked welds on older Mission Hills gates.Learn More Gate repair in Mission Hills
Garage doors in Mission Hills
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Gates we've built
Arched iron side gate
Commercial entry and fencing- Modern metal driveway gate
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Mission Hills FAQ
Questions we hear in Mission Hills
Answers specific to Mission Hills. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.
Usually a solid or arched wood gate with strap hardware, or wrought iron with a simple arch and finials. Both are drawn for your opening and built by our fabrication partner of 15 years — wood on a welded steel frame so it stays square — and both automate cleanly.
Not for the houses themselves. The Mission and the Pico Adobe are city monuments, but SurveyLA found no HPOZ anywhere in the Mission Hills–Panorama City–North Hills plan area, so a gate on a private lot follows ordinary zoning and LADBS rules. Echoing the Mission's adobe-and-iron character is a design choice, not a requirement.
Usually just the motor, if the gate is straight, swings freely by hand, and hangs on sound hinges and posts. Replacing the operator starts at $5,000 – $7,000, and it's the moment to bring photo eyes and edge sensors up to UL 325 and ASTM F2200. If the gate binds or drags, that gets fixed first, or the new motor fails the same way.
Give the back house its own pedestrian gate and code, and keep a clear, lit walkway from the street to its door. The driveway gate can then open from either household's phone, with separate credentials so one can be changed without touching the other. If the back house needs its own parking, we size the opening for two cars passing.
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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