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 Northridge homes and businesses
Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Northridge, CA
Northridge mixes student rentals near CSUN, orchard-era lots in Sherwood Forest and business parks on clean-industrial land, so the right gate depends on which Northridge you're in. 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 Northridge
What building a gate in Northridge actually involves
Northridge is mostly post-war tract streets, with larger lots and, in places, horse properties mixed in, and the bigger lots show it in their driveways: wide openings, long frontages, and a taste for ranch-style rail gates and substantial double swing gates. Newer neighborhoods and the streets near CSUN and the Northridge Fashion Center mix in modern steel and privacy designs. We build for both, and we build the fence to match.
Northridge is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS. The flat terrain makes most gates straightforward to automate, and long driveways with the house set back are exactly where a keypad at the street and remotes in the cars change daily life. Every automated gate we install here has photo eyes and edge sensors to UL 325 and ASTM F2200.
Estimates in Northridge are easy to schedule from our Van Nuys office, and emergency calls are answered 24/7. If you have an older gate with a tired operator, a retrofit — new motor, sensors, and access control on the gate you already have — is often the highest-value job we do.
- Custom Gate Design Since 2006
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Local conditions
What changes the build in Northridge
Garages turned into living space
Garage conversions and backyard units have moved a lot of Northridge parking onto the driveway. A gate then goes either behind the parked cars, with room to open their doors and for the gate to clear them, or at the street, which turns the driveway into a gated parking court. The rear unit's tenant also needs a separate walk-in route.
Lots along the railroad
Sherwood Forest's south edge, like other Northridge blocks, backs onto the railroad. A rear fence there works as a security line: as tall as zoning allows, solid or close-picket, with posts on your side of the property line and no gate onto the tracks, since the right-of-way belongs to the railroad.
Business parks on clean-industrial land
Parts of Northridge still carry clean-industrial zoning, with hundreds of high-tech and manufacturing companies. Their sites need a perimeter that closes cleanly after hours: a slide gate wide enough for delivery trucks, a separate pedestrian gate for staff, and access control that records who came through and when.
Areas we cover in Northridge: Sherwood Forest · Northridge East · Northridge West · Northridge South · the streets around CSUN
Services
What we build and fix in Northridge
Intercom & Phone EntryPer-tenant codes, app entry and phone-entry units for rentals and small buildings near CSUN.Learn More 
Automatic & Electric GatesMotorized swing or slide gates for Northridge driveways, positioned around cars parked where the garage used to be.Learn More 
Commercial GatesSlide gates, staff gates and logged access control for business parks on Northridge's industrial land.Learn More 
Residential FencingRear security fence along the railroad and frontage fence for Sherwood Forest's bigger lots.Learn More Gate repair in Northridge
Garage doors in Northridge
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Gates we've built
- Wood and steel fence
- Commercial iron entry
Swing gate operator
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Northridge FAQ
Questions we hear in Northridge
Answers specific to Northridge. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.
Usually, if the gate is square and the posts are sound. Long, flat driveways are ideal for retrofit automation, and if power is far from the gate we can bring in a licensed electrician to run a new line, or install a solar-powered operator. We inspect the gate at the free estimate and tell you honestly whether it is worth automating.
Skip the remotes. A keypad or app-based system lets you give each tenant a personal code and cancel it on move-out day, and many keep an entry log. For a small building, a phone-entry unit at the walk gate lets guests call a tenant's cell instead of the owner. We install the access control with the gate and show you how to manage the codes.
That depends on the species. The city's protected list is limited to certain natives, oaks and the Southern California black walnut among them, and root damage that kills one counts as removal and needs a permit. Orchard walnuts were usually English walnuts, which aren't on the list, and neither is citrus. An arborist can confirm which you have before we set a post.
It can push it back. An RA lot's required front yard is 20 percent of the lot depth, up to 25 feet, against a 20-foot cap in R1, and a full-height gate generally has to sit behind the required front yard. On a deep RA lot the gate may end up well up the drive, so we confirm the zoning on ZIMAS and measure before drawing.
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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