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Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Sun Valley homes and businesses
Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Sun Valley, CA
Sun Valley holds a heavy concentration of gravel, concrete and recycling yards, a historic district of 1920s river-rock bungalows, and canyon hillsides that burned in 2017 — so a gate here might answer to trucks, an HPOZ board or brush. 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 Sun Valley
What building a gate in Sun Valley actually involves
Sun Valley is two neighborhoods sharing a name. Along San Fernando Road, Tuxford, and Sunland Boulevard it is one of the Valley's biggest industrial districts — yards, recyclers, truck lots, and shops that need heavy slide gates, anti-climb fencing, bollards, and access control that closes the gate behind every vehicle and logs who came through. We build those gates from heavier steel on high-cycle operators, and we answer 24/7 when one fails after hours.
Up toward La Tuna Canyon and the Stonehurst area, Sun Valley turns residential and semi-rural: larger lots, horse-keeping properties, and hillside driveways. Those call for wide ranch-style gates that open for trailers, fence suited to horses, and operators with solar power where the gate is far from the house. Sun Valley is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS, with hillside review where it applies.
Our office is in Van Nuys, a short drive west. Site surveys and estimates are free and written, for a single driveway gate or a whole yard perimeter.
- Custom Gate Design Since 2006
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Local conditions
What changes the build in Sun Valley
Stonehurst's river-rock bungalows
Many of the 92 houses in the Stonehurst HPOZ were built of local river rock between 1923 and 1925. Its preservation plan wants front fences low and rustic — river rock, wood, hedges — and calls overly ornate wrought iron and unfinished block inappropriate. A new front-yard gate goes to the HPOZ board; a wood or stone fence in the rear yard is exempt.
Trucks, grit and wide openings
Gravel, concrete and recycling operations bring loaded trucks, wide turning arcs and dust that gets into everything. Yard gates here get extra opening width for a trailer's swing, cantilever slides that keep wheels out of the dirt where the site allows, and rollers and guides placed where grit can be cleared before it wears them down.
Streets that flood
Parts of Sun Valley never got a full storm-drain network — LA County's Sun Valley Watershed plan exists to fix that — and some streets still pond after a heavy rain. A gate there gets its operator on a raised pad, a track design (or no track at all) that won't silt up, and loop detectors kept out of standing water.
Areas we cover in Sun Valley: Stonehurst · La Tuna Canyon · Fernangeles · the San Fernando Road and Tuxford Street industrial blocks
Services
What we build and fix in Sun Valley
Custom Wood GatesRustic wood gates on steel frames, the kind the Stonehurst preservation plan prefers to ornate iron.Learn More 
Security GatesTall, anti-climb gates for yards along San Fernando Road and Tuxford that have to stay shut overnight.Learn More 
Commercial FencingPerimeter fence that closes off vacant lots and yard edges where dumping happens after dark.Learn More 
24/7Gate RepairSilted tracks, grit-worn rollers and tired operators on yard gates, assessed on site with an itemized quote.Learn More Gate repair in Sun Valley
Garage doors in Sun Valley
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Gates we've built
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Arched wood garden gate
Arched wood side gate
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Sun Valley FAQ
Questions we hear in Sun Valley
Answers specific to Sun Valley. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.
Yes. For the Sun Valley industrial district we build cantilever slide gates, security picket or expanded-metal fencing, bollards, vehicle detection, and fob or phone-entry access with logs, quoted from a site survey as a written scope with maintenance and 24/7 service afterward.
Yes, but it goes to the HPOZ board, because front-yard fences and gates aren't exempt from review. The preservation plan favors simple, low, rustic designs and wants parking reached by a driveway to the rear, so a gate set back along the drive — wood, or plain iron — tends to fit. We prepare the drawings and photos the board reviews.
Only if the whole frontage closes. Dumpers find any gap: a missing fence panel, a gate that lifts off its hinges, a corner left open. We close the full street side with fence and a gate that can't be lifted out, and if trucks need regular access, the gate gets a keypad or remote instead of a padlock someone has to manage.
Check the zoning first: parcels with a -CUGU suffix fall under the Clean Up Green Up district. If your business is one of its listed uses and the work is a new building, a change of use, or alterations or additions worth more than half the site's replacement cost within 24 months, the perimeter can't be chain link, barbed wire or concertina wire.
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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