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Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Sylmar homes and businesses
Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Sylmar, CA
Sylmar's 2015 community plan treats horses as part of the neighborhood, down to rider gates onto trails and trailer parking by the drive — and Santa Ana winds off the San Gabriels put loads on a gate that the flats never see. 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 Sylmar
What building a gate in Sylmar actually involves
Sylmar is the top of the Valley, where the streets run up into the San Gabriel foothills and the lots get bigger. It is one of the few neighborhoods in the city with horse-keeping zones, and it shows in the gates: wide ranch-style driveway gates that open for a trailer, long fence runs, and driveways where the gate is a hundred feet from the nearest outlet. Solar-powered operators and long low-voltage runs are normal work here.
Down toward Foothill Boulevard and San Fernando Road, Sylmar is also industrial, with yards and shops that need slide gates and security fence built for daily abuse. Both ends of the neighborhood are inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS, with hillside review on the foothill parcels. We confirm the requirements for your address, and if a permit is needed, we can take care of the paperwork for an extra charge.
Our Van Nuys office is a short drive south. Estimates are free and written, automation is installed to UL 325 and ASTM F2200, and emergency repairs are dispatched 24/7.
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Local conditions
What changes the build in Sylmar
Rider gates and trailer parking
The community plan's guidelines ask for a gate that gives riders direct access to the trail, sidewalk or street where a lot is reached from a side or rear yard, and for trailer parking near the driveway beside the horse area. Fences along trails are kept to about four feet, ideally with a wood-like finish.
Santa Ana wind off the San Gabriels
Sylmar sits at the foot of the San Gabriels, where Santa Ana winds come down hard; the wind-driven 2008 Sayre Fire destroyed about 480 homes at the Oakridge mobile home park. A solid-panel gate catches wind like a sail, so we size posts, hinges and the operator for it, or open the design up.
The zone sets the front-fence height
Sylmar mixes A and RA lots with RE and R lots, and LADBS treats their front yards differently: up to six feet for a front fence on A or RA land, 3½ feet on R or RE land unless City Planning approves more. We read the zone off ZIMAS before drawing a front gate.
Areas we cover in Sylmar: Olive View · the foothill streets · the Hubbard Street corridor · the Telfair Avenue industrial park · Sunset Farms
Services
What we build and fix in Sylmar
Custom Wood GatesWide wood ranch gates on welded steel frames for horse lots and trailer access.Learn More 
Residential FencingTrail-side fencing kept low with a wood-like finish, and paddock runs with no wire anywhere.Learn More 
Automatic & Electric GatesOperators, posts and hinges sized for Santa Ana gusts on solid or extra-wide gates.Learn More 
Security GatesIndustrial-park perimeters built from iron, solid pillars and wall sections instead of chain link, as the community plan asks.Learn More Gate repair in Sylmar
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Gates we've built
Swing gate operator- Double-gate automation
Steel security fencing
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Sylmar FAQ
Questions we hear in Sylmar
Answers specific to Sylmar. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.
Yes. If trenching a power line is impractical we install a solar-powered operator, which works well on long rural driveways, and we run low-voltage wiring for the keypad and sensors. We check the site at the free estimate.
Usually, and the community plan encourages it: a rider gate from a side or rear yard straight onto the trail. Keep it on your side of the line — a trail running through an easement on your lot has to stay open — and keep nearby fencing to about four feet. A long-handled latch lets a rider work it from the saddle.
Smooth rails or tight panels with no wire; the plan's guidelines say barbed and razor wire shouldn't be used. Gaps should be too small to trap a hoof, and rails go on the horse side of the posts so a push doesn't pop them loose. Check the plantings along it too: oleander is toxic to horses, and the plan says it must go.
The community plan steers away from it. Where security fencing is needed, its industrial policy calls for a mix of solid pillars, open iron fence, solid wall segments and grillwork, and it says chain link and barbed wire aren't allowed. Projects in the Telfair Avenue and Balboa Boulevard parks are also asked to keep the landscaped street pattern. We design the gate and fence as one run.
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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
- Not sure yet
No obligation. It takes about a minute, then we call to schedule. Prefer to talk? (818) 782-6180