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Gates, garage doors, fencing & automation for Tarzana homes and businesses
Custom Gate Installation & 24/7 Repair in Tarzana, CA
Tarzana climbs from flat streets near Victory Boulevard to canyon lots that back onto Topanga State Park, and each gate here is planned around the street it faces, the slope it sits on, or the brush line it guards. 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 Tarzana
What building a gate in Tarzana actually involves
Tarzana's southern half climbs into the hills — Braemar, the streets above Ventura Boulevard, the estates toward Mulholland — where driveways are long, often steep, and frequently curved. Those properties are where slide and cantilever gates earn their keep, and where power runs and footings have to be planned around the terrain. North of the boulevard the lots flatten out and the work is more about matching a gate to a ranch-style or mid-century house.
Tarzana is inside the City of Los Angeles, so permits go through LADBS, with hillside review on the parcels that need it. Where a street is private or gated, an association approval is added to the process; our scaled drawing covers both. We confirm what your address requires before we draw.
From our Van Nuys office, Tarzana is a short drive west on the 101, for estimates and for the repair calls that come in when an older operator finally quits. We answer 24/7 and give you a written price on site.
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Local conditions
What changes the build in Tarzana
Lots that back onto the state park
Where a Tarzana lot meets Topanga State Park, the back fence is also the brush line. LAFD's brush-clearance rules can reach 200 feet from a structure, and the crews who do that work come through a side or rear gate with their gear. We size that gate for them, and we suggest steel over wood on the run facing the brush.
Long drives above Ventura
Above Ventura Boulevard, many drives run a long way uphill before they reach the house, and the gate can sit at the bottom or near the top. At the bottom it guards the whole drive but needs a level landing where a car can wait off the street; near the top it usually gets flatter ground and a shorter power run.
Melody Acres and the big flat lots
North of Ventura, Melody Acres sits on RA-zoned lots of 17,500 square feet and up, with houses set well back from the street. A gate at the curb ends up far from both the operator's power and the front door, so we plan the wire run, a keypad post a driver can reach from the car, and an intercom or phone-entry unit for visitors.
Areas we cover in Tarzana: Tarzana Hills · Braemar · Caballero Canyon · Melody Acres
Services
What we build and fix in Tarzana
Residential Gate OpenersKeypads, intercoms and phone entry mounted at the curb on long Tarzana drives, wired back to an operator that may sit far from the house.Learn More 
Most RequestedDriveway GatesSwing, slide or cantilever gates placed at the bottom or top of a climbing drive, depending on where a car can safely wait.Learn More 
Custom Wrought Iron GatesSteel and wrought-iron side and rear gates for fence lines that face park brush.Learn More 
Residential FencingFence runs with side gates wide enough for brush-clearance crews and their equipment.Learn More Gate repair in Tarzana
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Gates we've built
Steel security fencing
Commercial entry and fencing- Modern metal driveway gate
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Tarzana FAQ
Questions we hear in Tarzana
Answers specific to Tarzana. The questions every customer asks are on our FAQ page.
A like-for-like manual gate replacement often does not need one, but an automated gate, a taller gate, or a change in location usually does, and hillside parcels can carry extra review through LADBS. We check your address before we draw. If a permit is required, we'll tell you who has to get it, and if you'd rather not deal with it, we can take care of it for an added fee.
Only near the ridge. The Mulholland Scenic Parkway Specific Plan reaches half a mile out from the Mulholland Drive right-of-way, and its review covers work that can be seen from the road, so most of Tarzana falls outside it. If your parcel is inside, the gate goes through the plan's design review before LADBS issues a permit, and we draw it to the plan from the start.
Look the parcel up on ZIMAS. The Hillside Area is mapped lot by lot rather than drawn along Ventura Boulevard, so the parcel's own profile is the only reliable answer. It matters for a gate when the job needs grading for a level landing or a new retaining wall, because that kind of work gets extra review on hillside lots.
Only as well as its gaps. We draw the picket or slat spacing, the clearance under the gate and the gap at the hinge side for the animal you want to stop, and run the fence to the same spec so the gate isn't the one tight section. An automatic gate with a close timer helps too, because a gate left open keeps nothing out.
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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