Gates Melbourne
Swing and sliding gates for Melbourne homes
Gates for Melbourne driveways, side paths and front yards, hung by our installers to match your fence.
Pick a swing or sliding gate in Colorbond, timber, blade or chain wire, and we can make it automatic.
- Your quote is free and comes in writing
- Our installers are insured
- We fix sagging and dragging gates too
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How it works
How getting a new gate works
Tell us about the job
Tick Gates on the form and add your suburb. In the notes, say where the gate goes and roughly how wide the opening is.
We measure up if needed
When the job needs it, we come out and measure the opening, the slope of the driveway and the room on either side.
You get a written quote
It's free, and there's no rush to decide.
We build and hang your gate
The posts go into concrete first, then the gate is hung and the latch lined up. When a job needs a welder or a licensed electrician, we bring one in.
What we install
Driveway gates and side gates
Driveway gates either swing open or slide along the fence. Side and pedestrian gates are the ones you walk through every day.
Swing driveway gates
One gate, or a pair that opens from the middle. A pair suits a wide driveway, because each gate swings in a shorter arc. A drop bolt, a steel rod that drops into a hole in the driveway, holds one of the pair shut while the other opens.
Sliding driveway gates
The gate rolls along the fence line on wheels and a track, so it needs no room to swing. A cantilever gate hangs from rollers on posts beside the opening, so no track crosses the driveway.
Side gates
The gate between the house and the boundary fence. It keeps kids and dogs in and lets the bins and mower out.
Pedestrian gates
A single gate in the front fence, across the path to your front door. It's usually made to match the front fence on either side.
Materials
Gates to match your fence
Most gates are made from the same material and colour as the fence they sit in, so the two look like one job. We install gates for each type of fence we install.
Colorbond gates
A steel frame clad in the same Colorbond sheet and colour as your fence. It's private, won't rot and suits a side gate or a solid driveway gate.
Timber gates
Palings or slats on a frame, to match a timber fence. Timber is heavy, so a wide timber gate often gets a steel frame behind it to stop it sagging.
Blade gates
Made with the same blades, gap and powder coat as a blade front fence. Powder coat is a paint baked onto the metal. A blade sliding gate next to a matching pedestrian gate is a common pair.
Chain wire gates
Galvanised or black mesh on a steel frame, to match a cyclone fence around a yard, a tennis court or a work site.
Farm and entrance gates
Steel farm gates hung between strainer posts, the heavy braced posts at the end of a wire fence, and wide entrance gates at the road.
Sliding or swing
Sliding or swing gate?
Your driveway usually makes the choice. Look at how much clear ground there is inside the gate, along the fence beside it, and which way the ground falls.
| Swing gate | Sliding gate | |
|---|---|---|
| Room to open | ||
| Room to open | Needs a clear arc inside the boundary, as wide as the gate, with no parked car, step or garden bed in the way. | Needs no room to swing, so it suits a short driveway where the car parks close to the gate. |
| Beside the opening | ||
| Beside the opening | Needs nothing beside the opening. | Needs run-back space, a clear straight stretch of fence line about as long as the opening, for the gate to roll back along. |
| Slope | ||
| Slope | A driveway that rises behind the gate can stop it opening. A pair of shorter gates, hung a little higher, clears more ground. | Runs along the fence line, so a driveway that climbs to the house is less of a problem. Ground that falls along the fence line is harder. |
| Wind | ||
| Wind | A solid gate catches the wind, so it needs strong hinges and a catch to hold it open. | Stays on its track or rollers, so a gust can't slam it shut. |
| Footpath | ||
| Footpath | Hang it to open inwards, towards the house. | Never crosses the footpath when it opens. |
Not sure which suits your driveway? We can price both.
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Posts, hinges and latches
Hinges, latches and sagging gates
A gate pulls on its hinge post every time it opens. A gate that drags on the ground or won't latch has often dropped on a post or hinges too light for its weight.
A strong hinge post
The hinge post carries the whole gate, so we set it deep in concrete and use a heavier post than the fence posts beside it.
Hinges sized to the gate
Heavy hinges, bolted through the post, rated for the gate's weight and the wind it takes. Self-closing hinges swing it shut behind you.
The right latch
A latch you can open with one hand, a lockable one on a side gate, and a drop bolt on a pair of driveway gates.
A frame that keeps its shape
A steel frame, or a timber frame braced from corner to corner, stops the gate dropping at the latch end.
A stop and a catch
A gate stop, a block the gate closes against, keeps it from swinging past the post. A hold-open catch keeps it open in the wind.
Automation
Automatic gates
We can make a new sliding or swing gate automatic, with a motor that opens and closes it.
Gate motors are made to an Australian and New Zealand safety standard for gate drives, AS/NZS 60335.2.103. It covers the danger of the moving gate itself, such as closing on a person or a car.
The gate comes first
The motor is chosen to suit the gate's type, size and weight, so we settle the gate before the motor.
We hang the gate
It has to open and close smoothly by hand before a motor goes on it.
An electrician wires it in
In Victoria, only a licensed electrician can do electrical work. They give you a Certificate of Electrical Safety, a legal record of the work they did.
Power at the gate
A motor needs power at the gate. If there's no supply nearby, the electrician runs a cable to it, which can mean a trench across the yard.
Rules
Gate rules in Victoria
Start with your council's fence rules. Pool gates have rules of their own.
Read the rules
- City of Stonnington
Nothing over the footpath
Stonnington's fence rules say gates “must not swing out over the title boundary or footpath”. Other councils can have the same rule, so we hang driveway and side gates to open in, or fit a sliding gate.
- Your council
Front fence height
Your council sets the height limit for a front fence, so check its rules before you choose a gate taller than the fence. Heritage overlays, extra planning controls on some streets, can add rules too.
- Consumer Affairs Victoria
Pool gates shut and latch themselves
Every gate into a pool or spa area must have self-closing and self-latching devices. In a rented home, a pool gate that stops working counts as an urgent repair.
- Building permit
Who signs off a pool barrier
Work on a pool barrier, gate included, needs a building permit from a building surveyor, the person who approves building work. A surveyor or building inspector then signs off the barrier, and we build the gate to suit it.
Pricing
What sets the price of a gate
Each gate is priced from your opening and your fence, and your written quote shows the full price before any work starts.
Width and height
A wider or taller gate uses more material, and it needs heavier posts and hinges to carry it.
Material and colour
Steel sheet, timber, blades and mesh each cost differently, and the colour can change the price too.
How the gate opens
Two gates mean two lots of hinges plus a drop bolt, and a sliding gate needs its track or rollers.
Posts and footings
New posts and the concrete footings they sit in, or hanging the gate on brick piers you already have.
A motor
An automatic gate adds the motor, the electrician's time and any cable run to the gate.
The ground and the old gate
Rock, tree roots and a steep driveway mean more work. If an old gate has to come out, we'll confirm on the quote whether we can take it away.
Gate questions
Gates FAQs
There's no set price, because the opening, the gate type and automation all change it. Online price guides quote national averages, not the price for your opening. A written quote for your own gate is the number worth comparing.
Not always. Which costs more depends on your opening.
A gate within your council's front fence height limit usually doesn't need one. A taller gate, a brick front fence over the limit or an overlay can change that. A pool gate is different: it's part of the pool barrier, which always needs a building permit.
Wide enough for the biggest thing that has to pass through it, such as a car, a trailer, the wheelie bins or the mower. We measure the opening on site and size the gate to fit.
Inward, onto your property. We hang driveway and side gates to open in, so they never swing out over the footpath or the road. If there isn't room for a gate to swing in, a sliding gate is the other option.
Often, if the gate is solid, the posts are sound and it runs freely by hand. Describe the gate in the notes on the form, and a licensed electrician wires in the motor.
Usually the hinge post has leaned, the hinges have worn or a timber frame was never braced. Yes, we fix them: we reset or replace the post, fit new hinges and rehang the gate so it latches again.
Yes. We cover Melbourne and regional Victoria, including Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and the Mornington Peninsula.
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