![]() ![]() Whether you do electric or solar, both systems run off a 12 volt battery that is constantly charged. If you are doing an electric gate at an estate home where the main house is several hundred feet away, then solar is going to be a lot less expensive than running new power to the road. If you have the space you can just as easily do a solar setup. If you don’t have an existing outlet, then you would need to hire a licensed electrician to run a new outlet close to the gates, probably at a cost of a few hundred dollars depending on how far away they are having to bring power in from. ![]() Even if the outlet is in a basement, crawl space, or garage, we can usually find a way to access it. Electric or Solar PowerĤ) Do you want to do electric or solar? As long as you have an existing electric outlet within about 25 feet of the operator, then we can easily plug into it. If you don’t have to do wood, then we would try to steer you away from wood. The wood adds a lot of weight to each gate piece. You would then affix the wood pickets to the metal frame. You can just as easily do a chain link gate, but why put a nice operator on a cheap chain link gate? If you have to do a wood gate, then you still need a steel or aluminum frame for the operator arm to connect to. Aluminum, Wood, or Chain Link Materialģ) What material gate serves you best? As you can see from our photos below, probably 95% of the time we are doing aluminum gates with an automatic operator. As an example, if a flat top gate is $2,000, the same gate with an arch might be $2,500. An arched gate does add to the material cost of the project. Flat Top or Arched Top Aluminum GateĢ) Do you want a flat top or arched gate? Most people prefer to have an arch in the gate, simply for aesthetic reasons. Or when you are dealing with lots of slope on a driveway, you may have to do a double drive to avoid having a large gap under the gate. Tight spaces sometimes require a double swing. This is because there is more structural material required to build a single gate than two gates half the size of the single (hopefully that makes sense). The labor and operator cost is more on a double gate (because you are doing everything twice), but the material cost of a double gate itself is usually less than a single gate piece. Single or Double Drive Automatic Gateġ) Do you want a single piece gate or a double drive gate? A double gate is going to cost more, but not painfully more. After doing a few hundred electric gate installations in Greenville, we can tell you the handful of things to consider. We also do custom driveway entries for estate homes on larger lots. This is because in these areas the parking pad is most often behind the house, compared to newer builds where parking is in front of the house. ![]() Our standard install is usually in an older neighborhood like Chanticleer, Gower, Augusta Rd, or North Main. Please take a look below at just a select few photos of custom gate installs we have done in Greenville. Automatic Driveway Gate Installers in Greenville ![]()
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