Is it safe around kids and pets?

Photo-eyes and edge sensors stop and reverse the gate. They are commissioned, not just fitted.

Can I still open it by hand?

Every install gets a manual release, and where it goes is part of the job — it has to be findable in the dark.

Will it work with my existing remotes?

Often. Where the frequency matches, what you already carry gets re-programmed rather than replaced.

The operator type decides most of that. Hydraulic, screw-drive and rack-and-pinion units do not sound alike, which is worth knowing before one is fitted.

Automatic Gate Installation in Wilton Manors, FL

Automated swing gate with its operator arm mounted at the base of a stone pillar

Automatic gates · Wilton Manors, FL

Motor, safety sensors, keypad and phone control — wired and commissioned.

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Barrier arm lowered across the entry lane of a gated residential community. — Central Broward — The older inland grid either side of I-95 and the canal network that runs through it.

Wilton Manors · Broward County

An automatic gate is judged on one moment: the approach. If you have to stop, wind a window down and wait, the automation has not really happened. Operator, receiver and detection all get tuned to that one sequence.

A short frontage usually means a slide operator rather than a pair of arms, and the safety loop has to be cut into a driveway that was already short to begin with.

The urban grid was laid out long before anybody was automating an entrance, so the space a gate needs has to be found rather than assumed.

One code, many counters

The wind-load requirement in Wilton Manors is the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone standard that governs the whole of Broward. The review that sits on top of it is local, and in a county this dense with planned communities an association's architectural approval is frequently the longer of the two.

Automatic Gates — the full breakdown

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

Same job, same angle. Nothing staged between the two frames.

Technician marking a driveway beside a concrete saw before the safety loop is cut — Safety loopCut, laid, sealed, gone

Technician sealing the finished underground loop cut in the same restored driveway — Safety loopCut, laid, sealed, gone

Automatic Gates · Wilton Manors

05 frames

Solar panel mounted above a white aluminum gate powering its operator

Solar-powered leaf

Sliding gate between rendered pillars with clipped hedges either side — Slide between hedges

Ram-arm operator fitted to the hinge post of a light aluminum swing gate — Ram arm, swing leaf

Technician sealing a finished underground safety loop cut in a driveway — Loop sealed in

Lit modern house at dusk with vehicles parked under the entrance canopy — Home before you park

Worth knowing

Phone control
Operator sized to weight
Safety sensors
Loop detection
Slide & cantilever options

Is it safe around kids and pets?: Photo-eyes and edge sensors stop and reverse the gate. They are commissioned, not just fitted.
Can I still open it by hand?: Every install gets a manual release, and where it goes is part of the job — it has to be findable in the dark.
Will it work with my existing remotes?: Often. Where the frequency matches, what you already carry gets re-programmed rather than replaced.
How loud is it?: The operator type decides most of that. Hydraulic, screw-drive and rack-and-pinion units do not sound alike, which is worth knowing before one is fitted.