How far can the control run?

Further than most people expect, but the run length is what decides the cable, the voltage drop, and whether wireless is the better answer.

Is the paperwork the same as Miami?

No. Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so it is a different product-approval set, and permitting is administered locally on top of that.

Why is the spec different up here?

Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone that governs Miami-Dade and Broward, so the approval route the counties south of it use is the wrong one.

Will it actually fit my driveway?

We measure on site and draw the gate on your entrance before anything is cut.

Driveway Gate Installation in Wellington, FL

Black metal driveway gate and matching fence across the entrance of a South Florida property

Driveway gates · Wellington, FL

Measured on site and drawn on your entrance before anything is cut.

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Horizontal timber slat gate between stucco piers, under flowering bougainvillea. — Inland & equestrian — West of the turnpike the county turns to paddocks and service roads, and a gate is sized around a truck and trailer.

Wellington · Palm Beach County

The first question is never the style, it is the opening. Width, slope, where the cars stop and how much room the leaves have to move through decide what can be built, and all four get measured rather than assumed.

A gate set well back on a long drive is a different brief — a wider clear opening for a truck and trailer, longer cable runs, and a leaf that has to stay square with no wall to lean on.

Where lots are measured in acres, the gate is often the only structure between the road and the house.

Different county, different approval route

Because Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the approvals a Miami-Dade contractor quotes from memory are the wrong ones here. What Wellington actually requires is set locally, and where a town or an association runs its own design guidelines those shape the finish as much as the code shapes the frame.

Driveway Gates — the full breakdown

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Drag the divider to see the change. Where a frame is marked Concept it illustrates the starting point rather than photographs it.

Illustration of a plain builder-grade gate shown on the same driveway — DesignBuilder-grade to bespoke

The ornate custom estate gate built on that driveway — DesignBuilder-grade to bespoke

Driveway Gates · Wellington

05 frames

Lit driveway gate at night with uplit palms behind it

After dark

Ornate arched iron double gate between rendered pillars at an estate entrance — Ornate double swing

Sun setting through the vertical slats of a dark metal gate — Vertical slat, low sun

Black swing gate open onto a paver driveway with a lawn either side — Swing pair on pavers

Black sliding driveway gate beside a stone pillar with palms behind — Slide, single leaf

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How far can the control run?: Further than most people expect, but the run length is what decides the cable, the voltage drop, and whether wireless is the better answer.
Is the paperwork the same as Miami?: No. Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so it is a different product-approval set, and permitting is administered locally on top of that.
Why is the spec different up here?: Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone that governs Miami-Dade and Broward, so the approval route the counties south of it use is the wrong one.
Will it actually fit my driveway?: We measure on site and draw the gate on your entrance before anything is cut.