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Rusted and padlocked iron gate bars seized shut with a corroded latch

Repair or replace · Jupiter Inlet Colony, FL

We diagnose first, then tell you which of the two is worth doing.

Ornamental iron gate lit from below at night, palms above it against a dark sky.
On the waterBarrier-island and inlet addresses, most of them with a town or association design guideline of their own.

Jupiter Inlet Colony · Palm Beach County

Sometimes it is one part and an hour. Sometimes the frame has gone and a new operator would just be bolted to a losing argument. That call gets made after the diagnosis, out loud, with the reasoning attached.

Most coastal failures are corrosion working out of sight — a seized hinge, a bottom rail rusted through from the inside, a board that has been breathing salt air for years.

Waterfront and inlet addresses frequently sit under a town or association design guideline of their own, on top of whatever the county requires.

The coastal towns add a layer

Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the product approvals differ from the two counties to the south. On top of that, several towns and associations in this county run design guidelines of their own — so what Jupiter Inlet Colony expects is worth reading before a finish is chosen, not after.

Gate Repair · Jupiter Inlet Colony

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Technician working on an ornate iron gate at a residential entrance

On the gate

Newly laid ground track running along a street where a sliding gate rolls
Track relaid
Chain drive and worn hardware exposed alongside an overgrown sliding gate rail
Chain drive stripped
Open gate operator control box with the board out and test gear laid on the ground
Board out, meter on
Sagging white gate frame swallowed by ivy at a brick garden entrance
Sagged and overgrown

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

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

Corroded gate operator caked in oil and grime after years of coastal salt exposure
Clean replacement gate operator installed in the same housing
Same-day repairSeized operator, replaced

Before you call

  • Every brand
  • Diagnose on site
  • Parts on the truck
  • Re-tuned before we leave
  • Specified for salt exposure
It still works, but it sounds wrong.
That is a real symptom. Noise generally arrives before failure does, and it is a much smaller job at that stage.
Will it survive this close to the water?
Salt is the design brief on the coast, so material, fixings and finish are chosen for the exposure rather than for the photograph.
Does the finish need redoing eventually?
Coatings on the water have a working life. Knowing that at the start is better than discovering it, and it is part of what the material choice trades off.
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.

Next step

Describe the gate and where it is in Jupiter Inlet Colony, and you will get an answer from someone who works on them rather than a call-centre script.

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