Sliding and hinged gates in powder-coated aluminium or genuine cedar, engineered to match your garage door and ready for automation.
Both handle Auckland's weather well. Aluminium is powder-coated and never rusts, the lowest-maintenance option and the easiest to colour-match to an aluminium or steel garage door. Cedar brings real timber warmth and pairs naturally with a cedar garage door or weatherboard facade, at the cost of periodic staining or oiling. We fit both to sliding or hinged gate frames, manual or automated.
The most popular driveway format, tracks along the boundary line and suits most sections without swing clearance.
Single or double leaf, the traditional entry-gate look, best where there is room for the gate to swing.
We colour and profile-match your gate to your aluminium, steel or cedar garage door, one finish, one supplier.
Woodgrain powder-coat finishes get remarkably close to real cedar, worth comparing side by side before you decide. We bring samples of both to your free measure.
Our gates are fully welded from our own premium aluminium extrusions rather than assembled from bought-in sections. That matters most on a wide driveway opening, where a bolted frame can work loose and start to sag long before a welded one does.
A welded frame holds its shape under its own weight. On a long sliding gate or a wide swing leaf that is the difference between a gate that still closes properly in ten years and one that does not.
Welded and dressed corners, with no visible fixings and nothing to work loose. It reads as one piece rather than an assembly, which is most of the look.
An automated gate cycles thousands of times. A frame that flexes puts that movement through the hinges, the rollers and the motor. A rigid one does not.
Every gate is pretreated and then powder coated, in any colour. Powder coat suits aluminium because it bonds to the pretreated surface rather than sitting on top of it, holds its colour against UV better than most standard paints, and forms a durable barrier against the weather.
All three make a good gate. The decision is usually about weight and upkeep rather than looks, because weight is what the automation and the hinges have to live with for the next decade.
| Aluminium | Steel | Timber | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | Lightest, so easiest on the motor and hinges | Heavy; needs stronger posts and a bigger drive | Heavy, and it changes with the weather |
| Corrosion | Does not rust; powder coat handles the rest | Rusts where the coating is broken | Does not rust, but will rot if water sits in a joint |
| Upkeep | Rinse it. That is close to all of it | Watch the coating, touch up chips early | Oil or paint on a cycle to hold the colour |
| Best for | Wide automated driveways, coastal sites | Where a heavier look is wanted and span is short | Matching timber cladding or a cedar garage door |
If you want timber to match a cedar door, we make those too. See cedar garage doors for how we handle timber.
We automate with Merlin Grifo gate operators, which suit both swing and sliding gates. The drive is specified from the finished weight and the span, the same way we size a garage door opener, because a motor working at its limit is a motor that fails early.
Tell us what access you want before the gate is made, since the hardware affects the frame. See openers and automation.
Aluminium or cedar, sliding or hinged, we will help you pick the right fit and let us show you samples.
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