Gates made for Smethwick

Across Smethwick (B66) it is mostly unit gates, window grilles, yard fencing and entry gates on terraced housing. Smethwick is heavy with trading estates, yards and works units, so most of what we fabricate there is site gates, fencing and lockable access gates built for daily use rather than for a front garden. Everything is measured on site before anything is cut, because openings around here are almost never the size people expect them to be.

No, the travel is in the price. Smethwick is about 11 km from the workshop on Hayes Lane in Stourbridge, well inside the patch we cover every week. What changes the price is the opening: the width, the height, whether there are posts to hang from and how much detail is in the ironwork.

Yes. Smethwick puts old industrial units and dense terraced housing side by side, and we get called out for both in the same week. We are based on Hayes Lane in Stourbridge and cover the Black Country and the West Midlands as standard, so Smethwick is normal week work rather than a special trip.

Yes, mostly in scale and in how hard the gate gets used. Yards and units around Smethwick need heavier sections, bigger hinges and drop bolts that will still find the socket after a year of being kicked shut, because a site gate gets opened forty times a day by people in a hurry. Fitting is the other difference: a yard is open while the work happens, so it gets planned around deliveries and working hours rather than done whenever suits us.

Measuring is usually within a few days of the call, and most gates are fabricated and fitted within a few weeks of that. Smethwick is a short run from the workshop, so neither the measuring visit nor the fitting is difficult to arrange. Where steel posts have to be concreted in we let them go off properly before hanging the gates, which can mean coming back a second time.

Yes, and it is often the right answer. Dropped leaves, worn hinges, posts that have moved and latches that no longer meet are all repairs. Because we fabricate gates ourselves we can put new steel into an old one instead of selling you a new set, and if it genuinely is beyond saving we will tell you that too.

Usually we can get very close. Send a photo or let us look at what is there and we will match the bar spacing, height and top detail so a replacement section reads as part of the same run. On very old cast work an exact match in fabricated steel is not always possible, and we will show you the difference before you commit rather than after.