Downtown storefronts, warehouses and docks
Every shop on Glen Street and School Street rolls its gate up in the morning and back down at night. Twice a day, seven days a week, and the parts wear out right on cue.
We handle manual push-up gates, crank gates and motorized ones, solid slat or see-through grille. Out by the industrial strip and along the waterfront, we look after loading dock doors, rolling steel doors and sectional commercial doors, plus the motors, photo-eyes and safety edges that make them stop and back off when they should.
The salt air doesn't stop at the houses, either. Gates near the harbor, and gates out front that catch road salt all winter, rust first at the bottom bar and in the side tracks. Keeping them clean and greased costs way less than an emergency call at six on a Monday morning.
Why is my gate getting so hard to pull up?
Most of the time the spring tension inside the barrel's worn down, or a spring's flat-out broken. Dirty or bent side tracks pile on more drag. Re-tensioning or a new spring makes a manual gate easy to lift again and keeps a motor from cooking itself.
Can you add a motor to my manual gate?
Usually, yes. We'll check out the barrel and the curtain first, then price out the motor, controls and install.