Gate Repair in Menlo Park

Menlo Park's taller fences often carry taller, heavier gates, and the hinge post pays for it — the full weight levers against its base with every swing while the irrigation works on the wood at grade. A gate that needs lifting to latch is announcing its hinge post; a gate that's gone trapezoid is announcing a failed diagonal brace.

The commercial work in Menlo Park arrives through managing agents rather than owners, and it has a recognisable shape: a driveway gate at the entrance to a small office park or an apartment court, on an approach that slopes, with an operator under a maintenance contract that covers the motor and nothing else.

That gap is what this page covers. The frame, the hinge post and its footing, bearings, rollers and track, latches, keepers and stops are all the contractor's side. The operator, its board, its loop and its photo eyes are not — gate hardware and structure; opener diagnostics referred out. On a sloping approach the mechanical half is usually the half that has moved anyway: a gate arcing across a fall is fighting gravity for part of its travel, and a post that has shifted a degree at the top of the slope shows up as a leaf that binds at one end and swings free at the other. The check that separates the two is on the gate repair page, and it takes a minute with the power off.

Gate closed showing the gap, hinge side, latch side — three photos identify the failure. Send them through the form.