Gates made for Dudley

Across Dudley (DY1) it is mostly security gates and grilles, yard gates, driveway gates and railings. Dudley puts shops and small commercial premises directly against housing, so the work there runs from security gates and window grilles on units to ordinary driveway and side gates one street behind them. 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. Dudley is about 7 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. Dudley is a mix of town centre commercial premises and steep residential streets, and both come with their own fitting problems. We are based on Hayes Lane in Stourbridge and cover the Black Country and the West Midlands as standard, so Dudley is normal week work rather than a special trip.

Yes, and mainly in the fixings. Commercial frontages in Dudley are often old brickwork, timber or shopfront framing, none of which will hold a security gate on its own, so where the opening allows it the gate comes with its own fabricated frame and the strength sits in that rather than in the wall. Behind the high street it is ordinary housing and ordinary gates, which is a different job entirely on the same street.

Measuring is usually within a few days of the call, and most gates are fabricated and fitted within a few weeks of that. Dudley 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.