Composite Gates Irvine

Areas we cover around Irvine

The surrounding villages are covered too. If your area is not named, send your postcode and we will confirm.

Irvine and North Ayrshire

• Saltcoats
• Kilmarnock
• Troon

Also covered: Kilwinning, Dreghorn, Springside, Stevenston, Ardrossan, West Kilbride, Dalry, Beith and the surrounding villages.

Largs, Skelmorlie, Kilbirnie and the rest of the county are covered from our Ayrshire page.

What we make and fit

• Composite driveway gates Double and single leaf, hung or sliding, manual or automated.
• Composite garden gates Side gates, back gates and matching pedestrian gates.
• Metal gates Steel and metal-framed gates, made to measure.
• Electric gates Automation on new gates, or retro-fitted to existing ones.
• Composite fencing Matching fence panels and screens to tie the boundary together.

What Irvine asks of a gate

Two towns, and they want different gates

Irvine is an old burgh with a new town built around it, and a gate job on the High Street has almost nothing in common with one at Girdle Toll. The old town runs to narrow frontages, closes, original stone walls and a conservation area around the historic core, where what a gate looks like alongside its neighbours is part of the question. The new town estates — Bourtreehill, Broomlands, Castlepark, Dreghorn — are open-plan by design, with wide grassed frontages, timber panel boundaries and very little that a gate can be hung from without new posts. Neither is harder than the other. They just start from opposite places, which is why the first visit is a survey rather than a quote.

The new town was laid out to keep cars away from front doors

The estates built from the late sixties separated vehicles from pedestrians deliberately: parking in rear or side courts, footpaths at the front, and frontages that were never meant to be enclosed. Two things follow. First, the thing most people actually want gated is the parking court or the side access, not the front — and a court is often shared, which makes it a conversation with neighbours before it is a job for us. Second, on the frontages themselves the boundary is frequently not where the grass stops, so a gate hung on the assumption it is can end up over ground that is not yours. Both are worth establishing before anything is made.

Ground near the water

Irvine sits where two rivers meet the sea, and the ground near the harbourside, the Garnock and the lower Irvine water is softer and wetter than it looks. A post foundation that is perfectly adequate on the higher ground at Girdle Toll can move over a few winters down by the harbour, and the first symptom is a gate that gradually stops closing cleanly. It is not a reason to avoid a gate there — plenty are fitted and stay put — but it does change how deep and how wide the post foundations go. If you are close to the water, say so at survey.

What affects the cost

Gate prices move on a handful of variables rather than a fixed rate. The main ones are:

FAQs about Composite Gates in Irvine

Can I gate a rear parking court?

Often, but it depends who owns it. On a lot of the new town estates the court is shared between several properties, which makes it a conversation with your neighbours and possibly your factor before it is a job for us. Where the court is yours alone it is a straightforward gate, and usually a sliding one, because courts are wide and swing room is scarce.

My frontage is open-plan. Where does my boundary actually stop?

Not always where the grass does. A great many new town frontages were laid out without a physical boundary, and the line on the title plan can sit well inside what people assume is theirs. It is worth checking before posts go in, because a gate over ground that is not yours is an expensive thing to move.

Do I need permission in the old town?

Possibly. There is a conservation area around the historic core, and the protection can extend to boundary walls and gates as well as buildings. North Ayrshire Council is the authority, and planning in Scotland is devolved so English guidance found online may not apply. A call before ordering is worth more than any search.

I am near the harbour. Does the ground matter?

It can. The ground where the two rivers meet the sea is softer and wetter than it looks, and a post foundation that is fine on higher ground can move over a few winters down there. The symptom is a gate that slowly stops closing cleanly. Knowing the plot beforehand changes how the posts are set, and allowing for it costs a fraction of correcting it.

Which areas around Irvine do you cover?

Kilwinning, Dreghorn, Springside, Stevenston, Ardrossan, West Kilbride and the surrounding villages, along with Kilmarnock, Troon and Saltcoats. If your town is not named, send your postcode and you will get a straight answer either way.

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