Composite Gates Lanarkshire

We survey, manufacture and fit composite and metal gates across North and South Lanarkshire — Hamilton, Motherwell and East Kilbride, out through Airdrie and Cumbernauld to Lanark and the Clyde valley. Every gate is measured on site, made to those measurements, and installed by the same people who quoted it.

Coverage moves. We are always reviewing how the installers on our network are performing and taking on new ones as demand grows, so the towns below are where we work most consistently rather than a complete or permanent list.

Towns and cities we cover

The surrounding villages and suburbs of each are covered too. If your town is not named, send your postcode and we will confirm.

South Lanarkshire

• Hamilton
• East Kilbride
• Lanark

Also covered: Rutherglen, Cambuslang, Uddingston, Larkhall, Carluke, Strathaven, Biggar and the Clyde valley villages.

North Lanarkshire

• Motherwell
• Airdrie
• Cumbernauld

Also covered: Coatbridge, Wishaw, Bellshill, Kilsyth, Shotts and the surrounding towns.

Glasgow sits on Lanarkshire’s western edge and is covered from our Glasgow page, along with Paisley, Dumbarton and Greenock beyond it. If you are in the city or its western suburbs, start there.

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 Lanarkshire asks of a gate

New town estates come with their own rules

East Kilbride and Cumbernauld were built as new towns, and it shows at the boundary. Plot sizes are standardised, frontages were designed to read as a set rather than as individual houses, and a good number of estates carry factoring arrangements or title conditions covering what can be put up at the front of a property. None of that stops a gate, but it can shape the height and style that will be accepted, and it is much better checked before an order than after. If your estate is factored, it is worth a look at your deeds.

Standard openings that turn out not to be

The other side of estate housing is that everything looks standard until it is measured. Driveways built to the same drawing forty years ago have been widened, kerbed, resurfaced and had walls rebuilt, and the opening you have now is rarely the one on the plan. Every gate we make is measured on site for that reason. A stock size packed out to fit will drop and bind within a couple of years; one made to the actual opening will not.

Harled and rendered boundaries

Scottish walls are far more often harled or rendered than bare brick, and that changes both the look and the fixing. Render hides what is behind it, so a pier that presents a clean face can be blockwork, rubble or something that will not hold a fixing under the pull of a tall gate. It also means colour choice is being made against a pale, textured surface rather than red brick — greys and darker tones generally sit better than they would in the Midlands.

The higher ground south and east

Lanarkshire climbs as you move away from the Clyde, and out towards Strathaven, Lanark and the moorland edge the plots open up and the wind arrives with nothing in front of it. A tall, fully boarded pair on exposed ground is a sail, and that load ends in the hinges, the posts and the foundations. A partly open infill or a lower top rail lets wind through, and heavier posts set deeper carry the rest. Two miles can genuinely change the specification.

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 Lanarkshire

Do you cover my town if it is not listed above?

Very likely. The towns listed are where we work most often across North and South Lanarkshire, and Coatbridge, Wishaw, Bellshill, Rutherglen, Cambuslang and the surrounding towns are covered as a matter of course. Send your postcode and you will get a straight answer either way rather than a maybe.

I live on a factored estate — can I still put up a gate?

Usually, but check your deeds first. A number of East Kilbride and Cumbernauld estates carry title conditions or factoring arrangements covering what can be added at the front of a property, and they can set limits on height and style that ordinary planning rules would not. It rarely rules a gate out; it does mean getting the design right first time.

My driveway looks a standard width — do you still need to measure?

Yes, and it is usually not standard. Estate driveways have been widened, kerbed, resurfaced and had walls rebuilt over decades, so the opening now is rarely the one on the original drawing. Every gate is made to the measurement taken on site, which is the reason it still closes cleanly in five years.

Can you fix a gate to a harled or rendered wall?

Often, but render hides what it is fixed to. A clean face can sit in front of blockwork, rubble or old repairs that will not hold under the pull of a tall gate. We check the piers at survey and tell you honestly if they need opening up and making good before the gate goes on.

Can a composite gate be automated later?

Yes, and it is worth saying at survey even if you are not doing it now. A gate built ready for automation is specified slightly differently — the frame, the hinges and where power would run — and doing that up front costs far less than retro-fitting to a gate that was not planned for it.

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