How wide the opening is
A 4m pair costs more than a 3m pair, and past roughly 5m a sliding gate usually becomes the sensible answer rather than swing leaves.
Prices
How much do electric gates cost?
Search this question and you will find ranges — £3,000 to £12,000, sometimes wider — which are accurate and no help at all when you are trying to work out whether to bother. So here are our actual figures, for actual gates, installed.
Prices in the table below include VAT, and assume suitable existing pillars, reasonably level ground and a power supply near the entrance. Where that is not the case, the survey picks it up and we tell you before you commit to anything.
- Manual aluminium swing gates, fittedA 3m × 1.6m pair, installed to suitable existing pillars, no automation.£3,868inc VAT
- Automated aluminium swing gatesThe same gates with above-ground automation, two handsets, photocells and safety edges. Our Essential starting price.£6,995inc VAT
- Underground automation insteadThe same 3m pair with the motors hidden below ground rather than mounted behind the leaves.£7,695inc VAT
- Essential tracked sliding gateUp to 3.5m, 1,800mm high, motor built into the post, safety edge and two handsets included.£9,954inc VAT
- MonGate PremiumBespoke shapes and finishes, timber and steel options, and access control specified around the property.£10,200inc VAT
Price your own
Two minutes and you will have a figure, not a range.
Pick your size, design, colour, automation and access options and the builder totals it as you go, with the VAT shown separately.
Build & Price My GateThe extras
What the options add.
Published, fixed, and the same for everyone. No option here is priced by how the conversation is going. Intercom prices are add-on prices with a new gate installation. Fitting an intercom to gates you already have is quoted separately.
Custom RAL colour£480inc VAT
Black and grey are included as standard.
Coded keypad entry£474inc VAT
Supplied, installed and programmed.
AES radio intercom£895inc VAT
No cable needed between the gate and the house.
Telguard GSM intercom£995inc VAT
Calls your mobile, with an integral keypad.
Hikvision video intercomfrom £1,695inc VAT
See who is there, from indoors or from your phone. Includes a cable run of up to 50m.
New aluminium gate posts£1,554inc VAT
Where the existing pillars will not carry the load.
Extra remote handsets£30inc VAT
Two are included with every automated gate.
Annual service plan£234inc VAT
Per gate system per year. Full mechanical and electrical check, safety devices tested and the closing forces recorded.
What moves the number
Seven things decide what you pay.
Whether the pillars already exist
Hanging gates on sound existing pillars is the cheapest start. New posts add £1,554 including VAT, and rebuilding failed masonry is a job for a builder, not us.
Where the power is
A supply already at the entrance costs nothing extra. A long run back to the house means trenching, ducting and an electrician.
How level the ground is
A swing gate needs to clear the ground through its whole arc. A slope can mean regrading, a different hinge set, or switching to a sliding gate.
Above-ground or underground motors
Underground is tidier and costs more — £700 including VAT more than above-ground automation.
What access control you want
A keypad is £474 including VAT. A video intercom with app access is from £1,695 including VAT when it goes in with the gates. This is usually the single biggest swing between two otherwise identical quotes.
Material
Aluminium is the value option and needs no upkeep. Timber and steel cost more to buy, weigh more, and need heavier automation to suit.
Questions
The ones we get asked about price.
Because that range is true and useless at the same time. It covers a small manual gate at one end and a bespoke automated entrance with video entry at the other. We would rather publish what our actual gates cost, so you can work out where you sit before speaking to anyone.
It is a genuine starting price for a genuine specification, not a headline figure with the important parts stripped out. The final written quotation follows a site survey, because the survey is what confirms the pillars, the ground, the power and the access. If the survey changes the number, we tell you why.
Yes. Every price we publish includes VAT, on this page and in the gate builder. The builder also shows the VAT and the ex-VAT figure beneath your total, so anyone reclaiming it has the split.
The gates, the automation, two remote handsets, photocells and safety edges, installation, setup, commissioning, a force test and a handover pack. Not: groundworks, new power supplies, removal of existing gates, or rebuilding pillars.
Yes, on acceptance of the written quotation. That is also what secures the current month’s offer if you are taking one up.
It depends entirely on the condition of the gates, the posts and the hinges — automation puts loads through a gate that hand operation never does. We check all three at survey and quote separately. Sometimes the honest answer is that new gates cost less than making old ones work.
Repairs are quoted per job. Ring us, describe the fault, and we will tell you what the call-out charge is before anyone is booked in.
Get in touch
Know your number before anyone visits.
Send a couple of photographs and rough measurements of your entrance and we'll come back with a realistic figure. Or ring 01291 408804 and talk it through.