What makes gates perfect?

What Makes Gates Perfect?

The perfect gates are unique to everyone but there are definitely steps to make the process of choosing your perfect gates easier.

Design

First step is to identify the perfect gate design. This will usually be something that matches or compliments the style of your house and doesn’t clash too much with neighbouring properties. If you’ve chosen to live in a modern house, you probably want modern gates. More traditional gates would also clash with a modern house but modern gates would not look right in front of a cottage.

Gate design is also affected by what the gates are made from. This includes iron or steel, wood or aluminium. Iron and steel gates tend to be ornate with thinner vertical and horizontal elements in an open boarded design.
Wooden gates are often full boarded but wood is perfect for creating many design styles. It is often used in rustic gates but very modern gates can also be made from wood.
Aluminium can now be made to look remarkably like either iron or wooden gates.

Colour

Wooden gates can be supplied with a clear treatment or stain that preserves the natural grain of the wood and offers a degree of protection against the elements. Alternatively, they can be painted a suitable colour to match or compliment your house, existing fencing or outbuildings.

Iron and steel gates are traditionally finished in darker colours and many are coated with specialist rust-preventing paints.

Aluminium gates are coated with a strong coating that is bonded to the gate surface. This layer provides the colour or wood-effect or steel-effect finish.

In all cases, the choices of colour are practically endless but only aluminium gates and wooden gates themselves provide a wood-grain finish.
 

Weather

Once a rough idea of basic design has been arrived at, where the gates will spend their working lives can be considered. 

Open or close boarded
Gates can be made without gaps (close boarded) or with open sections (open boarded). As a gate is subject to the forces of moving air on its surface, larger gates and gates installed in exposed, windy locations can benefit significantly from a degree of open boarded design. This allows some of the air acting on their surface to pass straight through the gate instead of resisting or reinforcing the gate’s normal opening and closing movements.

Weathering

Gates are exposed to the weather so they get wet and dry out and get wet again. Wood can suffer when wet, as it soaks up water and expands and gets heavier. Over a period of time, wet wood also starts to rot. In drier times, wet wood slowly dries, contracts and becomes lighter. It will eventually develop cracks and larger splits. Regular treatment of wood can slow down this process but it will happen eventually.

Iron rusts when it is exposed to water and air. Again, surface treatment will help delay the process but rust is hard to eliminate.

Aluminium is highly resistant to the damaging combination of water and air. Aluminium are also usually covered with a tough coating that incorporates the colour or wood-effect design chose for your gates. 

Automation

All swing gates are hung on posts with hinges and sliding gates move along tracks on rollers. But they can also be automated so that they open and close at the touch of a button. This can be from inside your car as you leave or return home, or inside your house using an intercom system connected to a call panel outside the gates. Nowadays, you can even use your mobile phone with access control systems that will open or close your gates from anywhere in the world.

Swing gates can be automated with a variety of motors which are either visibly mounted on the gate and adjacent gate pillar or installed underground for more discrete gate automation. Sliding gate motors all mount on the ground next to the gate a use a cog meshed with a rack mounted on the gate to slide the gate open and closed.

Finishing Touches

Final considerations for the perfect gates include locks and gate furniture including hinges, letterboxes and gate stays. You could include cat flaps, lights and even cut-outs depending on what makes your perfect choice of gates.

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Moving the load - Dock Levellers

Dock Leveller

One problem to overcome at a loading bay is bridging the gap between the truck and the factory floor as not all trucks are the same height and this can also vary depending on how heavy the truck is laiden.

Dock levellers are the perfect solution to this problem and are a permanent fixture to each door of a docking bay.  They comprise of a metal plate called a lip that is raised from a stowed position and then lowered onto the back of a truck, the lip can either be hinged or telescopic.

Automation Zone is the premier solutions provider of safe, effective and innovative Material handling equipments. We offer variety of loading equipments including dock levelers, Dock shelters along with other customized material handling products. We offer turnkey solutions for the most demanding freight-handling needs.Dock levelers are one of the simplest equipment designed according to the Indian conditions, continuous operations and ruggedness for not only helping the loading and unloading the vehicles easily but also reducing the dispatch time the vehicles significantly.We offer various automation along with Dock leveler as a example  Automatic loading and unloading recording time system of the vehicle and many more

   Robust design, safe operations & long term reliability.

•   Total control on basic hydraulics like pressure & flow.

•   Non skid tread plate deck & lip.

•   Full width one-piece lip hinges & pin.

•   SS Pivot Pins.

•   High Performance Power Pack.

•   Emergency Stop Button.

•   Overload bypass valve.

•   Side protection steel guards.

•   Velocity safety stops.

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6 BENEFITS OF HOME AUTOMATION

6 Benefits to Home Automation

Homeowners are reaping the benefits of new technologies to automate their homes

Until recently, the idea of home automation was relatively unfamiliar to most people. However, as more products and technologies become more easily accessible, homeowners across the country are upgrading their homes.

If the idea of a smart, automated home sounds too “techy” for your tastes, or you think these kinds of products probably cost an arm and a leg, think again. The future is now and it’s completely accessible. Plus, there are a lot of hidden benefits to automating your home that you might not have thought about before.

6 Benefits to Home Automation

1.     Security

Tap your finger to turn on the lights when you get home so you aren’t worried about what’s hiding in the shadows, or in your pathways. Or automate to turn on when you aren’t home to look like you are to ward off potential robbers. Door locks are another automated home product that can increase your home security.

Worried that the kids didn’t lock the doors before they ran off to play? Or that someone will discover your not-so-secret hiding place for the extra key? Take control of your home safety from a simple app. With some products, you can even get an alert every time someone enters your home.

2.     Energy Efficiency

Increase your home’s energy efficiency by remotely powering off systems and appliances when they aren’t in use. In addition to the standard home automation products that give you active control, some products actively monitor systems and arm the homeowner with knowledge, insight and guidance to achieve greater control and energy efficiency. ComfortGuard is a 24-hour monitoring service for heating and cooling equipment that can predict and even prevent breakdowns. It also includes personalized monthly reports to help homeowners track equipment performance, reduce excess energy usage and improve efficiency.

3.     Savings

Home automation literally pays off. When you are able to use home systems and appliances only when needed, the savings will be apparent in the first utility bill. No more wasting money on lights left on when you aren’t home, or spending money on gas to drive home because you forgot to lock the door. Monetary savings are apparent, but you’ll also be saving time. No wasted trips home, no running through the house turning everything off, no time spent worrying about what was or wasn’t turned off.

4.     Convenience

Don’t you hate having to rely on neighbors to watch your house when you’re gone? With home automation, convenient control of your home is at your fingertips. You don’t have to trust someone else with your most valued possessions.

5.     Comfort

Ever leave for work in the morning when it was a comfortable 68° outside only to come home to a sweltering house because the temperature shot up to 90°? A connected home product like the sense Wi-Fi Programmable Thermostat lets you conveniently adjust your home temperature from the mobile app so your family is always comfortable.

6.     Peace of Mind

One of the biggest hidden benefits that comes with home automation is peace of mind. No more worrying if you turned of the lights, locked the door, or turned off the television. For people who have a lot on their plates, being able to easily check these items off the to-do list and stop the obsessive worrying, home automation is reassuring and definitely worth the investment.

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What gate automation system do you need?

A gate is a just a gate, right? Well, there are differences between a five-bar gate and an industrial security gate. And swing gates operate very differently from sliding gates. And sliding gates are like cantilever gates but only one needs a track.

So, with all these differences and variations in size, weight, materials, location and operation, how do you choose the right gate automation to turn manual gates into automated gates? Here’s our starter guide to the different types of gate automation available and what works best where.

Swing Gates

Swing gates have the largest range of automation systems. There are ram style motors, articulated arm motors and underground and in-post gate operators.

  

Articulated Arms

Articulated arm motors have a jointed metal arm attached to a motor output. The motor housing is mounted to the gate post and the end of the arm is attached to the gate. When the motor turns, the articulated arm opens or closes the gate.

Underground and In-post motors

Underground motors and in-post motors are discrete gate operators and are either sunk into pits beneath the gate hinge point or installed within the gate post. Arms connected to the hidden gate motors are then attached to the base of the gate.

Sliding Gates

Sliding gate motors push a single rolling gate along a track mounted along the gate’s travel. A gear mounted on the motor output shaft and protruding from the motor housing meshes with a rack mounted along the length of the gate.  Cantilever gates work in a similar way but don’t need track along their length as they’re counter-balanced around a single rolling support point.

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