Swing, sliding and pedestrian gates in Colorbond, timber, aluminium and steel — with automation, remotes, keypads and intercoms — for homes across Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula.
Drysdale Fencing supplies and installs swing gates, sliding gates, and pedestrian gates across the Bellarine and Geelong — manual or fully automated with motor, remote, keypad, or intercom. Matched to your existing Colorbond or timber fence. Free on-site quotes — 0485 577 980.
We build and automate gates right across Geelong and the Bellarine — swing gates, sliding gates and pedestrian gates in Colorbond, timber, aluminium and steel. Automation goes on new gates, or onto an existing gate if it's sound enough to take a motor: remote, keypad, intercom and safety sensors. Whatever we build gets matched to the fence you've already got.
A gate takes more punishment than a fence, so the posts go deeper than a standard fence post, the gate is hung dead square, and the drop bolts and latches are set to shut cleanly right through the year — manual side gate or automated driveway, same care either way.
Request a QuoteGates hung square, automated on request, and built for coastal conditions.
A solid gate keeps kids and pets in and keeps people you don't want off the property. Put a motor on it and it latches shut behind every car on its own — you open it from the driver's seat or your phone, so it's never left sitting open by accident.
Open the gate with a remote, a keypad code, or an intercom buzz-in. No getting out in the rain to drag a gate open by hand.
We build gates in Colorbond, timber, aluminium and steel, and match the profile and colour to the fence you already have so the gate looks like it belongs, not bolted on.
Welded or heavily braced frames, marine-grade hinges and track gear, and footings dug deeper than a standard fence post — a gate leans its whole weight on its hardware, so we build for that.
Mains power is the usual setup. On long rural driveways where trenching a cable out to the gate isn't worth it, a solar panel and battery run the motor instead. Either way there's a battery backup, so a blackout doesn't lock you out of your own place.
Photocell beams and auto-reverse on the motor stop the gate the moment something crosses its path. Fitted and tested on every automated install.
Cost comes down to the gate type, the material and the automation kit, so we measure the opening on site before we quote. You get a free on-site quote, not a flat rate. A plain manual gate is the cheap end of it. Add a motor to a single swing gate and it climbs; a wide sliding gate running an intercom and a few remotes is dearer again.
What affects your gate and automation cost:
How a gate goes in with us — from the first measure-up to a gate that opens off a remote.
We measure the opening, check the driveway slope, and confirm whether the block suits a swing gate or a sliding gate. We also check where power is available.
Gate, frame, automation kit, footings, hardware and clean-up — itemised on one quote with a timeframe.
Posts go into wet-poured concrete, sized bigger than a fence post for the load a gate carries, then the gate's hung square.
We fit the motor, remotes, keypad or intercom and the safety sensors, run the gate through a full open-and-close a few times, test the auto-reverse, and show you how it all works before we go.
What we install: gate types, manual vs automated, and access control options.
There are three main gate types we install. Which one suits your place comes down to how wide the driveway is and how the ground sits — we sort that out on the site visit.
A manual gate you open and latch by hand. An automated one does it for you off a motor, worked by remote, keypad or intercom. We put automation on new gates, and we can retrofit a kit to a gate you've already got as long as the frame's sound and the right size for a motor. If a gate's too old, too rusted or just not up to it, we'll say so and quote a new gate frame instead of pretending it'll work.
We build Colorbond gates to match your boundary panels and colour, timber gates to match your palings, and aluminium or steel-framed gates when you want the entrance to stand out a bit. On any gate that spans a driveway we run a welded steel frame under the cladding — that's what holds the span so the gate doesn't twist or drop over time, and the cladding on top matches the rest of the fence.
Permits & council: standard residential gates often don't need a permit, but height, proximity to the street or footpath, corner blocks and heritage overlays can change that, and automated gates must meet safety requirements. The binding rules sit with your local council, so confirm with them before you build a driveway gate.
Related guides: read our guide to automatic driveway gates in Geelong for what to look for before you automate your gate.
Related services: Site access gates pair with our temporary fencing for construction and event work.
