The driveway opening was close to 6m wide but there was insufficient room beside the gate for a standard sliding gate to roll back into a traditional sliding gate would need a width equal to or greater than that of the opening to one side to take the gate in the open position.
Telescopic driveway gate uk.
Telescopic gates basically allow twice the opening width into half the space.
By having 2 leaves simultaneously working together standard telescopic gate kits allow for a much smaller space adjacent to the opening of the gate.
Regular telescopic gate span 2 5 m to 5 m 8 ft to 16 ft for a single car driveway or two car parking all our telescopic metal gates are made to order we don t keep stock.
Telescopic gates work by individual sections of a gate overlapping each other as the gate opens.
Fabricated by forging ahead fabrication auckland nz.
Automatic telescopic driveway gates.
Two centre meeting triple leaf sliding driveway gates utilising hardware from fac srl.
This project presented a unique challenge.
These are ideal for properties with short driveways that are limited on entrance space.
A telescopic gate with a level top that opens down hill has guide rails dropping down as the gate opens and if the tops of both gate panels are at the same height when closed the guide rails can be fitted to the top of each panel.
Telescopic gates can be either manual or automatic access controlled.
We can apply the telescopic gate system to basically any design.
This therefore makes it ideal for a site where space has restricted either side of an entrance but where the entrance.
For example if you had a four metre opening but only two and a half metres of run off area with a standard sliding gate there is simply no way to install in this area.
Composite wood wrought iron and so on.
No room for a traditional sliding gate.
Telescopic sliding gates use individual panels that overlap each other as the gate opens.
A telescopic gate has the advantage that it takes up less space compared to other sliding gates when in the open position.
Telescopic sliding gates or dual sliding gates are sliding gates in 2 sections sliding in the same direction at the same time they are twice as fast as normal sliding gates and require just a little over half the space that a single sliding gate needs to open.
The amount each guide rail drops with a two panel telescopic gate is half.
The following video shows how these gates function.
These trisliding 3 panel gates were handmade by our team of expert blacksmiths.