Gates, fencing and intercoms in Midrand

We cover Midrand from Halfway House and Vorna Valley to Noordwyk, Carlswald, Kyalami and the smallholdings of Glen Austin, Blue Hills and Crowthorne. This includes Randjespark, Midridge Park, Barbeque Downs, Country View, Erand Gardens and the suburbs in between. Our teams travel from our workshop in Kya Sands, Randburg. We work on smallholdings, cluster complexes, estates, warehouses and business parks across the area. In the newer complexes of Noordwyk, Vorna Valley and Carlswald, we install and repair gate motors, intercoms and access control. On the smallholdings, the work tends to be long fence lines and gates far from the house. Outside these names? Tell us your suburb on WhatsApp or in the form on this page, and we'll check the distance and confirm. Our areas page lists everywhere else we work, including Waterfall, Fourways and Centurion.

Yes. An electric fence doesn't need a wall. On a smallholding, we can run the strands on their own steel posts along the boundary, or fit them on top of an existing mesh, wire or palisade fence. A long boundary on a plot brings its own problems. Long grass, creepers and branches touching the strands drain the power and set off false alarms, so the line needs clearing before the fence goes live and regular trimming afterwards. Splitting the fence into zones helps too, because an alert then tells you whether to check the front gate or the back paddock. A GSM module sends the alert to your phone, which helps on a plot where you can't see the far fence from the house. We walk the whole line on the site visit, then give you a written quotation before anything is ordered.

Yes, with a GSM intercom. A GSM intercom has a SIM card inside, so it works like a cellphone at the gate. When a visitor presses the button, it calls your phone, and you open the gate from there with a call or a short code. On a Midrand smallholding, the gate can be a long walk from the house, and a wired intercom needs a cable along the whole drive. A GSM intercom needs no cable to the house, so nobody digs up the drive or the garden. It does need a SIM card with airtime or a small monthly contract, and decent signal at the gate. Signal varies from plot to plot, so we test it at your gate on the site visit before recommending one. If the signal is weak, we explain the other options on the written quotation.

Yes. A gate motor already runs from a battery, and a small solar panel can keep its battery charged instead of the mains, or alongside it. This suits a smallholding where the gate sits at the end of a long drive, and running a power cable from the house would mean digging a trench. It also helps during load-shedding, because the battery keeps charging while the street is dark. A solar setup needs enough sun on the panel and a battery sized for how often the gate opens. A busy gate in winter needs a bigger setup than a gate used a few times a day in summer. On the site visit, we check where the panel can go, how many times a day the gate runs and how long the battery needs to last without sun. The written quotation lists the panel, the battery and the fitting.