Commercial and industrial gate installation in Vacaville, CA. Serving Vacaville and all of Solano County.
Vacaville Custom Metal & Electric Gates delivers industrial and commercial gate installation in Vacaville, CA for warehouses, contractor yards, distribution facilities, fleet depots and multi-tenant sites, and commercial work is a different engineering problem from residential work rather than the same thing scaled up. A residential gate cycles a handful of times a day. A distribution yard gate can cycle hundreds of times before lunch.
That duty cycle is what dictates everything: continuous-duty operators instead of residential units, cantilever construction instead of a ground track that a forklift will destroy, vehicle detection sized for trucks rather than cars, and fire department access provisions that get inspected. We build to that reality. The rest of our commercial and residential range is on the Vacaville gate installation homepage.
Commercial & Industrial Gate Installation is one of our gate installation services, offered across Vacaville and Solano County.
A commercial or industrial gate installation covers:
Commercial sites usually call us when:
We count real cycles, look at the largest vehicle that has to clear the opening, and check the queuing space so a waiting truck is not left blocking a public road.
Openings, wind load on any solid infill, and cantilever counterbalance length. Commercial gates are heavier and longer, and the counterbalance geometry is not optional.
Continuous-duty operator sized to the cycle count, with entrapment protection to UL 325 and gate construction to ASTM F2200, including the 2.25 inch opening limit.
Who gets in, when, and what record you need. Readers, telephone entry, app control or plate recognition, plus how the system behaves when the network or the power drops.
Posts, footings, gate, operator, loops, safety devices and control wiring, scheduled around your operating hours so the entrance is not out of service during your busiest window.
Full cycle testing, obstruction testing of every safety device, backup power verification, fire access verification, and handover of credentials and admin access.
Commercial gate configuration follows the traffic and the site, and cantilever dominates for good reason:
| Configuration | Duty handling | Site requirement | Common use here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cantilever slide gate | Excellent, no ground track to foul | Side room of roughly 1.5 times the opening | Warehouse and yard entrances in Cordelia, Dixon and the Benicia Industrial Park |
| Heavy rolling slide gate | Good, but the track needs keeping clear | Side room plus a maintained ground track | Sites with limited side room and clean paving |
| Bi-parting swing pair | Moderate, better for lower cycle counts | Arc room on both sides | Lower-traffic facility and campus entrances |
| Barrier arm | Very high cycle capability | Minimal | Parking control and vehicle throughput, not intrusion resistance |
| Crash-rated barrier | Specialist | Engineered foundation | Sites with a documented vehicle threat assessment |
A barrier arm controls traffic. It does not secure a perimeter, and anyone can walk around it. When sites tell us they need both throughput and security, the answer is usually a cantilever gate for the perimeter with a barrier arm managing flow inside it, not one device trying to do both jobs.
Commercial gate cost is driven by duty and by integration, more than by the steel:
The commercial gate demand in this county clusters in a few clear places. The Cordelia corridor at the I-80 and I-680 interchange in Fairfield is logistics and distribution, which means truck traffic and high cycle counts. The Benicia Industrial Park occupies the old Army arsenal grounds that closed in 1964 and holds everything from heavy industry to artist studios. Dixon and Winters bring agricultural processing with seasonal surges and equipment far wider than a passenger vehicle. Travis Air Force Base, with more than 10,000 workers, anchors a contractor and support economy across Fairfield and Vacaville.
Most gate projects touch more than one of these. If you are not sure which applies, call us and we will tell you plainly, including when you need less than you thought.
You can also see every gate service we offer in Vacaville, read how we work, or get in touch.
UL 325 governs the operator. ASTM F2200 governs the gate itself, and it is the standard commercial sites fail most often. It limits frame openings to no more than 2.25 inches, requires covers on exposed rollers, prohibits protrusions on swing gates, and requires the gate be prevented from falling if it is disconnected from the operator. We build to both standards and document it.
The most common commercial failure we are called to fix is a residential-class operator installed on a commercial entrance. It runs fine for a few months and then fails permanently, usually taking the gate hardware with it. We count actual cycles during the survey and specify continuous-duty equipment against that number rather than against the quoted price.
The disruptive stages, post setting, loop cutting and operator commissioning, get scheduled around your shifts rather than ours. On single-entrance sites we sequence the work so the opening is never left inoperable overnight, because a gate that cannot close is a security problem and one that cannot open queues trucks into a public road.
They measured the driveway and told me a swing gate would scrape before I ever asked. Ended up with a cantilever slide instead and it has not caught once. Whole thing was welded in their shop and hung in a day.Dana R.Vacaville · Driveway gate + automation
Our old yard gate had a residential opener on it and it burned out twice in a year. They replaced it with a proper continuous-duty unit and explained exactly why the first one kept failing. Two seasons, no issues.Marcus T.Fairfield · Commercial cantilever gate
We are in the downtown historic district so the design had to be approved. They drew it to the district's standard and it cleared first time. Galvanised it before the powder coat because of the salt air.Priya S.Benicia · Ornamental iron entry gate
Conditions change city to city across Solano County, from strait salt air to dry farmland. Each page covers what is different where you are, or you can explore our service areas in full.
Duty cycle, mostly. A residential gate might run six to ten cycles a day; a distribution yard can run hundreds. Commercial installations need continuous-duty operators, heavier gate construction, vehicle detection sized for trucks, and access control that produces a record. Fitting residential equipment to a commercial entrance is the failure we get called out to most.
Yes, and the specific provision depends on the jurisdiction. It is typically a Knox box for the fire department, and often siren detection or a radio override so emergency vehicles can enter without waiting for anyone on site. We confirm the local requirement during design rather than discovering it at inspection.
Usually yes. Most commercial operators accept a dry contact from an existing card reader, intercom or management platform, so we can drive your new gate from the system you already run. We confirm the interface during the survey so there are no surprises at commissioning.
We schedule the disruptive stages, post setting, loop cutting and operator commissioning, around your operating hours, and we can keep the opening usable between stages. On single-entrance sites we plan the sequence so the gate is never left inoperable overnight.
That is a decision you make deliberately, and we document it. Fail-secure keeps the site locked and relies on battery backup and a manual release for authorised staff. Fail-safe opens the gate so vehicles are never trapped. The right answer depends on whether an open perimeter or a blocked exit is the worse outcome for your site.
Yes, provided the gate itself is sound. We inspect the frame for cracked welds, check the rollers and counterbalance, and confirm the construction meets ASTM F2200 before we hang a new operator on it. Putting a new operator on a failing gate just moves the failure a few months down the road.
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