Security antivandal gates, galway city

Last week we fitted these security/anti vandal gates for a shop in Galway city centre. The owner had been having problems with people 'loitering' late at night in front of his doors often setting off the burgular alarm and recently a large pane of glass was broken.
Also in this case the opening was not suitable for a roller or antivandal shutter so gates were the only option.









The gates were designed to be as unobtrusive as possible and also allow the window display to be seen. We glazed the gates with polycarbonate sheeting, its far stronger than glass and will allow some abuse and durability.























Due to the constraints of where these gates were going, they have some unique features, both gates also have spring loaded castors to relive weight on the pillars and the drop bolts have fold down handles so that they are not a hazard to customers entering the shop.

Structural steel, Ballsbridge, Dublin

Last week, we installed structural steelwork to a house in Ballsbridge that was being made over. The steelwork was added to support the 1st floor walls and floor joists so that a an open plan area could be created on the ground floor. In all there were 4 beams that bolted together in kit form. A small section had to be fitted and welding in on site, nice bit of overhead welding...with some sizzling of hair!

Bike shed doors, Dundrum, Dublin.

These doors are were fitted to a small garden shed for bikes in Dundrum, Dublin. As with our other doors, they are steel framed with recycled plastic boards. These were finished with a mortice lock for security.

Donkey or pony stable doors, recycled plastic

Not always enough time to keep this site update so here is a job we did a month or so ago. Its a split stable door (half door on top). This one is designed for use with ponies or donkeys so the bottom half is slightly lower than normal.

Inside the door is a 'V' to stop the animal from jumping the door to freedom!

Up and over gate

Today we fitted some dividing gates for a farmer in Cullen, Co Tipperary. These are up and over gates, basically our standard heavy duty dividing gate, hinged at the top with an additional frame with counter weight. The picture on the right shows the pair of gates on in the up position, the other in the down position.









The counter weight was tricky to perfect but in this case it balances well, with the gate in equilibrim in both up and down postions.













The gates are based on our standard design, heavy duty with closing bolts on each side.

In addition the gates can be fixed in the upright position in order to allow maximum flexibility for how the pen can be used.

This gates are particularly suited to diary setups where pens require to be emptied or filled with minimum of hassle. In addition the have the added advantage that they do not block cublices when in the open position.

Garage doors, Kilbeggan.

A new product for us. Garage, shed and utility doors. These have a metal frame and finished with recycled plastic tongued and grooved boards. These boards are an excellent replacement for teak and the doors are maintenace free. They are secure with a mortice lock incorporated on one side.

Entrance gates, Roscrea, Recycled plastic

A set of gates we fitted in Roscrea. The customer was keen on using recycled plastic and and even suggested a modification to our existing design. The gates have a metal frame, tongued and grooved board on the bottom and a solid 120x60 board on the top. The gates are finished with wooden gate style strap hinges.






















Both ourselves and the customer are extremely pleased with the finished product, contact us for details if this gate interests you.

Straw bed shed fit out, Gorey, Co Wexford

We recently finished the fit out of a straw bed cattle calving shed in Gorey Co Wexford for George Steacy. The shed is a converted sheep shed. The feed passage is wide with a mixture of our own design feeding barrier and Jourdain headlock barriers.








George designed the special layout of the shed himself. He was particulary keen on incorporating our new 6 bar heavy duty dividing gate.

As the shed is a straw bed, George asked that we fit a second gate paralled to some of the dividing gates, these can then be swung out and joined penning animals along feed passage during straw clean out.





The drinkers used in this fit out were 'La Buvette'. We designed a special drinker panel for the drinker. In addition we also provided a protective tube for the water pipe. George also included insulation (see in red in the photo) after recent hard won experiences last winter.















One of the biggests features and challenges in Georges shed was the pen layout for calving cows. It consists of 4 pens with a chute running between them. Installed in the centre of the chute is a headlock gate. The gate was something George and ourselves spent some time designing to get right. George wanted a headlock gate similar to those found in calving gates but it had to be able to lock from both sides and that when opened, the gate would release the cows head and allow here to walk forward.
This means that if a cow should go down during calving, the gate can be opened, her head released and she can get up forward. Traditional calving gates don't usually allow this. In addition, Jourdain Operating gates were installed each side of the head lock to allow caesarean operations.

We intend to incorporate this design into a calving gate in the near future.