Driveway Security: Beyond the Standard Gate
You park a nice car on the drive, but the entrance is wide open. Here is why we build the security groundworks in before we even pour the driveway.
The Open Drive
You park an expensive car on the drive, but the front is completely open to the road.
Most driveway contractors just pour the resin, take the money, and leave. They don't look at how you're actually going to keep the cars secure.
Electric Gates
If you're putting heavy electric gates in, you can't just bolt them to standard brick pillars later on. The weight will pull them over.
We dig out and put the heavy groundworks and the cabling in right at the start. That way, the steel support posts are set deep into concrete, and you don't have to dig up a brand-new driveway later just to run power to the motors.
Sunk Bollards
We also fit telescopic security bollards.
We don't just bolt them to the top of the finished drive where they can be ripped out. We sink the heavy steel casings deep into the sub-base before the resin or block paving even goes down. It gets locked solidly into the groundworks. Once they're locked up, nobody is driving that car off the front.
Mains Power
Forget cheap solar lights that stop working by November.
We run the mains cables while the trenches are open. The lights actually trigger when someone walks up to the house, and you aren't messing about with cheap solar panels that pack up in the winter.
Do the Groundworks First
Think about security before the diggers turn up. Get the steel and the cables in the ground first, because you don't want to be ripping up fresh resin to fit them later.
Stop by the office at 78 Alma Rd, Bournemouth BH9 1AN, UK, or call 07835 390845.
