Electric Gates Alloa

Installing electric gates at your Alloa home or business?

How will you gain access? Which is the favoured option?

Automated or electric gates at your Alloa property will be simply wonderful. The additional security and convenience they offer is welcomed by many. Once you have made you design on style and material and so on, you will need to decide which one of two options for working the gates you will choose – keypad or remote (or both)?

Here we outline some of the pros and cons of each…

The keypad is the small device mounted on the side of the gate and when you require access, you type in your pre-determined code. Only people with the code can access you property. The pros are many:

You control who can gain access at any given time
It is a fixed key pad, therefore it cannot be lost
It is easy to use too and is a great back up to your remote
There is little or no maintenance required
Some keypads come with a distress call option to the emergency number 999 too

There are few disadvantages however to having a key pad for electric gates at your Alloa property and a common one is forgetting the pin code. Just like the mind going blank when are attempting to pay for something using your debit card, the harder you think, the more impossible it seems. They also cost more to install and there have been instances – rare ones, we may add – when the code has been cracked and unauthorised people have gained access to a property. And finally, opting for inexpensive models can mean you are not as secure as you think.

If a key pad is the answer for you, opt for the best your budget can stretch too.

The remote on the other hand, is a small device that can be carried with you, fixed in your car and so on;

Simple to use, you point it at the gate and press a button
Apart from replacing the battery from time to time, there is no other maintenance needed
They are not hard or expensive to configure to work the electric gates at your Alloa property

There can be some issues, however and it is always best to be informed…

The remote fob can be lost
Some say they are not as secure as a keypad as they can be taken/mislaid/stolen which means that potentially, people could gain access to your home or business

Installing both could be an option, with each one backing the other up. Which one will you choose to open the electric gates at your Alloa property?

Please contact us to discuss your electric gates requirements in the Alloa area.