Unifictional Instant Quote · Gates

Design your gate on your own driveway.

Photograph the opening from the street. A few minutes later a 3D gate stands between your own posts: change the style, the opener and the fence, and the installed price moves with every choice.

Two free scans, no account, no card. To put it on your website: $249, plus about $1 per scan, itemized on your invoice.

From the curb to a price, in three steps.

No measuring visit to start, no catalog to leaf through. A photo, a design you can walk around, and a price range for the whole gate installed.

01

Photo

Start with two photos (up to 6), standing on the street, square to the opening, with both posts in frame. An empty opening works too: Instant Quote proposes a gate that suits the house and the fence beside it.

An old gate or an empty opening

02

Design

Instant Quote reads the opening, the posts and the fence and stands a 3D gate in it. Click any part to change its finish, and set the rest beside it: swing or slide, the top, the infill, the posts, the opener. Open it to see it move.

Orbit it, open it, change any part

03

Price

Every change re-prices the gate installed, line by line: the leaves, the posts, the opener and its safety eyes, the power, the fence. Confirm the width you measured and the range tightens.

An installed price range · a share link

Everything a gate is made of.

Each choice below is a control in Instant Quote, drawn in the 3D gate and priced in the estimate. A rule worth knowing, like the safety eyes an automated gate needs or the track a gravel drive will not hold, is said beside the control it is about.

How it opens

Single swing, double swing, slide, cantilever or bi-fold; swinging in or out, sliding to either side.

The shape

A flat, arch, concave, bell, double bell, scallop, peaked, swan or gothic top, any height from 3 to 10 ft, and the rise of the curve.

The infill

Vertical pickets, horizontal slats, vertical boards, board on board, solid panel, louvers, mesh, ornamental or chain link, with the board size and the gap between them.

The frame and the finish

Aluminum, steel, wrought iron, wood or vinyl, in the stains and powder coats of Instant Quote’s catalog; finials, rings and scrolls on a picket gate.

Posts, fence and drive

Square steel, round steel, wood, brick pillar, stone pillar or stucco pillar, with caps and lights; a walk gate beside them, the fence either side and a drive of concrete, asphalt, pavers, gravel, grass or dirt.

The opener

Linear arm, articulated arm, underground, slide (rack and pinion) or bi-fold drive, on mains or solar, with a keypad, remotes, a phone app or an intercom.

What the sample gate costs, installed.

Instant Quote’s own estimator, running on its sample gate. Change the gate and the range moves; nothing on this card is typed in by hand.

The sample gate: a 14' opening, 5' tall, aluminum frame, square steel posts, a fence either side.

How it opens
What fills it
Opener

Estimated price, installed

$10.6k to $17k

2–6 weeks from order · US National Average

GateDouble swing gate, 2 leaves, 5 ft · Western Red Cedar · Horizontal · Hang, level and adjust the double swing gate · Heavy-duty hinges (2 pairs)
$3.1k – $5.6k
Posts & pillarsSquare steel posts (2), 6 in, set in concrete
$606 – $909
Automation & accessLinear arm opener (dual) · Safety photo eyes (2) and warning signs · Battery backup · Keypad on its own post · Remotes (2)
$2.4k – $3.5k
FenceFence either side, 5 ft tall · Cedar Slat Fence
$1.3k – $1.7k
Site & servicesPower to the opener · Gate and electrical permit
$663 – $1.2k
Contingency 10% + markup 20%
$2.6k – $4.1k
Total
$10.6k – $17k

A planning range, not a bid. Confirm on site and with your subs before anyone signs. The width here is an estimate, so the range is wide; confirming a measured width in Instant Quote tightens it.

Design your gate

Sell gates? Send your customers here.

The gate designer can run under your company’s name, logo and colours, open straight on the gate, and quote from Instant Quote’s regional pricing. Link to it from your site and the customer arrives ready to design, with your phone number on the quote they share.

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See the gate before it is built.

Start with two photos (up to 6) of the opening from the street. Every choice drawn in 3D and priced as it is made.