FredBloggs
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We moved into our house two years ago. It had an old style front garden and a very narrow driveway which meant it was almost impossible to park a car in it. As we live on a main road it is important to do so. When we had builders in after we purchased we widened the entrance (was included in our pp) and put down cobblelock in the front to park cars. This meant we had to remove all the hedges etc from the front. Most other houses on the road have hedges inside their front wall but we have now only a pretty low front wall.
Some of our neighbours have electric gates and we never considered same as ours is an ordinary road and we figured those with electric gates were pretty pretentious. However a number of incidents in our front garden have changed our opinion - these include a few visits from a very beligerant tramp who nearly knocked the front door down and screamed obsenities at my wife and children, a tramp who exposed himself in our front garden and urinated over my wifes car (she called the police - they never turned up - a neighbour "noticed" the tramp had a head injury and called an ambulance - they were there in five mins) and local schoolchildren (teenagers) who deposit their lunch left overs in our garden (we are the last house on the way to the school and they leave the school at lunchtime to purchase food in out local supermarket).
Anyway the upshot of it all is we've decided we must get the gates and build up the front wall - and the boundary walls with our neighbour - with fencing. How much aprox would it cost for electric gates?
Some of our neighbours have electric gates and we never considered same as ours is an ordinary road and we figured those with electric gates were pretty pretentious. However a number of incidents in our front garden have changed our opinion - these include a few visits from a very beligerant tramp who nearly knocked the front door down and screamed obsenities at my wife and children, a tramp who exposed himself in our front garden and urinated over my wifes car (she called the police - they never turned up - a neighbour "noticed" the tramp had a head injury and called an ambulance - they were there in five mins) and local schoolchildren (teenagers) who deposit their lunch left overs in our garden (we are the last house on the way to the school and they leave the school at lunchtime to purchase food in out local supermarket).
Anyway the upshot of it all is we've decided we must get the gates and build up the front wall - and the boundary walls with our neighbour - with fencing. How much aprox would it cost for electric gates?