Create a spectacular first impression + enjoy exceptional versatility
with a stunning double swing gate entrance set

Bring street art home… with stunning double entrance gates custom fabricated to reflect your individuality and the quality of your home.

Sanctum allows you to convert any of more than 50 screen designs into a spectacular set of street art, by featuring it on your double entrance gates.

If you’re tired of the same old slat and tubular gate designs, and you’re looking for something different, we’re here to help.

We have some exceptional double entry gate packages available that can still be customised to your design and colour preference, or we can work with you from scratch to create a spectacular entrance for your property.  

All Sanctum double entrance gates are handcrafted here in Brisbane.  Enjoy the confidence of working with a team that is obsessive about quality and design.    Unlike off-the-shelf products, our energy is focused on helping you create an entry statement that reflects your individuality and enhances the personality and quality of your property.    

The end result – stunning double entrance gates that look amazing, work brilliantly and protect your family and assets for years to come. 

Tuscany design

Starting with a clear brief is essential…

We start by confirming the exact size and design requirements for your gates.   We measure openings, wall heights, driveway slope, and we confirm existing and planned finishes.   We also help you to bring your vision to life by clarifying design objectives, colour options and functionality requirements.   Once we have all the necessary background information, the real work starts. 

At Sanctum, we are not good at cutting corners. We specify quality components as standard, and we make the gates to the same standard as we would supply to our mums. 

We apply common sense wherever we can, and help you identify ways to cut budgets without cutting quality where we can.

All good gates start with the frame.   Our material of choice is high grade, rust free aluminium extrusion, specified to suit the application.  

Our most popular framing option for double entrance gates is 50 x 50mm square section extrusion.  We will often specify 40 x 40mm extrusion on smaller gates, as it minimises the frame size and leave more screen area, without compromising strength or durability.

You have the choice of fitting your screens to the face of this frame, giving a neat, seamless look from the road.  The frame is hidden behind the screen border, so we call this a HIDDEN FRAME.

If you would like to make a feature of the frame, we can fit screens ‘inside’ the frame – like a picture frame.  To do this, we add an extra 20 x 20 x 3mm frame fixed inside the first frame to create a reveal.  Essentially this is a double frame made of heavy gauge aluminium, adding to the stiffness and strength.     

At Sanctum, we call this a REVEAL FRAME or a FEATURE FRAME, as the design makes a feature of the frame.   The gate frame effective forms a picture frame around the screens, and all screen edges and corners are protected. 

We commonly supply matching side posts for double entrance gates.   While the gates are aluminium, we regularly use steel posts – as they are stiffer, and it allows us to weld hinges directly in place.   Posts are then powder coated to match the gates exactly.   

Double entrance gates can be large and heavy, and quality, robust hinging is an important factor to consider.

Sanctum typically use either galvanised gudgeon / trunnion hinges (our standard option), or high grade bearing hinges for larger gates and commercial applications.   See the pics on this page for more detail.

Both these hinges involve fixing the hinges into or through the gate frame, for maximum strength, and the hinges are all rated well beyond the gate weight for strength. 

On large gates, we will commonly weld the hinges to side posts, and supply them pre-fitted and ready-to-install.  This process helps ensure perfect alignment, and eliminates the risk of hinges working loose on the posts.

Sanctum is heavily focused on design, and we have a well-earned reputation for the quality and detail in our artwork. 

We can modify any Sanctum screen design into the large formats required for double entrance gates.   We never stretch or distort artwork – each piece is individually modified to fit the frame perfectly.   We will commonly make each panel different, but designed to work together as a matching pair – with extraordinary alignment and precision.

As with all Sanctum custom jobs, we will create and supply a detailed artwork proof for your approval prior to cutting anything.   We also regularly test cut components of the job in advance of supplying the artwork, just to be sure we can deliver you the best possible result.

Our sliding driveway gates are typically cut in high-grade 3mm aluminium, a robust, low-maintenance product that looks great.   

For larger gates and commercial installations, we will commonly recommend using 4mm marine-grade aluminium.  This gives an extra 33% more metal in the screens, with equivalent gains in strength and stiffness, and the finished results are truly stunning. 

Sanctum’s large-format cutting gear can cut aluminium sheets up to 5200 x 1800mm, so we can make large gates AS A SINGLE PANEL if required.  Obviously, there are some increased logistics and costs involved with creating and handling oversize panels of this size, but they look fantastic and results speak for themselves.

Once fabricated, all frames, screens, fittings and fixings are all powder coated to match in your choice of more than 100 Dulux or Interpon powder coat colours. 

Prior to shipping, we will then assemble your screens into the frames, using adhesive sealant (which bonds the screens into the frames and kills any screen rattle), plus additional colour matched rivets for extra strength.