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Custom gates are made to the opening they hang in rather than bought to the nearest stock size. On New Zealand properties that covers a townhouse frontage with three metres to work with, a lifestyle block entrance off a rural road, a farm gateway that has to pass a tractor and a stock truck, an industrial yard, and a private lane shared by several households. Three things usually send someone to a gate maker: the gap is an awkward width, the ground is not level, or they have a particular look in mind and nothing off a shelf matches it. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs gates from a workshop in Islington, Christchurch, and Sydney Chappell founded the New Zealand company in 2026.

What “custom” actually changes

Custom is a broad word and it is worth pinning down before anything gets priced. On a gate it can mean any of four things, and most jobs involve more than one.

The dimensions: a leaf built to your clear opening rather than packed or trimmed to fit
The design: infill, style, height and finish chosen rather than picked from a range
The hardware: hinges, tracks, latches and posts sized for that particular leaf
The automation: a motor matched to the weight, or a gate built now and powered later

What it does not have to mean is starting again when you already have a gate. Where the leaf and posts are sound and you simply want it to open by itself, that is a retrofit rather than a build, and it is the cheaper path.

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Picking the material for the gate you actually want

Our range of materials covers wood, steel, aluminium and stainless steel. The choice comes down to weight, exposure and how much upkeep you want to sign up for.

Timber suits a house frontage or a rural entrance and is the warmest of the four. Boarded solid it is also the heaviest per square metre, which pushes the hinge, post and motor sizing up with it.

Steel is the workhorse for a custom metal gate. It welds into almost any pattern and takes a hot dip galvanised or powder coated finish. The wrought iron look people ask for is fabricated in steel, in bar, scroll and picket work.

Aluminium is light and will not rust, which is why a long leaf that has to swing or slide without loading up the hardware usually ends up in it. Slatted aluminium is the common look on new frontages.

Stainless steel goes where the salt is, or where the metal itself is part of the design.

Group One New Zealand draws it, builds it and hangs it

Everything that makes a gate bespoke happens in one place. The opening is measured by the person who draws the gate, the drawing goes to the bench where it is cut and welded, and the crew that built it comes back to hang it. Nothing is ordered in and adapted to suit. Sydney Chappell founded Group One New Zealand in 2026, the workshop is at Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042, and all our gates are 100% New Zealand made and installed. Because we manufacture and install your gates ourselves, there are significant savings to be made when choosing the Group 1 team, and every gate constructed by our team comes with a comprehensive warranty and is backed by a full after-sales service.

We are a small team, so you know you’ll get the very best, and everyone in it has a vast amount of industry experience behind them to apply to each project undertaken. In the company’s own words: “Although Group 1 Line Marking has just started here in New Zealand, as a group we have been operating in Australia for almost 25 years.”

Openings we get to run from Amberley in the north to Timaru in the south, and west towards the Canterbury foothills. Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday.

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Industries We Serve

We proudly serve clients across a range of sectors, including:

Hospitals

Aviation Surfaces

Schools

Sporting Surfaces

Factory Safety Lines

Body Corporate

The sites other people turn down

If your property or commercial site is irregular, tricky, lacking in space, hard to reach or perhaps you have a very specific idea in mind, then we’re happy to talk to you. Essentially, if you can dream it, we can build it.

Sloped ground is the most common of these. A gate hung level across a rising driveway either fouls the surface as it swings or leaves a gap under it at the low end. The answer is decided at the opening: a leaf raked to the fall, a slider running along the boundary instead of swinging up the slope, or a bi-fold that needs less arc. Our range of safety devices and alternative opening methods allows us to have automatic gates on sloped ground as well as flat level.

Weight is the other one. A wide steel frame or a long boarded leaf asks more of the hardware than a light panel, and we can provide larger commercial motors reserved for larger, heavier gates. Our gates are solar powered as well, which saves you energy costs, and that counts for most at an entrance the mains never reached.

From a sketch at the opening to a gate that swings

Design starts at the gap. We’ll come out and take a look at the site and discuss ideas with you about the best solution for your situation, measuring the clear opening, the fall across it, what the posts can go into, and where a leaf can stand when it is open. Swing, slide or bi-fold is usually settled in that half hour, because the ground answers it.

Manufacture comes next, and it finishes before the gate ever reaches you. The frame is cut and welded to those dimensions, the infill goes on, the finish is applied, and the hardware is fitted and checked on the bench rather than at your entrance.

Installation is posts first. Footings go in, the posts are set and given their curing time, then the leaf is hung, the hardware is adjusted, and any automation is commissioned and tested with you before the crew leaves.

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What a made-to-measure gate is priced on

Pricing is on quote. A bespoke gate has no list price because no two openings hand us the same job. What the number follows:

Clear opening width, and whether it takes one leaf or two
Material and finish
Infill and design detail, which is where the hours go
Post and footing work, and what the ground turns out to be
Automation: motor size for the weight, safety devices, mains power or solar
Site access, and how far the crew travels

Custom gate work town by town

Drawn and built in Islington, installed across the region:

Custom Gates Amberley
Custom Gates Ashburton
Custom Gates Christchurch
Custom Gates Darfiel
Custom Gates Kaiapoi
Custom Gates Methven
Custom Gates Rangiora
Custom Gates Rolleston
Custom Gates Timaru

Start with the idea

Most of these builds begin as a photo on somebody’s phone. A gate they drove past, a rough sketch, a detail off the house they want carried through to the entrance. Nothing needs to be measured, specified or decided before you get in touch, because that is what the visit is for.

Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday. Group One New Zealand, Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042. NZBN 9429053752833.

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Client Testimonials

5.0 Stars / 21 + reviews

The team from Group One were exceptional.

They arrived on time, did a fantastic job and made our childcare centre carpark look like new . Thankyou

Jenni Weekes

Prompt and efficient service.

Very professional and experienced. Syd always answers his phone otherwise calls you back. Highly recommended.

Jim Dolamovski

Highly recommended.

Competitive price, quality work and even helped me put up the customer parking signs. Went above and beyond. Thanks very much, Syd and Blake.

Michael Lakiss-Smith

Great job and no complaints!

Wonderful to work with and helping us get our line marking completed. Would definitely use again and refer to others.

Tom Kul

Highly Recommend Group 1 Linemarking!

We recently hired Group 1 Linemarking for a few of our residential strata projects, and the results exceeded our expectations. The team was punctual, professional, and clearly experienced. The line marking was crisp, precise, and done exactly to spec. Communication throughout the process was smooth, and they were flexible with scheduling, which made things a lot easier on our end. If you need reliable, high-quality line marking services, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Group 1. Great job!

Gerry Incollingo

Working with Syd and his team is always a pleasure

The quality of work is always to a high standard. The Group One team is always professional, they apply a high standard for safety ensuring their SWMS is tailored for the job and their equipment is serviced and well maintained. I highly recommend Group One and if you use them you won't be disappointed.

Ben

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What people ask before commissioning one

Can you match a gate to a fence or a house that is already there?

Yes, and it is one of the more common briefs. Bring a photo and a measurement of what you are matching, and the profile, spacing and finish get worked out from that.

Do you build farm, yard and stock gates?

Yes. Rural openings tend to be wider than they look, and the width that matters is the one the truck or the tractor needs rather than the one the existing gate happens to be.

Can we have the gate now and the automation later?

Yes, and it is worth saying so at the drawing stage. A leaf built with a later motor in mind gets the post, hinge and frame sizing it will need, plus a conduit run while the ground is open.

What about a pool gate?

A pool gate is part of a regulated barrier, so the self-closing and self-latching hardware and the latch position are specified before anything is cut, not chosen afterwards.

Do you make pedestrian and garden gates too?

Yes, and they are frequently ordered alongside a driveway gate so the two match and share the same access hardware.

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