Rooihuiskraal mixes freestanding family homes with a large number of cluster developments, and the two want different things from a gate technician. Knowing which you are on decides most of the advice.
Two kinds of property, two kinds of fault
A freestanding home here behaves like settled stock anywhere: a sliding gate on a track that fills with grit, hardware layered over the years, and a motor that has been compensating for a mechanical fault for months before anybody phones.
A unit behind a shared entrance is a different job. The gate that matters is the one at the development entrance, it belongs to the body corporate, and it carries the traffic of every household at once. On a swing gate, the hinges, posts and arms come under swing gate repairs.
The dispatcher establishes which before a vehicle leaves, because the parts and the access arrangements differ.
Complex entrances and the specification question
Where a cluster entrance keeps failing, the cause is nearly always that a domestic-rated motor was fitted at development because it was cheaper.
It works for a year or two and then fails on a schedule. Each repair buys a few months, and the scheme ends up paying for the same fault repeatedly rather than once for the right unit. Where the fault turns out to be the motor itself, that is ordinary gate motor repair work rather than anything exotic.
The honest advice is to replace with a motor rated for the actual cycle count and put it on a twice-yearly service. That ends it.
What the track needs here
On the freestanding side the advice is the Centurion advice: clear the track before the rains.
Fine grit fills a track through the dry months, and the first storms turn it to a grinding paste. The gate slows, the motor draws more current, and the household blames the motor.
Ten minutes with a brush before the wet season is worth more than any repair.
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