manual auto gate

my auto gate konked after 11 years. not too bad, just got the motor replaced. 1K. hopefully it will last another 10 years.

my dad was the one who advised me to put in an autogate. good advice too, when it rains or when we get home at some ungodly hour, just tekan* the remote and the gate opens. we've only had some problems with it opening by itself in the earlier years when there were lots of constructions going on. after that, it worked well till last week.

i could hear the motor spin but the gate didn't move. called the guys who installed it for us (yes, they're still around). he gave me his brother's number and the next day came and had a look. something's broken and i've adjusted it. if it happens again you'll have to change the motor.
guess when they say that it just means better put aside money for it, coz after 2 days it died on us. happened on a weekend, so we had a manual auto gate over the weekend.

good thing it didn't rain when we had to go out or when we got back from somewhere. i was getting used to pulling and pushing the gate, in fact i was beginning to see some muscles developing.

today they came and got it fixed. there goes my workout.


tekan* - press