If you have some side room on both sides of your driveway but not enough for a sliding gate, two smaller sliding gates could go side by side that open in different directions commonly known as Bi-parting gates. If there's still not enough room for this then two telescopic sliding gates could be made Bi-parting.

 Bi-Parting Sliding Gate in the Closed Position

 Bi-Parting Sliding Gates in the Open Position

Installing a Bi-parting gate is the same as two single piece sliding gates but you have the keeper on one gates instead of a post.

Motors for Bi-Parting Gates

Bi-parting gates do need two motors and they must be synchronised together to open with one remote control from one button unless you want to be able to open the separately with two different buttons then any motor will do.  

Motors that have separate open and close buttons on their remote controls can be used because they will always keep in sync with each other.  The disadvantage of this type of motor is it is more complex to fit a digital keypad or intercom if it is to open both sides.

If two motors are used that can both be opened and closed from one button on the same remote control they need to be synchronised together some how other wise if one motor doesn't respond to the remote control once but the other one does they one will open while the other closes, which is not a desirable situation.

Some sliding gate motors have the option of a double control board that works much the same as a double swing gate where one control board takes care of two motors and keeps them synchronised. An advantage of this type of motor is you only need power on one side of  the gate and low voltage cabling across the driveway.

Other gate motors allow two to be synchronised together or can have some sort of interface set up to synchronised them together. These do require power on both sides of the gate and a low voltage multi core cable across the driveway.

If you need help with setting Bi=Folding gate motors up please don't hesitate to contact us.