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Gate parts and welding in Irving usually comes down to one of three things: a hinge post that’s out of plumb from Blackland Prairie clay heave, a legacy HOA operator from the 1980s or 90s that finally quit, or a builder-grade gate that was never wired for automation in the first place. We fix all three, on site, with the gate staying in your driveway. Hal Gatewood has been doing this work since 2001, and the shop answers the phone with a live person around the clock. If you’re in Las Colinas, Valley Ranch, or central Irving and the gate is dragging, sagging, or dead, call (325) 936-1371 and you’ll get a straight answer, not a recorded menu.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Irving’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company
We’re the company Irving HOAs call when a property manager needs someone who understands legacy equipment. Las Colinas wasn’t built yesterday. Those original Apollo, DoorKing, and Linear operators went in during the 1980s and 90s, and they’re now failing in clusters across the district. Parts for that generation of equipment aren’t sitting on every shelf, and most companies would rather sell you a whole new system than track down the right drive gear or rebuild a control board. We don’t work that way. We weld on site, rebuild what’s rebuildable, and only swap what’s genuinely done. The Gate Parts & Welding crew has the parts knowledge and the welding rig to handle it, whether it’s a fractured hinge weld on an ornamental iron driveway gate in south Irving or a full rack and pinion rebuild on a Lakeside Landing HOA entrance.
Irving homeowners also know we quote a price before any work starts and that price doesn’t change when the truck pulls up. Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something isn’t right, one call brings Hal back. No runaround, no fine print. That’s why folks from University Hills to the Hospital District keep our number saved.
Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Irving
Hinge Replacement
Hinge failure on Irving gates rarely starts at the hinge itself. It starts underground. The Blackland Prairie clay under your post expands when we get a wet stretch and shrinks hard when the summer bakes it dry. That movement torques the post, and the hinge welds or bolts take the stress until something gives. We see cracked weld joints and wallowed-out hinge barrels across central Irving’s 1950s-to-70s neighborhoods, where ornamental iron gates were bolted to pilasters poured decades ago. We’ll weld the hinge point, reset the post if it’s out, and re-square the gate so it closes on its own weight again. A typical hinge replacement in Irving runs $160-$320 per hinge, depending on whether we’re just rebuilding the existing mount or cutting out and re-welding a cracked post tab.
Post Replacement
The rule is simple and we say it constantly: a gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle. Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice. In Irving, posts heave and settle with the clay, especially in the wet spring, and a post that’s moved even half an inch will throw the latch and drag the gate across the drive. We dig the old footing, set a new post with a deeper, wider concrete base than the original, and weld the hinge mounts back in true. Post replacement in Irving typically runs $450-$900 for a standard driveway gate post, and more if we’re also re-running conduit through the footing for future automation.
Rail Repair
Slide gates in Las Colinas HOA entrances run on rails and rolling trucks that take a beating. When clay heave shifts a post even slightly, the rail is no longer true, and the gate binds. Rollers flatten, rail ends mushroom, and the whole run starts grinding. We weld new rail sections, build up worn roller guides, and re-level the track so the gate rolls clean. On long commercial-style runs, we also check the rack and pinion, because that’s the drivetrain that eats itself when everything else is out of alignment. Rail repair in Irving generally runs $200-$550 for straightening and re-welding, more if we’re cutting in new rail stock.
Custom Welding
A lot of what we do in Irving is custom welding that other companies won’t touch. We get called to a Las Colinas townhome community off Lake Carolyn Parkway where the original mid-1990s DoorKing slide gate had torn its rack and pinion after the clay under the hinge post heaved, racking the frame. Our crew reset the post footing, welded a new rolling track, and rebuilt the operator drive so the HOA entrance didn’t have to be replaced wholesale. That’s the job. Not everything needs buying new. We weld broken pickets, fabricate replacement gate frames to match existing ornamental work, build operator mounting plates, and reinforce pilasters. Custom welding in Irving starts around $150 for small repairs and ranges up depending on the fabrication involved. Every quote is given upfront, before any spark hits the metal.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Irving
Irving’s gate equipment runs the full range, but we spend more time inside LiftMaster, FAAC, and BFT operators than anything else. Las Colinas especially has a deep installed base of FAAC and BFT swing operators from the district’s build-out years, and LiftMaster handles a lot of the newer HOA retrofit work. We service all three plus six more major brands, and we carry common parts locally so we’re not waiting on a distributor in another state. When a control board cooks in a brick pilaster enclosure off MacArthur Boulevard in July, you don’t want to hear “three weeks for the part.” We keep the fast movers on the truck.
Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Irving Homes
- Posts heaving out of plumb from Blackland Prairie clay. Irving’s expansive soil swells in wet springs and cracks in August heat. The post moves, the gate drags, and hinges and latches go out of alignment. This is the single most common root cause we see, more than any hardware defect.
- Legacy Las Colinas operators aging out simultaneously. The Apollo, DoorKing, and Linear operators installed during the 1980s and 90s build-out are hitting end of life in waves. Control boards and motor brushes degrade from sustained 100°F+ heat inside unshaded brick pilaster enclosures, which is practically every Las Colinas entrance.
- Builder-grade gates with no conduit for automation. Newer Irving developments often got a manual gate at build and nothing else. No power run, no low-voltage conduit, no plan. Adding a keypad, intercom, or operator later means trenching and welding, not just bolting on a motor.
- Freeze-thaw hinge fractures on ornamental iron. The February 2021 ice storm and every cold snap since leaves hairline cracks in hinge welds on older iron gates across central and south Irving. They hold for months, then let go without warning when the gate’s under load.
Pricing for Gate Parts & Welding in Irving, TX
You should know the ballpark before you call. Hinge replacement in Irving runs $160-$320 per hinge. Post replacement runs $450-$900 for a standard driveway gate post, plus more if conduit gets pulled through the footing. Rail repair runs $200-$550. Custom welding starts around $150 and scales with the fabrication. Operator rebuilds on legacy Las Colinas systems run $600-$1,400 depending on the machine. Those are real numbers for this market, not national averages. What moves the price is the condition of the existing post footing, whether the gate needs re-squaring after, and whether automation is part of the job. Every quote in writing, agreed before we start. Estimates are free, and we don’t charge a trip fee inside the county. Call (325) 936-1371 for an exact number.
We Also Serve Cities Near Irving
Our crews run to Irving every day, and we cover the surrounding metro too. If you’re in Irving, we’re already close. We also serve gate parts and welding customers in Dallas, Duncanville, Addison, and Richardson. Same owner-operated crew, same 90-Day Done Right Promise, same live person on the phone no matter which side of the county line you’re on.
Serving Irving, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Irving area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Gate Parts & Welding in Irving
The rack and pinion is the drive mechanism, and it fails when the gate isn’t rolling true. If clay heave shifts the post and the frame racks, the pinion gear chews the rack teeth until the gate won’t move. Swapping the operator without addressing the rack, the post, and the rail means the new operator fails the same way. That’s why we rebuild the whole drive run, not just the motor. Call (325) 936-1371 and we’ll walk the gate and tell you what’s actually wrong before quoting anything.
Yes, but it’s usually more than a bolt-on. Most builder-grade gates in newer Irving developments were never trenched for power or low-voltage wiring. The fix is a trench run, conduit, new operator, and the keypad or intercom head. We handle the whole scope including the welding of the operator mount, and you’ll have a written price before any dig starts. Estimates are free.
We start by looking at whether the crack is in the weld itself or in the base metal around it. Freeze-thaw stress usually starts as a hairline in the heat-affected zone, and grinding it out and re-welding is often the right fix. If the post has moved from clay heave, we reset the footing first, then re-weld the hinge tab. One fix without the other means you’ll be calling again in six months. Call (325) 936-1371 for a free look at it.
For an HOA entrance with real traffic, solar is usually the wrong answer. Irving’s summer heat beats on those systems, and a battery bank sized for a residential driveway won’t keep up with a shared entrance cycling dozens of times a day. Hardwired AC is the standard for Las Colinas entrances. Solar works for low-traffic residential gates, but we’ll tell you straight if it won’t hold up for your application, and we won’t sell it just because it’s easier to install.
People replace the hinges or shim the panel without addressing the post. The post has moved from clay movement, and the hinge post is the actual problem. A sag correction that doesn’t touch the post is a temporary patch. We reset the post, true it to the gate, and re-weld, because a gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle. That’s the whole job.
Call Gatewood Fence & Gate for Gate Parts & Welding in Irving
If your gate’s dragging on the drive, the keypad’s dead, or the HOA entrance has been chained open for a week, call (325) 936-1371. You’ll get a live person, a straight answer, and a written price before any work starts. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise is on every invoice. Irving to Las Colinas to Valley Ranch, we show up when we say we will and weld it right the first time.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, fixing gates since 2001.