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Gate Repair Services in Plano, TX

Walk through almost any subdivision in Plano with a 25-year-old wooden privacy fence and you’ll find the same story: a gate that drags, a latch that won’t catch, hinges pulling loose from posts that have shifted with the black clay. In this city, a gate rarely fails all at once. It leans a little more each season until one July afternoon it won’t close at all. That’s the call we get. Gatewood Fence & Gate comes to Plano homes directly from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, with a live person answering your call around the clock at (325) 936-1371, and the same owner-operated crew that has been fixing gates right since 2001.

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We fix gates in driveways, not in a shop across town. If the hinge post has shifted, we dig it out and re-plumb it. If a weld has cracked, we weld it on site. If the opener fried during a North Texas ice storm, we diagnose it standing in front of the panel, not over the phone guessing. You get a written price before any work starts, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job.

Why Plano Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate

Plano is a city of HOAs. Legacy, Willow Bend, and the older subdivisions along Custer and Independence are governed by architectural standards that dictate what your gate can look like, what it can be made of, and sometimes which side the hinge goes on. When a gate fails in a master-planned community, you’re not just fixing a fence. You’re fixing it to a specification someone will inspect. Hal Gatewood understands that, because he’s been answering to HOA architectural committees in Collin County for over two decades. He can match cedar pickets to the existing run, document the repair with the right material and finish specs, and give you a repair that passes approval the first time.

That’s why repeat business in Plano spreads through entire streets rather than individual driveways. One homeowner in Willow Bend gets a gate rebuilt to spec. Two weeks later, three neighbors call because they heard the repair went through the HOA without a fight. That’s the reputation we’ve built the old way: showing up when we said we would, doing the work in the driveway, and standing behind it in writing.

You can verify us before we ever arrive. Hal’s name is on the shop, the address is published, and the license number is available for anyone to look up. The person who answers the phone at 2 a.m. is a real person, not a voicemail tree. The person who shows up is background-checked and uniformed. And if you want, you can drive to the shop and look Hal in the eye before you schedule anything. That’s the oldest accountability there is.

Gate Repair Services We Offer in Plano

Gate Repair

A sagging gate in Plano usually doesn’t need replacing. It needs a post reset, a re-hung hinge, or a weld that’s finally cracked after 30 years of Texas sun. We repair in place, which means your gate stays in your driveway and keeps its original look. Learn more about our Gate Repair in Plano.

Gate Installation

When you do need a new gate, whether it’s a cedar board-on-board privacy gate or an ornamental iron driveway gate, we build it for the gate’s actual job: clearing the grade, swinging square, and lasting through Plano’s freeze-thaw-shift cycles. We measure, quote, and schedule with a written price before any materials get ordered. Learn more about our Gate Installation in Plano.

Gate Motor & Opener

Plano’s density of automatic driveway gates means openers fail in clusters, especially after a power surge or an ice event. We service LiftMaster, Ghost Controls, and most other major brands, and we diagnose on site before recommending any parts. Learn more about our Gate Motor & Opener in Plano.

Gate Access Control

Keypads, intercoms, photo eyes, and vehicle sensors all have to survive Texas heat and electrical noise. We wire and program Gate Access Control - Plano for single-family gates and small HOA entries, with the same upfront pricing and 90-Day Done Right Promise as every other job. A live person takes your call 24/7 when the keypad stops reading codes.

Gate Parts & Welding

Show me the gate closing on its own and I’ll show you where it’s failing. Sometimes that’s a $12 hinge. Sometimes it’s a cracked weld on the frame. We stock Plano Gate Parts & Welding supplies like common hinge, latch, wheel, and track parts for the area’s typical gate styles, and we weld cracked ornamental iron on site instead of hauling it off or selling you a new gate.

Neighborhoods We Serve in Plano

We’d rather be on time than give you a window. If you’re in any of these areas, we can typically have someone to your Plano home the same afternoon for urgent repairs, and schedule measured work, like a new gate or opener install, for a day and time that actually works for you.

• Legacy
• Willow Bend
• Old Towne Plano
• Along Custer Road (75025 corridor)
• West Plano / Prestonwood

Why Plano’s Climate & Housing Affect Gate Repair

Plano sits on the Blackland Prairie’s black clay soil, and that soil is why most gates in this city fail. It swells dramatically after spring rains and shrinks during July and August droughts, moving 4×4 and 6×6 gate posts out of plumb by inches per season. A gate that swung fine in May might drag in August, not because the gate changed, but because the post moved. A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that is where we start.

The city’s housing stock adds another layer. Most of Plano’s residential neighborhoods were built in waves from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. That means the cedar privacy gates from that era, the board-on-board and picket styles you see throughout the 75023 and 75025 zip codes, are now 25 to 40 years old. They’re hitting end-of-life at the same time. We see whole blocks where the same builder used the same gate design, and now every third house has a different patch or prop holding the gate up. Ornamental iron driveway gates, common in the western neighborhoods built in the 1990s, have their own issue: 30-year-old welds and surface rust in a climate that bakes metal all summer and freezes it in winter.

And after a North Texas ice storm, like the February 2021 event, Plano sees a double failure mode. Ice loading warps wooden gates, often cracking the cedar at the hinge line. Simultaneously, rolling outages send power surges through automatic gate operator circuit boards. A customer calls thinking they need a new opener. Sometimes the board is dead. Sometimes the gate frame got bent by the ice and the opener is fine but working against it. We check both before we price anything.

Pricing for Gate Repair in Plano

Service Area - Cities Near Plano

Plano sits at the center of Collin County’s northern crescent, and our crews cross city limits constantly. If you’re just outside Plano, we can often reach you from the same dispatch route. We handle gate repairs in Richardson, Addison, and Coppell, and we work into Dallas proper along the 75 corridor. Call (325) 936-1371 and we’ll tell you when we can be there.

FAQs About Gate Repair in Plano