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Gate repair in Irving usually means one of two things: a driveway gate on a 1960s brick home that’s sagged off its hinges, or a Las Colinas HOA entrance gate that’s been running on an operator older than most of the residents. We handle both. Hal Gatewood has been fixing gates since 2001, and our crew knows Irving’s streets well enough to tell you whether your gate post is sitting on Blackland Prairie clay or a 1980s concrete pour before we even check the hinges. Call (325) 936-1371 and a live person answers. Not a voicemail, not a call center. You’ll talk to someone who can actually show up in Irving, usually the same day for a broken gate that won’t open or won’t close.
Key takeaways:
- We repair gates on site in Irving, including welding, hinge rebuilding, and operator retrofits. We don’t haul your gate off to a shop.
- Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not right, one call brings Hal back.
- Free estimates, no trip charge inside the county, $40 off any repair over $200, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans.
- We service BFT, Linear, Viking, and Ghost Controls operators, plus legacy Apollo and DoorKing models still running in Las Colinas.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Irving’s Preferred Gate Repair Company
Irving’s gate problems aren’t like the rest of the metroplex, and we’ve known that for years. A repair company that mostly does Dallas fences will look at a sagging Las Colinas community gate and quote a full replacement because they don’t stock parts for a 1992 DoorKing board. We stock them, or we know exactly who has them. Dispatched and scheduled from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, our crews serve Irving locally. Hal’s name is on the shop, his license number is published, and his address isn’t a P.O. box. That’s the kind of accountability people in Irving tell us they’ve been looking for after dealing with outfits that quoted one price over the phone and billed another at the door.
When you call us about a gate in Irving, you get a straight answer. Our crew has rebuilt hinge posts cracked by North Texas clay on Cimarron, reprogrammed keypads at townhome communities off Lake Carolyn, and welded rusted ornamental iron on houses near Heritage Park. The person who shows up is the person who knows what he’s looking at. We’ve worked on gates all across Irving, from the older neighborhoods south of 183 to the HOA loops in Las Colinas. It’s not a training ground for us. It’s home turf.
Our Gate Repair Services in Irving
Electric Gate Repair in Irving
An electric gate that won’t respond usually isn’t a dead operator. Often it’s a control board that baked inside an un-shaded brick pilaster during three straight weeks of June heat, or a safety edge that finally wore through. In Irving, we trace the actual failure before we touch anything. We carry replacement boards, transformer kits, and safety loops for the brands you’re likely to have, including BFT and Linear. If your Las Colinas entrance gate starts and stops mid-cycle, that’s a repair we do on site.
Automatic Gate Repair in Irving
Automatic gate repair in Irving means dealing with operators that were installed when the Las Colinas master plan was still being built out, so we’re fluent in the old Apollo and DoorKing gear that big national companies won’t touch. We can retrofit a modern control board into a working 1990s operator and save you thousands over a full swap. But we’ll also tell you plainly when a retrofit doesn’t make sense. Some 1988 Linear operators simply aren’t worth nursing along when the gearbox is worn and the chain rail is rusted through. The price to repair versus replace is something we put in writing before any work starts.
Hinge & Post Repair in Irving
Irving sits on the Blackland Prairie, and that clay soil heaves and shrinks with every wet winter and dry summer. Gate posts give way. Hinges tear loose from brick pilasters. We regularly see posts kicked out of plumb by an inch or more behind Camelot Park and along Story Road, which racks the gate frame and makes the latch miss the striker. We dig out, re-set, and re-plumb posts, then rebuild the hinge mounts with welded steel plate rather than lag bolts that’ll pull out again next season. A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that’s where we start.
Gate Realignment in Irving
If your Irving gate drags at the latch every August but swings fine in January, that’s the clay under it moving. Realignment isn’t just adjusting hinges. We square the frame, re-plumb the posts, and set the gap so the gate clears through a full North Texas seasonal cycle. On HOA swing gates we check the operator’s force settings afterward too, because a misaligned gate makes the motor work harder and burns out brushes faster in summer. Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Common Gate Repair Problems We See in Irving Homes
- Clay-driven post movement: Irving’s expansive Blackland Prairie soil swells after rain and shrinks in drought, pushing posts out of plumb. Gates drag, latches stop lining up, and frames twist. This is the single most common root cause we find, ahead of any hardware defect.
- Legacy Las Colinas operators at end-of-life: DoorKing, Apollo, and Linear units installed in the 1980s and 1990s are failing in waves across HOA entrances. Control boards capacitor-dry, gearboxes wear, and parts availability is now a real constraint we plan around daily.
- Heat-baked pilaster enclosures: Brick enclosures around Las Colinas entrance operators trap 100°F+ heat all summer long. Motor brushes degrade faster and control board solder joints crack. We add interior vents or shade shields during repairs where it’ll extend the life of the fix.
- Winter freeze damage: After winter ice storms including the February 2021 freeze, we see seized operators from moisture infiltration and snapped exposed hinges on ornamental iron gates. The failure often doesn’t show up until the first real heat cycle afterward.
Trusted Brands We Service in Irving
We’re certified to service nine major gate operator brands, but the ones that matter most in Irving are the ones you actually have. BFT and Viking show up on newer estate gates around Valley Ranch. Ghost Controls appears a lot on single-family driveway gates. And Linear, well, we see Linear everywhere, including the 1988 unit off Lake Carolyn that taught us to stock retrofit boards well ahead of summer. We keep parts local for Irving customers, so you’re not waiting on a ground shipment while your HOA gate sits open. We’ll always tell you if a brand we don’t stock is the better long-term play. Honesty over making a sale.
Pricing for Gate Repair in Irving, TX
A typical hinge and post repair on a single-family driveway gate in Irving runs $275-$650 depending on whether the post needs re-setting in concrete or just re-plumbing. Gate realignment usually lands between $150-$350. Electric gate repairs start around $180 for a basic safety loop or keypad swap, while full operator retrofits run $700-$1,400 depending on the existing hardware. That retrofit range is most of what we quote on Las Colinas HOA gates. We quote a fixed price before any work starts. Not after. If we find something else while we’re in there, we stop and get your sign-off. You’ll also get that price in writing, along with the 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job.
We Also Serve Cities Near Irving
Our Gate Repair crew covers Irving and the surrounding metro. If your gate sits just outside the city line, we also serve Dallas, Duncanville, Addison, and Richardson. Call (325) 936-1371 and we’ll tell you straight whether we can get to you today or whether it’s a scheduled visit. We’re not going to promise a same-day run if the drive doesn’t make sense; we’d rather be honest.
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 Repair in Irving
If the control board on your Linear operator has failed, we can usually retrofit a compatible modern board rather than replacing the entire operator, typically for $400-$800 installed. The decision comes down to gearbox and arm condition. If the motor is still strong and the rail isn’t rusted, a board retrofit is the cheaper play. If the gearbox is worn too, putting a new board on it is wasting your HOA’s money. We’ll inspect and tell you which you have. Call (325) 936-1371 for an exact quote. Estimates are free.
That’s almost always the Blackland Prairie clay under your posts doing its seasonal shrink-swell cycle, and it’s the most misdiagnosed problem in Irving. Post bases shift as the soil dries, the frame racks, and the gate drags. The fix is re-plumbing the posts and re-squaring the frame, not just adjusting the hinges. We do this regularly for homes across central and south Irving. Call (325) 936-1371 and we’ll bring the level and the welder.
With slide gates at Irving HOA entrances, post-freeze keypad failure is usually the access control board or a shorted safety loop, but sometimes the freeze also seized the operator’s drive chain. We troubleshoot the access control first because that’s where moisture intrusion causes the most freeze-related failures. In the Las Colinas canal-side townhome community off Lake Carolyn, we replaced a 1988 Linear control board, rebuilt the hinge post brackets, and reprogrammed the keypad entry to the HOA’s current access system in one same-day visit. We’ll figure out which layer failed and fix only that. Call (325) 936-1371 and have your HOA gate log ready if you have one.
Yes, we can repair or re-set a cracked gate post without replacing the gate itself. For a 1960s-era post, the crack at the base is usually freeze-thaw damage combined with shifting clay. We cut out the cracked section, weld in a steel sleeve or replacement post section, and re-anchor the base in fresh concrete. The gate stays in your driveway the whole time. In a few cases the post is too far gone and the only honest fix is a new steel post, but the gate itself is almost always salvageable. Call (325) 936-1371 for a free site look.
We service commercial-grade slide gates at Las Colinas office campuses and apartment communities every week, including the heavier Viking and DoorKing operators those sites typically run. The work is semi-commercial by nature: bigger operators, higher cycle counts, access control tied into building security systems. We’re set up for that. Licensed and insured, with Hal’s name on every work order. Call (325) 936-1371 and tell us what’s at the entrance. We’ll schedule a site visit and give you a written quote.
Your Gate, Fixed Right in Irving
If your Irving gate is dragging, sagging, sparking, seized, or just dead, call (325) 936-1371. You’ll get a live person on the line. You’ll get a straight answer about whether it’s a $200 fix or a $1,200 retrofit. And you’ll get Hal Gatewood’s word in writing that the job is done right for 90 days. Free estimate. No trip charge in the county. We’ll come look at it, tell you the truth, and do the work in your driveway. That’s how we’ve done it since 2001, and that’s not changing.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Irving since 2001.