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Gate access control in Colleyville is a different job than it is in most of Tarrant County, because the housing stock is different. A typical Colleyville property has a heavy ornamental iron gate on a half-acre to two-acre lot, with a Viking, Elite, or Linear operator that was installed when the house was built, and a brick pillar that has spent twenty years shifting on black clay. When that system fails, you need someone who knows which failure you’re actually having, not someone who sells you a whole new operator and hopes for the best. That’s what we do at Gatewood Fence & Gate. Hal Gatewood has been fixing gates since 2001, and every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. Call (817) 241-4067 and a live person answers, day or night.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Colleyville’s Preferred Gate Access Control Company
We repair what other companies want to replace. That matters in Colleyville, where the gate you have is often a custom-fabricated piece matched to the stone and brick entry of your home. Ripping it out and starting over is the expensive answer, and it’s rarely the right one. Hal welds on site, in your driveway, and he stands behind the work with a promise that’s stamped on every invoice, not buried in a terms page: if it’s not done right, we make it right, for 90 days, no runaround.
We work in Colleyville every week. Our scheduling and dispatch are coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, but the person who shows up at your gate is the same person whose name is on the shop. We answer the phone with a live person 24/7. No voicemail, no phone tree. When a gate stops reading a keypad on a Friday afternoon and your driveway is the only way in, you call and Hal answers. That’s how we’ve built our reputation across Colleyville.
Our Gate Access Control Services in Colleyville
Here’s what we actually do, and how it applies to the gates we see throughout Colleyville.
Keypad Entry
A keypad on the pillar or on a gooseneck post is the most common entry method we service. Colleyville’s full-sun pillar boxes cook keypad button contacts over repeated 105°F summers, which is why codes get intermittent after a decade or so. We replace, rewire, or retrofit keypads to match your existing pillar, whether the original is from 1996 or 2018. We also program codes on site so you’re not waiting on a manual and a phone call to some support line.
Video Intercom
Video intercom is the upgrade Colleyville homeowners ask for most right now, especially on estate lots where the gate is a hundred yards from the house. You want to see who’s at the gate before you open it, whether you’re home or not. We install video intercom that calls your phone, lets you speak to the person at the gate, and opens it remotely. On a two-acre lot off Pleasant Run Road, we matched a video intercom to a 16-foot ornamental swing gate so the owner gets a call with a live view before the gate ever moves. That’s what this should feel like.
Phone Entry
Phone entry means the gate dials your landline or cell when a visitor presses the call button. You press a number on your phone and the gate opens. Colleyville homes built between 1988 and 2010 often have original phone entry systems with aging relay boards and crackling audio. We replace those boards, rewire the pedestal, or install a new phone entry module that connects to your existing operator. You don’t need a whole new gate. You need the right board, and we know which one.
Card Reader
Card readers are common on Colleyville properties with staff, nannies, landscapers, or extended family who need regular access without a personal code. Proximity cards, fobs, or long-range windshield tags all work, and we can set up a system where each card logs when it was used. That’s useful when you want to know who came and went. We service card readers on Viking, Linear, Elite, FAAC, and LiftMaster operators, which covers the vast majority of what’s installed around Colleyville.
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.
Trusted Brands We Service in Colleyville
We’re certified to service nine major gate brands, and in Colleyville the ones we see most are Viking, Elite, and LiftMaster. That’s not by accident. Colleyville’s build-out between 1988 and 2010 happened in tight developer windows, so entire streets share the same operator model and install date. That means we stock the right replacement boards, limit switches, loop detectors, and keypad modules for those late-1990s and early-2000s units. When a whole cul-de-sac starts losing gate control boards in the same season, we can clear a day’s worth of calls within a two-mile radius because we’ve already got the parts on the truck.
Common Gate Access Control Problems We See in Colleyville Homes
These are the calls we get again and again from Colleyville, and they’re tied to how this city was built and how its ground behaves.
- Expansive clay heaves the pillar base and throws off the rack and pinion. Tarrant County’s black clay shrinks and swells through every wet-dry cycle. When a pillar shifts even a quarter inch, a slide gate’s operator has to fight its own track. The operator isn’t lazy. The ground moved under it. We reset the post footing or adjust the rack before the control board burns out.
- Sun-baked keypads on unshaded pillars lose button contacts. Colleyville summers hit 105°F routinely. Twenty-year-old keypad membranes in direct sun get brittle, and codes work only when you press a button three times. We replace the keypad and, where it makes sense, add a shade cover or relocate the unit a few inches into less direct exposure.
- Loop detectors crack under shifting clay and doors open for no car. When the buried loop’s insulation splits, water gets in, the inductance changes, and the gate decides a car is there. It opens at 3 a.m. for nobody. This is one of the most common Colleyville-specific calls we run, and it’s a straightforward fix with the right detector.
- Twenty-year-old operators on a single street fail in the same season. Because so much of Colleyville was platted and built in tight windows by a handful of luxury developers, whole blocks have gate operators that are the same age. When one fails, its neighbor isn’t far behind. We plan for that. It’s why we keep those era-specific boards stocked, and why we can often fix a unit on the first visit instead of ordering parts and coming back.
Pricing for Gate Access Control in Colleyville, TX
Here’s what gate access control work actually costs in Colleyville, based on what we’ve quoted and billed in this market. A keypad replacement or retrofit typically runs $275 to $550, depending on whether it’s a simple swap or we’re rewiring a pedestal. A loop detector replacement usually lands between $300 and $550. Video intercom installation runs $800 to $1,800 for a system that calls your phone, with the higher end including a second camera or gate station. A replacement control board for a Viking or Elite operator is typically $350 to $650, installed. Full phone entry retrofit on an existing operator runs $500 to $900. Every price is quoted and agreed before any work starts, and you’ll never see a different number after the job is done. We offer a free estimate, and there’s no trip charge inside the county. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll give you a real number.
We Also Serve Cities Near Colleyville
Our work in Colleyville keeps us close to Bedford, Euless, Hurst, and North Richland Hills, and we cover those areas regularly. If you’re on the edge of Colleyville near one of those city lines, you’re still in our service area. Learn more about our Gate Access Control services, or see how we work specifically in Gate Access Control in Colleyville.
Serving Colleyville, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Colleyville 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 Access Control in Colleyville
The loop detector is buried in clay, and Colleyville’s clay is highly expansive. It shrinks in drought and swells in rain, which cracks the insulation around the loop wires over time. Water gets in, the inductance reading drifts, and the gate starts opening for nothing or ignoring cars entirely. This is a known failure pattern in this soil, and replacing the detector is usually a one-visit fix. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll diagnose it on site with a free estimate.
Yes. We’ve retrofitted new keypads onto dozens of original Colleyville brick-and-stone pillars from the late 1990s and early 2000s. We don’t need the original manufacturer still to exist. We match the mounting footprint, wire the new keypad to your existing operator, and make it look like it belongs on that pillar. If the old unit left screw holes or faded stone, we’ll talk you through the cleanest way to handle that before we touch anything.
Two things are usually happening at once. The gate has sagged at the hinge post, and the operator is fighting the sag. On hot afternoons, thermal expansion makes the misalignment worse, so the remote works in the morning and fails by 3 p.m. We fix the hinge post first, because a gate sags in the post, not in the middle. Then we check the operator’s force settings and limit switches. Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice.
Because a few luxury developers built large sections of Colleyville in tight windows, entire neighborhoods have operators from the same manufacturer, installed the same year. A 1996 Viking unit and a 1996 Viking unit three doors down have the same lifespan. When the control boards start dying, they die block by block. We carry parts for those era-specific units, so we can often clear a full day’s worth of calls within a two-mile radius without ordering anything.
Yes, and that’s usually the right move. If your operator motor is solid but the phone entry board, relay, or pedestal wiring has failed, we replace just those components. You keep the gate and operator you already own, and it links to the new phone entry so calls ring your cell and you press 9 to open. We quote that as a separate job, so you know exactly what the entry retrofit costs before we start. Call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate.
If your Colleyville gate access control is acting up, don’t guess. Call (817) 241-4067. Hal or one of his crew will answer, talk through what’s happening, and schedule a time that actually works. You’ll get an upfront price before any work begins, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing when we’re done. The name is on the shop, and the shop is down the road. That’s the oldest accountability there is.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Colleyville since 2001.