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A new driveway gate in Arlington, TX typically costs between $1,800 and $6,500 installed, with pedestrian gates running $600-$1,800 and automatic operators adding $1,200-$3,500 depending on the opener and safety features. Most standard installations are completed in one to two days once materials arrive, and we quote every job in writing before any work starts. If you’re in Arlington and tired of propping a sagging gate open with a cinder block, call Gatewood Fence & Gate at (817) 241-4067. Hal Gatewood has been welding, hanging, and straightening gates since 2001, and he’ll tell you honestly whether your existing setup is worth saving.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Arlington’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
We’re not a franchise rolling through town in a wrapped truck. Gatewood Fence & Gate is owner-operated, locally owned, and the name on the shop belongs to the man who will stand in your driveway and shake your hand. Hal Gatewood has been at this since 2001, and his published address and license number are right there for anyone to look up. Arlington homeowners call us because they’ve already been burned once by a national outfit that quoted one price on the phone and handed them a different invoice at the door. That doesn’t happen here. The price we quote is the price you pay, and it’s agreed before we ever break ground.
We answer every call with a live person, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Not a voicemail, not a menu tree, not a chatbot. When an Arlington homeowner near Pantego or Dalworthington Gardens calls at 9 p.m. because a gate won’t close, they get a real voice. Our crews know the streets here: the older subdivisions along Pioneer Parkway, the HOA-heavy neighborhoods in southeast Arlington, the acreage lots on the city’s southern edge toward Mansfield. That local familiarity matters when the soil under your fence line is doing something it shouldn’t.
Every job we complete, including full gate installations in Arlington, carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it isn’t done right, one call brings us back. That’s the whole promise, and it’s stamped on every invoice. We also offer no trip charge inside the county, $40 off any repair over $200, free second opinions on written estimates, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans. These aren’t negotiation tactics. They’re standing offers.
Our Gate Installation Services in Arlington
Driveway Gate Installation
A driveway gate in Arlington is more than curb appeal. It’s the first line between your vehicles and anyone who decides to wander up the drive. We install steel and aluminum driveway gates in widths from 10 to 24 feet, paired with operators we’ve actually tested in Texas heat. Arlington summers regularly push past 100°F, and cheap import operators bake in that sun. We recommend equipment built for it and we stock parts locally so you aren’t waiting on a slow boat for a replacement board.
Pedestrian Gate Installation
Side-yard and walk-through gates give us some of our most interesting calls in Arlington. A lot of these are replacements for original wood gates from the 1970s and 1980s, where the 4×4 posts were set straight into Blackland Prairie clay and have rotted right at ground level. The gate panel might still look square, but the post is mush where it counts. We pull the old post, set a new one properly, and hang a gate that won’t need to be lifted to latch.
Sliding Gate Installation
Sliding gates work well on Arlington properties with sloped driveways or tight turn radii where a swing gate would bite into the vehicle path. The catch is that the track and cantilever rollers have to sit on stable ground, and Arlington’s expansive clay doesn’t always cooperate. We pour reinforced footings below the movement zone and use track systems designed to tolerate minor ground shift. If your driveway slopes toward the street, a sliding gate is often the better answer than a swing gate that fights gravity every cycle.
Swing Gate Installation
Swing gates are the most common style across Arlington’s subdivision belts, and they’re the style most harmed by our soil. Hinge posts set in clay heave and lean, the gate drags, the latch misses, and owners end up tying the thing shut with a bungee cord. When we install a swing gate in Arlington, we set every post in a concrete footing at least 36 inches deep, below the active heave zone. It costs a little more up front and saves years of sag-fighting. We’ll tell you that before you spend a dollar, which is exactly the conversation you should expect.
Double Gate Installation
Double driveway gates, often ornamental iron or steel frame, are common across east Arlington and the neighborhoods around Lake Arlington. These gates carry more hardware per panel than a single leaf, so every hinge, drop rod, and center stop has to be dead square. We install both leaves with matching reveal and set the center stops so the gates meet cleanly without slamming. If an automatic opener is going on, we pair the leaves to the operator with a proper slave kit so both sides open and close in sequence, not one slamming ahead of the other.
Security Gate Installation
Security gates for Arlington businesses, parking lots, and private lanes need heavier posts, thicker wall tubing, and operators rated for a lot of cycles. We’ve worked on automated gates near the Entertainment District, around AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field, where a single game day can put more wear on an operator than a residential gate sees in a month. For these installs we recommend mag-locks, safety edges, and loop detectors set up correctly from day one. A security gate that doesn’t close fully isn’t security, it’s a suggestion.
For a full look at what we offer across the metro, see our Gate Installation service page.
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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 Arlington
We’re certified to work on nine major gate operator brands, including LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. Around Arlington we see a lot of Linear and Ghost Controls units on residential swing gates, and BFT hydraulic operators on heavier commercial and HOA entry gates. Because we service all of them, we can give you a straight recommendation based on what’s already in your driveway. We keep common replacement parts in stock locally, so a failed door opener board or limit switch doesn’t have to wait on an order from across the country.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Arlington Homes
- Hinge posts leaning out of plumb. Arlington sits on Blackland Prairie expansive clay. The soil swells in spring rains and shrinks in summer drought, and every cycle shoves shallow-set posts a little further out of square. A post that was plumb in March can be leaning an inch by August.
- Original wood posts rotted at ground level. Tract homes built in Arlington between the 1970s and 1990s often have 4×4 gate posts buried directly in clay with no gravel or concrete collar. Water sits at the soil line, the post rots from the outside in, and one good shove snaps it off.
- Operators worn out from over-cycling. Gates near AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field in Arlington’s Entertainment District corridor open and close so often on game days that motors and limit switches fail years early. We regularly replace operators that are mechanically shot while the gate panel itself looks almost new.
- Wood panels warped from Texas heat. Arlington summers routinely cross the century mark, and untreated or under-sealed wood gate panels cup, twist, and pull screws loose. Once a panel warps enough to bind against the post, the only real fix is replacement with steel, aluminum, or composite.
Pricing for Gate Installation in Arlington, TX
A straightforward single-leaf driveway gate in Arlington generally costs $1,800-$4,200 installed, while double driveway gates run $3,000-$6,500 depending on width, material, and whether a new opener is included. Pedestrian gates land between $600 and $1,800. Automatic operators on their own, installed and calibrated, typically run $1,200-$3,500 in Arlington, with hydraulic or high-cycle commercial units pushing higher. The biggest cost variables are post footing work in clay soil, the length of any new conduit run for power, and whether the old posts can be reused or need to be pulled and re-set.
Every price we give in Arlington is quoted in writing before work begins. We don’t hand you a surprise at the door. We don’t charge a trip fee inside the county. And we’ll give you a free second opinion on any written estimate from another company, because they often miss the footing work and the price only makes sense when the job is quoted honestly. Call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate. We’ll walk your gate, check your posts, and tell you what it actually needs.
We Also Serve Cities Near Arlington
If you’re in Mansfield, Kennedale, Grand Prairie, or Fort Worth, you’re still in our regular service area. We schedule Arlington and the surrounding cities daily, so a gate job in one town doesn’t wait for a route that never comes. For more about our local work, see Gate Installation in Arlington.
Serving Arlington, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Arlington 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 Installation in Arlington
Because the post, not the hinge, is the problem. Arlington’s Blackland Prairie clay expands and contracts with every wet-dry season, and a hinge post set in a shallow footing will heave and lean again even after the hinges are replaced. The only lasting fix is digging out the old footing and setting a new post in concrete at least 36 inches deep, below the active movement zone. We do that in Arlington regularly, and we won’t waste your money fixing hinges on a post that’s already moving. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll check the post before we touch a hinge.
Often you can retrofit, but it depends on the control board. Many 1990s operators simply lack the inputs for modern photo eyes and edge sensors, and the boards are long discontinued. In those cases, replacing the operator is cheaper than trying to keep an obsolete board alive with band-aids. We’ll look at what’s in the box and tell you straight. If it can take modern safety equipment, we’ll add it. If it can’t, we’ll quote a replacement. Estimates are free.
Sometimes. If the posts are steel and still plumb, we can fab a new steel or aluminum panel to fit the existing opening and hinge placement. If the posts are original 4x4s set in Arlington clay, they’re likely rotten or leaning, and the honest answer is that new panels on old posts means doing the job twice. We’ll check the posts first and tell you which situation you have. A new metal gate on solid posts is a one-day job in most Arlington neighborhoods.
For most Arlington homes, once a year is right. For gates near AT&T Stadium or Globe Life Field that cycle dozens of extra times on game days, we recommend twice a year, with a close look at the limit switches, gearbox, and battery backup before football season. Game-day traffic ages an operator far faster than it looks. A yearly service call catches wear before you’re trapped outside your own driveway at midnight. Call (817) 241-4067 to schedule.
A 36-inch deep concrete footing with the post set on a compacted gravel base inside the hole, and the concrete poured above grade with a slight crown to shed water away from the post. That depth gets below the worst of Arlington’s heave zone. We also wrap wood posts in a post sleeve below grade when a customer insists on wood, but for a swing gate carrying an operator, steel posts in concrete are what we recommend and what we stand behind with the 90-Day Done Right Promise.
One More Thing About Arlington Soil
Arlington doesn’t sit on the same ground as Fort Worth or Grand Prairie. The Blackland Prairie clay under our neighborhoods is famously dramatic: it swells like a sponge in spring rain and then cracks open during a dry August. That movement is the reason your gate post was straight last year and isn’t now. We learned this the same way every honest gate contractor in Arlington learns it, by digging up a post that failed and finding it was set just 18 inches deep, nowhere near enough for this soil. Our crew was called to a home in the Sherwood Forest subdivision where a 1990s ornamental iron swing gate had sagged so badly the latch no longer engaged. We found the hinge post footing had heaved in the clay, leaving the post leaning 2 inches out of plumb. The existing concrete was only 18 inches deep, far too shallow for Arlington’s soil movement. We set a new post with a 36-inch deep footing and re-hung the gate with fresh bearings, then realigned the loop detector in the driveway so the gate wouldn’t close on the owner’s pickup. That’s the job. That’s all of it. We fix the footing, not just the hinge, and we do it here in Arlington every week.
Call Gatewood Fence & Gate for Gate Installation in Arlington
If you need a gate installed, replaced, or retrofitted in Arlington, call (817) 241-4067. We’ll answer, we’ll talk about your gate, and we’ll schedule a time to look at it. The estimate is free, the price is upfront, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise is in writing. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop and on every invoice. That’s the oldest accountability there is.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Arlington since 2001.