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Gate parts and welding in Hurst usually come down to one question: can the gate be saved, or does it need to be rebuilt? Most of the time it can be saved. A typical hinge replacement runs $145-$285, a post replacement with new concrete footing runs $340-$680, and custom welding work on an existing gate runs $95-$145 per hour plus materials. We get to Hurst fast, we weld on site so the gate never leaves your driveway, and Hal Gatewood stands behind every job with a written 90-Day Done Right Promise. Call (817) 241-4067 and a live person answers, day or night.
Hurst isn’t like the sandier suburbs east of here. The soil under your gate moves. We know that before we ever touch a hinge. Our Gate Parts & Welding crew works the Brown Trail and Precinct Line Road corridors every week, and the pattern is the same: a gate that won’t close in August almost always means a post has heaved out of plumb, not that the latch is worn. That changes where the repair starts, and it changes whether the fix lasts one season or ten.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Hurst’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company
Hal Gatewood started this shop in 2001, and his name is still on the door and on every invoice. We’re not a franchise, not a dispatch board, and not a middleman. When you call about a gate in Hurst, you’re talking to someone who has welded in Hurst driveways, reset Hurst posts, and re-hung Hurst gates hundreds of times. Hal answers his own phone around the clock. That’s not a slogan. If the phone rings at 2 a.m. and your gate is hanging off its hinge post after a storm, a person picks up.
Our Hurst customers tell us the same thing repeatedly: they’ve been burned by companies that quoted one number on the phone and handed them a different invoice at the door. That doesn’t happen here. You get a written price before any work starts, and the price is the price. Every Hurst job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something isn’t done right, one call brings Hal back. No runaround, no fine print.
We’re certified to service nine major gate brands, including LiftMaster, Ghost Controls, and BFT. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, and they’ll tell you their name before they touch your gate. Serving Gate Parts & Welding in Hurst isn’t a side market for us. It’s home turf. Dispatch and scheduling are coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, and crews serve Hurst locally every day.
Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Hurst
Hinge Replacement
On Hurst’s 1960s and 1970s homes, we rarely see a hinge that’s simply worn out. We see hinge posts that have tilted two to three inches and taken the hinge with them. Replacing the hinge without correcting the post is a waste of your money. We cut out the rusted hinge, weld on new strap or barrel hinges, and make sure the post itself is plumb first. A typical hinge replacement in Hurst runs $145-$285 per hinge, depending on the weight of the gate and whether the post needs to be reset at the same time. If the hinge is welded to a post that has heaved, we’ll tell you straight: fix the post, then the hinge.
Post Replacement
This is the defining repair in Hurst. The Blackland Prairie clay under your gate line swells with spring rain, then shrinks and cracks through a 100-degree summer. That seasonal push-pull tilts gate posts incrementally until the gate drags across the driveway or won’t latch. We dig out the old post, set a new one in a deeper concrete footing, and re-hang the gate so it swings true. Post replacement in Hurst typically runs $340-$680, and it’s the repair that actually lasts. A panel-only fix on a heaved post fails again by next August. We’d rather fix it once.
Rail Repair
Older wooden gates in Hurst’s ranch-style subdivisions, many of them built between 1955 and 1985, rot from the bottom up. The bottom rail sits close to the ground, catches splashback in spring, and rots quietly for decades. By the time a Hurst homeowner calls us, the bottom rail is often too far gone to patch. We replace rotted rails with pressure-treated lumber, weld steel reinforcement where the design calls for it, and re-square the frame before re-hanging. Rail repair on a wooden gate runs $185-$420 including materials. If the gate is too far gone for a rail repair, we’ll tell you that too and quote a full rebuild instead.
Custom Welding
We weld on site in Hurst, which means your gate never gets hauled to some shop across the county. That matters when you have a 60-year-old wrought-iron gate with custom scrollwork that can’t be replaced off a shelf. We weld cracked frames, broken pickets, sagging corners, and broken hinges right in your driveway. Custom welding runs $95-$145 per hour plus materials. Most repair welds are done within a single visit. Fabrication work, like a new steel frame or a custom latch plate, we measure, price, and schedule with a written quote.
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 Hurst
Most gates in Hurst fall into two camps: the old iron gates hung decades ago with no automation, and the 1980s-2000s swing gates fitted with our Gate Motor & Opener in Hurst that are now obsolete. We service both. On the automation side, we’re certified for LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. If your Hurst gate has a BFT or Viking operator that’s failed, we can usually get the control board or replacement parts faster than a homeowner can find them online. And because we carry common parts in our truck stock, a lot of Hurst repairs happen in one trip, not three.
Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Hurst Homes
- Clay heave puts the post out of plumb. Hurst sits on expansive clay that shifts every season. A gate that dragged in July probably had a post that moved in May. The fix starts underground, not at the hinge.
- Rotted bottom rails on 40-60-year-old wooden gates. Hurst’s post-war and early-suburban housing stock was built with wooden privacy gates that have long outlived their design life. When the bottom rail rots, the gate drops and drags. By the time we see it, a rebuild is usually cheaper than repeated patch jobs.
- Worn strap hinges that were never replaced. Many original Hurst gates still have the factory strap hinges from 1960-whatever. They’re rusted thin, welded in place, and sagging under their own weight. We cut them off and weld new ones that match the gate’s load.
- Obsolete opener boards with dead safety sensors. A lot of legacy operators on 1980s Hurst homes predate modern UL 325 safety requirements. When the control board fails or the photocells are shot, the gate can stall mid-travel with no entrapment protection. We replace the board or retrofit safety edges so the gate doesn’t become a hazard.
Pricing for Gate Parts & Welding in Hurst, TX
Here’s what Hurst homeowners can expect to pay. Hinge replacement: $145-$285 per hinge. Post replacement with new concrete footing: $340-$680. Rail repair: $185-$420. Custom welding: $95-$145 per hour plus materials. Full Gate Installation - Hurst rebuilds start around $450 and go up based on size, material, and automation needs. These aren’t vague “call for pricing” ranges. They’re what we charge in Hurst, and they’re quoted and agreed in writing before any work starts. Every estimate is free, and there’s no trip charge inside Tarrant County. Seniors and veterans get a permanent 10% discount. If you have a written estimate from another company, bring it in and we’ll give you a free second opinion.
We Also Serve Cities Near Hurst
We work all over the mid-cities, so if you’re in Hurst or just across the line in North Richland Hills, Bedford, Colleyville, or Haltom City, we can get to you quickly. Same crew, same pricing, same written guarantee. Call (817) 241-4067 and tell us where the gate is dragging.
Serving Hurst, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Hurst 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 Hurst
Because the old concrete footing wasn’t deep enough, and the Hurst clay under it is still moving. A post set in a shallow footing will re-tilt within a season or two as the soil swells and shrinks. We set replacement posts in deeper footings below the active clay zone so the post stops moving. A post that’s been set right once shouldn’t need resetting again. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll check the footing depth before recommending anything.
We can weld a new hinge onto the gate in most cases, but whether the post needs replacing depends entirely on the post’s condition and plumb. If the post is solid and straight, we weld the hinge and re-hang the gate. If the post has rotated or cracked, welding a hinge onto it just moves the problem. We’ll show you what we’re seeing and quote whichever repair actually fixes the gate.
Usually not. In Hurst, summer gate-drift on older LiftMaster units is most often caused by a post that has shifted with the dry clay soil and changed the gate’s travel geometry. The opener’s limit settings are set for the old geometry, so it stops short. Before we touch the motor, we check the posts and hinges. Fixing the geometry often fixes the opener, and that’s cheaper than a new board. Call (817) 241-4067 for an exact diagnosis.
Yes. Any automatic gate operator installed or significantly modified today must meet current UL 325 safety standards, which require entrapment protection like photocells or safety edges. Many operators from the 1980s and early 1990s were installed before those standards existed, so they’re not compliant and they lack functioning safety features. We can retrofit Gate Access Control in Hurst with safety sensors or replace the control board with a modern compliant version. We’ll walk you through what’s required and what it costs before doing anything.
Look at the post before you touch a hinge. If the post is straight and solid but the gate sags toward the latch side, the hinges are the problem. If the post itself is leaning, cracked, or visibly shifted at the base, new hinges won’t save it. In Hurst’s clay soil, the post is the culprit more often than the hinge. We’ll give you a straight answer on site and quote the repair that actually solves it. Estimates are free, and the call is live: (817) 241-4067.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Hurst and the surrounding mid-cities since 2001.