Gate Repair Services in Irving - Same-Day Repair, Priced Before We Start

Gate Repair Services in Irving, TX

If a gate in Irving is sagging, grinding, or refusing to open, the fix usually starts underground, not in the motor. Our crew works on gates across Las Colinas, Valley Ranch, and the older neighborhoods near MacArthur and Story, and we’re familiar with the clay-soil shifts and 1980s-era community infrastructure that cause most failures here. Call (817) 241-4067 and a live person answers, not an answering service. We’ll tell you whether it’s a job we can handle same-week or whether it needs parts ordered, and the price is set before we touch a bolt.

Why Irving Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate

Hal Gatewood founded this shop in 2001, and it’s still owner-operated now. That means the person answering the phone at 2 a.m. is the same person who signs the invoice and the same person who will come back if something isn’t right. We put the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing on every repair: if it fails because we didn’t do the job properly, one call brings Hal back. No third-party warranty hotline, no ticket number. Homeowners in Valley Ranch and Las Colinas have told us the same thing over the years: they got burned by a company that quoted one number on the phone and a bigger one at the door. That doesn’t happen here because the price you’re quoted is the price you pay, and it’s agreed before work starts.

We’re also the shop that repairs before we replace. A bent hinge post, a failing solder joint, a gate that sags because the soil heaved the post socket: those are fixable. We weld on site in your driveway, so your gate never leaves your property unless we both decide that’s genuinely the only option. And we’re certified on the operators that show up most in Irving: FAAC, Linear, BFT, Viking, plus a handful of other major brands.

Gate Repair Services We Offer in Irving

Gate Repair

A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that’s where we start. We repair bent posts, cracked welds, binding hinges, and misaligned slide tracks on gates throughout Irving, from single driveway swing gates to the heavy multi-unit vehicular systems in Las Colinas office parks. Learn more about our Gate Repair in Irving.

Gate Installation

When a gate is beyond repair, or when you’re adding a new perimeter opening, we build and install it to match the existing property. We don’t undercut the job by skipping concrete depth or cheaping out on hinge posts. Learn more about our Gate Installation in Irving.

Gate Motor & Opener

A motor that trips its breaker, opens halfway and stops, or runs but doesn’t move the gate is often a limit-switch or capacitor issue, not a full replacement. We service and replace openers on nine brands, including FAAC, Linear, and Viking. Learn more about our Gate Motor & Opener in Irving.

Gate Access Control

Keypads, intercoms, vehicle-loop detectors, and phone-based entry systems all tie into the operator. When the gate opens fine but the keypad won’t release it, the problem is in the access control wiring or board, not the motor. We diagnose and repair those systems without selling you a whole new package.

Gate Parts & Welding

Cracked ornamental pickets, broken hinge barrels, a slide-gate roller that’s worn flat. We weld on site and stock or order the right parts for the job, so you pay for the part that broke, not a whole gate. If someone else quoted you a full replacement, get a free second opinion from us before you sign anything.

Neighborhoods We Serve in Irving

Most repairs in Irving fall inside a fairly tight drive, so we can usually be on site the same day or next morning when it’s a safety issue, provided the parts are common. These are the neighborhoods where we do the most work:

• Valley Ranch
• Las Colinas
• Cottonwood Valley
• University Hills
• The area along Story Road and Belt Line

This is not a complete list. If you’re anywhere in Irving, call us. The only thing that matters is what’s broken, not which subdivision line you’re inside.

Why Irving’s Climate & Housing Affect Gate Repair

Irving sits on Blackland Prairie clay, and that clay is the reason so many gates in this city fail the same way, year after year. In a dry Texas summer, the soil shrinks and pulls away from steel posts by two or three inches. Then the spring rains come and that same clay swells hard and fast. The post heaves, the gate tilts, and suddenly the opener is fighting a gate that’s binding on its hinges or dragging on its track. The motor burns out, or a limit switch trips, and the whole system looks like an operator failure when the real problem is three feet underground.

Valley Ranch adds its own complication. Those community entry gates were built mostly between 1984 and 1995, and many of them share a single underground conduit that carries both the operator’s power and the intercom wiring. When the clay shifts that conduit and cracks it, the symptom looks like a dead operator or a keypad that won’t call the house. It’s a wiring fault under a shifted concrete pad. We’ve chased enough of those to know to check the conduit before we order a new board. It’s a mistake a technician who’s never worked Valley Ranch will make every time, and the homeowner pays for it.

The commercial side of Irving doesn’t fare better. The corridors along SH-114 and Loop 12 are heavy with warehouses, data centers, and corporate campuses running slide gates on high cycles. Those gates cycle hundreds of times a day. A roller that’s worn flat or a track that’s misaligned by half an inch will kill an operator in weeks. Irving’s mix of aging master-planned community infrastructure and high-volume commercial traffic means the repair approach has to be different than it would be in a suburb built in 2010 with sandy soil and one gate per house.

Pricing for Gate Repair in Irving

Service Area - Cities Near Irving

If you’re just outside Irving, we work in those communities too. We regularly serve Duncanville, Grand Prairie, Euless, and Bedford. Same crew, same pricing, same guarantee.

FAQs About Gate Repair in Irving

How much does gate repair cost in Irving?

Most residential gate repairs in Irving run between $175 and $800, depending on whether the problem is alignment, a failed circuit board, or a broken weld. Commercial slide-gate work on SH-114 or Loop 12 properties goes higher, typically $400 to $2,200 if the operator must be replaced. The price we quote is the price you pay, and we agree on it before work starts. Call (817) 241-4067 for an exact quote; estimates are free.

Can you come today?

For a gate that’s stuck open, stuck closed, or blocking a driveway, we can usually get someone out the same day in Irving if it’s an emergency and parts are common. When the repair needs a board or a roller that has to be ordered, we’ll tell you that honestly before you commit to anything. Call us and we’ll tell you straight what’s possible today versus what has to wait a day or two.

Do you work on FAAC and Linear gate operators?

Yes, we service FAAC and Linear operators regularly, along with BFT, Viking, Mighty Mule, LiftMaster, and four other brands. FAAC and Linear show up constantly in Valley Ranch and the older Las Colinas residential sections, and we keep common boards and capacitors on the truck. If it’s an obsolete board, we’ll tell you that too, and lay out your options without pressure.

My gate in Valley Ranch opens fine but the intercom won’t call the house. What’s wrong?

In Valley Ranch, that set of symptoms usually points to a break in the underground conduit that feeds both the operator and the intercom, not a failed intercom board. The clay soil moves that conduit over time and cracks it, and the failure gets misdiagnosed as a dead keypad or operator. We trace the wiring before we start replacing parts, which is not the standard first move for most companies.

Do you weld on site, or do you haul the gate away?

We weld on site in your driveway or at your property in Irving. The gate stays where it hangs unless it’s so badly damaged that the shop is the only safe place to fix it, which is rare. That means no flatbed fee, no days without a secure driveway, and you can watch the work happen. It also means we stand behind the job the way a guy who lives within driving distance should.

Talk to Hal Before You Agree to Anything

If your gate is acting up, get on the phone with Hal before you sign any repair quote from anyone else. We’re a local shop with a published address and license number, and the name on the door is the guy doing the work. He’ll tell you whether it’s worth repairing, what it should cost, and whether you’re being oversold. Call (817) 241-4067 any time of day. A real person picks up, and that person can usually tell you more about your gate’s problem in five minutes than a call center can in an hour.

Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Irving and the surrounding DFW area since 2001.