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If your gate is dragging the ground off Sublett Road or your electric opener quit after the last north wind, you’re not calling around for fun. You need somebody who knows Kennedale’s dirt, its weather, and the way old ranch gates fail. We’re Gatewood Fence & Gate, and we fix gates in Kennedale the old way - on site, with a welder, without telling you to buy something new unless it’s truly shot. Call (817) 241-4067 and you’ll get a live person, day or night. Not a machine. Not a call center. The person who answers is the person who stands behind the work.
Kennedale gate repair usually comes down to two things: a post that’s moved in the Blackland clay, or an opener that’s tired or was installed wrong. We see both daily. Hal Gatewood started this shop in 2001, and his name is on the building. If you want to see who you’re hiring, drive to the shop. If you want to know what a repair costs before we start, we’ll write it down and stand by it. No surprises at the door, no add-on games. That’s the whole point of our home page promise - and it applies to every job we take in Kennedale.
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.
Why Kennedale Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate
Most of the calls we get from Kennedale start the same way: somebody paid a crew from outside the county, the gate worked for six months, then the post leaned again or the opener started grinding. We get hired to fix what the other outfit walked away from. Hal’s crew welds on site, sets posts deep enough for this clay, and leaves the gate square. We don’t haul your gate to a shop. We fix it in your driveway, on your pasture, at your barn.
Kennedale residents in neighborhoods like Rolling Hills Estates and along Dick Price Road call us because our number is local, the shop is real, and we answer at 3 a.m. when a wind storm springs a gate and the horses are out. Every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not right, one call brings us back. We also hand you $40 off any repair over $200, and there’s no trip charge inside the county. Seniors and veterans get 10% off permanently. No haggling. That’s just how the pricing works.
We’re background-checked, uniformed, and we service the gate brands Kennedale actually has installed: BFT, Linear, and Ghost Controls show up constantly out here, along with LiftMaster and FAAC. Hal and his crew are certified on all of them.
Gate Repair Services We Offer in Kennedale
Gate Repair
Broken hinge, sagging leaf, a latch post that’s six inches out of line - we fix all of it. On heavy pipe gates, the post is almost always the root cause, and we excavate and reset rather than slapping a band-aid on the hinge. If the gate is repairable, we repair it. Learn more about our Gate Repair in Kennedale.
Gate Installation
New gate going in on a new build, or replacing one that’s beyond saving? We set posts deeper than the 18-inch minimum we usually find out here, and we match the gate to the property - ornamental, ranch, or automatic slide. Learn more about our Gate Installation in Kennedale.
Gate Motor & Opener
Operators seize after ice events, strip gears, or burn control boards. We diagnose the motor and the electrical run, not just the symptom. If we can repair the opener that’s there, we will. Learn more about our Gate Motor & Opener in Kennedale.
Gate Access Control
Keypads, remotes, intercoms, vehicle sensors - if you have a gate that needs to open for the right people and stay shut for everybody else, we wire it, program it, and fix it when it stops cooperating. That includes range issues on long driveway approaches. Call us to talk through what’s failing.
Gate Parts & Welding
We do real welding on site. Cracked frame, torn post mount, broken cross-brace - we grind it clean and weld it solid. We also stock or order the right hinges, rollers, chains, and boards instead of forcing generic parts onto a gate that was never designed for them. We’ll tell you honestly if a part’s worth replacing or if the whole gate is beyond economical repair.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Kennedale
We work across all of Kennedale, but we’re out often in these spots:
- Rolling Hills Estates - larger lots, aging ranch gates, frequent post work
- Sublett Road corridor - acreage properties, pipe gates, heavy equestrian use
- Dick Price Road area - older custom builds, many owner-welded gates from the 80s and 90s
- Eden Gardens and surrounding residential streets - newer ornamental iron and automated openers
- Quail Ridge - mixed ranch-style homes with detached barns and workshop gates
Typical response for non-emergency repair calls in Kennedale is same day or next day. Emergency gate-down calls get us out as fast as the truck can make it.
Why Kennedale’s Climate & Housing Affect Gate Repair
Kennedale sits on Blackland Prairie clay, and that clay is the reason most gates here die young. It swells when it rains and shrinks hard during drought, and every wet-dry cycle walks shallow posts farther out of plumb. The acreage properties off Sublett Road and Dick Price Road are full of heavy pipe swing gates that were welded and hung back in the 1980s or 90s with posts set only 18 to 24 inches deep. Those posts have moved so badly over the years that the gates drag the ground or miss the latch post by half a foot. Resetting posts is the single most common gate repair in Kennedale’s zip codes.
The housing stock makes it worse. Kennedale skews toward 1970s-to-90s ranch homes on oversized lots, many with detached barns or horse facilities built with owner-installed agricultural gates and little or no concrete footing. Newer custom builds on the city’s edges add ornamental iron and automated slide gates, but the legacy rural properties still dominate our call list. Then you add the freeze events - the 2021 storm being the worst in memory - and you get seized opener motors and cracked PVC conduit runs that were never rated for sustained sub-freezing cold. This is not generic Texas gate work. It’s specific to this dirt, this housing, and this weather.
Pricing for Gate Repair in Kennedale
You should know what to expect before you pick up the phone. Here are honest ranges for common Kennedale gate work:
| Repair Type | Typical Range |
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| Post reset (dig, concrete, re-hang) | $280 - $550 |
| Hinge replacement (welded or bolted) | $180 - $340 |
| Opener motor or control board repair | $240 - $480 |
| Gate won’t open or close - diagnostic | $95 - $180 |
| Access control - keypad/remote reprogram | $120 - $260 |
We give you a written price before any work starts. Nothing is billed beyond what’s agreed unless you ask us to do more. Take $40 off any repair over $200. Estimates are free, and there’s no trip charge inside the county. Call (817) 241-4067 for an exact quote.
Service Area - Cities Near Kennedale
We work all over the south Tarrant County side of the metro. If you’re in Arlington, Mansfield, Fort Worth, or Haltom City, we’re close by. The same crew, the same promise. If you’re in Kennedale, we’re already in your neighborhood.
Serving Kennedale, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Kennedale 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 About Gate Repair in Kennedale
Most repairs in Kennedale run between $180 and $550, depending on whether we’re replacing a hinge, resetting a post, or repairing an opener motor. A written price comes before any work starts, and you get $40 off any repair over $200. Call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate on your specific gate.
Yes. If your gate is stuck open or closed, call and a live person answers - 24/7, not a voicemail. For non-emergency repairs, we’re usually out same day or next day in Kennedale. Emergency gate-down calls get priority.
A gate installation includes a free measure, a written price, setting the posts to proper depth for Blackland clay, hanging and aligning the gate, and testing it through a full swing cycle. If it’s automated, we run the power and set the travel limits and safety edges. We quote before any work starts.
Yes. That’s most of what we do in Kennedale. Heavy pipe swing gates on horse properties off Sublett Road and Dick Price Road are our bread and butter. We reset the posts and weld on site - the gate stays in your field, not on a trailer.
We do. We run or repair the electrical, set the open and close limits, and install or test the safety edges so the gate reverses on contact. That’s part of a proper opener or installation job, not an add-on. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll come look at what you have.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Kennedale and the surrounding south Tarrant County area since 2001.
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersNo phone trees - talk to a local gate repair pro.
- 2You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched. No surprises.
- 3We come out and measureLicensed & insured, at a time that suits you - the visit and the quote are both free.
- 4You get the price in writingLine-itemed, yours to keep, and nothing starts until you say go.
What Kennedale Customers Say
"Fitted a keypad and an intercom so my mother can let carers in without coming down the drive. He set it up and then made her practise with it until she was comfortable."
- Lucinda Marchbanks"Welded the hinge back onto our wrought iron gate on site rather than taking it away for a fortnight. Ground it back and painted it and you cannot see the repair."
- Winston Achterberg"He came out in the snow to get our gate closed after a delivery lorry clipped it, then came back in the spring to do the proper repair when the ground had thawed. Only charged for the second visit."
- Ingrid Solheim