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Most gate repairs in Azle run $185 to $690 depending on whether it’s a hinge weld, a post reset, or a full opener rebuild, and we reach most jobs the same day you call. Gatewood Fence & Gate handles everything from automated ornamental gates in newer subdivisions to heavy tube-steel livestock gates on Parker County acreage, because Azle sits on that rare seam where both exist in the same ZIP codes. Call (877) 610-2993 and a live person answers, 24 hours a day.
Why Azle Homes Are Different
Azle occupies a genuine rural-to-suburban seam where Tarrant County subdivisions butt directly against Parker County ranch and acreage properties. In the same morning, we’ll repair an automated ornamental driveway gate in a 2021 tract home and weld a hinge back onto a heavy tube-steel livestock gate on a five-acre parcel. That mix is unique to this town.
The Eagle Mountain Lake corridor adds its own pressure. Properties along the lake deal with humidity and mineral air that eats through keypad housings and hinge pins faster than inland gates see. Then there’s the dirt. North Texas expansive clay shrinks dramatically in summer drought and heaves in wet winters. A post that was plumb in June can be leaning by February, and a leaning post drags the gate leaf off its travel limits, which burns out opener motors and strips gears. We over-excavate and use driven pier footings on the bad soil zones because we’ve learned what standard concrete pours do here.
The housing stock tells the same story. Azle’s patchwork of 1970s ranch homes on half-acre lots, 2000s suburban developments, and working acreage parcels means we regularly encounter old agricultural gates pressed into residential driveway service. The post gauges don’t match standard parts kits. The hinges were sized for livestock clearance, not passenger vehicles. Fixing that takes a welder on site, not a catalog order.
Gate Repair in Azle
Gate repair in Azle typically runs $185 to $475 for most hinge, post, and alignment work, while opener and circuit board repairs usually land between $240 and $690 depending on the motor and what failed. We answer the phone with a live person around the clock, and Hal Gatewood’s crews reach most jobs in Azle the same day you call, often within a few hours for a gate stuck open or sagging off its hinges. If you’re holding a gate closed with a rope tonight, call (877) 610-2993.
Electric Gate Repair
Electric gates in Azle fail most often at the operator, the keypad, or the photo eye sensors, and moisture from the Eagle Mountain Lake corridor accelerates every one of those failures. We service Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing operators regularly and keep common boards and remotes stocked specifically for Azle jobs. If your gate opens but won’t close, or the keypad face has gone chalky and unresponsive from lake humidity, that’s usually a same-day fix. Electric gate opener repairs, depending on whether it’s a sensor, a board, or a gearbox, run $240 to $690.
Hinge & Post Repair
A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle. Hal will tell you that before he even looks at your gate, because he’s the one who’s fixed hundreds of Azle gates that some other company shimmed with washers and sent on its way. On the sandy, silty fill soil along the Eagle Mountain shoreline and the creek bottoms feeding into it, posts heave and lean seasonally, and standard concrete footings spall apart in the constant ground moisture. We over-excavate those footings and drive tube-steel pier anchors instead of pouring another slab that’ll fail the same way. A hinge and post repair on a residential swing gate in Azle typically runs $225 to $450.
Gate Realignment
When a swing gate drags on the gravel or scrapes the concrete at the top of the driveway, the frame has likely racked or the hinges have worn oval. Realignment in Azle’s clay-heavy soil is rarely a one-time adjustment. We square the frame, rebuild or replace the hinge barrels, and re-drive the post bases so the gate tracks straight through the full seasonal heave cycle. A full gate realignment with new hinge barrels and post re-setting lands between $350 and $600. For more detail on our full repair approach, see our Gate Repair page.
How fast can you get to Azle for an emergency gate repair?
We reach most Azle addresses within a few hours of your call, including the same day for a gate stuck open or an opener that’s failed with a vehicle trapped inside. A live person answers around the clock, so you’re never leaving a voicemail and hoping. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll give you a real arrival window.
Can you repair a gate that’s been rusted by lake humidity near Eagle Mountain?
Yes, and it’s one of the repairs we do most often for lakeside Azle properties. Hinges, latch hardware, and keypad housings corrode faster near the water than they do inland, and we see the pattern every year. Hal welds replacement steel on site, so your gate never leaves your property, and he’ll advise you on hinges and coatings suited to lakefront conditions. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free estimate.
Gate Installation in Azle
If you live off Stewart Street near the lake or back in the ranch acreage east of town, you know Azle isn’t one kind of place and a gate isn’t one kind of job. A driveway gate in a 2005 tract home subdivision needs different hardware than the tube-steel livestock gate your neighbor just pressed into service for his new shop driveway. That’s the part a lot of gate companies miss. Hal Gatewood measures every opening himself, checks the soil, and quotes a price that doesn’t change at the door.
Driveway Gate
Driveway gates in Azle range from ornamental steel in newer neighborhoods off Boat Club Road to working ranch entrances where the gate was sized for a tractor, not an F-150. We set posts below the expansive clay layer, run the opener wiring in conduit, and hang the gate so it swings true in August when the ground is baked dry and the post wants to move. A single swing driveway gate with standard hardware runs $1,800 to $3,200, while a double swing driveway gate runs $3,000 to $5,500.
Sliding Gate
Sliding gates are common on Azle properties with steep driveways or tight setbacks where a swing gate would clip a car or block the sidewalk. But a slide gate only works as well as its track and pier footings. Around Eagle Mountain Lake, where fill soil near the shoreline never really stabilizes, we over-excavate and drive tube-steel piers instead of pouring a shallow slab. That’s the only way a slide gate stays on track through the freeze-thaw cycles North Texas gets every winter. A sliding driveway gate with track and piers runs $2,600 to $4,800.
Pedestrian Gate
A pedestrian gate next to a driveway gate gives people a way in without cycling the big operator every time. Around Azle schools and churches, these get heavy daily use and the latch hardware takes abuse. We install pedestrian gates with a proper center post or independent hinge column, never a gate that leans entirely on the driveway post and starts pulling it out of plumb within a year. A pedestrian gate with hardware runs $800 to $1,400. For more on our installation process, see our Gate Installation page.
How fast can you schedule a gate installation in Azle?
We can typically schedule a free site visit in Azle within 2 to 4 business days once you call, and many installs are completed within a week of the estimate. Installations are measured and scheduled work, not emergency dispatch, so we don’t promise same-day installs. We do answer the phone around the clock, and Hal will give you a real window, not a four-hour “somebody might show up.” Call (877) 610-2993 to book a measure.
What does a full gate replacement cost in Azle?
A single swing driveway gate in Azle typically runs $1,800 to $3,200 installed, which is often $300 to $600 less than what lakefront-only contractors quote because we understand the soil conditions here. The bigger cost driver is usually trenching distance for power and whether we’re replacing old ag-era posts. Seniors and veterans get a permanent 10% discount on every quote. Call (877) 610-2993 for a written estimate.
Gate Motor & Opener in Azle
When your gate motor quits in Azle, it usually happens at the worst possible moment, right as you’re leaving for work on a Tuesday, or after midnight when you just want to get home. That dead operator means an upgrade from a driveway to a walk: somebody has to climb out, shove the gate open, and do it all again on the way in. We get calls like this from Azle homeowners every single week, and the fastest answer is a live person on the other end of (877) 610-2993, 24 hours a day.
Motor Repair
Gate motor repair in Azle starts with diagnosis. We trace the problem to the board, the capacitor, the limit switch, the receiver, or the wiring, then replace only what’s actually failed. Hal would rather rebuild a repairable motor than sell you a new one, because he’s been doing this since 2001 and he’s seen too many five-hundred-dollar motors thrown away over a twelve-dollar capacitor. A gate motor repair in Azle typically runs $145 to $390, depending on what’s failed.
Motor Installation
A new gate motor installation in Azle usually means one of two things: a homeowner replacing a tired twenty-year-old operator on an existing gate, or a builder putting in an automated gate on a new construction lot. We measure the gate leaf weight, check the post condition, and recommend an operator that fits the job, not the biggest unit in the catalog. A new gate motor installation generally runs $800 to $2,200, including the operator, mounting hardware, and labor. For full details on motor options, see our Gate Motor & Opener page.
Linear Motor
Linear gate motors, also called ram-style operators, are common on Azle’s acreage properties because they push and pull a gate leaf on a straight shaft, which suits heavy tube-steel gates. These units take a beating from wind load and the region’s clay-shifted posts. We service Linear brand motors and other ram operators in Azle, including replacement of rod seals, motor brushes, and control boards. Linear motor replacements tend to fall in the $600 to $1,800 range.
Can you come out at night for an emergency gate motor failure in Azle?
Yes. A live person answers our phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If your gate fails open in the middle of the night in Azle and you need it closed for security, Hal’s crew can respond. Night emergency calls are handled as quickly as a day call, and you’ll know the price before the work begins. Call (877) 610-2993.
Does the 90-Day Done Right Promise apply to gate motor work in Azle?
Yes. Every gate motor repair and installation in Azle carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something isn’t right within 90 days, one phone call brings Hal back to make it right, no runaround, no re-diagnosis fee, no argument. That’s how we’ve operated since 2001.
Gate Access Control in Azle
Gate access control in Azle is a different job than it is in Dallas or Fort Worth. Around Eagle Mountain Lake and the creek bottoms, keypad housings rust through in a year and a half, clay soil shifts gate posts out of travel limits every dry summer, and winter ice storms crack hydraulic lines on older slide gates. That’s why when an Azle homeowner calls us about a keypad that won’t take a code, we don’t just swap the keypad. We look at why it failed.
Keypad Entry
A keypad is the most common access point on Azle gates, and it is also the component that fails first in this climate. Near Eagle Mountain Lake, the humid air pushes moisture through painted steel housings and the circuit board is dead within 18 months, long before the operator gives out. We install keypads with sealed stainless or weatherproof polymer housings and marine-grade terminals. A basic keypad replacement or new keypad entry install in Azle runs $350 to $650.
Remote Control
Remote entry is the quiet workhorse on Azle driveways, especially for folks on acreage who open the gate from a truck cab fifty feet out. Older systems with fixed-code remotes are a security problem: anyone with a scanner can grab the code. We upgrade Azle gates to rolling-code receivers from Linear or BFT, and we program every remote on site so the homeowner sees it work before we leave. Remote receiver upgrades with rolling-code remotes run $200 to $400.
Phone Entry
Phone entry is the fastest-growing request we get in Azle, and it makes sense for the local housing stock. A lot of Azle homes sit on half-acre to multi-acre lots where the gate is far enough from the house that answering a wireless intercom is a hassle. A phone entry system lets you buzz someone in from your cell whether you’re in the kitchen or in Weatherford. Phone entry systems run $800 to $1,500 installed, depending on whether the gate is single or double leaf and how far the power run is. For more on access control options, see our Gate Access Control page.
Why do gate keypads in Azle’s lake areas fail faster than those inland?
Azle’s lake areas sit in a localized corrosion belt where humid air from Eagle Mountain Lake and the surrounding creek bottoms pushes moisture through painted steel keypad housings in 12 to 18 months. The circuit board inside shorts out, often before the gate operator ever fails. The fix is a sealed stainless or weatherproof polymer keypad housing with marine-grade terminals, which is what we install on every Azle lakefront job. Call (877) 610-2993.
Can I add a phone entry system to an older Azle ranch gate?
Usually yes, but the gate has to be honest about its own hardware. A lot of older Azle ranch gates have post gauges and latch hardware that were never designed for automation. The post may need reinforcement, the hinges may need to be re-welded, and the operator may need a running chain or arm that fits the gate’s actual weight. We do the welding on site in Azle, so the gate never leaves your property. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free assessment.
Gate Parts & Welding in Azle
Gate parts and welding in Azle means something different than it does twenty miles south. Here, a technician can spend the morning under a 16-foot tube-steel livestock gate with a solar opener on a Parker County ranch and the afternoon re-hanging a LiftMaster-driven ornamental swing gate on a Tarrant County cul-de-sac. Both jobs live inside the same 76020 and 76098 ZIP codes. That’s the reality of working gates in Azle, and it’s why we stock and weld for both ends of the spectrum.
Post Replacement
Post replacement is the most common job we do between the Eagle Mountain Lake shoreline and the drier acreage east of town. Azle sits on North Texas expansive clay. In a summer drought, that clay shrinks and pulls away from concrete footings. In a wet winter, it heaves. The post moves, the gate follows, and suddenly the latch doesn’t line up. A proper post replacement in Azle means over-excavating the hole, using a driven steel pier or an oversized concrete pour, and sizing the post to the gate’s actual weight. A full post replacement on a heavy ranch gate with a driven pier footing runs $600 to $900.
Hinge Replacement
Azle’s lakefront and creek-bottom properties have a hinge corrosion problem that inland homes don’t see at the same speed. The Eagle Mountain Lake corridor holds humidity and ground moisture, and that eats barrel hinges and pin hardware. We regularly find gates on the lake side of Azle hanging on rusted pins that are a season or two away from shearing. When we replace hinges, we use heavier-gauge, adjustable barrel hinges and weld them to square tube posts rather than bolting into thin punched holes. A simple hinge replacement on a suburban ornamental gate might cost $120 to $250.
Custom Welding
Custom welding is where Azle’s split personality shows up most clearly. On the ranch side of town, we weld tube-steel gate frames, extend gates to span wider driveways, build livestock-proof latch mounts, and repair cracked corner joints on farm gates. On the suburban side, we weld ornamental pickets back into place, reinforce soft-close mechanism mounts, and build custom steel brackets for automatic openers. Our welders work on site, which means your gate never leaves your property and you can watch the work happen. Custom welding in Azle typically runs $95 to $350. For more on our welding capabilities, see our Gate Parts & Welding page.
Why does my Azle gate post keep leaning every summer even after it was replaced once?
That’s the clay, not the post. Azle’s expansive clay soil shrinks hard in summer drought and heaves in wet winters. If the post was set in a standard concrete pour sized for a suburban gate, it will move with the soil every dry cycle. The fix on Azle clay is over-excavating, going below the active shrink-and-swell zone, and anchoring with a driven steel pier or an oversized footing that resists the heave. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll show you what that looks like.
Can you convert my old farm tube gate into an automatic driveway gate without replacing the whole thing?
In most cases, yes. We do this regularly for Azle ranch properties being converted to residential use. The gate itself is usually sound. What fails are the undersized posts, the worn latch hardware, and the lack of a rated mount for an automatic opener. We replace the hinge post with a heavyweight steel post on a proper footing, re-hang the gate with adjustable hinges so it travels true, weld mounting brackets on site, and install an operator sized to the gate’s actual weight. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free look.
Brands We Service in Azle
We carry parts and stock common repair components for nine major gate brands: LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. For Azle calls, we keep Linear and Viking boards, Ghost Controls remotes, and DoorKing keypads in the truck because those are the brands we see most often around Eagle Mountain Lake and the ranch acreage. Most brand-specific repairs don’t require a second trip. For the full list, see our brands page.
Pricing for Gate Repair in Azle, TX
| Service | Typical range in Azle |
|---|---|
| Hinge & post repair (swing gate) | $225 - $450 |
| Gate realignment (hinge barrels + post reset) | $350 - $600 |
| Electric gate opener repair | $240 - $690 |
| Gate motor repair (capacitor, board, etc.) | $145 - $390 |
| New gate motor installation | $800 - $2,200 |
| Linear motor replacement | $600 - $1,800 |
| Keypad entry install or replacement | $350 - $650 |
| Remote receiver upgrade | $200 - $400 |
| Phone entry system | $800 - $1,500 |
| Single swing driveway gate (installed) | $1,800 - $3,200 |
| Double swing driveway gate (installed) | $3,000 - $5,500 |
| Sliding driveway gate with track & piers | $2,600 - $4,800 |
What pushes a job toward the top of the range in Azle: long power trenching on acreage parcels, replacing old agricultural posts with modern pier footings, and corrosion repair on lakefront properties where humidity has damaged multiple components. The price we quote is the price you pay. No surprise line items, no trip charge inside the county, and $40 off any repair over $200.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Azle
We work all over Azle, but you’ll see our trucks regularly in these areas:
- Ash Creek and Briar Ridge
- Harbor Lane and lakeside properties
- The ranch corridors near 76098
- New tract developments off Ten Mile Azle Road
- Properties along FM 730 toward Eagle Mountain Lake
Typical response time for a repair call in Azle is same day for urgent problems, often within a few hours for a gate stuck open or hanging off its hinges.
Service Area - Cities Near Azle
We cover both Azle ZIP codes, 76020 and 76098, and we regularly work in the surrounding communities. If you’re near Eagle Mountain, TX, Briar, TX, River Oaks, TX, Saginaw, TX, or White Settlement, TX, the same crew, same pricing, and same 90-Day Done Right Promise apply. Dispatch and scheduling for Azle-area work is coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, and crews serve Azle, TX locally with no trip charge inside the county.
Serving Azle, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
Gatewood Fence & Gate crews serve Azle and the communities around it; dispatch is coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office. The map shows the Azle coverage area; if your address is on it, we can help.
Also serving nearby: Azle, TX, Eagle Mountain, TX, Briar, TX, River Oaks, TX, Saginaw, TX, White Settlement, TX.
FAQs About Gate Repair in Azle
Yes. We work throughout both Azle ZIP codes, 76020 and 76098, which puts us on both the Tarrant and Parker County sides of the line. That includes neighborhoods along FM 730, the Eagle Mountain shoreline, and the rural acreage parcels where Azle turns into straight-up ranch country. There’s no trip charge anywhere inside the county.
Most gate repairs in Azle don’t trigger a permit, but new installations and any work that modifies the property line or adds electrical service may need Tarrant or Parker County approval depending on your address. Hal knows which side of the county line you’re on and what the local inspector expects, and he’ll flag it during the free estimate if a permit applies. We don’t start work until you know the full picture.
Hal’s rule is simple: if the frame is solid and the posts can be saved, we repair. We see too many Azle gates that another company condemned because they didn’t have a welder on the truck or the patience to straighten a post. We’ll show you the exact problem, quote both options if both exist, and let you decide. The estimate is free either way. Call (877) 610-2993.
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 Azle Customers Say
"Driveway gate had been dragging for two years and two other companies told me the whole thing needed replacing. Hal reset the posts, rehung it and it swings like it did when it went in. A fraction of the price of a new one."
- Hollis Amberly"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"The fence is excellent and it was fairly priced. He is not quick to answer email, so if you need him, ring. He always picks up the phone."
- Rodney Falkenrath