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Gate installation in Colleyville runs between $2,800 and $9,500 for a typical automated driveway gate, and we can usually start within a week of a free site measure. That’s the honest range for this city, where gates run heavy: 14 to 20 feet wide, 200-plus pounds of wrought iron or steel, mounted on brick pillars or custom posts. You won’t get that number from a phone quote, and you shouldn’t trust anyone who gives one without walking your driveway first. Our Gate Installation team knows Colleyville’s streets, its setbacks, its clay soil, and the particular way a 1990s estate gate fails. Call (877) 610-2993 and you’ll get a live person, not a recording.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Colleyville’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
We’re not a franchise van passing through. Hal Gatewood has been at this since 2001, and the name is on the shop and every invoice. Colleyville homeowners tend to check before they hire, and that’s the way it should be. Our address is published, our license number is public, and when you call at 9 p.m. on a Sunday, Hal or someone from his crew answers. Not a call center three states away.
The repair-first thinking shows up here every week. A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that’s where we start. If a post is sound and the operator still has life in it, we’ll tell you. We won’t sell a full replacement just because it’s easier for us. The 90-Day Done Right Promise is stamped in writing on every job. If something isn’t right, one call brings us back. That’s the whole point of having a name on the shop.
We’ve installed and repaired gates all over Colleyville, including the large-lot estates off Cheek-Sparger Road, the gated entries along Glenwick Drive, and homes near Montgomery Park. Scheduling and parts run through our Dallas-Fort Worth shop, but the crew that shows up at your driveway works Colleyville regularly. We know the 76034 zip well enough to tell you what the clay soil under your gate posts is going to do three years from now.
Our Gate Installation Services in Colleyville
Driveway Gate Installation
Most Colleyville driveways are built for one thing: a substantial automated gate that says this property is private. We install swing and slide driveway gates sized for the long, wide entries common in the 76034 zip. From the first measure to the final safety sensor, the work is scheduled around your household coming and going. Price is agreed before we touch a post hole.
Pedestrian Gate Installation
A walk gate next to a big driveway gate gets used constantly: kids, delivery drivers, the yard crew. We build pedestrian gates that open smoothly for years, with hardware matched to the load and the user. In Colleyville, these are often set into brick or stone walls, so we take care aligning hinges with existing masonry rather than chipping out holes that make the next fail worse.
Sliding Gate Installation
Sliding gates are the answer when a swing gate simply won’t fit, and that happens a lot on Colleyville’s pie-shaped and side-entry lots, especially where two homes share a private drive off a main road like Pleasant Run Road. A slide gate rides on a track and needs a solid footing underneath, not a skim coat of concrete. We pour for the weight and the cycle count. Several properties we’ve worked on near McPherson Park had undersized footings from original installs, and we cut them out and re-poured before the track ever went down.
Swing Gate Installation
Swing gates remain the standard on Colleyville estates, and the older ones are on brick pillars that the Blackland Prairie clay has been working against for decades. When we install a new swing gate, we check what the posts are carrying and we fix what’s underneath first. Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice. That’s not a slogan. It’s what we write on the estimate when the post needs it.
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 Colleyville
We’re certified to service Viking, DoorKing, and Elite operators, along with six other major gate brands. That matters in Colleyville because so many of the original operators on 1990s estates were Elite and early LiftMaster units, and the replacements going in today are often Viking or DoorKing. We keep the parts these systems need on hand or a day out, so a new installation or operator swap doesn’t stall waiting on a warehouse across the country. When a part isn’t worth replacing, we’ll say so, and we’ll weld on site rather than hauling the gate back to a shop you’ll never see.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Colleyville Homes
- Brick pillar anchor bolts pulling loose. Colleyville’s Blackland Prairie clay swells and shrinks with rain and drought, and it doesn’t stop when a brick pillar is sitting on top of it. Older swing gates on 1990s pillars have anchor bolts that slowly tear out of the mortar. The gate looks fine until a hinge suddenly rips free.
- Full operator failure on 20-to-30-year-old systems. The custom estates built from the late 1980s through the 2000s mostly got their original gate operators installed at construction. Those early Elite, LiftMaster, and FAAC units are hitting end of life within a few years of each other. We see entire streets in Colleyville where every other house needs an operator replacement in the same season.
- Swing gates that run out of travel. Some Colleyville driveways angle toward the street in a way that looks fine on paper but leaves a 16-foot swing gate clipping a planter or a neighbor’s fence at full travel. That’s a retrofit job: we fit a slide gate with a new track and a properly sized motor, not a band-aid.
- Shared driveway access conflicts. Colleyville has more shared private drives and rights of way than people expect, especially on the larger estate lots off John McCain Road and around Heritage High School. Two families depending on one gate means the work has to keep moving and stay open for vehicles during the day. We stage installs so nobody gets locked out.
Pricing for Gate Installation in Colleyville, TX
Here’s what we quote in Colleyville, on paper, before any work starts. A basic single swing gate with a manual closer runs $1,800 to $3,400. An automated single swing gate on a standard driveway typically lands between $4,200 and $7,500. A slide gate retrofit, which needs track, motor, and concrete footing work, runs $5,500 to $9,500. A full custom estate gate, two panels, heavy posts, operator, and safety sensors, sits between $7,000 and $14,000 depending on width and finish. Your written estimate is free, and the price on that estimate is the price. No add-on at the door.
What moves the number is what’s already under your dirt, not what we decide to charge that morning. Undersized footings, rotted posts, clay-heaved piers, and power that has to be trenched to the operator all cost real money. We tell you where that money goes before we ask for a deposit.
Call (877) 610-2993 for an exact quote. Estimates are free, and there’s no trip charge inside the county.
We Also Serve Cities Near Colleyville
We work throughout the northeast Tarrant County area, and a lot of our Gate Installation in Colleyville customers refer us to family in Bedford, Hurst, Southlake, and Euless. Same crew, same 90-Day Done Right Promise, same phone number. If you’re a few exits away, we’ll still come out and walk the site before quoting anything.
Serving Colleyville, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Colleyville 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 Colleyville
The failure pattern is directly tied to heat and sun. Colleyville summer ground temperatures regularly exceed 110°F, and the operator box mounted on or near the gate absorbs that heat all day. Circuit boards and capacitors inside the housing degrade faster in those temperatures, which is why most operator replacements here happen in late July and August. If you have an older system that works fine through spring and then starts glitching in August, the board is usually cooking itself. Call us before you’re stuck with a gate frozen mid-travel. Phone is (877) 610-2993.
Yes, and we do it frequently. Slide gates require about the same lateral space as the gate’s width, which often fits better on Colleyville’s side-entry and angled driveways. The catch is the footing: a slide gate needs a continuous, level concrete track bed, and we frequently find the original post footings on these lots are undersized for the loads a rack and pinion track puts down. We don’t mount a slide gate on a bad footing. We pour new concrete and we tell you what that costs up front.
First, we remove the old gate and the hinge hardware. Then we inspect the brick pillar faces for anchor bolt pull-out and mortar cracking, which is common here because of Blackland Prairie clay movement. When the anchors are compromised, we re-set new epoxy anchors into the mortar bed or we work with a masonry contractor to rebuild the bearing face. Then we mount the new gate, re-check the swing path, and install or reposition the operator. The catch with these jobs is that the gate itself usually isn’t the problem. The pillar is. Show me the gate closing on its own and I’ll show you where it’s failing. Free second opinions on written estimates are part of how we work. Call (877) 610-2993.
You need both on an automated gate, full stop. Texas follows UL 325 safety standards for automatic gate operators, and any new install has to meet those requirements. That means a monitored safety photocell across the gate opening and a reversing edge or contact sensor on the gate itself. We install them on every automated gate regardless of whether the town inspector asks. A child or a pet doesn’t know what a pinch point is. We do.
We stage the work in sections so the driveway never fully closes. On a shared drive, that usually means the old gate comes down early in the day, the new posts or track go in, and temp chain or caution fencing goes up by late afternoon. Vehicles coming and going are the thing we plan around, not the thing that surprises us. If there’s a pedestrian gate, we leave it functional while the vehicle gate is down. We’ll tell you the sequence before the first hole gets dug. For a free site walk and a written price, call (877) 610-2993.
Colleyville Gate Installation That Starts With the Dirt, Not the Gate
Colleyville is one of the wealthiest cities in Texas, and its large-lot custom estates built from the late 1980s through the 2000s nearly all feature heavy automated wrought iron or ornate steel driveway gates, not simple wood panels. Those original gate operators, early LiftMaster, Elite, and FAAC units, are now hitting end of life almost at once, creating a dense pocket of operator replacement and full system upgrade work here that doesn’t exist at the same scale in neighboring suburbs. That’s not a marketing angle. It’s what we see every week in the 76034 zip.
Once, on a large-lot property in Colleyville, our crew pulled a failed early LiftMaster operator off a 16-foot wrought iron swing gate and found both brick pillar hinge posts had pulled out of alignment from years of clay soil heave. We didn’t just swap the motor and leave. We re-anchored the hinge post with epoxy into fresh concrete footing, installed a new heavy-duty operator, and added safety photocells across the driveway so vehicle access stayed open during the whole swap. The homeowner got one straight price, a written promise, and a gate that still swings true.
Colleyville isn’t a place where you can hide behind a badge of a big national brand. The lots are big, the gates are heavy, and the soil moves. If the person quoting your job doesn’t know that Blackland Prairie clay will heave a post out of level over five seasons, the install won’t last. We do know it, because we’ve fixed what other companies installed here years ago. Hal Gatewood owns the shop. His name is on every invoice. And when you call, a live person picks up. That’s the deal.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Colleyville since 2001.
Call (877) 610-2993 today for a free gate installation estimate in Colleyville. A real person will answer.