Gate Installation in Five Corners - Written Price, Install Date Set

Fast, Reliable Gate Installation Across Five Corners

If you’re in Five Corners and your gate is sagging, rotted at the post, or simply at the end of its life, here’s the short answer: a new driveway or pedestrian gate in the 98662 area typically runs $900 to $3,400 installed, depending on the gate type and what we find underground when we dig. Most jobs in Five Corners subdivisions go in within one to two weeks of the measure, and if you’ve got a gate that won’t close, we’ll get someone out same day. We’ve worked the neighborhoods around Ward Road and the commercial hub for years, so we know exactly what Clark County clay does to posts around here. Call (877) 610-2993 and Hal or one of his crew will walk you through it.

You’re not going to get a call center. You’re going to get a real person who has been fixing and hanging gates since 2001.

Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Five Corners’s Preferred Gate Installation Company

We’re a local, owner-operated shop, and Hal Gatewood’s name is on every invoice. That’s not marketing fluff. It means when something isn’t right, you call the number on the quote and Hal picks up. In Five Corners, customers talk, and we’ve built a strong reputation because we show up when we say we will and we stand behind the work in writing.

Every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we make it right. No runaround, no arguing about who tightened what. Local homeowners in Five Corners call us because they’ve been burned by national outfits that quoted one price on the phone and charged another at the door. That doesn’t happen with us. You get the price up front, you agree to it before we touch anything, and that’s the number on the final invoice.

We’re proud to serve Five Corners and the communities around Clark County. Our dispatch and scheduling run through the Seattle office, but the crew that works Five Corners lives in the region and knows the subdivisions, the soil, and the way older gates around here fail. We also answer the phone with a live person 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not a voicemail. Not a chatbot. A person.

Our Gate Installation Services in Five Corners

We install and replace every kind of gate you’ll find in Five Corners. The area is dominated by ranch-style and two-story tract homes built between roughly 1985 and 2010, most fenced with cedar or pressure-treated wood at construction. That means a lot of 6-foot cedar slat designs hung on 4×4 or 4×6 posts set directly in clay. Here’s what that looks like in practice.

Driveway Gate Installation in Five Corners

Most driveways in the Five Corners subdivisions were built for a single swing gate, and that’s fine when the posts are solid and the ground isn’t moving. But around here the ground moves. We size every new driveway gate to the actual driveway width and backing plate configuration, and we set posts on a gravel-and-concrete footing that holds up to Clark County’s wet-dry heave cycles. You can pick a classic cedar gate to match the original fence line, or go with steel or aluminum if you’re done fighting wood rot every five years.

Pedestrian Gate Installation in Five Corners

The small gate next to the driveway takes more abuse than any gate on the property. It gets slammed, it gets leaned on, and the latch post takes the hit every time. In Five Corners, where 43 inches of annual rain soaks into the post base all winter, a pedestrian gate hung on a 4×4 set in clay will start dragging within two or three seasons. We set pedestrian gate posts the same way we set big driveway posts: deeper than code, on a gravel base, with a concrete collar. The hinge side matters more than the latch side, and we build it that way.

Sliding Gate Installation in Five Corners

If your driveway slopes toward the house, or you’re just tired of waiting for a swing gate to clear the car, a sliding gate can be a better fit. Sliding gates need a longer footer and a clean track line, and on clay-heavy lots that means more prep. We handle the concrete, the track, the motor, and the safety pieces so the whole thing is one job, not three contractors pointing at each other. Sliding gates are common on the larger lots around Salmon Creek and the unincorporated pockets west of Five Corners where driveways are longer.

Swing Gate Installation in Five Corners

Swing gates are still the most common choice in Five Corners because they match the original fence line and don’t require reconfiguring the driveway. But a swing gate hung on a heaving post will rack itself apart. We install swing gates with adjustable hinges, proper post depth, and when there’s an operator involved, we make sure the gate travels true before the motor ever gets mounted. A gate that sags in the hinge post isn’t fixed by shimming the panel. Fix the post first or you’ll fix it twice.

Trusted Brands We Service in Five Corners

We’re certified to service nine major gate brands, and for Five Corners customers the ones that matter most are Viking, Ghost Controls, and LiftMaster. We stock common parts and control boards locally so we’re not waiting on a warehouse two states away when your opener dies. If you’ve got an older Viking swing operator or a Ghost Controls opener that’s acting up, we can usually diagnose it on the spot and have the part in hand within a day or two. Lots of Five Corners homes also have DoorKing and Elite units from the late ’90s and early 2000s, and we keep retrofit kits on the truck for those transition years when boards were changing every season.

Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Five Corners Homes

We don’t just install gates. We fix a lot of installs that were done wrong the first time, and around here the failures follow a pattern:

• Posts heaving in Clark County clay. Soil here drains poorly and swells when wet, then shrinks when dry. A post set directly in clay with no gravel footing will heave several inches over a couple of seasons, and then the gate binds, the latch misses, and the hinges bend. We see it on nearly every older Five Corners subdivision call.
• Rot at the cedar post base. Those 20-to-30-year-old cedar posts soak up winter rain and rot just below grade. The gate looks fine until you lean on it, and then the whole hinge post flexes. A new gate hung on a rotten post is a gate you’ll replace in two years.
• Frames racking under operator force. We regularly retrofit modern openers onto gates that were hung before UL 325 safety standards were common. The old manual frame wasn’t built to handle cyclic motor torque. If the posts are soft and the frame is racked, adding an operator breaks it faster.
• Obsolete control boards. Lots of Five Corners homes still have gate operators from the ’90s and early 2000s with boards that are no longer made. The motor might be fine, but nobody rebuilds that board anymore. We can often retrofit the motor to a current board without replacing the whole operator, which saves money and keeps your existing frame in place.

Pricing for Gate Installation in Five Corners, WA

We Also Serve Cities Near Five Corners

We work throughout the north Clark County corridor and the communities around Five Corners. If you’re in Five Corners or just down the road in Barberton, Walnut Grove, Mount Vista, or Salmon Creek, we’ll come out for a free estimate. Same shop, same crew, same 90-Day Done Right Promise. Check our Gate Installation in Five Corners page for neighborhood-specific details.

FAQs - Gate Installation in Five Corners

My Five Corners gate was hung in the ’90s and sags no matter how many times I tighten the hinges. Is it worth retrofitting a new operator, or should I replace the whole thing?

It depends on the post, not the panel. If the hinge post is solid and the frame isn’t racked, we can reset the gate with new hinges, true the panel, and retrofit a modern operator with entrapment protection. That usually runs $1,200 to $2,200 total, which is less than a full replacement. But if the post base is rotten or the post has heaved several inches in clay, you’re better off replacing the post and gate together. We’ll tell you which one you need after we put a level on it. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll come look.

Do I need entrapment protection if I’m just replacing an old manual gate with a new automatic one in Clark County?

Yes, you need it. Clark County follows the same UL 325 standards as the rest of Washington. That means safety photocells or contact edges on any automatic gate hitting a driveway or pedestrian path, plus a manual release. We install entrapment protection on every operator retrofit in Five Corners, even for gates in older subdivisions that never had it. It’s not a nice-to-have. It’s code.

Why does my gate post keep heaving in winter even though it was set in concrete?

Because Clark County clay expends when it’s wet, and a post set directly in clay with a shallow concrete plug doesn’t resist it. The clay pushes the concrete and the post up, then the ground shrinks in summer and the post tips. Around Five Corners, soil heave is the number-one reason we reset posts. The fix is digging deeper than code, laying a gravel base for drainage, and pouring a concrete collar below the frost line. We do that on every new install.

Can I put a sliding gate on my Five Corners driveway if my existing swing gate posts are shot?

You can, and it’s actually a good chance to solve two problems at once. A sliding gate eliminates the swing-arc clearance issue and doesn’t hang off a hinge post at all, so the heaving post problem goes away. That said, a sliding gate needs its own concrete footer and track, and it’s usually the pricier option. If your driveway is flatter than a typical Five Corners lot, it can be a clean, lasting fix. We’ll give you a straight answer and a written price for both options.

My old LiftMaster operator is dead and the control board is obsolete. Can I keep my existing gate frame and just replace the operator?

Usually yes, if the frame and posts are still sound. We retrofit old LiftMaster openers with current boards all the time in Five Corners subdivisions. The key is checking the frame and posts first. If the gate has been sagging or the post is soft, a new operator will just tear it apart faster. When the frame is true, we can mount a new board and motor, add the required photocells, and you’re done for less than a full replacement. We’ll tell you straight which way to go.

Call Gatewood Fence & Gate for Gate Installation in Five Corners

If you need a new gate, an operator retrofit, or someone to tell you honestly whether to fix or replace, call us. We’ll come out, measure, dig a test hole if we need to, and give you a written price. The person who quotes it is the person who builds it. That’s how we’ve done it since 2001. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free estimate.

Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Five Corners and Clark County since 2001. We also provide Five Corners Gate Access Control.