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AfterFast, Reliable Gate Installation Across Tigard
Gate installation in Tigard usually takes one to three days once materials are on hand, and the honest answer to “repair or replace” on a 30-year-old wood gate is often: replace the post, rehang the panel, and recalibrate the operator before you spend money on a whole new gate. We work throughout the 97223 ZIP and every neighborhood around it, and because we’ve been doing this since 2001, we know what Tigard’s HOA-governed subdivisions will and won’t approve before you fill out the paperwork. If you’re staring at a gate that sags, binds, or stopped closing altogether, call (877) 610-2993 and Hal or someone from his crew will tell you straight what it needs.
Most Tigard gate installation calls we field aren’t brand-new builds. They’re replacements and retrofits on gates hung during the city’s big 1975-1995 suburban buildout, and they fail in predictable ways we’ll get into below. Here’s the short version: moisture rots the post at the ground, the panel warps, the strike binds, and the operator burns itself out fighting the whole mess. We fix that in your driveway, not in a shop across town.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Tigard’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
Hal Gatewood started this business in 2001 and his name is on the shop, the invoice, and every gate we hang. That’s not branding. That’s the oldest accountability there is. When you call about a gate installation in Tigard, the person who answers knows the difference between a BFT and a FAAC control board, and he can tell you whether your hinge post is worth saving before he ever puts the truck in gear. You won’t get a scripted phone tree or a call center three states away.
We carry parts for LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, and Viking operators, and we stock common hinge and bracket hardware so a Tigard job doesn’t stall waiting on a backorder. The 90-Day Done Right Promise is printed on every invoice, not buried in fine print: if it’s not done right, we make it right. One call brings Hal back. And if you’d rather look a person in the eye first, the shop’s address is published. You can drive there and do exactly that.
Our Gate Installation Services in Tigard
We install and retrofit every common gate type in Tigard, but the bulk of what we see in the 97223 ZIP falls into four categories. Each one gets a slightly different approach depending on the age of the property and what the HOA’s CC&Rs allow.
Swing Gate Installation
Swing gates are the workhorse of Tigard’s 1975-1995 tract developments, and they fail at the hinge post before they fail anywhere else. A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that’s where we start. In Tigard’s saturated Tualatin River basin soil, a 4×4 post can rot at the ground sleeve in fifteen years without showing much at the surface. We set new pressure-treated footings, add sag-correction brackets where the frame has racked, and rehang panels so the strike clears in every season, not just July.
Double Gate Installation
Tigard has a lot of double gates, mostly on corner lots and properties with RV or boat access along the city’s southern and western edges. A double gate doubles every problem: two hinge posts, two panels, two strikes, and an operator that has to move all of it. If the posts on both sides aren’t set plumb and matched for height, the gate will bind at the leaves and eat operators. We set both posts in the same pour and shim the hinges so the leaves meet square at the stop. When we quote a double gate installation in Tigard, the price is fixed before we start, and it covers the whole system, not just the panels.
Security Gate Installation
Security gates in Tigard are different from decorative gates. They’re heavier, they carry more hardware, and they usually have an access control system wired into them, not just a remote and a keypad. We install steel and aluminum security gates with welded frames, maglocks or solenoid locks, and operators matched to the gate’s actual weight and duty cycle, never a homeowner-grade opener asked to move a 600-pound panel. If your gate protects equipment, a workshop, or a side yard with tools in it, we quote the gate for what it actually has to do, not what it costs to make it look good from the street.
Pedestrian Gate Installation
Pedestrian gates around Tigard are often the forgotten sibling of the driveway gate, and they get the same wet-season abuse. Hinge post rot, warped pickets, and latches that won’t catch after the first October rain. We hang new pedestrian gates with galvanized or powder-coated hardware that doesn’t rust out in two seasons, and we set posts deep enough to stay put through a full Willamette Valley winter. Small gate, same 90-Day Done Right Promise.
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 Tigard
We service and install operators from FAAC, BFT, Linear, and Viking, plus LiftMaster where the builder originally specified it. A lot of Tigard homes built in the 1980s and 1990s came with whatever operator the fencing contractor had on the truck that week, which means we see orphaned brands and discontinued control boards constantly. We can usually match a replacement board to the existing arm and limit setup without swapping the whole operator, which keeps the HOA happy and the price sane. Parts for common FAAC and BFT models are typically in our stock or a day out.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Tigard Homes
- Hinge post rot at the ground sleeve. Tigard sits in the Tualatin River basin, and October through April saturation keeps post footings wet for months. Douglas fir and cedar posts soak it up and rot right where the post meets the concrete, which is why your gate drops and drags in winter.
- Wet-season panel warping and strike binding. The Willamette Valley wet-dry cycle swells gate boards each winter and shrinks them each summer. After enough cycles, mortise-and-tenon joints loosen, hinge screws work free, and a gate that closed fine in August won’t reach the strike in February.
- Obsolete 1990s operators without modern entrapment protection. Gates hung before UL 325 safety rules tightened often lack the photocells and reversing edges we’re required to install now. A 1995 LiftMaster or linear-arm unit with a corroded control board isn’t just unreliable, it needs the safety side brought current before we’ll hang a new gate on it.
- HOA CC&R mismatches after a repair. If a homeowner patches a gate with the wrong material, the HOA can flag it and trigger a variance review. We quote hardware-matched retrofits that don’t run afoul of the architectural rules, and we’ll help you document the repair so the board has an easy yes.
Pricing for Gate Installation in Tigard, OR
Here’s what gate installation in Tigard actually costs, based on what we’ve quoted across the 97223 ZIP over the past few years. A standard single swing gate with a new pressure-treated post, rehung panel, and basic latch runs $600 to $1,100. A full double swing gate replacement with two posts, two panels, hinges, and strikes typically lands between $1,800 and $3,400 depending on panel material and width. Adding a new operator pushes the job to $2,800-$5,000 installed, with access control and keypads adding $300-$700. Security gates with welded steel frames, maglocks, and heavier operators start around $4,500 and run to $9,000 or more depending on the panel weight and access system.
That’s an honest range, not a teaser price. You’ll get a written quote before any work starts, the price won’t change when the truck arrives, and every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free estimate. We don’t charge a trip fee inside the county, and we’ll give you a free second opinion on any written estimate you already have.
We Also Serve Cities Near Tigard
We work throughout Washington County and the surrounding area. If you’re in Garden Home-Whitford, Beaverton, Cedar Hills, or Raleigh Hills, you’re still in our service area and we’ll get to you just as fast as we get to Tigard. Gate Installation is what we do all week, not a side line, and Gate Installation in Tigard is the page where locals find us. Call the same number for any of these cities.
Serving Tigard, OR - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Tigard 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 Tigard
Usually not without HOA approval, and in many 97223 subdivisions the CC&Rs write the original gate material and style into the architectural standards. That means a straight steel swap will likely get flagged. The smart first step is to pull your HOA’s gate spec from the CC&Rs, because some boards will approve a like-for-like rebuild without any review, while a material change may require a variance hearing and written neighbor notification. We can quote a hardware-matched wood retrofit that won’t trigger the review, or help you prepare the material-change request if you’re determined to go steel. Either way, we’ll write the quote so your HOA has exactly the specs it asks for. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll walk you through it.
Any operator installed before roughly 1999 likely predates the UL 325 entrapment-protection requirements that govern current installations, which means it’s missing reversing edges, photocells, or both. Washington County enforces current state building codes, so a gate that doesn’t reverse on contact is a liability and a potential code issue if you’re doing a permitted replacement. The short test: with the gate opening, block the path with your hand or a flattenable object and see if it reverses before contacting you. If it doesn’t, the operator needs retrofitting with photoelectric sensors and a reversing edge before we’ll hang a new gate on it. We can test your existing unit and tell you whether it’s worth retrofitting or cheaper to replace the operator.
Because Tigard’s wet season swells the gate boards and hinges, and the saturated soil lets the hinge post lean just enough to knock the whole panel out of alignment. October through April is when we get the most “gate won’t close” calls in Tigard, and it’s almost always seasonal binding, not a broken operator. The fix is usually correcting the post footing and adding sag-correction brackets, not replacing the gate. Once the post stops moving with the soil, the seasonal binding goes away. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll tell you whether your gate can be cured or needs a post reset before next winter.
If the hinge post is still sound and the panel isn’t split through the rails, fixing what’s there is usually cheaper and faster, but if the post is rotted at the ground sleeve or the frame joints have separated from decades of wet-dry cycling, you’re going to spend more chasing it than replacing the gate properly. Old wood gates on Tigard’s 1975-1995 tract homes often reach a point where the post, panel, and hardware are all failing at once, and a new gate with a proper post footing and modern hardware is the honest answer. We’ll show you the rot and the racking before we quote anything, and if the old gate can be saved, we’ll say so and fix it. No one at Gatewood will talk you into a replacement a repair would serve just as well.
Yes, a solar kit can work on a single swing gate in most Tigard subdivisions, but only if the gate post is solid and the gate swings freely. A solar panel won’t make up for a sagging hinge post or a panel that binds in winter, which is the exact condition many 30-year-old Tigard gates are in. The other catch is aesthetics: some HOA CC&Rs restrict visible panel or battery-box placement, so the best install is one that tucks the battery and panel where the architectural committee won’t flag them. We’ve installed solar operators on FAAC and BFT swing gates across Tigard where the gate is in good shape and the owner wants to avoid trenching power. Call (877) 610-2993 for an honest assessment before you buy a kit off the shelf.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Tigard since 2001.