Gate Parts & Welding in Hazel Park - Made to Measure, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Gate Parts & Welding Across Hazel Park

Gate hinge replacement in Hazel Park typically runs $160-$310, post replacement $240-$550 depending on frost-line depth, and custom on-site welding $90-$140 per hour with most jobs finished the same visit. We answer the phone at (877) 610-2993 and we’ll give you a straight price before any work starts. If you live in the 48030, you already know the pattern: the alley gate freezes, heaves, drags, and by April it won’t latch. That’s the call we get most, and it’s the one we’re built to answer.

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Hal Gatewood has been at this since 2001, and the name is still on the shop. Not a franchise. Not a call center. A guy who will drive to your house in Hazel Park, look at your gate, and tell you honestly whether we can weld it back square or whether the post below the frost line is done.

Key Takeaways

• Hinge replacement on Hazel Park gates: $160-$310, done on site the same day.
• Post replacement with below-frost-line footing: $240-$550.
• Custom welding: $90-$140 per hour, quoted before we strike an arc.
• Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing.
• A live person answers at (877) 610-2993, 24 hours a day.

Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Hazel Park’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company

Hazel Park is a grid of alleys, narrow lots, and bungalows that have been here since the 1940s and 50s. That means the gates we work on are usually original or second-generation, hung on posts set by somebody’s grandfather with whatever concrete was left over from the driveway. You don’t need a company that wants to sell you a whole new fence. You need somebody who can cut out the broken hinge, weld in a new barrel, and leave the post plumb.

We’ve repaired gates on East Evelyn, on Woodward Heights, on streets where the alley sees more traffic than the front sidewalk. The review pattern from Hazel Park customers is consistent: the person who showed up was the same person who quoted the job, the price didn’t move, and the gate worked the next morning. That’s the whole business model. Hal’s crew is background-checked and uniformed, and when something isn’t right, one phone call brings him back. That’s the 90-Day Done Right Promise, stamped in writing on every invoice.

We’re certified to service nine major gate brands, including Viking, DoorKing, and Ghost Controls, so an old operator from the 1990s isn’t a mystery to us. If you live in Hazel Park, you’re inside our no-trip-charge county, which means the estimate costs you nothing to get.

Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Hazel Park

Hinge Replacement

Alley gates in Hazel Park get opened four, five, six times a day: garbage cans out, car in, car out, delivery at the back door. That’s why hinge barrels wear out here faster than in the suburbs where gates are scenery. We cut off the old hinge, grind the post clean, and weld or bolt on a new barrel rated for the weight of the leaf. If the hinge is steel and the gate is steel, we weld it. If the post is concrete or the gate is cast aluminum, we bolt through with backing plates so the load is spread. A typical hinge replacement in Hazel Park runs $160-$310 per gate, both hinges included.

Post Replacement

This is the Hazel Park specialty, because it’s the Hazel Park soil problem. The clay here is dense and glacial, and when it freezes it grips the post, and when it thaws it lets go. A post set 30 inches deep in 1960 has been through 60 winters of that cycle. It’s leaning. That lean puts the top hinge in tension and the gate drags on the alley pavement. We dig out the old post, set a new galvanized steel post in a 36-inch-deep concrete footing, below the frost line, and reset the gate for square. Post replacement in Hazel Park runs $240-$550 depending on post size and how much old concrete has to come out. We do not cut corners and set it 24 inches deep; that’s a job we’ll be back to fix in three years.

Rail Repair

On chain-link gates, the top rail is the spine. When the gate sags, people blame the panel, but the rail is usually bowed or the connection at the hinge stile is stretched. We see it on original 1950s and 60s gates all over Hazel Park: the rail has been bent by years of being lifted over a heaved approach. We straighten the rail, sleeve it if the wall thickness is too far gone, or weld in a new section and re-tension the fabric. Rail repair runs $80-$210 in Hazel Park, and we’ll tell you honestly if the rail is worth saving or if a new rail is cheaper than the labor to straighten a bent one.

Custom Welding

Some gates are worth welding, and some are not. We’ll tell you which one yours is before any money changes hands. We do on-site welding so the gate stays in your driveway: hinge reinforcement, crack repair, latch plates, new striker plates, gate frame repairs, and custom brackets for operators. We’ve welded cracked hinge barrels on 50-year-old steel gates and watched them swing true for another decade. Custom welding in Hazel Park is $90-$140 per hour, quoted before the first arc, with a hard ceiling agreed in writing.

Trusted Brands We Service in Hazel Park

We’re certified to service Viking, DoorKing, Ghost Controls, and six other major brands, which means when your Hazel Park gate operator acts up, we’re not squinting at the schematic. We carry the common parts that fail on older Viking and DoorKing units: control boards, limit switches, receiver boards, and capacitor kits. For Ghost Controls openers, we stock replacement arms and boards locally, so a repair in Hazel Park isn’t waiting on a part from a warehouse three states away. If your operator was installed before Y2K, bring us the model number on the call and we’ll bring parts that are likely to fit, not a catalog and a week’s delay.

Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Hazel Park Homes

• Spring post-heave on alley gates. Hazel Park’s tight grid of public alleys means the back gate is the most-used door on the property. A 20-year-old post set in clay will shift every winter, and by late March the gate drags or won’t latch. That’s a post problem, not a panel problem, and we start at the post.
• Obsolete control boards on 1980s and 90s operators. Old DoorKing and Linear boards fail after power surges or moisture creep, leaving the gate stuck open. The mechanical parts are often fine; the board is the casualty. We can usually replace just the board for $240-$400 instead of scrapping the operator.
• Worn hinge barrels on original chain-link gates. The barrel wears into an oval, the gate drops, and the latch misses the striker. People tighten the hinge, and it works for a month. Then it sags again because the barrel is shot, not loose. We replace the barrel, not the band-aid.
• Sagging weld joints on old steel frames. The frame welds at the corner were done before modern penetration standards, and 50 years of freeze-thaw has micro-cracked them. The gate doesn’t need replacing; it needs the old welds ground out and re-welded square. That’s on-site work, not shop work.

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We Also Serve Cities Near Hazel Park

Gatewood Fence & Gate is the team behind Gate Parts & Welding for the whole inner-ring, and we run calls into Hazel Park every week. That same crew covers Ferndale, Highland Park, Madison Heights, and Royal Oak, with the same no-trip-charge policy inside the county. If you’re one block over the Hazel Park line, you’re still our neighbor, and you’ll still get Hal’s name on the invoice.

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