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If a gate post is leaning in Irving or a hinge has torn loose from an ornamental iron panel, that’s a job for a welder who will come to your driveway, not a company that wants to haul the gate to a shop across the metroplex. Gatewood Fence & Gate has been welding gate frames, resets, and hinge replacements on site across Irving since 2001, and Hal Gatewood still answers the phone himself. Call (877) 610-2993 and you’ll get a straight answer about whether that post can be saved or needs to be replaced. Most Irving gate welding calls are done same day, and the price is quoted and agreed before we strike an arc.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Irving’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company
Irving homeowners have a specific problem: they live on Blackland Prairie clay, and clay moves. A gate that looked plumb in April can be dragging the latch plate in August after two weeks of rain. We’ve spent over two decades learning how Irving’s soil behaves, which means we don’t just patch the symptom. We reset the post, re-weld the hinge, and fix the actual cause so the gate doesn’t sag again in six months. Hal’s name is on the shop and on every invoice, and he stands behind every job with a written 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not right, one call brings him back.
Irving customers tell us the same thing over and over: a national company quoted one price on the phone, then added trip charges, “parts they didn’t know about,” and a higher total at the door. That doesn’t happen with us. The estimate you get is the price you pay, before any work begins. And when you call at 9pm because a gate fell off its track across your driveway, a live person answers. Not a voicemail. Not an answering service in another state.
Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Irving
Most gate failures in Irving come down to three things: a post that moved in the clay, a hinge that seized and tore, or a weld that cracked from years of stress. Here’s what we do about each one. For the full scope of what our Gate Parts & Welding team handles, this page goes deeper, but the Irving-specific work lives below.
Hinge Replacement
Irving gates swing on hinges that take a beating from wind, heat, and the occasional ice storm. When a hinge bearing seizes, the gate starts fighting the operator, and eventually the weld tears out of the post or the panel. We cut out the old hinge, weld in a new one rated for the gate’s weight, and we do it in your driveway. No hauling the gate off. No “we’ll bring it back next week.” We stock replacement hinges for ornamental iron, tubular steel, and chain-link gates right on the truck for most Irving service calls.
Post Replacement
This is the repair we do more than any other in Irving, and the reason is the soil. Blackland Prairie clay swells when it’s wet and shrinks when it’s dry, and over a few decades that cycle heaves gate posts out of plumb. A post that’s tilted three degrees means a gate that drags, a latch that won’t catch, and an operator that faults on every cycle. We dig out the old post, set a new one in concrete with proper depth for the gate’s height and weight, and weld the hinges back on square. In west Irving’s older neighborhoods around 75060 and 75062, we’re often replacing posts that were set 30 or 40 years ago with no rebar and not enough concrete.
Rail Repair
The top and bottom rails on an ornamental iron gate carry all the load, and when a weld cracks at the rail-to-stile joint, the gate starts to rack. You’ll see a diagonal sag, or the gate will rattle when the operator cycles. We grind out the old weld, re-weld the joint, and often add a gusset plate to spread the stress. It’s a half-hour fix that saves you from a full gate replacement.
Custom Welding
Not every gate repair is a replacement part. Sometimes a custom ornamental gate needs a section rebuilt because the original fabricator is long gone and the pattern is no longer stocked. We weld custom scrolls, pickets, and frame sections to match existing ornamental iron, and we can modify gates to accept new operators, keypads, or safety edges. Irving’s older neighborhoods are full of custom ironwork from the 1960s and 1970s, and we’d rather rebuild a panel than tell you to replace a perfectly good gate because one section failed.
What happens when you call
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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 Irving
We service and integrate gate operators from FAAC, BFT, Linear, and Viking, among others, and we keep common parts for these systems stocked for Irving calls. A lot of Irving gates run on Linear or Viking swing operators, especially in the Valley Ranch and Las Colinas communities, and we can pull fault codes and swap control boards without making you wait two weeks for a part to ship. If you’ve got a legacy operator with a dead board, call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s worth reviving or time to upgrade.
Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Irving Homes
Irving has a distinct set of gate problems because of two things: the age of the gate stock and the soil underneath it. Here’s what we run into most:
- Gate drags after heavy rain but the operator still runs: The gate didn’t suddenly get heavier. The post heaved in the clay. We reset the post and re-weld the hinges, and the operator usually stops faulting on its own.
- Welds cracked after ice storms: The February 2021 freeze cracked ornamental iron welds all over Irving, especially on gates that were already stressed. A cracked weld won’t heal itself; it propagates until the panel drops. We find and reweld these before they fail completely.
- Legacy operators without modern entrapment protection: Gates installed in the 1980s around Valley Ranch often lack UL 325 compliant photocells or safety edges. That’s a liability for an HOA and a real safety hazard for a family with kids. We can retrofit entrapment protection onto most existing operators, or we’ll tell you honestly when the operator itself is past saving.
- Hinge posts that tilt outward: This one shows up constantly in the 1960s and 1970s tract neighborhoods in west Irving. A post with a shallow footing will lean out under the gate’s weight, and every fix that doesn’t reset the post is temporary. Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice.
Pricing for Gate Parts & Welding in Irving, TX
Here’s what Irving homeowners can expect to pay, based on what we’ve quoted and completed across 75062, 75063, 75014, and 75015 in the past year:
- Hinge replacement (single residential gate): $140-$260
- Hinge replacement (ornamental iron, welded both sides): $220-$410
- Post reset or replacement (standard 4×4 or 6×6 steel post): $280-$520
- Weld repair, per cracked joint: $60-$150
- Custom welding, per hour (plus materials): $95-$135
- Entrapment protection retrofit (photocells or safety edges), per gate: $180-$380
No trip charge inside the county, and every repair over $200 gets $40 off. Senior and veteran discounts apply permanently: 10% off any job, no expiration. The quote you get before we start is the price on the invoice. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll give you a free estimate over the phone, or we’ll come look at the gate and put the number in writing.
We Also Serve Cities Near Irving
We work all over the metroplex, including Farmers Branch, University Park, Highland Park, and Dallas. If you’re in Irving now, we’re Gate Parts & Welding in Irving for you; if you’ve got family in Farmers Branch with a sagging gate, we’ll take care of them, too. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll get you on the schedule.
Serving Irving, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Irving 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 Parts & Welding in Irving
Yes, in most cases we can. Retrofit installation typically runs $180-$380 per gate for photocells or safety edges, depending on the operator model and how much wiring is already in place. For legacy operators from the 1980s that lack UL 325 entrapment protection, we pull fault codes and confirm the board can support the add-on components before we quote anything. If the operator is too obsolete, we’ll tell you straight and give you a replacement price instead. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll come take a look.
The panel is rarely the problem. A gate sags because the hinge post has heaved out of plumb on Blackland Prairie clay, or because a hinge bearing has seized and worn, or because a rail weld cracked at the stile joint. We start at the hinge post, check it with a level, and work outward. We reset the post or re-weld the hinge before we ever touch the panel. Fixing the panel without the post is how you get the same sag back before the next rain. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free post inspection.
Your post moved. Irving’s Blackland Prairie clay swells when it gets wet, and a post that was set in a shallow footing will heave upward and tilt enough to drag the gate against the latch or the ground. The operator isn’t failing; it’s fighting a changed geometry. We reset the post at the correct depth, re-weld the hinge mount if needed, and the drag goes away. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll check the post and the operator together.
Yes, regularly. Las Colinas and Valley Ranch HOAs run Doorking, Linear, and Liftmaster access control panels, and we interface with those systems on the majority of our commercial gate calls in Irving. That means we’ll diagnose the mechanical gate and the access control as one system, not two separate problems. We’re certified on nine major gate brands, and we can pull fault codes from a Doorking 1833 entry system as easily as we can weld a hinge. Call (877) 610-2993 for HOA gate diagnostics.
If your operator is from the 1980s, you’ve already gotten your money’s worth out of it, but replacement isn’t automatic. We look at three things: whether the board is still available as a drop-in replacement, whether the motor windings still test clean, and whether the unit has modern entrapment protection. If you’re looking at a third board replacement in five years, a new operator is the cheaper answer. If the drive train is solid and you only need a retrofit safety edge, we’ll do that instead. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll test it before you spend either way.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Irving since 2001.