Free on-site gate assessment - hinges, posts, and your LiftMaster or Nice gate operator checked before anything is quoted
The assessment is free and the quote is the invoice.
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If your gate is sagging, dragging, or refusing to close in Lakehills, you need a welder who understands Hill Country soil, not just somebody with a parts catalog. We repair gate hinges, replace posts, fix rails, and weld broken frames on site across the 78056 area. Hal Gatewood has been doing this kind of work since 2001, and he’ll give you an honest answer about whether your gate can be saved or has finally earned retirement. Call (877) 610-2993 and a live person answers, day or night.
Around Medina Lake, the ground itself works against gate hardware. Limestone and caliche shift after every hard rain, and that movement travels right up through the post and into the hinge. We know what that looks like because we see it here every season.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Lakehills’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company
Most gate companies in this area want to swap the whole gate and sell you a new opener. Hal would rather weld what’s broken and leave the rest alone. That repair-first habit comes from running a shop with his name on the door since 2001, and from standing behind every job with a 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not done right, one call brings him back. No runaround.
Lakehills homeowners tell us the same thing over and over: they’ve been quoted one price on the phone and handed a different invoice at the door. We quote the job before we start and we don’t play that game. You can drive to the shop and look Hal in the eye, or call after dark and get a real person on the line. Around here, that’s what accountability looks like.
We answer calls 24/7, and our crews know the roads around Lakehills well enough to find properties that GPS gives up on. The name is on the shop, and the shop is down the road. That matters when you’re asking someone to weld a gate that protects your property.
Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Lakehills
Hinge Replacement
A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that’s where we start. In Lakehills, we routinely replace worn hinge pins on older tubular steel gates that have been hanging since the 1980s and 90s. Worn top hinge pins let the gate drop a half inch at the latch side, and people try to fix it by wedging washers behind the hinges. That buys a month, maybe two. We replace the hinge barrel, set the post right if it’s moved, and the gate swings true again.
Post Replacement
Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice. Caliche and limestone don’t hold posts the way clay soil does, and after a flash flood a buried post can lean two or three inches out of plumb. We cut the old post out, drill or dig a deeper footing, set new steel with concrete and rebar, and weld the gate back into alignment. That’s a repair that actually lasts through the next storm season. Post replacement in Lakehills typically runs $450 to $900 depending on depth, diameter, and whether the gate needs re-hanging afterward.
Rail Repair
Rust from Medina Lake humidity eats through the bottom rail of unpainted pipe gates faster than people expect. The top rail might look fine while the bottom rail is paper-thin and flaking. We cut out the rusted section, weld in new steel, and grind it smooth enough to get a paint job that will hold. If the rail is too far gone to patch safely, we’ll say so and quote a replacement section instead. Rail repair usually falls between $180 and $350 per rail.
Custom Welding
Some gates aren’t worth replacing because they were built to fit a specific opening or match a particular fence style. We weld cracked hinges, broken latch mounts, and even fabricate entirely new gate frames for property owners who want to keep the look of the original. For a custom-fabricated steel walk gate or a replacement gate leaf matched to your existing pipe style, expect $500 to $1,400 depending on size and material. If we can repair what you have, we’ll tell you that first.
Our full Gate Parts & Welding team covers everything from gate rollers to latch and lock repair, but the three jobs above are what we see most often along the lake.
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 Lakehills
We stock common parts for FAAC, BFT, Linear, and Viking operators, and we service nine major gate brands including LiftMaster, Ghost Controls, and Mighty Mule. For older Viking and FAAC units still running around the lake, we keep hinge hardware, gear racks, control boards, and edge sensors on the truck. If the part isn’t in the truck, we can typically have it in hand within a day or two and get the gate working again without replacing the whole operator.
Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Lakehills Homes
- Posts knocked out of plumb by caliche erosion. After any significant Hill Country rainstorm, the caliche driveways around Lakehills erode and shift, pulling buried gate posts out of alignment. We check footing integrity and track alignment first, not just the opener electronics.
- Rust-rot on unpainted pipe gates. The microclimate near Medina Lake adds localized humidity that accelerates rust and corrosion on bare steel faster than properties just a few miles inland. That rust tends to attack hinge welds and the bottom rail first.
- Dead control boards on 1980s and 90s openers. Many gates around Lakehills were automated twenty or thirty years ago, and those control boards are no longer manufactured. We can often source refurbished boards or retrofit a new logic board into the existing cabinet.
- Slide gates jumping the track after storms. Water washes across driveways, moves the ground, and suddenly the gate’s rack is off its pinion gear by a quarter inch. It grinds, it jumps, it shuts itself down. Fixing it means resetting the track and the rack together, not just clearing the error code.
Pricing for Gate Parts & Welding in Lakehills, TX
Here’s what you can expect to pay around Lakehills, as of this year. A basic hinge replacement on a residential steel gate runs $150 to $320. A full post replacement, including excavation and concrete, is $450 to $900. Cutting out and welding a rusted rail section runs $180 to $350 per rail. Custom gate fabrication starts around $500 for a simple walk gate and goes up from there based on steel thickness and size. We offer a free second opinion on any written estimate, no trip charge inside the county, and $40 off any repair over $200. Seniors and veterans get a permanent 10% discount. The price you’re quoted is the price you pay before we touch a tool.
We Also Serve Cities Near Lakehills
Our crews work through Lakehills and into Helotes, Lackland Air Force Base, Leon Valley, and Fair Oaks Ranch. If you’re a little outside our usual loop, call anyway – we’ll tell you straight whether it’s a trip charge or not.
Serving Lakehills, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Lakehills 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 Lakehills
Yes, we repair older steel pipe gates regularly. The hinge post is the usual failure point, and we cut it out, set a deeper footing with concrete and rebar, and weld new hinge hardware in place. Replacement only makes sense if the gate frame itself is rusted through in multiple places. Call (877) 610-2993 and Hal will come look before you spend money on a new gate.
It could be, but around Lakehills it’s usually the footing first. When caliche erodes and the post shifts a fraction of an inch, the rack and pinion lose engagement and the gate jumps. We check the track, the rack, and the footing before blaming the operator. We’ll weld or reset what’s moved and adjust the rack so the gate rolls clean again.
Sometimes we can source rebuilt boards, and sometimes the better long-term answer is retrofitting a modern control board into the existing cabinet. We service LiftMaster along with FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. Call us and we’ll identify what you have and give you a straight answer on parts availability. Estimates are free.
If the gate frame is wood, welding isn’t the fix for the wood itself, but we can fabricate a steel sub-frame or reinforce the hinge side with welded steel brackets that bolt through the wood. We’ll assess whether the post is solid and whether the hinge screws can be relocated. That assessment is free, and so is the second opinion on any written estimate you already have.
No. Gate operators sold after the early 1990s are required to have external entrapment protection, usually photocells and an edge sensor. Openers that were built before those rules can keep operating, but opening them up and bypassing the safety devices isn’t something we’ll do. If yours were bypassed years ago, we’ll restore them and add an edge sensor before we test the full cycle. The 90-Day Done Right Promise covers that work in writing.
Call Gatewood Fence & Gate for Gate Parts & Welding in Lakehills
If your gate is dragging, leaning, or cycling when it shouldn’t, call (877) 610-2993. We answer with a live person, we come to Lakehills, and the price we quote is the price you pay. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop and on every invoice. That’s the way it’s been since 2001, and that’s the way it stays.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Lakehills and the Texas Hill Country since 2001.