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

Fast, Reliable Gate Parts & Welding Across Tiburon

Gate parts and welding in Tiburon usually comes down to two things: salt damage and steep grades. We’ve been repairing, reinforcing, and re-welding gates on this peninsula long enough to know that a hinge pin that would last ten years in Novato can fail in three seasons on a bay-facing property here. If your gate is sagging, dragging, or the operator is grinding against gravity, call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll send someone who knows Tiburon’s conditions, not a trainee reading from a script. Hal Gatewood has been fixing gates since 2001, and the name is on the shop, the invoices, and the work.

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Our crews serve all of the 94920 ZIP code, from the waterfront flats near downtown Tiburon up through the hillside neighborhoods where the driveways climb hard. We weld on site in your driveway, so the gate stays put while we fix it. No hauling, no week-long waits, no mystery shop three counties away.

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

We’re local, we’re licensed and insured, and we’ve been owner-operated since 2001. Hal Gatewood’s name has been on every invoice for over twenty years, and his published address means anyone in Tiburon can drive to the shop and look him in the eye. That’s the oldest accountability there is, and it matters in a town where people have been burned by outfits that quote one price on the phone and charge another at the door.

The 90-Day Done Right Promise is stamped in writing on every job. If a weld fails, a hinge binds, or a post shifts within 90 days, one call brings us back. No runaround, no fine print, no “that’s not covered.” We also answer the phone with a live person 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When your gate is stuck open at 11pm on a Tiburon hillside, you get a human voice, not a voicemail.

In Tiburon specifically, we see gates that have been beautifully fabricated but poorly specified. The salt air, the afternoon winds off the bay, the long steep driveways, the wide custom gates – all of that demands hardware and welding decisions that a flatland gate company simply never has to think about. We think about it every day, because we work here. Our Tiburon customers call back for tune-ups, not because the first repair failed, but because they trust us to keep the gate running as it should.

Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Tiburon

Every gate repair comes down to parts, welding, or the marriage of the two. Here’s what we handle most often on the Tiburon peninsula.

Hinge Replacement

On Tiburon’s bay-facing properties, hinge pins corrode inside the barrel until the gate starts to drop, scrape, or bind. We remove the old pin, clean the leaf, and install a salt-hardened replacement – often stainless or a corrosion-resistant alloy the original fabricator never spec’d. On heavy custom wrought-iron gates we may weld in a grease fitting so the hinge can be lubricated within the quarter of a percent of a degree it actually needs. A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that is where we start.

Post Replacement

A hinge post that has shifted or rotted at the base is the classic Tiburon failure mode. Salt-laden moisture wicks down the post, sits at the footing, and the gate starts leaning a little more every month. Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice. We dig out the old footing, set a new post in proper concrete at the correct depth for the gate’s weight and swing radius, and weld or bolt everything back so the gate hangs true.

Rail Repair

The bottom rail on a double swing gate takes abuse: salt, moisture, wind load, and the occasional errant car. We straighten bent rails, weld in replacement sections where cancer has eaten through the steel, and reinforce corners with gussets that actually match the gate’s design language. On powder-coated aluminum gates we weld using the correct filler rod for the alloy, then touch up the coating so the repair doesn’t announce itself.

Custom Welding

When a gate needs a bracket that doesn’t exist in a catalog, we make it. We’ve welded custom hinge plates for oversized estate gates, fabricated reinforcement channels for slide gates that were racking under their own weight, and built mounting plates for intercom panels and camera posts that the gate fabricator never thought about. All on site, in the driveway, with the gate still on its hinges. Hal welds it himself, or the person he sends welds it under his standard, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise backs it either way.

Trusted Brands We Service in Tiburon

We service and repair the brands Tiburon homes actually run: LiftMaster operators on custom swing gates, FAAC hydraulic rams on the heavier wrought-iron installs, Viking and DoorKing on estate and small commercial properties, Ghost Controls on solar setups, BFT, Linear, Elite, and Mighty Mule when we find them. We stock the common replacement parts for these brands in our local inventory, so a limit switch, control board, or gear set doesn’t have to ship from a warehouse in Ohio. If your gate runs on Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, or Elite, we have the parts and the training to bring it back to life. We are certified to service nine major gate brands, and the ones on Tiburon driveways are the ones we know best.

Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Tiburon Homes

Tiburon’s geography hands us the same failure modes year after year. Here’s what we actually run into:

• Salt-corroded hinge pins and motor housings. The continuous marine air on the peninsula attacks ferrous metal far faster than the manufacturers’ inland ratings assume. On a bay-facing property in the Belveron neighborhood, a hinge pin that looks fine from ten feet can be structurally gone from the inside.
• Steep driveway stress on operators and gear sets. A gate on a 12% grade is a constant load. The operator’s torque settings, limit switches, and gear teeth work against gravity every single cycle. Standard spec’d operators wear out early and sometimes fail catastrophically when the power drops.
• Wind-driven loosening of rack and pinion hardware. Those strong afternoon thermal winds off the bay cycle stress on slide gate racks and roller brackets. Bolts back out, rollers walk, and the gate starts to bind. A quick but real welding and re-torque fix prevents a much larger operator failure later.
• Sagging custom gates that were never reinforced for the site. Tiburon’s custom ornamental iron gates are wide and heavy. When the original installer spec’d hinges and a post footing for inland conditions, the gate starts to sag within a couple of years. We re-spec the hardware and weld in reinforcement.

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We Also Serve Cities Near Tiburon

From our Bay Area base we serve Tiburon and the surrounding communities, including Sausalito, Tamalpais Valley, Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, and Corte Madera. If you’re on the water side of the peninsula or up in the hills near the 101, we’ll come to you. Our Gate Parts & Welding crew covers the whole area with the same on-site welding rig and the same 90-Day Done Right Promise. Call (877) 610-2993 and you’ll talk to a live person who can schedule you from wherever you are.

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