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AfterFast, Reliable Gate Parts & Welding Across Wixom
If you live in Wixom and your gate is sagging, grinding, or won’t close, here’s the short answer: we fix it in your driveway, usually the same visit. Hinge replacement in Wixom typically runs $180-$420 including labor, post replacement $450-$950 depending on depth and welding required, and custom welding repairs $120-$300 for most residential jobs. We’re Gatewood Fence & Gate, and we’ve been doing Gate Parts & Welding since 2001. You’ll get a written price before we touch anything, and Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop. Call (877) 610-2993 and a live person answers, day or night.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Wixom’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company
Wixom isn’t a place where you want to gamble on a faceless repair outfit. You might live in a 1990s subdivision off Wixom Road, or run a commercial building near the old Ford plant corridor off Beck Road, and either way you need a gate that stays square through freeze-thaw and salt. We’ve worked those neighborhoods enough to know what’s under the soil here. When we show up in 48393, we’re not guessing at Oakland County frost depth or wondering why your hinge post heaved. We’ve seen it hundreds of times.
Hal Gatewood founded this company in 2001 and it’s still owner-operated. The person who answers your call is here at the shop, not on a routing app. When we quote a post replacement in Wixom, we tell you the price before work starts, and you can hold us to the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not right, we come back. That’s not a slogan. It’s on every invoice.
We service the gate brands Wixom homeowners actually have: LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. And because we stock common hinge barrels, roller assemblies, and control board replacements locally, a repair off Beck Road doesn’t get held up waiting on a part from Texas.
Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Wixom
Here’s what we actually do, and what it means for a Wixom gate.
Hinge Replacement
Older ornamental iron swing gates across Wixom’s 1985-2005 subdivisions were hung with barrel hinges that have been grinding for two decades. When those hinges waller out, the gate leaf drops and the latch hits the striker an inch low. We cut off the old hinge, weld a new one on site, and re-hang the leaf so it swings true. In Wixom subdivisions off Wixom Road and around Loon Lake, hinge replacement is the most common repair we do, because the original hinges were often undersized for the gate weight.
Post Replacement
This is where Wixom’s frost line dictates the job. Oakland County freezes to roughly 42 inches deep. Posts that were set in 36-inch concrete footings heave upward every winter and settle crooked every spring. We cut out the old post, auger 48 inches down, set the new steel post in rebar-caged concrete, and weld the gate hinges back to it. A post that’s plumb and deep stays plumb for decades. A patch stays square for about a year. We don’t do patches on structural posts.
Rail Repair
When a swing gate sags in the middle but the posts are still solid, the problem is usually the top rail or a broken picket-to-rail weld. We don’t weld a brace over it and call it done. We cut back to clean metal, fishplate the rail if it’s cracked through, and re-weld the joints so the frame carries the load again. If your rail’s rusted thin from decades of Michigan road salt, we’ll tell you honestly whether welding’s worth it or whether the rail needs replacement.
Custom Welding
Some things aren’t standard parts. A gate bent by a car bumper, a post base rotted out at concrete level, a hinge tab snapped off by freeze-thaw torque. We do on-site stick and MIG welding so your gate stays in your driveway. We don’t haul it off to a shop unless it’s beyond driveway repair, and we tell you that before we touch it. In Wixom’s older industrial stretch along Beck Road, we’ve also welded diagonal bracing into commercial slide gates that were never stiff enough for daily cycle counts.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Wixom
We service and stock parts for the operators you’ll actually find on Wixom gates. Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, and Elite show up regularly in local installations, and we keep common control boards, limit switches, and receiver kits on hand. If your opener model takes a board that we don’t carry, we order it from our normal suppliers and typically have it in a day or two. We also service LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, and Linear, because those four brands account for most of the legacy swing operators still running in Wixom’s older subdivisions.
Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Wixom Homes
- Heaved hinge posts every spring. Wixom’s freeze-thaw cycle works on any post footing set above the 42-inch frost line. The post tilts, the gate leaf binds, and the latch bolt snaps off. That’s a post footing job, not a latch job.
- Rusted steel frames and buried wiring. Oakland County’s salt program keeps roads clear but eats gate steel and corrodes low-voltage conduit. Intermittent open/close failures often trace back to corroded wire splices underground.
- Obsolete operator control boards. Gates installed in the 1985-2005 boom often run boards that won’t accept modern safety photocells or new-style remotes. We’ll tell you if a board swap will work or if a full operator retrofit is the cheaper long-term answer.
- Worn gate rollers grinding on rail. On commercial slide gates near the old Ford Wixom Assembly Plant corridor, we routinely see rollers that have never been replaced since the gate went in. A seized roller can grind a groove into the rail and tear the rack gear.
Pricing for Gate Parts & Welding in Wixom, MI
Here are the numbers, straight from what we charge in Wixom’s market. Hinge replacement on a single ornamental iron swing gate: $180-$420, depending on spring-held vs. welded hinge and gate weight. Post replacement with concrete footing dug to 48 inches: $450-$950, depending on whether we’re removing a he interior of chain-link or ornamental panel. Rail repair: $120-$380 per rail, depending on length and how much rotted section we’re removing. Custom welding: $100 per hour on site, with most residential jobs landing at $120-$300. We give you a written price before work starts, and we honor the standing offers: $40 off any repair over $200, no trip charge inside Oakland County, and a free second opinion on any written estimate. Seniors and veterans get 10% off, permanently. No haggling. No call-center math. The price quoted is the price billed.
We Also Serve Cities Near Wixom
While this page is for Wixom, our crews also cover Gate Parts & Welding in Wixom and the surrounding communities where we work every week: Walled Lake, Novi, West Bloomfield Township, and Northville. If you’re just over the city line, we’ll still come out, still answer the phone, and still honor the same pricing and promise.
Serving Wixom, MI - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Wixom 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 Wixom
Wixom gate posts lean because the original footings are almost always shallower than Oakland County’s 42-inch frost line, so freeze-thaw cycles jack the post up a little more each winter and it settles back down crooked. Welding a brace onto a leaning post doesn’t fix the footing. The proper repair is cutting out the old post, digging to 48 inches, setting a new post in concrete with rebar, and welding the gate hinges back to it. That’s a permanent fix, and it’s what we do. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free estimate.
Fix the post first. In Wixom’s older subdivisions, the operator is usually the last thing to fail. A sagging gate kills latch alignment and makes the operator work against a binding leaf until the gear train or the board gives out. If your LiftMaster still runs reliably, the gate was hung well and the problem is almost always a heaved hinge post or a rusted top rail. We’ll assess it, tell you if the operator at least is fine, and give you a written price on the structural fix. We won’t sell you an operator you don’t need.
Sometimes, but not always. Some legacy boards from Wixom’s 1985-2005 installations won’t accept UL 325-compliant photocells because they lack the input circuit for modern entrapment protection. If the board can be retrofitted with a UL-compliant photo eye or a loop detector, we’ll do it on site. If the board is too old, the honest answer is a control board replacement or a full operator retrofit, and we’ll give you both prices in writing so you can decide. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll diagnose it over the phone with the model number.
No, grinding rollers are usually a roller replacement and rail inspection job, but the rail repair may involve welding. If the rollers have been run dry or seized over a period of time, they can cut a groove into the V-track. We replace the rollers, then determine if the rail needs weld repair or replacement. In the Beck and Wixom Road corridor we regularly see gates installed during the post-2007 redevelopment that never got a maintenance schedule, so rollers fail early. Same-day diagnosis in Wixom, and a written quote on any welding that’s needed.
Yes, we replace the post only when the gate itself is structurally sound. In Wixom, rust at the post base usually starts from a concrete pour that left the steel buried in water and salt-sprayed soil, not from the gate failing. We’ll cut out the post, inspect the gate rails and hinge tabs, and if they’re still good we set a new post and weld the gate back on. If the hinge tabs are too far gone, we’ll weld new tabs on while the gate is off. Either way, you get a price before we start, and a 90-Day Done Right Promise on the work. Call (877) 610-2993.
What Makes Wixom Gate Repair Different
Wixom’s residential gate stock is unusually concentrated. The subdivisions built between the mid-1980s and early 2000s off Wixom Road, Pontiac Trail, and around Loon Lake share a common profile: ornamental iron or aluminum swing gates hung at original construction, with operators and control boards now 20-40 years old. Across entire neighborhoods, hinges, posts, and buried conduit are failing on roughly the same schedule. That’s different from communities where gate installations were staggered over five decades. Here, the replacement cycle is clustered, which means if your neighbor’s hinge post heaved this spring, the odds your post will heave next spring are high. A repair company that works Wixom week after week sees these repeat-failure patterns before they become emergencies.
We rebuilt a sagging ornamental iron swing gate in a 1990s subdivision off Wixom Road this spring. The LiftMaster operator was still running fine, but the hinge post had heaved out of plumb and the gate leaf wouldn’t latch anymore. We cut out the under-depth post footing, poured a new 48-inch concrete base with rebar, welded a new steel hinge post, re-hung the gate, and then adjusted the safety photocell and re-tested the entrapment protection under UL 325. The operator didn’t need replacing. The post did. If we’d just swapped the operator, the gate still wouldn’t have latched. That’s the kind of repair Wixom needs, and it’s the kind we do.
That’s also the distinction we draw on every job in this city: what can you weld or retrofit, and what will just fail again? An obsolete control board on a 1990s operator might work fine if you add a modern photo eye, or it might be a money pit. A rusted post base might weld up, or it might be too thin to save. A sagging rail might take a fishplate, or it might already be cracked through the web. We tell you the truth, written down, before you spend a dollar. If that sounds like the way a business should operate, call us at (877) 610-2993 and ask for a quote.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Wixom since 2001.