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AfterFast, Reliable Gate Repair Across Collierville
A gate that won’t open isn’t just an inconvenience. It means your car stays trapped in the driveway, your kids can’t get in for practice, and the delivery driver is standing at the street. In Collierville, where driveway gates are the norm, not the exception, we fix the problem the same day you call in most cases. Gatewood Fence & Gate has repaired thousands of iron gates in Collierville’s master-planned subdivisions, from Schilling Farms to Collierville Farms, and we know exactly which operators, posts, and wiring fail most in this town. Call (877) 610-2993 and a live person picks up, day or night.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Collierville’s Preferred Gate Repair Company
Collierville’s housing stock is built around the gate. Walk any street in the 38017 or 38027 zip code and count the wrought-iron swing gates and slide gates. This is one of the most gate-dense suburbs in Tennessee, and that means the repair shop matters. We’ve been fixing gates here since 2001, and our Gate Repair team has seen every failure mode Collierville has to offer: clay-heaved posts, ice-storm burnout, builder-grade operators that quit at year 12, and automation retrofits gone wrong. Hal Gatewood’s name is on every invoice, and the shop is close enough that he can be in a driveway across town within the hour.
When a Schilling Farms homeowner calls and says the gate stopped after that last ice event, we already know what we’ll find. When a Collierville Farms resident says the gate binds halfway, we know to look at the post footing first. That local knowledge isn’t something you get with a national company that parachutes in from three counties away. It’s what we’ve built over almost two and a half decades of driving these exact streets in Collierville.
We’re licensed and insured, answer the phone with a person, not a call tree, and every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not right, Hal makes it right. No runaround.
Our Gate Repair Services in Collierville
Here’s what we actually do out here, day in and day out. Not a menu of services with brandy-new marketing copy. Just the work Collierville gates actually need.
Automatic Gate Repair
The 1990s and 2000s building boom in Collierville filled neighborhoods like Schilling Farms and Collierville Farms with estate-style homes, almost all of them with automated ornamental gates. Those builder-grade operators were never designed to run for 25 years. They were budget-spec LiftMaster or Linear units picked for the builder’s margin, not for the homeowner’s long haul. Today they’re failing in waves: limit switches snapping, capacitor burnouts, control boards that blink a code and quit. We replace and upgrade operators and recalibrate everything to run as it should on the gate that’s actually in your driveway. If your operator died after an ice storm, read the FAQ below. It’s a pattern we know by heart.
Hinge & Post Repair
A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle. In Collierville, the hinge post sits in Shelby County’s expansive clay, and that clay never stops moving. Wet winters swell it. Dry summers shrink it. Over 15 or 20 years, that slow heave tilts the post and drops the gate leaf, and then the automatic opener strains against a bind and eventually burns out. We reset the post with a new concrete footing, deeper and wider than the original, then rehang the gate so it swings like the day it was installed.
Gate Realignment
Proper gate realignment comes after the post is solid. If you align the gate without fixing the post, you’ll fix it twice. We saw this exact sequence on a quiet cul-de-sac in Schilling Farms, where a LiftMaster swing operator kept tripping its limit switch. The real culprit was a sinking hinge post. We reset the post with a deeper concrete footing, realigned the gate, and recalibrated the operator so the safety photocells passed their UL 325 entrapment check. That gate hasn’t faulted since. That’s the repair-first approach we bring to every Collierville job.
Electric Gate Repair
Electric gates in Collierville get hit from three directions: heat, humidity, and ice. 53+ inches of annual rainfall plus Memphis-area summer humidity mean corrosion creeps into photo eye housings, wire nuts, and circuit connections long before you notice it. We trace the issue from the operator board back to the source. We don’t just swap the part and hope. We find the root cause, fix it, and check the whole run of conduit and wiring while we’re already there.
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 Collierville
We service and repair FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, and the rest of the major gate brands, so your gate stays in your driveway and we fix it on site. We keep common parts for these brands in stock, and we’re certified across nine major manufacturers to work on LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. In a town with Collierville’s density of automated iron gates, that stock matters: you don’t wait for parts, and you don’t get a hand-wave about a backordered component from Atlanta. The person who shows up knows the brand on your gate and the quirks that come with it.
Common Gate Repair Problems We See in Collierville Homes
Here are the failure patterns we see week after week across Collierville’s neighborhoods:
- Clay soil heaving posts out of alignment. Shelby County clay expands and contracts with every wet-dry cycle. Over 15-30 years, post footings tilt enough that swing and slide gates bind and trip safety sensors. This is a post footing problem, not an operator problem, and that distinction changes the fix entirely.
- Ice-storm operator failures. Collierville’s periodic winter ice storms coat heavy wrought-iron gates in a thick glaze, overloading swing-gate operators and snapping limit switches. We see a surge of operator burnouts in the days after every ice event, a pattern almost unknown in drier parts of the state.
- Builder-grade operators reaching end-of-life. The operators installed during the 1990s and 2000s boom were often the cheapest units that met spec. They’re now failing together, like light bulbs from the same bad batch. If your gate is 15-30 years old and dead, it’s not bad luck. It’s the age of the stock.
- Retrofitted automation with inadequate power runs. Many Collierville gates started life as manual iron gates, then got automation added later without proper conduit or a dedicated electrical run. That means exposed wiring, undersized conductors, and operators that strain and fail early. We see it constantly in subdivisions where the gate used to be decorative and now does real work.
Pricing for Gate Repair in Collierville, TN
Here are honest, street-level numbers for Collierville’s market, not vague “it depends” language:
- Operator replacement (upgraded, not builder-grade): $800-$1,600 depending on brand and gate weight
- Hinge and post repair with concrete reset: $450-$1,100
- Gate realignment with sensor recalibration: $250-$500
- Limit switch or photo eye replacement: $150-$350
- Weld and rust repair on ornamental iron: $200-$800
We quote the price before any work starts, in writing, and that’s the price you pay. No trip charge inside the county. $40 off any repair over $200, and a free second opinion on any written estimate from another company. Seniors and veterans get 10% off, permanently. Call (877) 610-2993 for an exact quote. Estimates are free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Collierville
Our gate repair service covers Collierville plus the surrounding communities. If you’re in Germantown, Bartlett, Oakland, or Arlington, we’ll come to you too. The same crew, the same 90-Day Done Right Promise, the same live person on the phone. We know these roads like our own driveway.
Serving Collierville, TN - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Collierville 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 Repair in Collierville
Ice storms in the Memphis metro create a distinctive failure pattern: ice coats the heavy wrought-iron gates common in Collierville’s subdivisions, and swing-gate operators strain to move the added weight. The result is snapped limit switches, fried control boards, and sheared drive gears. Operators that survived several mild winters die the first time a real ice event hits. If your gate stopped after an ice storm, call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll diagnose it right away.
Check the breaker, then the GFCI outlet the operator plugs into. If those are fine, the operator itself is likely dead, and in Schilling Farms the likely cause is age: most operators installed during the 1990s and 2000s build-out have hit end-of-life. We replace and upgrade operators same-day in most cases. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll walk through it over the phone before we even come out.
Yes, but it depends on how much clearance and conduit you have. Many Collierville gates were installed as manual ornamental iron and later automated halfheartedly. If you’re adding automation for the first time, we assess the power run capacity, post integrity, and gate weight before quoting. If conduit wasn’t buried during the original build, we handle that properly. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free assessment.
Yes. Under UL 325, residential automatic gates in Collierville require entrapment protection - typically reversing edges, photo eyes, or a monitored contact sensor. We install and calibrate entrapment protection on every automatic gate we service or automate, and we include it in every quote. This is not an optional upgrade. It’s the difference between a safe gate and a liability. Call (877) 610-2993 to verify your current protection.
It could be, but more often it’s the post. Collierville Farms sits on the same expansive clay as the rest of Shelby County, and when a gate post shifts, the sliding gate binds against the rack. That grinding you hear is the motor fighting the misalignment. We check the post first, then the rack and pinion. A repair-only correct fix solves both. Call (877) 610-2993 to schedule us to look at it.
Get Your Gate Fixed in Collierville
If your gate is acting up in Collierville, don’t wait for it to fail completely. A gate that’s binding today will be dead tomorrow, and a dead gate leaves you stuck or exposed at the worst possible time. Call (877) 610-2993 now. A person answers. We’ll give you a fair price before any work begins, and we’ll stand behind the fix with our 90-Day Done Right Promise. That’s how we’ve done it in Collierville since 2001.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Collierville since 2001.