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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AfterFast, Reliable Gate Repair Across Los Angeles
Gate repair in Los Angeles typically costs between $220 and $680 for most hinge, post, and realignment work, and most jobs are completed the same day we arrive. If your gate is sagging near Venice, binding after a quake in Silver Lake, or refusing to open in Reseda heat, we can usually have someone at your property within a few hours. Call (877) 610-2993 and you’ll get Hal or one of his crew on the line, not a queue.
We’ve been fixing gates in Los Angeles long enough to know that the city doesn’t have one gate problem. It has four or five, depending on whether you live in the salt air, on a hill, in the Valley, or in a 1920s bungalow with the original ironwork still hanging. That’s the difference between someone who fixes gates all over the country and someone who fixes them in this city. We’re the second kind.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Los Angeles’s Preferred Gate Repair Company
Hal Gatewood has been at this since 2001, and his name is on the shop. That means something specific in Los Angeles, where a lot of gate work gets done by someone with a truck and a business card who’s gone next month. Hal publishes his address and his license number. If you want to look him up before you call, go ahead. If you want to drive by the shop, he’s there.
Los Angeles customers call us because the person who answers at 3 a.m. is the same person who shows up at 9 a.m. No third party. No national brand with a local web page. Just the owner and the crew he trained, in uniform, background-checked, and carrying tools that say Gatewood on them. When a Sagittarius gate in Echo Park won’t latch at midnight, you don’t want to explain your address to someone in another state.
Every repair we do in Los Angeles carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise, printed on the invoice, not hidden in the fine print. If it isn’t fixed, one call brings us back. That’s the whole promise. Hal stands behind it because he has to see you at the hardware store.
We answer the phone with a live person, 24/7. Not a voicemail. Not a chatbot. And when we quote a price, the price is agreed before any work starts. The price you hear is the price on your invoice. If we find something else while we’re in there, we stop and call you first.
Our Gate Repair Services in Los Angeles
Electric Gate Repair
Electric gates in Los Angeles fail differently depending on where they live. In Venice and Mar Vista, the marine layer eats circuit boards and corrodes limit switches. In the Valley, heat kills capacitors and plastic gear clusters. We service all nine major brands, so when your DoorKing operator in Silver Lake stops responding, we bring the right board, not a guess. Most electric repairs start with a full diagnostic so we fix the cause, not the symptom.
Automatic Gate Repair
Automatic gate repair in Los Angeles often has nothing to do with the operator. Seismic shift moves the post, the gate racks, the operator strains, and the safety edge faults. Before we touch the motor, we check the foundation. That’s what years of LA work teaches you. We reset the post, realign the gate, and only then decide whether the operator actually needs parts. Usually it doesn’t.
Hinge & Post Repair
This is the work we do most in Los Angeles. Salt air in San Pedro rots hinge welds. Old 1970s concrete posts in the Valley crumble around the anchors. Property owners call us because the gate is dragging, and they assume they need a new gate. We excavate the post, pour a reinforced footing, and weld the hinge back on site. The gate stays in your driveway. The post stays straight. You pay for a repair, not a replacement.
Gate Realignment
After any earthquake, however small, gates across Los Angeles shift. The footing moves a half-inch, the gate binds on the latch side, and suddenly it won’t close. We realign the gate on its hinges, adjust the rack and pinion on slide gates, and reset the latch so it catches clean. In Silver Lake and the Hollywood Hills, where driveways are steep and gates are heavy, this needs to be done with the right equipment and a careful eye. We bring both.
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 Los Angeles
We’re certified to service nine gate brands, including Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing, and we carry common parts for these systems on the truck. That matters in Los Angeles, where an aging Viking operator on a Mar Vista driveway shouldn’t wait three days for a board to ship from a warehouse in Texas. We stock parts locally and we install them the same trip. If your operator is older and parts are discontinued, Hal will tell you straight and give you options, not a sales pitch.
Common Gate Repair Problems We See in Los Angeles Homes
- Salt air corrosion on hinge posts and welds. In Venice, Mar Vista, and San Pedro, the marine layer carries enough salt to rot a standard steel hinge in a few years. We replace them with stainless fixings and treat the post before welding, because if you put the same mild steel back on, you’ll call us again in eighteen months.
- Seismic foundation shift. Earthquakes move concrete gate footings. A quake that doesn’t crack a wall can still push your gate post a half-inch out of plumb, and the gate binds or derails off the track. This is routine work here and almost unheard of in most of the country.
- Heat expansion in the Valley. In Reseda and Sylmar, summer temperatures above 105°F make steel gate frames expand. A gate that swings fine in April wedges hard against the post in August. We set seasonal clearances so the gate works year-round, not nine months a year.
- Steep hillside driveways with the wrong gate design. Standard residential swing gates don’t work on a 30-degree grade. In the Hollywood Hills and Laurel Canyon, gates need cantilever or step-fabricated designs. If yours was never right, we’ll tell you, and we’ll build what actually works.
Pricing for Gate Repair in Los Angeles, CA
Here’s what we see across Los Angeles: hinge and post repair typically runs $220-$480 depending on whether we’re replacing a single hinge or excavating and resetting a post. Gate realignment runs $180-$380 for most swing and slide gates. Electric gate repair runs $240-$650, with most of that being the cost of the board or motor part, not the labor. Weld and rust repair runs $160-$450 depending on how much cutting and reinforcing is needed. Every quote is written, agreed, and signed before any work starts. We don’t come back with a bigger number.
We also keep standing offers for Los Angeles customers: $40 off any repair over $200, no trip charge inside the county, a free second opinion on any written estimate, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Los Angeles
Beyond Los Angeles proper, we regularly work in Koreatown, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and View Park-Windsor Hills. If you’re in one of those neighborhoods, you’re still getting our local crew, not a subcontractor. You can read more about what we do on our Gate Repair page, or see the full picture for Gate Repair in Los Angeles.
Serving Los Angeles, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles
If the gate still swings but drags on the latch side, and the hinges look intact, the post has likely moved. We saw this all over Los Angeles after the 2024 Malibu earthquake: gates that worked for years suddenly bound up because the footing shifted. A worn hinge shows visible play. A shifted post shows a gate that’s out of level. We check the post with a plumb line before touching anything else. Call us at (877) 610-2993 and we’ll come look.
The marine layer. Salt air off the Pacific settles on steel and accelerates corrosion dramatically in Venice, Mar Vista, and San Pedro, while Pasadena gets far less salt exposure. Within a few years, standard mild steel hinges and welds turn to scale. We replace them with stainless fixings and seal the post, because the cheap fix just rusts again. We quote exact rust repair prices before we start.
Yes. Steep driveway gates need different hardware and geometry than flat-lot gates, and many homeowners find that their gate was never right from the day it was installed. We can refabricate it on site, re-hang it with the proper hinges, or convert a swing gate to a slide or cantilever design that works on the slope. Call (877) 610-2993 for someone to look at the actual grade.
Check whether the gate is binding at the latch or dragging on the ground when the temperature is high. In Reseda and Sylmar, steel frames expand in extreme heat and wedge against posts, which can burn out a healthy operator. If it’s binding, the operator needs the clearance adjusted, not replaced. We can set the seasonal clearances so it runs clean through August. Free estimates: (877) 610-2993.
If the post is sound, we weld the hinge back on, reinforce it, and re-hang the gate. If the post is cracked, rotted, or shifted at the base, we excavate it, pour a new reinforced footing, and set the post properly. We did exactly that on a hillside property in Silver Lake after the footing moved a half-inch out of plumb. The homeowner’s Viking operator was still strong. The gate was dragging on the latch side. We reset the post, re-hung the gate with stainless hinges, and no new operator was needed. We quote the full repair before any work starts.
Call Gatewood Fence & Gate for Gate Repair in Los Angeles
The gate you have is probably worth fixing. That’s our starting position. Hal Gatewood has been repairing gates since 2001, and he’ll tell you straight whether your post can be reset, your hinge welded, or your operator saved. The name is on the shop, the address is published, and the phone is answered by a real person, day or night. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free estimate, and we’ll come look at your gate this week.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Los Angeles since 2001.