Gate Repair in New Rochelle - Same-Day Repair, Priced Before We Start

Fast, Reliable Gate Repair Across New Rochelle

Gate repair in New Rochelle typically runs $180-$480 for hinge, post, and realignment work, while electric operator repairs on older estate gates usually land between $260 and $900 depending on whether we can rebuild the existing motor or need to retrofit a new control board. Most jobs in New Rochelle are done same day or next day, and we answer the phone around the clock. If your gate is sagging, rusted through near the Sound, or refusing to open, call (877) 610-2993 and you’ll get a real person who can tell you what it’ll take to fix.

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We know New Rochelle’s gates the way only a local shop can: the salt-corroded hinges on Wykagyl estates, the 1930s wrought iron that’s been hanging longer than most of us have been alive, the freeze-thaw post heaving that throws North End swing gates out of alignment every spring. Hal Gatewood has been fixing gates since 2001 and he still welds on site so the gate never leaves your driveway. That’s the whole point: we repair what other companies want to replace.

Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is New Rochelle’s Preferred Gate Repair Company

Gatewood Fence & Gate is locally owned and owner-operated. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop and on every invoice, and he’s been at this since 2001. That matters in New Rochelle, where half the gates we’re called to fix were installed before the homeowner’s parents were born. Homeowners in the North End and Wykagyl don’t need a national franchise that quotes one price on the phone and slides a different number across the table at the door. They need a person they can find again, and our published address and license number are there for anyone who wants to look.

Every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise, in writing. If it’s not done right, we come back and make it right. No runaround, no fine print, no phone tree. And when you call our number at 2 a.m. because a gate motor is grinding and the driveway is blocked, a live person answers. Not a voicemail, not a call center three states away. Someone who knows New Rochelle and can get a crew to your street in the time we promise. Response to most New Rochelle addresses, from downtown 10801 up through the 10804 and 10805 ZIPs, is same day on emergency calls.

Our local reputation is built on the jobs other companies walked away from. Other shops look at a 1930s ornamental gate with rotted hinge posts and quote a full replacement. Hal looks at it and sees a weekend of welding, a new footing, and another fifty years of swinging true. That’s the repair-first philosophy that keeps our New Rochelle customers calling us first and recommending us to their neighbors.

Our Gate Repair Services in New Rochelle

Electric Gate Repair

Electric gate operators in New Rochelle, particularly on the older estate properties, take a beating from the salt air and year-round humidity off Long Island Sound. Control boards from the 1980s and 1990s fail without warning, and motors that have been running since the first Bush administration are often worth rebuilding rather than replacing. We service LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, and Linear operators daily, and we keep common boards and capacitors stocked so we’re not waiting on a parts truck from Connecticut. If your gate hums but won’t move, or opens on its own and stops halfway, we’ll diagnose it on site.

Automatic Gate Repair

Automatic gate systems in New Rochelle need more than a working motor. They need properly aligned hinges, solid posts, clean tracks, and functional safety sensors. We routinely find gates in the 10801 ZIP that were automated without addressing the underlying corrosion or post heave, which means the operator is working against a gate that was already fighting itself. Before we sell you a new board, we check the whole system. Sometimes the fix is a $40 bearing, not a $600 operator. We’ll tell you honestly which one it is.

Hinge & Post Repair

This is where New Rochelle’s coastal climate hits hardest. Gates within a half-mile of the Sound, particularly in the 10801 and 10805 ZIPs, show rust-through and hinge seizure years ahead of identical gates in the inland 10804 ZIP. The salt-laden air from Glen Island and Five Islands Park eats through original 1920s through 1950s wrought iron hinges until they seize or snap under the gate’s own weight. We replace hinge pins with corrosion-resistant stainless, rebuild post footings, and when a post has rotted past saving, we cut it out and pour a new one with a galvanized post and a deeper concrete base. A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that’s where we start.

Gate Realignment

Westchester’s freeze-thaw cycles heave the masonry gate posts that anchor so many older North End and Wykagyl properties. Footings shift over winter, and by spring the gate drags on the bluestone or scrapes the pillar. Realignment isn’t just lifting and shimming; it’s checking the post bases, retorquing the hinge welds, and resetting the panel so it swings true. If your gate scrapes in April but swings fine in August, the problem is below grade. We fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice.

Weld & Rust Repair

On-site welding is what separates a real gate company from a parts-swapper. We repair cracked welds, rusted-through pickets, and broken scrollwork right in your New Rochelle driveway. The original ornamental gates in Wykagyl and the North End weren’t built to be replaced, they were built to be repaired, and Hal still welds them the way they were originally made. We cut out the cancer, weld in new steel, grind it smooth, and finish it to match. The gate stays in your driveway the whole time.

Trusted Brands We Service in New Rochelle

We’re certified to service nine major gate brands, and for New Rochelle homeowners that means one call handles it. We work on FAAC, BFT, Linear, and Viking systems regularly, along with LiftMaster, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. Because we stock common parts locally, we’re not waiting on a distributor in New Jersey to ship a board for a FAAC operator that died before a dinner party. We carry what New Rochelle’s older gates actually need: corrosion-resistant hinges, galvanized posts, control boards, safety sensors, and the miscellaneous brackets and bearings that keep a 1930s gate swinging in 2026. If your system uses a brand we don’t stock, we’ll order it and schedule the follow-up before we leave the driveway.

Common Gate Repair Problems We See in New Rochelle Homes

• Salt-corrosion failure on Sound-front properties. Gates in the 10801 and 10805 ZIPs, especially near Glen Island and Five Islands Park, show rust-through on hinges and latches three to five years ahead of identical gates in the 10804 ZIP. The salt air doesn’t just discolor the iron; it seizes the moving parts until something snaps under load.
• Post heave from freeze-thaw cycles. New Rochelle winters are hard on masonry gate posts. Water gets into the footing, freezes, expands, and slowly shifts the post out of plumb. The result is a swing gate that scrapes in spring, binds in fall, and strains its hinge welds year-round. Fixing the alignment without addressing the footing is a temporary patch.
• Obsolete 1980s-1990s operators without modern entrapment protection. Electronics age poorly, and control boards from that era fail suddenly after years of coastal humidity. These systems often lack the UL 325 safety features that are standard today, which means a failure isn’t just inconvenient, it’s genuinely unsafe. We can retrofit modern controls onto many older mechanical operators.
• Worn hinge pins and bushings on heavy ornamental gates. Older wrought iron gates are heavy, and the original hinge pins were not designed to carry that weight for 80 years. Once the pin wears, the gate drops, the latch misses, and the stress transfers to the post. Replacing the pins and bushings early is a $150 fix that prevents a $800 post rebuild later.

Pricing for Gate Repair in New Rochelle, NY

We Also Serve Cities Near New Rochelle

Our Gate Repair service covers all of New Rochelle and the surrounding communities. We’re regularly in Pelham, Pelham Manor, Larchmont, and the Wykagyl section of New Rochelle itself, plus the rest of the county. If you’re a few minutes outside city limits in any direction, call us, and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can get to you today. For more about our coverage across the area, see Gate Repair in New Rochelle.

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