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AfterFast, Reliable Gate Installation Across Colleyville
Gate installation in Colleyville isn’t a one-size-fits-all job, and if you’ve lived here long enough, you already know why. The soil moves. The lots are tight. The gates are heavy. A new driveway gate in Colleyville typically runs $3,800 to $9,500 installed, depending on the gate size, material, and whether we’re replacing the operator too. Our crew does this work the way we’d do it on Hal’s own place, with the gate hung plumb, the footings built for this dirt, and the whole thing welded on site so it stays where we put it. If you’re in Colleyville and need a straight answer, call (817) 241-4067.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Colleyville’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
Hal Gatewood started this company in 2001, and the name on the shop still answers to the name on the invoice. We’re not a franchise. We’re not a call center three states away. When you call about a gate installation in Colleyville, a live person picks up, and if there’s a problem after the job, that same person comes back. That matters in a city where a custom iron gate is often the first thing guests see and the last thing you want sagging after two seasons.
Colleyville homeowners tend to ask sharper questions than most. They want to know the gauge of the steel, the duty rating of the operator, and whether the footing will hold in Blackland Prairie clay. We like that. It means we’re quoting against people who actually understand the work. Our Gate Installation team has hung gates from Glade Hills to Tarrant County’s eastern edge, and the reviews that come back mention the same things: showed up on time, welded on site, cleaned up after themselves.
Response time matters here. It can take forty minutes to cross Colleyville at school pickup, but most quote requests get a call back within the hour, and we schedule installation work in two-to-four hour windows we actually keep. You’ll know who’s coming to your house, and you’ll see the same face if you ever need us again.
Our Gate Installation Services in Colleyville
Driveway Gate
Driveway gates in Colleyville do more work than gates almost anywhere else in the metro. They open and close for landscapers, pool services, deliveries, and the school run, often a dozen cycles a day. We install both single-swing and double-swing driveway gates, always sizing the operator for the actual weight of the panel, not the brochure number. On a half-acre Colleyville lot with a steep curb cut or a tight turnaround at the top, we’ll set the posts deeper and reinforce the hinge with a welded gusset so the gate doesn’t develop the telltale sag at the corner.
Pedestrian Gate
A lot of Colleyville homes have a big driveway gate and a smaller pedestrian gate alongside it, and that pedestrian gate gets the most abuse. We install walk gates that match the driveway iron, hung on posts that won’t drift. If your pedestrian gate shares a post with the driveway gate, we’ll talk through whether that post needs replacing before we hang anything new, because fixing the panel without the post means you’ll fix it twice.
Sliding Gate
Sliding gates are the quiet fix for Colleyville driveways where a swing gate never worked right from the start. If your driveway runs parallel to the house or the set-back leaves no room for a 16-foot swing arc, a cantilever slide gate rides on rollers and doesn’t need to cross the neighbor’s airspace. We install rack and pinion slide systems with operators matched to the panel weight, and we pour the roller footing like a pier, deeper than code, because Colleyville clay will test it within two seasons. This is the service we recommend most often when an existing swing gate on a shared easement can no longer clear the fence line.
Swing Gate
When there’s room for the arc, a well-built swing gate is still the right choice for a lot of Colleyville driveways. We install single and double swing gates on welded steel posts, with the hinges set at the factory-built standoff and the operator mounted so it doesn’t fight the gate. The key here is the post footing. In this clay, an unbelled footing will heave, and a heaving post throws the whole gate out of plumb inside a year. We over-excavate and bell every post hole for swing gates in Colleyville, no exceptions.
What happens when you call
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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 Colleyville
We install and service operators from DoorKing, LiftMaster, Elite, and Ghost Controls, and we’re certified on each. That matters because Colleyville has a lot of 1990s-era systems that were installed with one brand and later retrofitted with whatever the contractor had on the truck. We keep commonly needed parts for these brands in our local service stock, which means we can often complete an installation without a second trip. If your gate is a custom iron build, we’ll tell you straight which operator will actually last under it, and we’ll stand behind that choice.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Colleyville Homes
- Heaved post footings. Colleyville sits on Blackland Prairie expansive clay, which swells when it rains and shrinks in a drought. A post set with a straight-sided footing moves with the soil, and the gate binds or sags. We bell every footing, and in the worst zones we go down 36 inches or more.
- Undersized operators on oversized gates. The original 1990s-era openers were often specced for a 300-pound panel. Then the homeowner upgraded to a 600-pound custom wrought-iron gate without touching the motor. The drive gear strips, and the motor dies young. We size the operator for the gate you actually have.
- Shared driveway easements with no room to swing. In Colleyville’s older sections, a swing gate that cleared the fence line ten years ago now clips it because the clay narrowed the right of way. The fix is usually a sliding gate, and we’ve installed dozens of them for exactly this reason.
- No pedestrian access, so the big gate does everything. When every delivery and kid on a bike cycles the 16-foot driveway gate, the operator pays for it in wear and vibration damage. Adding a dedicated pedestrian gate, or a pedestrian override on the operator, extends the life of the whole system.
Pricing for Gate Installation in Colleyville, TX
Here’s what gate installation actually costs in Colleyville. A basic pedestrian gate install runs $900 to $1,800. A single swing driveway gate on steel posts, with operator, runs $3,500 to $6,500. A double swing driveway gate runs $5,000 to $9,500. A sliding gate, which needs the roller footing and rack, runs $4,800 to $10,000 depending on panel size and operator. The two things that move the price most in Colleyville: whether we’re reusing existing posts (often a false economy, since old posts in this clay are usually the problem) and the weight of the iron panel. Every quote is written down and agreed before we start. No number changes at the door. Seniors and veterans get 10% off permanently, and there’s no trip charge inside the county. Call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate.
One more thing about Colleyville pricing. You’ll see national chains promising a $79 gate install or a free operator with purchase. That number evaporates when the tech shows up and starts adding “post work” and “site prep.” We’d rather give you the real number on the phone. Hal’s been at this since 2001, and the name is on the shop. We’re not going to embarrass ourselves over a gate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Colleyville
Gatewood Fence & Gate handles gate installation for homeowners across the mid-cities and northeast Tarrant County. Along with Colleyville, we regularly work in Bedford, Hurst, North Richland Hills, and Keller. If you’re a few minutes outside the city line, call anyway. The county line doesn’t change the warranty.
Serving Colleyville, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Colleyville 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 Installation in Colleyville
A belled footing flares out at the bottom like an upside-down mushroom, which locks the post in place when the clay around it swells and shrinks. Straight-sided footings in Colleyville clay get squeezed upward during wet cycles and leave the post loose during droughts. Belled footings stop that movement, which is why we over-excavate and bell every slide gate post we set here. It costs a little more in concrete and labor, but it’s the difference between a gate that stays true and one that binds on its rails within two seasons. Call (817) 241-4067 if your slide gate is already binding, and we’ll tell you whether the footing or the rollers are the culprit.
Yes, and we do this frequently in Colleyville. A cantilever slide gate rides parallel to the fence line instead of swinging out into the easement, so it works where a swing gate no longer clears the neighbor’s property or a fence that’s shifted. We’ll set the roller posts outside the travel path, hang the gate on a rack and pinion, and add a loop detector so the gate opens for exiting traffic without crossing onto the neighbor’s side. The quote is free, and we’ll confirm whether your existing operator can drive the slide mechanism or needs to be replaced. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll come look at the site.
The answer depends on the gate, not the operator. If your gate panel is sound and the post footings haven’t heaved, replacing the operator is a $900 to $2,500 job. If your gate is a heavy custom iron panel that was hung on an operator sized for a much lighter original gate, the operator has likely been overworking for a decade and the drive gear is already compromised. Then a new operator without addressing the panel weight sends you back into the same failure cycle. Hal will look at the gate and the operator together and tell you which path actually saves you money over five years. The estimate is free, and so is a second opinion on any written estimate you already have.
We plan the install around your access cycle, which matters on Colleyville streets where the driveway is the only way in. For a gate replacement on an active driveway, we’ll either leave the old gate operational until the new posts are set and the panel is ready to hang, or we’ll schedule the install in a single day and set up a temporary panel if needed. For slide gate conversions, we stage the rail and operator ahead of time so the actual swap takes hours, not days. We also make sure the doorbell, mail access, and any pedestrian path stay usable throughout. Call (817) 241-4067 and tell us your access schedule, and we’ll build the install around it.
Yes. Every operator we install includes the entrapment protection required by current UL 325 standards: photo eyes, edge sensors where needed, and a reversing mechanism that stops and reopens the gate if it meets resistance. On new slide gate installations in Colleyville, we add a loop detector for exit traffic and confirm the safety photocells are mounted at the correct height for the installation. If your gate is being permitted, we’ll tell you what the city inspector will look for so there are no surprises.
A Word on Colleyville’s Soil, Because It Changes Everything
Colleyville’s Blackland Prairie clay heaves and shrinks so much that a gate post set to code in a neighboring city like Southlake can move a full inch in a single wet-dry cycle here. That’s not an exaggeration, and it’s why we don’t set posts in Colleyville the way we’d set them in Bedford or Hurst. The footing has to over-excavate and bell, or the hinge post moves within two seasons, and the gate starts sagging at the latch. Hal learned this the hard way years ago, and it’s baked into how we bid the work. When someone quotes you a Colleyville gate install and doesn’t mention the clay, they haven’t installed enough gates here.
On a shared easement off Montclair Drive, our crew installed a 16-foot slide gate for a homeowner whose original swing gate couldn’t clear the neighbor’s fence line after years of clay swell had narrowed the right of way. We used a rack and pinion drive with a LiftMaster operator, poured a deeper post footing for the cantilever rollers, and added a loop detector for the exit lane. The gate now opens without crossing the property line, and the mail truck got its clearance back. That’s the job in Colleyville: working space gets tighter every year, and the dirt never stops moving. A good installer plans for both.
If you’re ready for a gate that’s built for Colleyville conditions and installed by a local who’ll be here next year and the year after, call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate. Hal’s name is on the shop. The address is published. And the phone gets answered by a person, not a menu.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Colleyville and the surrounding communities since 2001.