Gate Repair in Fort Worth - Same-Day Repair, Priced Before We Start

Trusted Gate Repair for Fort Worth Homeowners

A gate that won’t open leaves you either trapped in your own driveway or parked on the street with a house that’s not secure. In Fort Worth, we see it every week: a motor that hums but won’t move, a sagging panel dragging across the concrete, a hinge post that finally let go after one too many North Texas wind gusts. Gatewood Fence & Gate has repaired and replaced thousands of gates across Tarrant County since 2001, and most Fort Worth repair jobs are finished the same day we show up. If your gate is acting up this morning, call (817) 241-4067 and you’ll get a live person, not a voicemail. Hal Gatewood has been fixing gates since 2001, and his name is on every invoice and on the shop itself.

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What Our Gate Repair Service Includes

Gate repair is not one thing. Sometimes it’s the panel. Sometimes it’s the post. Sometimes the opener has given up and the gate has become a very heavy, very immovable fence section. The list below covers what we actually handle on a daily basis across Fort Worth, from Saginaw to Haltom City to White Settlement. Every one of these repairs carries the same 90-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not done right, we make it right, in writing, on every job.

Electric Gate Repair

Electric gates fail in predictable ways, and the most common one we find in Fort Worth is a power or control-board issue masquerading as “the motor died.” When your electric gate stops responding to the remote or keypad, the first thing we check is the power supply and the control board before we ever condemn the motor. We carry OEM parts for Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Mighty Mule, and Elite systems on the truck, which means most electric gate repairs are done in one trip. If the board is fine and the motor truly is shot, we’ll show you the test reading before we quote a replacement, and that quote is agreed to up front, before any work starts.

Automatic Gate Repair

An automatic gate that moves halfway and reverses, or one that opens but won’t close, is usually fighting a limit switch, a safety edge, or a misaligned track instead of a dead motor. Gatewood Fence & Gate has been servicing automatic gate openers in Fort Worth since 2001, and we know the difference between a board problem, a gear problem, and a gate problem. We service nine major opener brands, including DoorKing and Elite, so when you call for automatic gate repair, the person who shows up knows your hardware instead of figuring it out in your driveway. If the opener can be repaired, we repair it; if it’s beyond saving, we quote a replacement from the brand-matched controller to the remote, and you approve the number before we order a single part.

Hinge & Post Repair

This is where we start with almost every sagging gate, because a gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle. The hinge post is the vertical post the gate actually hangs on, and when it leans or rots or pulls loose, the gate will never close right no matter how many times you adjust the hinge. In Fort Worth’s expanding clay soil, posts shift seasonally, and a lean of even an inch at the post becomes a huge gap at the latch. We dig, reset, or replace hinge posts, reweld hinges where the steel allows, and only then do we address the gate panel itself. Fix the panel without the post and you’ll fix it twice, so we always start with the post.

Gate Realignment

Most “broken” gates in Fort Worth are actually just misaligned gates that someone else gave up on. When a gate scrapes the driveway, hangs up on the latch, or bounces back when it tries to close, the frame has shifted and the hardware is fighting itself. We realign the gate at the hinges, adjust the fork hinges or track hardware, and reset the operator limits so the gate cycles cleanly. Gate realignment is often a same-day fix in Fort Worth, and it usually costs a fraction of what a replacement would, which is exactly why most people call us after another company quoted them a new gate.

Lock Repair

A gate that won’t lock is a hole in your fence, no matter how straight the panel is. We repair and replace gate latches, padlock hasps, mortise locks, and the solenoid locks on automatic gates, and we make sure the lock actually lines up when the gate closes. On automatic gates, a misaligned latch can confuse the operator and make the gate think it hasn’t closed, so lock repair often fixes two problems at once. The price for lock repair is always quoted and approved before we touch a single component, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise covers the lock just like everything else.

Weld & Rust Repair

Steel gates rust, and in Fort Worth the combination of spring storms, summer heat, and seasonal moisture means even well-built gates need weld and rust repair eventually. When a gate rusts through at the bottom rail or a weld pops at the hinge, we don’t haul the gate away; we weld it on site, in your driveway, so the gate stays put. Hal welds on site, and the repair is ground, prepped, and painted so the patch doesn’t look like a patch. If the rust is bad enough that the gate is structurally unsafe, we’ll tell you straight, but most rust and weld repairs we see in Fort Worth are completely fixable without replacing the gate.

Brands We Service for Gate Repair

We service nine major gate opener brands in Fort Worth, but three of them show up on most of our service calls: Ghost Controls, DoorKing, and Mighty Mule. Ghost Controls kits are popular on ranch and driveway gates south of Fort Worth, and we know their control boards and limit switches well enough to diagnose most issues on the first visit. DoorKing openers are common on commercial and large residential gates in North Richland Hills and Colleyville, and we stock the OEM parts that keep those units running instead of saddling you with a generic board that lasts six months.

We also repair Elite and Mighty Mule openers regularly, and we’re certified to service all nine major brands so that the person who shows up at your gate knows your equipment. Whether you have a Ghost Controls opener, a DoorKing, a Mighty Mule, or something else entirely, we can diagnose and repair it. The honest answer is that most openers fail from the same things: power surges, worn gears, misaligned limits, or wires chewed by squirrels. The fix is the same in Fort Worth whether we’re in Hurst or Kennedale: find the real fault, repair it on site, and stand behind the work in writing.

Signs You Need Gate Repair Right Now

• The gate groans or shrieks when it opens. That sound is metal grinding on metal, usually at the hinge or the gearbox, and it’s chewing up parts every time you cycle the gate. A gate that groans today will seize tomorrow, usually when you’re already late and the truck is blocked in.
• The gate sags and scrapes the driveway. A scraping gate is a hinge or post problem, not a panel problem, and every scrape pulls the hinge post a little further out of plumb. In Fort Worth’s clay soil, post movement accelerates through the wet and dry seasons, so a scraping gate needs attention before it tears the post out entirely.
• The opener hums but the gate won’t move. A humming motor with no movement usually means a bad capacitor, a stripped gear, or a bound chain, and running it repeatedly makes the repair more expensive. If you hear the hum, stop pressing the remote and call us; the fix is frequently less than a hundred dollars if you catch it early.
• The gate reverses before it closes, or opens halfway and stops. This is usually a misaligned limit switch or a safety edge that’s sending false signals, and it’s dangerous because it leaves the gate open at night. An automatic gate that won’t complete its cycle is an open invitation, so don’t wait until tomorrow.
• The gate is off the track or leaning hard to one side. A gate that’s off the track is grinding its own hardware to pieces every time the wind pushes it, and the longer it runs out of alignment, the more likely the post itself splits. Show me the gate closing on its own and I’ll show you where it’s failing; a leaning gate is telling you exactly where to look.

Our Gate Repair Process - Step by Step

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   You call, and a live person answers. No voicemail, no call center, no recorded menu. Hal or his crew answers the phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, because a gate emergency at 6 a.m. is still a gate emergency. We’ll ask what the gate is doing, when it started, and what opener you have if you know it, and we’ll give you an honest expectation of when we can be there.
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   We show up in the window we promised. Gatewood Fence & Gate is locally owned and owner-operated, which means the person who shows up at your Fort Worth gate is the person whose name is on the invoice. We don’t send a faceless crew; we send Hal or a background-checked, uniformed technician who has been doing this work for years, not weeks.
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   We diagnose before we quote. We check the hinge post first, then the hinges, then the panel, then the opener, in that order, because that’s where gate problems actually live. We test the motor amp draw, check the limit switches, verify power at the board, and inspect the safety edges, and we show you what we found before we ever talk price.
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   You approve the price before we start. The quote is written, it’s itemized, and it doesn’t change at the door, period. No-hassle upfront pricing means what we say on the phone and what we write on the estimate is what you pay, minus any standing offers you qualify for, like $40 off any repair over $200.
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   We repair on site and clean up after ourselves. Most Fort Worth gate repairs are finished the same day, whether it’s a reweld, a hinge replacement, a lock repair, or an opener board swap. The gate stays in your driveway where it belongs, we test the full open and close cycle with you watching, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise is on the invoice in writing before we leave.

How Much Does Gate Repair Cost in Fort Worth?

Gate Repair Near Fort Worth - Our Service Area

Gatewood Fence & Gate is based right here in Fort Worth and we’ve been serving the city and the surrounding counties since 2001. We regularly repair gates in Colleyville, North Richland Hills, Hurst, Bedford, Keller, Kennedale, and Arlington, and we know the neighborhoods and the gate hardware specific to each area. Most of our Fort Worth repair calls are answered the same day, and if you’re in a neighboring city, we’ll give you a straight answer on timing when you call. Back to home for a full look at what we do and where we work.

Frequently Asked Questions - Gate Repair in Fort Worth

Schedule Your Gate Repair Service in Fort Worth Today

A gate that won’t open or won’t close is only going to get worse, and in Fort Worth the weather and the soil do exactly that. Call (817) 241-4067 for a free, no-obligation estimate. A live person answers, the quote is written and approved before any work starts, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise is on every invoice.

Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Fort Worth since 2001.