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When a driveway gate stops opening in White Settlement, it’s rarely a mystery. It’s a hinge post that heaved in Tarrant County clay, or a 60-year-old chain-link frame that finally gave out. Most of the homes here were built between the 1950s and 1970s, and a surprising number still have their original gates. We see this every week. If your gate is sagging, dragging, or refusing to budge, call us at (817) 241-4067. A live person answers, and we’ll tell you straight whether it’s a two-hour weld job or something bigger.
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.
Why White Settlement Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate
Hal Gatewood has owned and operated Gatewood Fence & Gate since 2001, and he still answers the phone himself half the time. The other half, it’s someone who knows his schedule and will get you on it. We’re not a franchise, not a national outfit, and not a rotating crew of subcontractors. The person who shows up in the Central Meadowbrook or Western Hills area is the person who will stand behind the work. Every job, from a broken Gate Motor & Opener in White Settlement to a full Gate Installation in White Settlement, comes with our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not fixed right, one call brings Hal back. No runaround, no third-party warranty line.
We publish our address. Hal’s name is on the shop and on every invoice. That’s not marketing language; it’s how a local business in a small city like White Settlement has to operate. People here talk. If you’re on Bomber Road or near Saddle Hills and a neighbor asks who fixed your gate, we want you to say our name without hesitation.
Gate Repair Services We Offer in White Settlement
Gate Repair
This is the core of what we do. Sagging frames, snapped hinge bolts, rusted-through posts, gate leaves that drag on the concrete. We fix the gate in your driveway, on site, with welding equipment in the truck. Most repairs in White Settlement take one visit, and we quote the price before we start. Learn more about our Gate Repair in White Settlement.
Gate Installation
Sometimes the old gate is beyond saving, and that’s fine. We install new driveway gates, side-yard gates, and pedestrian gates, built square and set in concrete that actually holds. We measure, order, and schedule the install. The price is written down before anything gets ordered. Learn more about our Gate Installation in White Settlement.
Gate Motor & Opener Service
Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing. We service all of these and more. If your opener is grinding, clicking without moving, or opening halfway and reversing, we can usually diagnose it in under an hour. Seized limits, burned boards, stripped gears. Learn more about our Gate Motor & Opener in White Settlement.
Gate Access Control
Keypads, intercoms, telephone entry, loop detectors. For homes along the western edge near the NAS JRB Fort Worth fence line, access control is often the difference between feeling secure and feeling watched. We program, troubleshoot, and replace these systems.
Gate Parts & Welding
We carry or can order parts for nine major gate brands, and if the part doesn’t exist because the gate is older than the company that made it, we weld a replacement. On-site welding means the gate never leaves your property. This matters when the gate is the only thing keeping a dog in the yard or a car out of the driveway.
Neighborhoods We Serve in White Settlement
We work all over the 76108 ZIP code and the surrounding streets. If you live in White Settlement, we’re close enough to get to you fast, usually within a few hours for a repair call. Some of the areas we’re in regularly:
- Western Hills
- Central Meadowbrook
- Saddle Hills
- Bomber Road corridor
- Dale Lane / Grant Street area
Why White Settlement’s Climate & Housing Affect Gate Repair
White Settlement sits inside a pocket of Fort Worth, but it has its own history. Developed heavily in the 1950s through the 1970s as a bedroom community for Carswell AFB workers, the housing stock skews ranch-style tract homes on modest lots. Many of those homes still have the original chain-link driveway gates installed when the neighborhood was platted. Those gates are now 50 to 70 years old. What does that mean in practice? Hinges that have been rusting since before you owned the house. Posts set in concrete that has crumbled to powder below grade. Frames that have been welded once or twice already, by somebody who maybe didn’t know what they were doing.
Then there’s the soil. Tarrant County’s expansive clay shrinks and swells with every dry summer and wet winter. Gate posts heave, tilt, and pull out of plumb year after year. It’s not your gate’s fault, and it’s not your fault. It’s the ground you live on. But it means a gate that swings fine in March might drag by August and bind by January. That’s why we set posts deep, use concrete appropriate for expansive soil, and check the geometry of the whole frame, not just the moving parts.
One more thing specific to this area: properties along the western edge of White Settlement, near the NAS JRB Fort Worth fence line, often have older heavy-duty commercial chain-link drive gates. These were installed for security and privacy from base traffic, and they use oversized hardware that’s difficult to source. Parts for these gates are not sitting on a shelf at the local hardware store. We order them or weld them, and we know which makes sense before we touch the gate.
Pricing for Gate Repair in White Settlement
You should know what you’re in for before we turn a wrench. Here are our typical repair ranges for the White Settlement area:
- Hinge replacement or repair: $140-$280
- Sagging gate realignment: $100-$220
- Post reset or replacement: $180-$400
- Chain-link section or frame repair: $160-$350
- Opener motor or board replacement: $220-$550
- On-site welding (per repair): $90-$260
Every price is quoted and agreed before any work starts. We don’t show up with a low number and leave with a high one. No trip charge inside Tarrant County. $40 off any repair over $200. Seniors and veterans always get 10% off. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Service Area - Cities Near White Settlement
We also serve the surrounding communities where White Settlement residents often have family or rental property. If you’re in Fort Worth, Colleyville, North Richland Hills, or Hurst, we do the same work there with the same promise.
Serving White Settlement, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the White Settlement 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 About Gate Repair in White Settlement
Most repairs we do in White Settlement fall between $100 and $400, with the average hinge or realignment job around $200. The total depends on whether posts need resetting, whether welding is required, and whether the opener is involved. Call (817) 241-4067 for an exact quote. Estimates are free, and the price doesn’t change when we arrive.
For most repair calls, yes. We keep our routing local, and White Settlement is small enough that we can reach most neighborhoods within a few hours. If the gate is stuck open and you need it secured tonight, call and we’ll tell you exactly when we can be there.
All the time. In fact, that’s most of our repair work. We service gates from LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule, and we regularly repair installations that were done wrong the first time. We don’t care who built it. We just fix it.
White Settlement sits on Tarrant County clay that shrinks and swells with moisture. Posts set shallow or in poor concrete lean within a few years. We reset posts deeper and use concrete mixed for expansive soil, which means it stays put through the wet-and-dry cycles we get here every year.
Yes. If another company has given you a written estimate, bring it to us and we’ll look it over. If something looks off, we’ll tell you. If their quote is fair, we’ll tell you that too. We’d rather you be informed than upsold. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll take a look.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving White Settlement and the surrounding Tarrant County area.
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersNo phone trees - talk to a local gate repair pro.
- 2You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched. No surprises.
- 3We come out and measureLicensed & insured, at a time that suits you - the visit and the quote are both free.
- 4You get the price in writingLine-itemed, yours to keep, and nothing starts until you say go.
What White Settlement Customers Say
"He builds the gates himself in his own shop. You can go and look at it. That is not something you can say about the outfits that just order a panel in."
- Doreen Whitfield"Driveway gate had been dragging for two years and two other companies told me the whole thing needed replacing. Hal reset the posts, rehung it and it swings like it did when it went in. A fraction of the price of a new one."
- Hollis Amberly"Safety photo eyes on our old gate had been bypassed by whoever serviced it last, which he was genuinely annoyed about on my behalf. Fitted proper sealed ones and wired them the way they should be."
- Otis Redmond