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A gate motor replacement in Fort Worth typically runs $750-$1,400 installed, and a repair call usually lands between $125-$400. We get it back running same week, often same day for a repair. If you’re out toward the Chisholm Trail Parkway corridor with a builder-grade operator that quit after the last freeze, or up in the westside neighborhoods with an ornamental iron gate that predates automation, we know the exact failure you’re dealing with. Call (817) 241-4067 and you get Hal or someone who works next to him every day. Not a phone tree half a country away.
Schedule and dispatch for Dallas-Fort Worth service is coordinated from one metro office here in the region, but the person who shows up at your Fort Worth driveway is local company, every time. We don’t send subcontracted crews.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Fort Worth’s Preferred Gate Motor & Opener Company
Hal Gatewood started this shop in 2001 and never turned it into a franchise. The name on the invoice is the same name on the truck. Fort Worth homeowners keep our number because we show up when we say we will, and because we fix things other companies walk away from. We weld on site. We reset heaving posts in clay that swallows other companies’ warranties. And we stand behind everything with a 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing, not buried in fine print. If it isn’t right, one call brings us back. No runaround.
Our Fort Worth customers tell us the same thing over and over: they had a national outfit quote one price over the phone, then got hit with a bigger invoice at the door. That is not how we work. The price we quote is the price you pay, agreed before any work starts. If you have a written estimate from someone else, bring it in. We’ll give you a free second opinion with no pressure and no games. And remember: $40 off any repair over $200, no trip charge inside the county, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans. Those are standing offers because Hal put them there years ago and never took them down.
As part of our Gate Motor & Opener work, we also service North Richland Hills, Hurst, Kennedale, and Bedford from right here in the Fort Worth area. Same live person answers the phone at (817) 241-4067 at 3 a.m. as at noon.
Our Gate Motor & Opener Services in Fort Worth
Motor Installation
Adding a motor to a gate that has run manual since it was hung is one of our most common calls in Fort Worth. Older west-side properties and horse places out toward the far western county line have beautiful gates, heavy steel or pipe-and-rail, with no power run to the post. Some were never designed for automation, and some have a retrofit that was done badly. We install the proper operator, run conduit the right way in the ground, and set the opener to match the gate’s real weight and swing. Not a guess on a spec sheet. A typical motor install in Fort Worth runs $750-$1,400 depending on gate size, power distance, and whether safety loops are needed.
Motor Repair
Fort Worth gate motors break in particular ways. Freezing rain glazes the drive chain or arm, the motor strains, and something gives. A stripped gear, a cracked limit-switch housing, a burned board. Often the operator is fine and the real problem is a post that heeled over in the clay. We diagnose first, repair what failed, and tell you plainly if a replacement makes more sense. A typical Fort Worth motor repair runs $125-$400, with most falling under $300. We stock parts locally so we aren’t waiting on a slow ground shipment from a distribution center two states over.
Linear Motor Service
Linear operators – the classic chain-driven workhorse – still run half of Fort Worth’s slide gates. They are simple and they last, when they are set up square. The trouble comes when the gate post shifts, the chain slackens, and the operator guzzles power trying to move a gate that is fighting the track. We sell, install, repair, and tune Linear motors on everything from residential driveway slides to double-rail horse-entry gates. Fort Worth linear motor work – repair or replacement – typically lands between $250-$800 depending on what failed and whether the rack needs realignment.
Slide Motor Installation & Repair
Along the Chisholm Trail Parkway corridor and in the newer master-planned subdivisions, HOA-mandated slide gates get builder-grade operators installed as fast as possible. Many were mounted with direct-buried wire instead of proper conduit, so after a couple of years the loop detector lead corrodes, the safety photocell shorts, and the gate refuses to move. We fix that. Properly. We pull new conduit, reset the operator rack alignment, and set the reverse sensitivity so it doesn’t grind the apron. Slide motor replacement in Fort Worth usually runs $700-$1,300, with repairs starting around $150.
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 Fort Worth
We’re certified to service nine major gate operator brands, and around Fort Worth we see a lot of BFT, Linear, Viking, and Ghost Controls units in particular. We stock common parts for these locally, which means a Monday-morning repair call in Fort Worth doesn’t wait until Thursday for a freight delivery. If we wouldn’t put it on our own gate, we won’t install it on yours. That isn’t brand snobbery so much as twenty-some years of watching what holds up in this clay and this ice.
Common Gate Motor & Opener Problems We See in Fort Worth Homes
- Safety-reverse loop tripping constantly after wet seasons. Blackland Prairie clay heaves the gate post out of plumb, the latch misses, and the opener backs the gate off every cycle. Fort Worth sees this routinely; a limestone-based city like Austin almost never does.
- Operator seized after an ice storm. Glaze ice locks the rack and pinion or the swing arm, and the motor burns itself trying to break free. Winter Storm Uri and the January 2023 freeze both sent a wave of these to our shop.
- Builder-grade slide gate operators dead within five years. The HOA required a gate, the builder installed the cheapest operator that met spec, and now it will not move or it grinds and shudders. Sometimes the operator is salvageable with a tune-up; sometimes the panel and rack need real work.
- Ornamental iron gate with no automation, but the homeowner wants it. These west-Fort-Worth gates are often heavy, beautifully made, and hung on hinges that were never intended for an electric swing arm. Adding automation requires planning around the clay soil and the original hinge geometry, not a bracket bolted on in an afternoon.
Pricing for Gate Motor & Opener in Fort Worth, TX
Here is straight talk on what Fort Worth gate motor work costs. A service call diagnostic that turns into a small repair: $125-$250. A full motor replacement: $750-$1,400 installed, depending on gate weight, operator type, and power run distance. Adding battery backup during an install: $200-$350. If the post has to be pulled, the footing re-poured, and the gate re-plumbed, add $200-$500 depending on the depth of the clay heave damage. We quote the price in writing before work begins. If the price changes at the door, that is not Gatewood. It is someone wearing our truck magnets who we have never met. Call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate and you’ll get Hal or one of his two guys, not a sales script.
We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Worth
Our Gate Motor & Opener in Fort Worth crews work the whole Fort Worth metro. We get calls from North Richland Hills, Hurst, Kennedale, and Bedford every week, and we cover them with the same live-answered phone and the same 90-Day Done Right Promise. Same pricing, same owner, same truck. No “service fee” that magically appears because you live one exit past the map someone drew.
Serving Fort Worth, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Fort Worth 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 Motor & Opener in Fort Worth
Your gate post has heaved in the Blackland Prairie clay. Wet winter soil swells, the post tilts, the latch point shifts, and the safety photocell or current sensor reads the misalignment as an obstruction. That reads like a motor problem, but the motor is doing what it was told. We reset the post footing or shim the hinge, re-plumb the gate, and the reverse fault goes away. If you have been topping off the motor’s force setting to force it closed, stop. You are training the opener to bulldoze through a real obstruction someday. Call (817) 241-4067 and we will diagnose it straight.
Yes, usually. The gate needs a solid hinge post with good footings, and we may need to run power and a loop-detector lead through new conduit in the clay-heavy soil. If the post is set shallow or rusting at grade, we weld and pour a new footing rather than bolting an operator onto a failing base. Plan on $750-$1,400 for a proper install with safety loops and a tuned reverse. For an exact number on your specific gate, call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate.
For a real working livestock gate that cycles dozens of times a day, we spec Viking and BFT slide operators more often than anything else. They have the torque for heavy pipe-and-rail without burning a board every summer, and they tolerate the dust and the occasional freeze with basic maintenance. Linear works fine too if the gate is light and the track is square. For horse properties, we strongly recommend battery backup so a power blink in a storm doesn’t strand your trailer or your stock. Call (817) 241-4067 and tell us the gate width and how many cycles a day it sees. We’ll give you a real recommendation, not a catalog.
Yes. If a February ice storm drops the power for two days, an automatic gate without battery backup is a two-ton paperweight across your driveway. Fort Worth has been hit hard enough often enough – Uri in 2021, the January 2023 ice storm – that we now recommend battery backup on every automatic gate install or major retrofit. It costs $200-$350 added to an install and roughly the same as a retrofit. It runs the gate through outages and keeps the safety loop alive if the operator has to cycle manually. For a gate that guards a working property or a long driveway, it is not optional. Call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate and we will include it.
Usually not. The motor is dragging a gate whose rear post has shifted in the dry clay, or whose rollers have worn flat after years of moving across a rail packed with caliche dust. We level the gate, replace the rollers if they are shot, and only then look at the operator. Sometimes the gear rack itself is sagging. Fixing the geometry is cheaper than replacing the motor, and if someone quotes you a new operator without checking the roller rail and the post alignment, get a second opinion. Ours is free. Call (817) 241-4067.
If your gate motor is down in Fort Worth right now, don’t wait through another night with the gate stuck open across your drive. Call (817) 241-4067. A real person answers, and we will get you scheduled for the earliest time that works for you. Free estimates, written prices, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Fort Worth and surrounding North Texas communities since 2001.