Gate Repair in Hurst - Same-Day Repair, Priced Before We Start

Fast, Reliable Gate Repair Across Hurst

Gate repair in Hurst usually comes down to one thing: the post, not the panel. We’ve worked hundreds of Hurst gates since 2001, and the pattern is nearly always the same. A wood swing gate drags the ground in July. The homeowner assumes the hinges wore out. What actually happened is the black clay under the footing swelled, tilted the post inward two or three inches, and pulled the whole frame out of square. You can swap hinges all day and the gate will still drag by August. We fix the footing first, then the hardware, because that’s the order that lasts. If your gate is sagging, sticking, or refusing to close, call (817) 241-4067 and Hal or one of his crew will come look at it.

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We’re Gate Repair specialists serving Hurst every day of the week, and a live person answers the phone at any hour.

Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Hurst’s Preferred Gate Repair Company

Hal Gatewood has owned and operated Gatewood Fence & Gate since 2001. His name is on the shop, his address is published, and his license number is there for anyone to check. That’s not marketing. That’s how a local business used to work, and it’s how we still run it. When you call about a gate dragging on a Hurst sidewalk, the person who shows up is background-checked, uniformed, and expected to leave your gate better than he found it. If he doesn’t, the 90-Day Done Right Promise says one call brings him back. In writing, on every invoice.

We answer the phone 24/7. Not a voicemail, not an outsourced queue. A live person. Hurst residents who’ve been burned by companies that quote one number on the phone and another at the door tend to appreciate that. We quote the price before any work starts, and that’s the price. No trip charge inside Tarrant County, ever. $40 off any repair over $200. A free second opinion on any written estimate from another company. Seniors and veterans get 10% off, permanently, no haggling required.

Our Gate Repair Services in Hurst

Most of our Hurst work falls into four categories. Here’s what each one actually involves on a mid-century ranch home or acreage property in this part of Tarrant County.

Hinge & Post Repair

This is the job we do most in Hurst, and it’s the one that separates a real fix from a temporary patch. In the neighborhoods off Pipeline Road and Precinct Line Road, homes built in the 1960s and 1970s have original redwood or cedar gate posts set in concrete footings poured before anyone understood how much North Texas clay moves. A decade of drought-and-flood cycles heaves those footings several inches per season. The latch-side post drifts inward. The gate drags. We dig out the old footing, reset the post in deep concrete, and re-hang the gate square. If the post itself is rotted at the soil line, we replace just the post and keep your existing gate panel. Most Hurst gates don’t need full replacement. They need the post addressed.

Electric Gate Repair

Hurst acreage properties and some of the older ranch homes have electric swing or slide operators that have been out there since the 1990s. The motor still works but the gate binds, so the motor strains, so the circuit board fails, so the gate stops opening halfway. We trace that back to the post or the roller and fix the cause, not just the symptom. We stock parts for the brands Hurst homeowners actually have, so we’re not waiting on a warehouse three states away. If your opener is dead entirely, we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s worth repairing or whether a new operator makes more sense.

Automatic Gate Repair

Automatic gates in Hurst fail for predictable reasons: the safety sensors get knocked out of alignment by a kid on a bike, the keypad stops responding after a hard freeze, or the operator’s limit switches drift so the gate closes too far and reverses. We service all of it. A gate that closes by itself, randomly, is almost always a sensor or a board issue, not a ghost. We diagnose it on site, quote the repair, and do the work in your driveway.

Gate Realignment

This is the quiet work that makes everything else function. A gate that’s out of square by half an inch will grind its hinges, strain its motor, and scar the concrete. We re-hang, re-shim, re-square, and re-weld as needed. We weld on site. We don’t haul your gate off to a shop and leave you with a gap in your fence for a week. The gate stays in your driveway, and we bring the welder to it.

Trusted Brands We Service in Hurst

We’re certified to service nine major gate brands: LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. In Hurst, the ones we see most often are LiftMaster on older acreage swing gates, Linear on slide gates along Harwood Road, and Ghost Controls or Viking on newer solar installs. When a Hurst customer’s Linear keypad dies or a Ghost Controls solar panel stops charging after a dusty summer, we usually have the part on the truck or at the shop. That’s the difference between a same-day fix and a four-day wait.

Common Gate Repair Problems We See in Hurst Homes

After 29 years of working this area, here’s what we keep finding in Hurst specifically:

• Clay-driven post heave. Tarrant County’s black clay expands when wet and contracts when dry, hard. Footings poured in the 1960s were rarely deep enough to stay stable through those cycles. The post tilts. The gate drags. Hardware-only fixes won’t hold.
• Warped cedar and pine frames. Hurst’s original gate frames have been baking in 100°F-plus summers since before most of us were born. The bottom rail twists. The gate loses its rectangular shape. Sometimes we can re-square and brace it; sometimes the frame needs replacing while the original hinges and latch can stay.
• Rotted hinge-side stiles. Where the wood meets the concrete footing, decades of moisture wick up into the end grain. We see this on nearly every original Hurst wood gate. We cut back to sound wood, splice in a new stile, and re-hang.
• Solar operator degradation on acreage gates. Dust from dry summers coats the panel. Hard freezes degrade battery capacity. By year five or six, the gate moves sluggishly in winter and fails to complete cycles. We clean, test, and replace panels and batteries as part of normal automatic gate service.

Our crew was called to a ranch-style place off Pipeline Road where a 14-foot solar gate had been dragging the clay since May. The hinge post had leaned inward from decades of clay expansion, so we reset the post footing with deep concrete, reinstalled a LiftMaster swing operator, and added a safety photocell and keypad entry. That gate now cycles cleanly through every heat-and-freeze swing since.

Pricing for Gate Repair in Hurst, TX

We Also Serve Cities Near Hurst

If you’re just over the city line, we cover North Richland Hills, Bedford, Colleyville, and Euless too. The same crew, the same 90-Day Done Right Promise, the same live person on the phone. Whether your property is in Hurst proper or a few minutes east on Harwood Road, we’ll get to you fast.

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