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Gate motor and opener repair in Irving usually runs $280 to $520 for a standard residential operator swap, and most jobs we handle in Irving are done the same day we show up with the part on the truck. Commercial slide operators in Las Colinas or Valley Ranch run higher, typically $750 to $1,400 depending on the board, gear, and safety-edge work involved. If your gate is stuck half-open on a Sunday night in North Irving, call us at (903) 829-4499. A live person answers. That’s Hal’s rule, not a marketing line.
Irving isn’t like the rest of the metroplex. The mix of 1950s-era homes in North Irving, the master-planned HOA communities in Valley Ranch, and the corporate campuses along State Highway 114 means one gate motor job can look completely different from the next. We’ve been working Irving driveways and entries long enough to know which side of town you’re on before you finish describing the problem. The name on every invoice reads Gatewood, and Hal Gatewood has been at this since 2001.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Irving’s Preferred Gate Motor & Opener Company
We’re the shop that answers the phone, publishes our license number, and hands you a written 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job, no fine print. Irving homeowners have dealt with enough vendors who quote one number on the phone and slide a different invoice across the kitchen counter. That doesn’t happen with us. The price you approve before work starts is the price on the bill, period.
Hal’s crew has worked inside Valley Ranch HOA entry monuments, Las Colinas office park perimeters, and the older 1960s neighborhoods off Story Road where gates have been repaired half a dozen times by somebody who never fixed the post underneath. We show up when we say we will, in a marked truck, background-checked and uniformed. And when a commercial slide operator at an HOA entry goes down on a Friday afternoon, we have people in the Irving area who can be there fast, not because a dispatch center routed it, but because Hal picks up the phone himself and knows exactly who is closest to you.
Gatewood started in 2001 as a fence company. Gate motors and openers became a natural extension because a gate that sags in the hinge post will tear through a new operator in eighteen months. We fix the whole thing: the post, the track, the board, the safety edge. That’s the repair-first approach that keeps us busy in Irving without running a single television ad. The work speaks, and so do the neighbors who hand out Hal’s number at the hardware store.
Our Gate Motor & Opener Services in Irving
Motor Installation
Adding a motor to a gate that was built manual is one of the most common calls we get in North Irving, especially in the 1950s and ’60s neighborhoods where conduit for power was never run during construction. That means surface-mounting the low-voltage wiring and often pairing the operator with a battery backup or solar option so it passes inspection without trenching your whole yard. In newer Las Colinas townhomes, we more often replace builder-grade operators that died at year two or three. A typical manual-to-automatic conversion in Irving runs $1,400 to $2,800 including the operator, safety edges, and the power run.
Motor Repair
Most Irving motor repairs are the result of a gear stripping, a control board short, or a power surge frying a transformer. We carry boards and gears for Linear, Viking, DoorKing, and Ghost Controls on the trucks that service Irving, so we’re not ordering your part and leaving your gate wide open for a week. A standard board replacement on a residential swing gate in Irving runs $280 to $420 parts and labor. We quote it before we touch a screwdriver.
Linear Motor Service
Linear operators are common in the Valley Ranch and Las Colinas communities, and we service them regularly. The older Linear actuators with the nylon gear had a habit of stripping under daily HOA cycle loads, and we’ve swapped enough of them to know exactly what’s on the truck needed. We also retrofit newer Linear units into existing monuments and pedestals when the old motor is beyond saving, without breaking the brick or the HOA’s design rules.
Slide Motor Service
Slide gates dominate Irving’s commercial and HOA landscape, from the Fortune 500 campuses off Highway 114 to the gated residential entries in Valley Ranch. A slide motor failing is not just an inconvenience, it’s a property that won’t close and a liability for the association. We work on LiftMaster LSXS and FAAC high-cycle operators, Viking and Elite units inside decorative columns, and we handle track realignment when the Blackland Prairie clay under the post has heaved the rail out of whack. Commercial slide motor repair in Irving typically lands between $600 and $1,300, with a written quote always before we begin.
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 Irving
We are certified to work on nine major gate motor brands, and in Irving the ones we see most often are Viking, DoorKing, Linear, and Ghost Controls. Valley Ranch in particular has a concentration of older Viking and Elite slide operators that are now discontinued or hard to source. We keep compatible control boards and retrofit kits stocked, and when a part is out of production, we know the aftermarket options that actually hold up, not the cheap ones that fail again in six months. If your gate motor in Irving is a brand we don’t stock locally, we’ll tell you honestly on the first call, not after we open it up.
Common Gate Motor & Opener Problems We See in Irving Homes
- Builder-grade operator failure in Las Colinas townhomes. The operator installed when the unit was built was cheap, under-spec, and never meant for daily use by eight or ten owners. The plastic gear strips, the control board fries, and you’re buying a real motor at year two. We replace the whole operator, not just the gear, so you’re not calling us again in eleven months.
- Blackland Prairie clay heaving the slide post. Irving sits on expansive clay that swells in wet weather and shrinks dry. A slide-gate post set in that clay can drift out of plumb every couple of years, throwing the rack and pinion misaligned until the motor burns itself out fighting the track. We set the post right, then deal with the motor.
- Discontinued Viking or Elite boards inside HOA entry monuments. The Valley Ranch entry columns built in the late 1980s are beautiful, and the operators inside them are orphans. Sourcing a compatible board or retrofitting a modern operator without altering the brick is a specific skill, and we do it without needing a variance.
- No conduit run during construction in North Irving. The neighborhoods built in the 1950s and ’60s predate automatic gates entirely. Homes there that want a motor today have no underground power path, which means battery backup, surface-mount runs, or solar. We lay out the options and the code implications before we start.
Pricing for Gate Motor & Opener in Irving, TX
Here’s what Irving homeowners actually pay, not a national average you can’t verify. A residential motor repair like a stripped gear or a failed capacitor lands between $220 and $420. Replacing a burnt control board runs $280 to $420. A full motor replacement on a swing gate typically falls between $850 and $1,600 depending on the brand and whether you want battery backup. Slide operators, especially the commercial-grade units in HOA and office-park settings, run $1,200 to $2,800 installed. The price you’re quoted is the price you pay, before any work starts. We also knock $40 off any repair over $200, and there’s no trip charge inside the county. Seniors and veterans get 10% off permanently. Call (903) 829-4499 and we’ll give you an honest number over the phone, not a range designed to get our foot in the door.
We Also Serve Cities Near Irving
Our Gate Motor & Opener work takes us all around the south and west metro. If you’re in Duncanville, DeSoto, Grand Prairie, or Cedar Hill and your automatic gate stopped doing what it should, the same repair-first crew that handles Irving’s HOA entries will come out to you. Same phone, same promise in writing, same 90-day guarantee.
Serving Irving, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Irving 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 Irving
They fail because most of those entry monuments were built in the late 1980s with Viking and Elite slide operators that are now discontinued and unsupported. The control boards burn out, the gears wear, and parts are impossible to find through normal channels. We source compatible aftermarket boards and retrofit modern operators into the original brick column without cutting into the masonry or violating HOA aesthetic standards. Last month in Valley Ranch, a 1980s ornamental iron slide gate at an HOA entry monument had exactly that: a discontinued Viking with a burned board. Our tech sourced a compatible aftermarket board, kept the brick column untouched, and added a safety photocell to meet UL 325. No variance, no hassle. Call (903) 829-4499 and we’ll tell you what’s inside your column before we take anything apart.
Yes, we service LiftMaster LSXS and FAAC high-cycle operators on the office parks and gated communities along Highway 114 and throughout Las Colinas. These are not residential swing-gate units; they run hundreds of cycles a day and require commercial board diagnosis, proper torque settings, and safety-edge compliance. We carry the common parts and we’re certified on the brand. If it’s an emergency, call now; Hal answers the phone himself.
Usually yes, because in the older North Irving neighborhoods built in the 1950s and ’60s, the conduit was never run during construction, so we surface-mount the low-voltage run and pair it with battery backup or a solar option where trenching isn’t practical. We will not quote you a motor and then surprise you with a two-day trenching job. A manual-to-automatic conversion in Irving runs roughly $1,400 to $2,800 including the operator, edges, and the power solution. You’ll get a written quote first, for free.
Probably not. Irving sits on Blackland Prairie clay that swells with rain. The post under the track heaves, the rail shifts, and the motor is fighting an alignment problem until it burns itself out. We realign the post and track, then check the motor’s current draw to see if it’s been damaged by the strain. Fix the post without the motor and you’ll fix it twice; fix the motor without the post and you’ll pay twice. Call (903) 829-4499 and we’ll come look while the ground is still telling us where it moved.
We do. We’ve worked with Valley Ranch community managers and HOA boards long enough to know the paperwork side of it, the aesthetic rules, and the inspection points they care about. The letter you need from us, the spec sheet on the operator we’re proposing, the notes on how we’ll keep the brick column untouched; we provide all of it. We do the work, we stand behind it, and we’re easy to find again when the association is back in the same room a decade from now. That’s exactly what you want in a gate vendor.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Irving since 2001.