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Gate Repair Services in Hurst, TX

If you’re standing in your driveway on a 105°F July afternoon staring at a gate that won’t budge, or a post that has wandered three inches out of plumb, you want someone who knows Hurst soil, Hurst building stock, and Hurst’s particular way of wrecking gates. That is exactly what we do. Gatewood Fence & Gate repairs, welds, resets, and replaces gates all over Hurst, and we answer the phone with a live person when you call (903) 829-4499. Typical response inside the city runs same-day or next-morning for most repair calls. Hal Gatewood has been at this trade since 2001, the name is on the shop, and the shop is down the road, not three states away.

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Why Hurst Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate

Most calls we get from Hurst start the same way: a homeowner tells us another company said the whole gate has to come down and get replaced. Then we drive out, look at the post, and find the gate itself is fine. The clay did the damage, not the frame. We fix what is actually broken and leave what is not. That repair-first habit is why people off Precinct Line Road and around Bellaire Park North keep our number in their phone. Every job is backed by the 90-Day Done Right Promise, in writing, on every invoice. If it is not right, one call brings Hal back. No runaround, no dispatch queue, no we’ll see what we can do. We also hold a license number you can look up, and the person who shows up in your driveway is the person whose name is on the invoice.

Hurst has a lot of ranch and split-level subdivisions built between the late ’50s and the mid-’80s, and those original wood-post swing gates and chain-link side-yard gates are now 40 to 60 years old. We have repaired and rebuilt gates in neighborhoods like Bellaire Park North and Mayfair, and the pattern is consistent: the post finally gave up in the gumbo, or the freeze snapped a hinge. Either way, the fix is usually local, which means it is usually affordable.

Gate Repair Services We Offer in Hurst

Five services cover nearly every gate problem a Hurst homeowner will ever have. Here is what each one involves, in plain terms.

Gate Repair

This is where the 90-Day Done Right Promise gets used the most. We reset heaving posts, re-square racked frames, replace broken hinges, and rebuild sagging gates without hauling them off. On-site welding means the repair happens in your driveway, usually the same day. Learn more about our Gate Repair in Hurst.

Gate Installation

When a gate has genuinely reached the end of its life, or you are adding a gate where one never existed, we install new gates built for Hurst soil. That means wider concrete collars around posts and frames selected for a place that swings from 105°F to hard freezes. Learn more about our Gate Installation in Hurst.

Gate Motor & Opener

Motors fail here for predictable reasons: heat-soaked controller boards, freeze-damaged wiring, and drive arms wrenched out of alignment by shifting posts. We service LiftMaster, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, and the rest of the common brands, and we diagnose without selling you a replacement you do not need. Learn more about our Gate Motor & Opener in Hurst.

Gate Access Control

Intercoms, keypads, and vehicle entry for Hurst homes and small acreage properties. We run power, wire safety edges, and program hardware so the gate opens when you want it to and stays closed when you don’t. We will not leave you with a system that needs a factory reset every three months.

Gate Parts & Welding

Sometimes all a gate needs is a new hinge, a welded crack, or a fabricated bracket. We weld on site, match parts when matchable, and fabricate when not. A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that is where we start.

Neighborhoods We Serve in Hurst

We work gate repair jobs across the entire city, from the older streets near the Hurst Public Library to the subdivisions along Brown Trail and Pipeline Road. Typical response time inside Hurst is same-day or next-morning for most repair calls. Here are a few of the areas we visit most often:

• Bellaire Park North
• Mayfair
• Parkview Gardens
• Precinct Line Road corridor
• Brown Trail area

Why Hurst’s Climate & Housing Affect Gate Repair

Hurst sits on Tarrant County’s notorious expansive black-clay soil, the gumbo that swells after rain and shrinks during every dry spell. A fence post set in that clay does not stay where you put it. Slowly, season by season, the ground works it up and sideways. Gate posts in Hurst’s mature neighborhoods, especially the 1960s through 1980s subdivisions, drift just enough that the latch no longer catches, a swing gate drags on the concrete, or a roller gate binds against its track. The gate was not built wrong and it is not broken. The earth simply moved under it. In much of the city, resetting the post in a wider concrete collar fixes the problem permanently, without replacing the gate. That is the standard local fix, and it is the first thing we check.

Then North Texas weather stacks on top of the soil. Summer heat above 100°F bakes UV-sensitive plastic hinges and vinyl hardware until they are brittle. Winters bring periodic hard freezes that soak into wood grain and then expand, splitting old posts lengthwise. The February 2021 ice storm snapped wooden posts and buckled metal gate frames all over the Metroplex, and Hurst was no exception. A gate here faces heat, freeze, and heaving soil all within the same twelve-month cycle. That is why we do not just swap a part; we check what the ground and the sun have been doing to the whole assembly.

Pricing for Gate Repair in Hurst

Service Area - Cities Near Hurst

While this page is focused on Hurst, we also take gate repair calls from nearby Tarrant County communities. If your gate is out in Bedford, Euless, Grand Prairie, or Kennedale, call the same number and we will get you scheduled.

FAQs About Gate Repair in Hurst