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If your gate is dragging across the driveway or groaning every time it opens, you’re not alone. The Colony has more automated gates per square mile than almost any city in North Texas, and a lot of them were installed during the same building wave. That means they’re wearing out together. We fix them the way they should have been built in the first place, and we’ll usually have someone at your door the same day you call. Hal Gatewood has been doing this kind of work since 2001, and when you call (979) 291-0947, a live person picks up, not a recording.
Gate repair in The Colony typically runs $145 to $485 depending on whether the issue is mechanical, electrical, or structural. Most repairs are handled in one visit.
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 The Colony Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate
There’s a reason people in The Tribute and Austin Waters keep our number saved in their phones. When a cast-iron gate the size of a small car decides to fall out of plumb at 7 a.m., you want somebody who knows the difference between a hinge problem and a post problem. That’s the first question Hal asks. Most companies start by swapping the opener. Hal starts by looking at the hinges, the post, and the ground the post is set in, because that’s where The Colony’s soil makes its mischief.
We’re owner-operated, which means the name on the invoice is the name of the person standing in your driveway. There’s no dispatch queue, no phone tree, no technician you’ll never see again. If it’s not right, one call brings Hal back. That’s the 90-Day Done Right Promise, and it’s in writing on every single job. We also service gates in Stewart Peninsula and Legend Crest, and we know which neighborhoods sit on the worst clay.
And if you’ve already got a written estimate from another company, bring it over. We’ll give you a free second opinion and tell you honestly whether that quote is fair, inflated, or if they’re trying to sell you a replacement you don’t need. Hal gets genuinely annoyed by that kind of thing.
Gate Repair Services We Offer in The Colony
Gate Repair
This is what we’re known for. Sagging gates, bent hinges, broken welds, wheels that have chewed through their track, operators that stall halfway, keypads that beep but don’t open anything. Hal fixes the gate in your driveway rather than hauling it off to a shop. On-site welding means most structural repairs are done the same day.
Learn more about our Gate Repair in The Colony.
Gate Installation
When a gate is beyond saving, or when you’re building new and want it done right the first time, we handle the full install. That includes the gate itself, the posts set deep enough to survive Blackland Prairie clay, the opener, the safety edges, and the wiring. You get a written price before any work starts, and a free measure.
Learn more about our Gate Installation in The Colony.
Gate Motor & Opener
Thermal cycling in North Texas is brutal on operators. A gearbox that bakes in 105-degree heat all July then gets hit with an ice storm in February doesn’t fail gently, it fails loudly. We service and replace openers from FAAC, LiftMaster, BFT, and Linear, and we stock the common boards and arms so we’re not waiting on a truck from California.
Learn more about our Gate Motor & Opener in The Colony.
Gate Access Control
Community entrance gates, HOA monuments, private drives with keypad or fob entry. We wire in the control boxes, set the limits, and make sure the safety loops actually stop the gate when a car is in the swing path. If your HOA has been arguing about who fixes what, call us and we’ll help you sort out the actual problem.
Gate Parts & Welding
Sometimes you don’t need a new gate. You need a new hinge barrel or a weld where the old one cracked. Hal welds on site, in your driveway, and that keeps the cost down and the job quick. We keep steel stock, tubing, and hinge kits on the truck.
Most of these jobs are quoted and approved before the first tool comes off the truck. You’ll never get a surprise invoice from us.
Neighborhoods We Serve in The Colony
We’re in and out of every corner of The Colony, and we’re usually at your door within a few hours of your call when it’s a repair emergency. These are the neighborhoods we’re working in most often:
- The Tribute
- Stewart Peninsula
- Austin Waters
- Legend Crest
- Cascades at The Colony
Every one of these neighborhoods has its own gate personality. The Tribute has heavier ornamental pieces and more lakefront exposure. Austin Waters runs a lot of slide gates on tight lots. We know the difference because we’re here all week, not flying in from somewhere else.
Why The Colony’s Climate & Housing Affect Gate Repair
The Colony sits directly on Blackland Prairie expansive clay, and that’s the single biggest reason gate posts go out of plumb here. This soil absorbs water, swells, and lifts concrete; then it dries out, shrinks, and drops it. Repeat that a hundred times over five years and a gate post that was perfectly square at installation is now leaning three degrees, which binds the hinges, drags the gate across the driveway, and burns out the opener motor. We see this pattern constantly in the older sections of the city, where posts were set before anyone fully understood the soil behavior.
Then there’s the housing stock itself. The Colony was one of the DFW area’s first large-scale master-planned communities, and the building waves that shaped it also shaped its gates. The 1980s tract sections have different hardware than the 2000s HOA subdivisions, which almost universally run ornamental iron swing or slide gates with electromechanical operators. Many of those operators were installed in the same 5-8 year window, and they’re now reaching end-of-life together. We’re doing a lot of operator replacements right now in gates that would otherwise be perfectly fine.
Pricing for Gate Repair in The Colony
Here’s straight talk on what gate repair costs in this area. These ranges reflect The Colony market rates:
- Service call / diagnostic: $0 trip charge inside the county, free estimate
- Hinge repair or replacement: $145-$285
- Gate post reset or reinforcement: $325-$700 (clay soil makes this a higher-ticket fix here)
- Opener board or limit switch replacement: $185-$420
- Full operator replacement: $850-$1,650 depending on gate weight and brand
- On-site welding repair: $120-$350
You’ll always have the price in writing before we touch your gate, and we take $40 off any repair over $200. Seniors and veterans get a permanent 10% discount. No haggling needed.
Service Area - Cities Near The Colony
While this page is for The Colony, we also run calls up to Little Elm, over to Prosper and Frisco, and down to Plano. Same crew, same day territory, same live person on the phone.
Serving The Colony, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the The Colony 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 The Colony
Most gate repairs in The Colony run between $145 and $485, with full operator replacements typically $850 to $1,650 depending on gate size and brand. Hinge and post work tends to cost more here than in cities with stable soil because of The Colony’s expansive clay. Call (979) 291-0947 and Hal will give you an exact number before any work begins.
For repair and emergency calls, we generally get to The Colony the same day you call. We’re local to this area, not coming in from an hour away. Call (979) 291-0947 and a live person will tell you exactly when to expect us.
Yes. A large share of our work in The Colony is on HOA entrance monuments and access-control systems, because the city has such a high density of master-planned subdivisions. We work with HOAs on swing gates, slide gates, keypads, fobs, and the safety systems that come with them. Get our number to your property manager.
The Blackland Prairie clay under The Colony expands and contracts dramatically with moisture changes, which gradually shifts concrete gate posts and throws swing-gate geometry out of alignment. Even sound hardware binds when the post moves. That’s why fixing the panel without fixing the post means you’ll fix it twice. We start at the post, because that’s where the problem lives.
Yes. Hal welds on site, in your driveway, on most structural gate repairs. Your gate stays where it is, and the repair happens where the problem is. That’s faster, cheaper, and you get the 90-Day Done Right Promise on the work. Call (979) 291-0947 for a free estimate.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving The Colony since well before the gates started wearing out. If you need a straight answer, call (979) 291-0947.
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 The Colony Customers Say
"Welded the hinge back onto our wrought iron gate on site rather than taking it away for a fortnight. Ground it back and painted it and you cannot see the repair."
- Winston Achterberg"Fitted a keypad and an intercom so my mother can let carers in without coming down the drive. He set it up and then made her practise with it until she was comfortable."
- Lucinda Marchbanks"He came out in the snow to get our gate closed after a delivery lorry clipped it, then came back in the spring to do the proper repair when the ground had thawed. Only charged for the second visit."
- Ingrid Solheim