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FAAC Welding & Fabrication: The Coppell Owner’s Guide

When a FAAC gate hinge tears loose, a weld cracks on the arm bracket, or the post twists out of square, you need the repair done on site so the gate stays in your driveway. We stock FAAC-compatible fabrication hardware, do the welding on site in Coppell, and most welded repairs run between $285 and $675 installed depending on what let go and how much reinforcement the panel needs. Same-day service is usually available because we keep the common brackets, plate steel, and hinge rebuild parts on the truck.

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Here’s how most owners in Coppell discover the problem. The gate starts dragging on the driveway, or it makes a popping sound when the FAAC operator pushes it open. Sometimes the gate still works fine but there’s a visible crack running through the weld at the hinge. The operator keeps working because it’s not the motor’s fault. The steel gave up. That’s a welding and fabrication job, not an operator replacement. We’ve fixed a lot of gates around Coppell where somebody quoted a whole new gate when all the steel needed was a proper weld and a gusset plate.

Gatewood Fence & Gate is an independent gate repair company. We are not affiliated with FAAC, but we work on their equipment every week and know what holds up around Coppell’s clay soil and Texas heat.

Key Takeaways

• Most FAAC welding and fabrication repairs in Coppell cost $285 to $675 installed.
• We weld on site. The gate never leaves your driveway and the operator never gets unhooked unless it has to come off for the repair.
• We stock FAAC-compatible brackets, gusset plates, and hinge rebuild hardware on the truck.
• Every weld carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing.
• Call (903) 829-4499 and a live person answers. Not a voicemail, not a call queue.

Which FAAC Models This Applies To

Welding and fabrication work applies to nearly every FAAC swing gate model where the operator arm attaches to a steel or aluminum gate panel. The common ones we see in Coppell are the FAAC 400, 402, 412, 415, 422, and 750 series. The hydraulic operators like the 400 and 415 push hard, and when the gate post flexes or the hinge welds are marginal, that’s where the fatigue cracks show up first. We also work on FAAC slide gates, where the rack welds and the wheel carrier plates take a beating.

The first thing to check is the model tag on the operator. It’s a small aluminum plate riveted to the side of the pump or control box. The model number and serial number are stamped right on it. That tells us which arm geometry we’re matching, whether it’s the 400’s direct-drive arm or the 412’s articulated arm. For the gate side, we need to know if the panel is steel or aluminum, because that changes the welding rod and the heat setting. Aluminum gates crack most often where the hinge bolts pass through the panel. Steel gates crack at the welded joints themselves.

On the OEM versus aftermarket question, our position is simple. FAAC doesn’t sell weld-on brackets for most of the older series anymore. When the factory bracket’s discontinued, we fabricate a replacement from plate steel that matches or exceeds the original thickness. That’s usually 3/16-inch plate for the 400 series arms and 1/4-inch for the heavier 750 series. We don’t use parts thinner than the original because you’ll be welding it again in eighteen months. The only aftermarket parts we’ll put on a FAAC operator are ones we’ve seen survive a Coppell summer and a wet spring without pitting.

Signs Your FAAC Welding & Fabrication Is Failing

• The gate drags or scrapes at the latch side. The hinge welds have stretched or the post has moved in the ground. Usually it’s not a bent gate, it’s a hinge weld that’s lost its grip and let the whole panel settle. Fix it before the operator burns itself out trying to push the extra weight.
• You hear a popping or snapping sound when the gate moves. A cracked weld or a loose arm bracket pops when the operator changes direction. The sound is the crack opening and closing. Every time it pops, the crack grows a little longer.
• The FAAC operator arm looks out of alignment with the gate. If the bracket pulled loose or the hinge plate warped, the arm sits on a different plane than the gate. The operator’s pushing at an angle, which wears the joint and will eventually snap the bracket clean off.
• Visible rust staining at the weld joints. Coppell’s humidity and the freeze-thaw of winter mornings get into hairline cracks and push them wider. What looks like surface rust at a weld is often a crack hiding underneath. Worth a look every spring.
• The gate stops mid-cycle or reverses on its own. When the structure binds, the FAAC control board senses current spikes and shuts down for safety. The operator’s fine. The steel’s telling you something’s out of square.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

Installed welding and fabrication work for FAAC gates in Coppell runs between $285 and $675 for most jobs. A broken hinge weld that needs grinding, re-welding, and a gusset plate falls at the lower end. A twisted post that needs to be cut out, plumbed, and re-set with new hinge plates pushes toward the upper end. If the gate panel is aluminum and the repair is aluminum welding with a TIG setup, that’s a skilled job and the price reflects it.

You get the price verbally and in writing before we touch the gate. The written number is the number on the invoice, full stop. We don’t come back with a bolt-on surprise. Every weld job includes grinding the old crack out completely, vee-grooving the joint, and welding it full penetration. Not a cosmetic pass over the top. The quote includes the labor, the rod or wire, and any plate stock we need. If we drive to your place in Coppell and you decide not to do the work, there’s no trip charge, because you live inside the county.

And Hal Gatewood himself puts the 90-Day Done Right Promise on every welding ticket. If that weld fails in the first 90 days, we come back and fix it right. No phone tag, no arguing about whose fault it is.

DIY or Call Us?

Here’s the honest split. You can safely walk your gate line and check for visible cracks, rust staining, and post lean. You can watch the operator arm while the gate cycles and see if it’s pulling the bracket. That’s all good detective work, and knowing what you’re looking at helps you understand what we find when we get there. What you should not do is get under the gate with a welder and try to fix a hinge weld yourself while the gate is still hanging. A gate panel under tension can shift when a weld pops, and a 400-pound steel gate is not something you want to be underneath when that happens.

Regular stick welding on thin tube steel is also where DIY goes wrong. It’s easy to burn through the wall of the tube and leave the gate weaker than it was. TIG welding aluminum FAAC gates takes real practice. If the gate’s your only way into the backyard at 10 p.m., that’s a repair you want holding up. Call (903) 829-4499 and tell us what you found. Tell me what it’s doing wrong and I’ll tell you what it’s going to take, no runaround.

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