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Most gate failures in Highland Park start the same way: a wrought iron panel that’s dragged on its hinges for six months, a motor that hums but won’t move the gate, or a limit switch that trips every time the temperature climbs past 95 degrees. When that happens, you need someone who knows that Highland Park is its own municipality with its own permit office, and that the gate on a 1930s Tudor estate on Beverly Drive isn’t fixed with a part from a big-box shelf. We answer the phone around the clock at (903) 829-4499, and we’ll be at your gate with the right tools, the right metal, and a repair-first plan before you’ve spent the day watching your driveway turn into a parking lot for strangers.
We’re Gatewood Fence & Gate, owned and operated by Hal Gatewood since 2001. We repair gates other companies want to haul off and replace. On-site welding is standard, not an upsell. Every job carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not right, Hal comes back himself and makes it right. No fine print, no “per our policy.” Just his name on the shop and his word on the invoice.
Key Takeaways
- Gate repair in Highland Park starts with the post, not the panel. A sagging gate almost always means a footing that’s shifted in the black clay.
- We weld on site. Your gate stays in your driveway. No hauling off, no three-week wait.
- Highland Park requires permits through the Town of Highland Park, not the City of Dallas. We know which work triggers a permit and we handle the paperwork.
- Live person answers 24/7. No voicemail. No call center. No chatbot.
- 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job, stamped in writing.
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 Highland Park Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate
Highland Park isn’t a suburb where every driveway gate came off the same truck. Walk down Lakeside Drive, Armstrong Parkway, or Beverly Drive and you’ll see custom ornamental iron that was forged when the estate was built, matched to masonry piers and automated with operators from FAAC, Elite, and Viking Access. The companies that built those gates are mostly gone. The parts are discontinued. The homeowners who own them now need someone who can weld a broken scroll back together, fabricate a matching finial, and rehang a 400-pound panel on tenons that were poured in 1938. That’s the work Hal does.
We serve the Old Highland Park estate corridor, the streets around Lakeside Park, and the wider 75205 area. When a gate goes down, you’ll talk to a live person on the first ring, any hour. You won’t get a “windows” schedule or a callback sometime Thursday. You’ll get a straight answer and a time Hal or his crew will be there. His shop has a published address, his license number is on every invoice and on the website’s home page for anyone who wants to look it up. That’s the oldest accountability there is: the name is on the shop, and the shop is down the road.
Gate Repair Services We Offer in Highland Park
Gate Repair
A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and that’s where we start. We true the posts, re-weld the hinge barrels, fab the missing picket, and leave the gate swinging square instead of dragging on the apron. Learn more about our Gate Repair in Highland Park.
Gate Installation
When a gate is beyond saving, we build and install a new one to fit the existing masonry piers, matching the style of the house so it doesn’t look like a catalog add-on. We handle the Town of Highland Park permitting, pour the footings below the shrink-swell line, and set the posts ourselves. Learn more about our Gate Installation in Highland Park.
Gate Motor & Opener
We service and install operators from LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule, and we’ll recommend the right one for your gate’s weight and duty cycle. A new operator on an old gate without a safety-edge retrofit is a liability waiting to happen, so we check the full run before we quote the motor. Learn more about our Gate Motor & Opener in Highland Park.
Gate Access Control
Keypads, intercoms, vehicle loop detectors, telephone entry, and remote systems built around how your household actually uses the drive. We program it, wire it, and hand you the codes before we leave.
Gate Parts & Welding
Broken finial, rusted-through bottom rail, hinge pulled off the post, or a custom scroll that’s missing entirely. We weld on site and fabricate replacement components when you can’t buy one because the gate was custom-built in 1954. That’s the job, and it’s what separates us from a parts-swapper.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Highland Park
If you’re inside the town limits of Highland Park, you’re in our service area. Typical response time for a repair call is same-day or next morning, depending on when you call and how deep the problem runs. We’re regularly on site in:
- Old Highland Park - the original estate corridor with the oldest ironwork in town
- Lakeside Park area - homes backing to the park with heavy pedestrian gate traffic
- Beverly Drive & Armstrong Parkway - where ornamental gates face the street and need to match the architecture
- North Highland Park - 75205 residential streets with a mix of original and newer automated gates
- Highland Park West - perimeter estates where the gate is part of a long masonry wall run
Why Highland Park’s Climate & Housing Affect Gate Repair
There are two things every gate in Highland Park fights. The first is the black clay. The soil under this part of Dallas County is expansive “black gumbo” that swells when it rains and shrinks hard during a summer drought. A gate post set in that soil can heave an inch between May and September. It doesn’t sound like much, but an inch of heave at the bottom of a seven-foot post is a gate that drags, an opener that stalls, and a limit switch that trips every afternoon. We see it on Preston Road, on College Avenue, on every street where the footing wasn’t drilled deep enough a few decades ago. The fix is to drill below the shrink-swell zone and set the post so it stays put, then re-align the gate so the operator isn’t fighting the soil for the next ten years.
The second fight is the heat. Highland Park’s triple-digit summers bake operator control boards, stretch long steel panels, and push thermal expansion until a gate that closed perfectly in April is suddenly catching the strike plate in July. These aren’t failures. They’re seasonal conditions. A limit-switch adjustment and a heat check on the board solve most of them. But a company that doesn’t know black clay and Texas summers will sell you a new motor when all you needed was a quarter-turn on the switch. We’d rather fix what’s there and tell you the truth about what’s next.
Pricing for Gate Repair in Highland Park
Every job is quoted up front, in writing, and agreed before any work starts. You won’t see a higher number when the van shows up. That’s not how we work.
- Service call and diagnostic: No trip charge inside the county. We come out, find the problem, and tell you what it costs to fix.
- Hinge and alignment repairs: Most run $180 to $340 depending on gate weight and how far the post has moved.
- Welding and fabrication: Ranges from $125 for a small scroll repair to $900+ for a full ornamental panel rebuild with custom components.
- Gate operator replacement: Typically $850 to $2,600 depending on brand, gate weight, and whether safety edges and battery backup are required.
- Senior and veteran discount: Permanent 10% off any repair or installation, no haggling required.
We also take $40 off any repair over $200, and we’ll give you a free second opinion on any written estimate from another company. Call (903) 829-4499 for an exact quote. Estimates are free, and you’ll know the number before we touch a wrench.
Service Area - Cities Near Highland Park
We live and work up and down the Dallas North Tollway corridor and the surrounding communities, so if you’re outside the town limits, we still likely cover your area. See our service pages for Gate Repair in Coppell, Gate Repair in Plano, Gate Repair in Southlake, and Gate Repair in Irving.
Serving Highland Park, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Highland Park 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 Highland Park
Most Highland Park gate repairs land between $180 and $900 depending on whether it’s a hinge realignment, a welding job, or a full operator replacement. The number depends on what the black clay has done to your post and whether you have a custom ornamental panel that needs fabrication. We quote everything in writing before we start, and the price you see is the price you pay. Call (903) 829-4499 for a free estimate on your specific gate.
In most cases, yes. We run repair calls same-day or next-morning throughout Highland Park. The one exception is a gate that needs a custom part fabricated - that may take a day or two to weld and finish. But we’ll tell you that on the phone before you wait around, not after we’ve taken the gate apart.
Yes. Highland Park is its own incorporated town with its own building department, and certain gate replacements and operator installations require a Town of Highland Park permit that companies used to Dallas rules routinely skip. We know which projects trigger a permit, we pull the paperwork ourselves, and we don’t leave you with unpermitted work that surfaces during a property sale.
That’s one of the main reasons homeowners in Old Highland Park call us. Most of the ornamental gates in this town were custom-forged between the 1920s and 1960s, and the original shops are long gone. We fabricate replacement scrolls, finials, pickets, and rails to match the existing profiles and patina. It’s not an off-the-shelf part. It’s metalwork done on site in your driveway.
We’re certified to service LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. Highland Park estates tend to run FAAC, Viking, or Elite operators, and we stock parts and control boards for all three, so a bad board doesn’t mean a two-week wait.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, fixing gates in Highland Park and across the Dallas-Fort Worth metro since 2001.
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 Highland Park Customers Say
"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"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"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