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Fast, Reliable Gate Repair Across Fort Worth

When your driveway gate stops responding or starts dragging on the concrete, you need a technician who understands Fort Worth’s specific conditions: clay soil that pushes posts out of line, summer heat that warps older steel, and custom iron gates built to fit ranch-style homes. Latch and Post Gate Repair Fort Worth handles all of it. We’re a Cedarwell-family gate specialist with a live person on the phone 24/7, and a written price in your hand before any work begins. Call (682) 841-5749 and tell us what your gate is doing. We’ll tell you exactly what it’ll cost to fix it.

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Why Latch and Post Gate Repair Fort Worth Is Fort Worth’s Preferred Gate Repair Company

Fort Worth homeowners call us because we focus on three things: gate repair, gate installation, and electric gate repair. Nothing else. We don’t do plumbing or roof work. That narrow focus matters when you have a 400-pound custom steel swing gate that’s sagging because the hinge post settled during last year’s dry spell.

Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and factory-trained on the brands Fort Worth families actually have: LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. Every visit follows the Cedarwell Care Promise. Shoe covers go on before we step inside your home. Drop cloths protect the floor. You get a photo of the clean-up before we leave. And every repair carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not right, we make it right. No argument, no fine print.

We coordinate scheduling and dispatch from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, so response to Fort Worth neighborhoods is quick and consistent. Calls are answered by a live person around the clock. That’s not a recording. It’s a real human who can talk through what you’re seeing and get you on the schedule.

Driveway Gate Repair in Fort Worth

Driveway Gate Repair in Fort Worth usually means one of three things: a gate that won’t open at all, a gate that drags on the concrete because the posts have shifted, or a gate that opens halfway then reverses. All three are common here. Fort Worth’s expansive clay soil expands when wet and contracts when dry. That cycle pushes hinge posts up and out of alignment, season after season. The result is a gate that worked fine in April but scrapes the driveway by August.

A typical driveway gate repair in Fort Worth runs $180 to $480 for hinge and alignment work, depending on gate size and whether we need to reset a post or just replace worn hinge bearings. When the operator itself has failed, you’re usually looking at $350 to $900 for a new motor and arm on a standard swing gate. Slide gates with damaged racks run higher. You’ll always get a written price before we touch anything.

Hinge and Post Reset

Posts move in this soil. That’s just what happens in Fort Worth. We dig out the footing, re-pour at a deeper base, and re-hang the gate so it clears the driveway by a full 2 inches even at peak soil contraction. This is different work than simply adjusting the gate panel. If the post is leaning, panel adjustments won’t hold.

Operator and Safety Photocell Replacement

Older openers from the 1990s often don’t have modern entrapment protection. They keep pushing when the gate meets resistance, which is a real hazard on long ranch driveways where kids and pets play. We replace the operator, install a new safety photocell to meet UL 325, and program the force settings so the gate reverses gently on contact.

Gate Welding in Fort Worth

Gate Welding in Fort Worth is often the difference between keeping a custom ornamental iron gate and replacing the whole panel. Many homes in Tanglewood, Mira Vista, and along the long driveways west of downtown have gates that were welded on site decades ago. The steel is still good. The welds and the hinge post are not. We weld the cracked joints, add gusset plates where the design allows, and replace undersized hinge posts that twisted under years of Texas heat.

Welding repair in Fort Worth typically runs $250 to $650 for cracked welds and sectional reinforcement. A full hinge post replacement with a deeper footing runs $500 to $1,100 depending on the post diameter and how much concrete the old work used. Custom gates cost more to weld because the ornamental work needs careful matching, but it’s usually far cheaper than fabrication from scratch.

Weld Repair Without Full Replacement

Most ornamental iron gates built before 2000 used undersized hinge posts. That was the common practice. The post twists, the gate sags, and the panel pulls away from the weld line. We can weld the separation, true the gate, and replace the hinge post. The original panel stays. That preserves the look of the house and saves you the cost of new ironwork.

In Tanglewood, we reset a sagging custom steel swing gate on a curved driveway where the hinge post had settled 1.5 inches after a dry summer. The gate dragged on the concrete and the opener was fighting the load. Our crew dug out and re-poured the post footing with a deeper base, replaced the worn hinge bearings, and reinstalled the LiftMaster operator with a new safety photocell to meet UL 325 entrapment protection. The gate now clears the driveway by 2 inches even during peak soil contraction.

Trusted Brands We Service in Fort Worth

Fort Worth gates run on a mix of older and newer equipment. We repair Viking swing gate operators on ranch properties north of Loop 820. We service Ghost Controls arms on lighter tube-steel gates in Kennedale and Haltom City. We repair DoorKing slide gate operators in commercial and residential settings across Fort Worth, and we handle Elite and Mighty Mule systems where those are in place. Because we carry a local stock of common parts for LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, and the brands above, we can often complete a repair the same day the diagnosis is made.

Common Gate Repair Problems We See in Fort Worth Homes

• Clay soil lifting the hinge post every spring. When the ground swells after rain, the post rises and the gate binds against the operator arm. That strips rack and pinion teeth on slide gates, and it bends arms on swing gates.
• Legacy operators that won’t reverse. 1990s openers without UL 325 entrapment protection keep pushing when the gate meets resistance. If a child or dog is in the path, the gate doesn’t stop. That’s a retrofit we handle frequently on ranch driveways.
• Custom iron gates with undersized hinge posts. Pre-2000 ornamental gates were often hung on posts too small for the panel weight. Fort Worth’s summer heat expands the steel, the post twists, and the gate sags. Adjusting the panel alone won’t fix this. The post has to be replaced or reinforced.
• Slide gates jumping the track when the ground is wet. When clay soil expands in spring, the post holding the track rises. The gate loses contact with the rollers and jumps. We re-pour the track base and reset the post so the track stays level through wet and dry cycles.

Pricing for Gate Repair in Fort Worth, TX

We Also Serve Cities Near Fort Worth

If you’re in Haltom City, Hurst, Kennedale, or Arlington and your gate is giving you trouble, we can help. We coordinate dispatch from our Dallas-Fort Worth office and our crews serve the whole area. Learn more about our Gate Repair services or see what we do across Fort Worth.

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