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Gate installation in Hurst, TX isn’t just about hanging a steel panel on hinges. It’s about accounting for the expansive clay soil that shifts every season, the older posts that have drifted out of plumb over thirty years, and the safety testing that keeps your family and cars protected. Most driveway gate installations in Hurst run between $2,800 and $7,500 depending on the gate style, operator, and what’s already standing in your driveway. We serve Hurst from our Dallas-Fort Worth dispatch office, and our crews know the neighborhoods here: Shady Oaks, Bellaire, Oak Hill, and the streets off Precinct Line Road. Call (817) 562-7979 for a free estimate before you put down a deposit anywhere.
Why Ironworks Gate Co. Is Hurst’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
Ironworks Gate Co. was founded in 1984, and we’ve spent 42 years doing one thing: driveway and estate gates. Not fences, not general welding, not whatever walks in the door. Gates. That focus matters when you’re spending thousands of dollars on something that has to hold plumb, close smoothly, and stop safely every single time.
Led by Victor Salinas, our technicians are background-checked and uniformed on every job, and they work in your Hurst home the way they would work in their own mother’s driveway. The Gate Installation in Hurst work we do carries our written 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not right, we come back and make it right. No paperwork, no arguing, no exceptions. That’s the Keystone Standard on every job we finish.
We also answer the phone. A live person, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No voicemail trees, no callback queues. When your gate motor fails on a Sunday afternoon in Hurst, you get a real person who can dispatch a technician for same-day Gate Repair in Hurst.
Our Gate Installation Services in Hurst
Every Gate Installation we complete in Hurst starts with the same question: what’s the driveway actually asking for? A swing gate on a short post needs different work than a sliding gate on a long run. A pedestrian gate beside a double driveway gate needs its own hinge geometry and its own closer. Here’s what we install most often in Hurst:
Driveway Gate Installation
A driveway gate in Hurst is the workhorse of the property. It opens and closes dozens of times a day, every day, in Texas heat and spring rain. We install both single and double driveway gates, but we pay special attention to the operator and the safety edges. A gate that closes on a car or a kid is a liability you should never carry. Every driveway gate we install includes UL 325-mandated safety testing: photocells, reversing edges, and obstructed-close reversal tests before we call the job done.
Pedestrian Gate Installation
Pedestrian gates in Hurst are often afterthoughts. A builder hung one on a shallow post next to the driveway, and five years later it drags on the concrete. We install dedicated pedestrian gates with their own posts, their own hinge points, and their own closers. If you want it keyed to the house, we can do that. If you want it tied into the same Hurst Gate Access Control as the driveway gate, we can do that too.
Sliding Gate Installation
Sliding gates are common in Hurst where driveways angle sharply toward the house and there’s no room for a gate to swing inward or outward. But a sliding gate is the least forgiving install out there. The rack and pinion alignment has to be dead on. Half an inch of misalignment strips the rack over time, and the gate starts jerking or stopping halfway. We’ve rebuilt sliding gates in Hurst where the original installer never set the track flat, and the gate was chewing through wheels every year-often the result of skipping proper Gate Parts & Welding in Hurst during the initial build. Our sliding gate installs start with a straight, level track bed and end with load testing on the operator.
Swing Gate Installation
Swing gates are the classic Hurst look, especially on older homes in the Shady Oaks and Oak Hill areas. But the classic look has a classic problem: hinge posts set decades ago with shallow footings. In Hurst’s expansive clay, those posts shift. A gate that swung freely in March binds by July. When we install a swing gate in Hurst, we don’t assume the existing posts are good enough. We check them for plumb, check the footing depth, and if the post has moved, we fix that first. Then we hang the gate.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Hurst
We install and service operators from nine major brands, including LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. For Hurst homeowners, we recommend LiftMaster and Linear most often because parts are easy to source quickly and the operators hold up well in Texas heat cycles. We also work on Viking and DoorKing systems for older estate gates that were installed when those were the names in the neighborhood. If your existing operator is from a brand we’re factory-trained on, we can often reuse it on a new gate and save you the cost of replacing a working motor.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Hurst Homes
After 42 years of gate work, we can predict what we’ll find before we roll up to a Hurst driveway. Here’s what we see most:
- Hinge posts out of plumb from clay soil movement. Hurst sits on expansive clay that swells when wet and cracks when dry. Over the years, shallow-posted gate panels bind on their hinges, sag, or won’t latch. Our team rolled out to a home in the Shady Oaks neighborhood where a builder-grade swing gate had twisted on its hinge post. Instead of replacing the panel, we bored a fresh post footing, plumbed the hinge post, and mounted a LiftMaster operator with a safety photocell and loop detector, then ran a full reversal test so the homeowners could hear it respond. That’s the kind of repair that lasts.
- Missing loop detectors on driveway approaches. Installers sometimes skip the inductive loop that tells the gate you’re trying to leave. Without it, the gate won’t auto-open for exiting cars, and drivers back into their own gate. We install loop detectors on any automatic driveway gate install in Hurst, period.
- Rack and pinion misalignment on sliding gates. Off by half an inch, and the operator grinds the rack until it strips. We see this on sliding gates across Hurst, especially where the original installer didn’t set a concrete pad for the track.
- Undersized operators on double gates. A double driveway gate is two panels, and each panel has its own weight and its own wind load. A single operator with the wrong duty cycle will burn out in a Hurst summer. We size operators per leaf and test them under load.
Pricing for Gate Installation in Hurst, TX
A typical single swing driveway gate with operator in Hurst runs $2,800 to $4,500. A double swing gate, which means two operators or a paired opener system, typically runs $4,200 to $7,500. A pedestrian gate runs $900 to $2,200 depending on the panel and whether it shares a post with the driveway gate. A sliding gate is usually $4,500 to $8,000 because the track, the rack, and the operator are all more involved. The biggest cost drivers are the gate material (steel vs. ornamental iron vs. aluminum), the operator brand, and whether we’re reusing existing posts or boring new footings. Every quote we give in Hurst is a fixed number agreed before any work starts. No surprises on the bill. Call (817) 562-7979 and Victor or our team will walk the job with you and put the price in writing.
We Also Serve Cities Near Hurst
Our crews cover Gate Installation across the mid-cities area, including Hurst, Bedford, North Richland Hills, Haltom City, and Fort Worth. If you’re a few minutes from the HEB line, we can usually reach you the same week. Call (817) 562-7979 and we’ll tell you exactly when we can be there.
Serving Hurst, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Hurst 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 - Gate Installation in Hurst
Yes. A loop detector is a coil of wire buried in the driveway that senses the metal mass of your car and tells the gate to open when you’re exiting. Without one, the gate only works from the keypad or remote, which means you’ll either back into it or have to roll down the window and punch in a code every time you leave your own driveway. Every automatic driveway gate we install in Hurst includes a loop detector unless you specifically decline it in writing.
Sometimes. If the brick column is structurally intact and the footing goes deep enough to resist Hurst’s clay movement, we can set the hinge post inside or anchor to the column. But many older Hurst columns were built as decorative veneer over a shallow footing, not as load-bearing structures. We’ll inspect the column before we plan the install and tell you honestly whether it can stay or needs to be rebuilt. Call (817) 562-7979 and we’ll take a look.
A proper automatic gate installation in Hurst includes more than the steel. We set or verify the footings below frost and clay-shift depth, plumb the posts, install the operator, run the power, mount the safety photocells and reversing edges, wire the loop detector, and then run a full UL 325 safety test on every function. A bare gate hanging on hinges skips all of that. The difference is a gate that works for twenty years versus one that binds in a season.
That’s almost always a rack and pinion alignment problem. If the rack isn’t aligned within a half-inch tolerance to the pinion gear on the operator, the gate binds under load and the operator’s obstruction sensor trips or the motor stalls. We fix this by realigning the rack, shimming the track, or resetting the operator’s force limits if the original installer cranked them up to mask the issue. Don’t keep using a gate that jerks; the rack only strips faster. Call (817) 562-7979 for an exact diagnosis, and ask about our $50 off any repair over $250.
A standard single swing gate installation in Hurst takes one to two days on site, plus a day for concrete to cure if we’re boring new footings. The gate panel, operator, safety edges, and loop detector are all installed in that window. We handle the permit if your Hurst property requires one, and we’ll give you a written timeframe before we start. Free estimates mean no deposit until you’ve seen the number and the schedule. Call (817) 562-7979.
Written by Victor Salinas, Owner at Ironworks Gate Co., serving Hurst since 1984.