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Gate parts and welding in Kennedale, TX come down to one thing: the soil under your posts and the steel in your hinges. We’ve been called out to homes off Mansfield Cardinal Road and along Kennedale Parkway where a gate worked fine for fifteen years, then started dragging in a single season. The clay here expands when it rains and contracts when it dries, and that movement finds every weak weld and shallow footing on the property. If your gate is sagging, binding, or not closing square, call Ironworks Gate Co. at (817) 562-7979. We’ll send a welder who knows Kennedale soil, not a salesman with a clipboard.
Why Ironworks Gate Co. Is Kennedale’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company
Ironworks Gate Co. has specialized exclusively in driveway and estate gates for over 42 years, founded in 1984. We’re not a fencing company that occasionally welds a hinge. Gate repair, installation, motors, access control, and parts and welding are the entire job. Every technician is background-checked and uniformed, and every completed job carries our written 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not right, we come back and make it right. No paperwork, no arguing. That’s the Keystone Standard, and it applies to every weld we lay in Kennedale.
Victor Salinas leads our crews, and he’s the one who set the rule we still work by: the 400th job gets the same care as the first. When you call, a live person answers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not a voicemail tree, not an answering service. We dispatch to Kennedale from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, and our crews know the streets: the older ranch-style homes off West Kennedale Parkway, the acreage properties toward the Arlington border, the newer subdivisions past the high school. We know which gates were hung right and which ones were hung on hope.
Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Kennedale
Most gate failures in Kennedale are mechanical before they’re electrical. A welded joint cracks, a post leans, a hinge pin wears oval. Here’s what we actually do, and what it costs in this market. Every price is quoted and agreed before any work starts. No surprises on the bill.
Hinge Replacement
A worn hinge on a swing gate in Kennedale usually isn’t just the hinge. It’s the post it’s bolted to, slowly leaning under clay soil pressure. We pull the gate, cut out the old hinge, weld in a new one rated for the panel weight, and set the post plumb before we hang it back. Typical hinge replacement in Kennedale runs $180-$420 per hinge, depending on gate weight and whether the post needs resetting.
Post Replacement
This is the repair that fixes what other companies patch. A gate post set 18 inches deep in Kennedale clay will move. We’ve seen it on Wildwood Drive, we’ve seen it off Sublett Road, we’ve seen it everywhere. We dig to 36 inches, set the post in concrete with proper drainage, and weld the hinge points to match the original gate swing. Post replacement in Kennedale typically runs $450-$900 per post, including concrete and welding. It’s the job that makes a gate last another twenty years.
Rail Repair
Slide gates take a beating on Kennedale streets with boat and RV traffic headed toward the lake. The rail wears, the rack teeth flatten, and the gate starts jumping. We straighten or replace the rail, weld new rack sections where the teeth are gone, and set the roller trucks so the gate runs true. Rail repair in Kennedale runs $250-$650 depending on rail length and rack condition.
Custom Welding
Sometimes the part doesn’t exist anymore. An ornamental gate from the 1990s, a custom bracket, a cracked frame member. Our Gate Parts & Welding team fabricates and welds on site: steel, wrought iron, aluminum where the design calls for it. Custom welding in Kennedale is quoted per job, but most repairs land between $150 and $500. We’ll tell you the price before the welder strikes an arc.
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.
Trusted Brands We Service in Kennedale
When a gate operator fails, the brand matters. We’re certified on nine major automation lines, including Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing, plus LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Elite, and Mighty Mule. For Kennedale customers, that means we diagnose the opener correctly the first time and we carry the common parts: control boards, limit switches, capacitors, and receiver modules. If your Viking operator won’t respond or your Ghost Controls solar unit died after a cloudy stretch, we’ll have the fix on the truck, not on order.
Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Kennedale Homes
Kennedale sits on a fault line between Fort Worth and Arlington, and the soil tells the story. Here’s what we find when we roll up to a gate that’s failed:
- Clay soil heave pushing hinge posts out of plumb. Expansive clay swells in wet months and shrinks in dry ones. That cycle slowly walks a post out of square. By spring, swing gates that closed fine at Thanksgiving are dragging on the latch side or refusing to latch at all.
- Shallow post footings from original construction. We routinely pull posts that were set 18 inches deep in Kennedale yards. At 18 inches, the post moves with the topsoil. At 36 inches with proper concrete, it stays put. The difference is the difference between a gate that sags every two years and a gate that doesn’t sag.
- Undersized rack and pinion wear on slide gates. Kennedale has real boat and RV traffic. Gates open and close more often than the manufacturer expected, and the rack teeth wear down. The gate starts grinding, then jumping, then refusing to move at all.
- DIY solar openers with undersized batteries losing entrapment protection. A solar gate opener that worked all summer goes dead for a week of cloudy weather, and when the battery voltage drops, the safety reverse stops working. We’ve found gates stuck half-open with the edge sensor dead. That’s a safety issue, not just a convenience problem.
Pricing for Gate Parts & Welding in Kennedale, TX
Here are honest numbers for the Kennedale market. Hinge replacement runs $180-$420 per hinge. Post replacement is $450-$900 per post. Rail repair lands between $250 and $650. Custom welding is quoted per job, but most repairs are $150-$500. A full diagnosis call is free when we do the repair. The price you’re quoted is the price you pay, agreed before any work starts. We also extend a $50 discount on any repair over $250, a free second opinion on any written estimate, and a permanent 5% discount for seniors and veterans. Call (817) 562-7979 and we’ll give you a straight number.
We Also Serve Cities Near Kennedale
Our crews work throughout the metro. If you’re in Fort Worth, Haltom City, Hurst, or Bedford, the same Gate Parts & Welding in Kennedale standards apply: same background-checked technicians, same written 90-Day Done Right Promise, same straight pricing. We dispatch to those communities regularly and know their gate stock as well as we know Kennedale’s.
Serving Kennedale, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Kennedale 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 Parts & Welding in Kennedale
Because the panel was repaired, but the post underneath it was never addressed. Kennedale’s expansive clay soil moves seasonally, and a post set shallow or without proper concrete will lean again within a couple of wet-dry cycles. The fix that lasts is a new post at 36 inches with proper drainage, then re-hanging the panel on fresh hinges. That’s the repair we do most often on Kennedale swing gates. For an exact quote, call (817) 562-7979.
Both, and here’s why. An edge sensor only triggers when the gate physically contacts something. A photocell detects an obstruction before contact. UL 325 entrapment standards generally require a secondary entrapment protection device, and on a Kennedale gate that swings toward a sidewalk or driveway, a photocell is the difference between a gate that stops and a gate that keeps pushing. We install and test both on every operator we service.
Usually the roller, sometimes the track too. If the roller wheel is worn but the rail is straight and the rack teeth are intact, we replace the roller truck for $80-$200. If the rail has worn grooves from years of a bad roller, we’ll straighten or replace the rail section while we’re at it. The honest answer comes from looking at it, which we do for free when you call (817) 562-7979.
Thirty-six inches, minimum. The original builders of many Kennedale homes set gate posts at 18 inches, which is why those gates lean. At 36 inches with proper concrete and drainage, the post sits below the active clay zone and stays put through the wet-dry cycles. We set every replacement post to that depth, no exceptions, and it’s the single biggest reason our gate repairs hold.
Yes. Viking operators accept add-on keypads, and we stock them. The keypad mounts on a gooseneck pedestal or directly on the gate post, wires into the operator’s control board, and is programmed on site before we leave. Typical keypad installation on a Viking operator in Kennedale runs $250-$450, keypad included. Call (817) 562-7979 for a quote on your specific model.
If your gate is sagging, binding, or just not closing the way it used to, call Ironworks Gate Co. at (817) 562-7979. We’ll diagnose it, quote it, and stand behind it in writing. That’s the deal, and it’s been the deal since 1984.
Written by Victor Salinas, Owner at Ironworks Gate Co., serving Kennedale and the surrounding communities.