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AfterFast, Reliable Gate Installation Across Hurst
If you live in Hurst and your driveway gate is sagging, sticking, or simply finished after forty years of Texas weather, we can help. Ironworks Gate Co. installs driveway gates, swing gates, and pedestrian gates across the 76053 and 76054 ZIP codes, and we’ve been doing this work long enough to know that Hurst presents a very specific set of problems. Most of the gates in this city were hung when these homes were built, between the late 1950s and the mid-1980s. That means the iron is now 40 to 65 years old, and the clay soil underneath has been working against the posts the entire time. Call us at (817) 286-7391 for a free estimate. We answer the phone with a live person, every time, day or night.
Why Ironworks Gate Co. Is Hurst’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
Our experience in Hurst runs deep. The neighborhoods around Pipeline Road, the established subdivisions feeding into Precinct Line Road, and the older streets west of the Tarrant County College Northeast Campus all share the same pattern. We know what happens to a gate when Blackland Prairie clay swells after spring rains and then cracks during a 100-degree summer. We know which control boards from older LiftMaster and FAAC operators are no longer made. Victor Salinas founded this company on a simple rule: do the job the way you’d want it done at your own mother’s house. That’s why every technician who shows up at a Hurst home is background-checked and in uniform, and why every job carries a written 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not right, we come back and make it right. No paperwork, no arguing.
Dispatch and scheduling run out of our Dallas-Fort Worth office, but the crews who serve Hurst know these streets the way you do. A live person answers the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You won’t get a voicemail tree. You’ll get a straight answer.
Our Gate Installation Services in Hurst
Driveway Gate Installation in Hurst
Most driveway gate work in Hurst is actually replacement work. The original ornamental iron gates hung on these 1960s and 1970s ranch homes were built well, but nothing lasts forever in this soil. When we install a driveway gate in the 76053 ZIP, we start by excavating the existing footings and examining what’s underneath. Time and again, we find the old concrete only 18 inches deep with no bell at the bottom. The new footing goes deeper, usually 30 inches, and gets belled out below the active clay layer so the post holds through the wet-dry cycle.
Pedestrian Gate Installation in Hurst
Wooden privacy-fence gates and smaller iron pedestrian gates fail just like their driveway cousins, just on a smaller scale. Hurst’s cedar fence gates, built alongside the original homes, have weathered decades of ice storms and clay movement. A pedestrian gate that drags or won’t latch is often sitting on a post that’s tilted out of plumb. We install pedestrian gates with the same deep-footed, properly belled posts, whether it’s a simple walk gate or a matching iron gate beside a double driveway gate.
Sliding Gate Installation in Hurst
Sliding gates are the sensible choice for Hurst driveways that slope toward the street or homes with limited swing clearance. But a sliding gate on clay soil brings its own challenges. The track must be laid on a stable base, or the same heave that tilts posts will bind the rollers. We’ve installed sliding gates throughout Hurst, including setups using BFT and Viking operators, and we set the track and the posts to move less than the ground they sit on. For the right property, a sliding gate is the most dependable thing you can put across a driveway.
Swing Gate Installation in Hurst
Swing gates remain the most common gate type in Hurst, because the older subdivisions were designed around them. Wide driveways on corner lots off Harwood Road and the streets near Chisholm Park often still have their original double swing gates. Replacing them means matching the existing look while fixing what was never quite right underneath. We set hinge posts deeper, use heavier-gauge steel where the old gate sagged, and bottom out the new gate so it clears the driveway even after the ground shifts. A properly installed swing gate in Hurst should close square and quiet, year after year.
Double Gate Installation in Hurst
Double driveway gates are a particular specialty of ours in Hurst. Two leaves mean two hinge posts, a center drop rod, and an operator that has to pull both halves together without binding. On clay soil, if one hinge post has moved an inch and the other hasn’t, the two leaves will never meet square. We cut and reset both post footings when any new double gate goes in, so the leaves align properly from day one. Most double gate installations in Hurst run from $3,800 to $7,200 depending on the width, the steel profile, and whether you want a full automation system.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Hurst
Ironworks Gate Co. is certified to work on nine major gate-automation brands, including FAAC, BFT, and Linear. That matters in Hurst because many of the operators still bolted to these older gates are early FAAC and LiftMaster units whose control boards are no longer manufactured. When those boards fail, you don’t always need a new operator. Sometimes a board retrofit with modern safety sensors is the right call. Sometimes it’s not. We’ll tell you straight. Because we stock common parts locally for Hurst customers, most jobs are completed in a single visit.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Hurst Homes
These are the patterns we see again and again in the 76053 and 76054 ZIP codes. If any of this sounds familiar, it’s worth a phone call.
- Posts that migrate with the clay. The Blackland Prairie Vertisol under Hurst swells after wet springs and shrinks during 100-degree summer stretches. Over 40 or 50 years, that pump action tilts hinge posts one to three inches out of plumb. A gate that drags on the latch side every spring is almost never just a hinge problem.
- Footings poured too shallow the first time. We routinely dig up gate post footings in Hurst that are only 18 inches deep with no bell. That was common practice in the 1960s. It was never enough for this soil. A new footing needs to go below the active clay layer and bell out at the bottom, or the same gate will sag again within a couple of seasons.
- Ice storm damage that shows up late. The February 2021 ice storm loaded gate frames and operators with weight they were never built to carry. Some welds cracked immediately. Some operators burned out months later, weakened but not dead. If a Hurst gate that survived 2021 starts acting up now, the ice is usually where it started.
- Obsolete control boards with no replacement parts. Early automatic gates from the 1990s and early 2000s often run on boards that simply don’t exist anymore. When those fail, homeowners face a choice: retrofit the operator for modern safety photocells and a current board, or replace the whole drive unit. We’ll show you both prices and let you decide.
Pricing for Gate Installation in Hurst, TX
Here’s what you can expect to pay for gate installation in Hurst, based on the work we’ve quoted and completed on these streets. A standard single swing driveway gate, 10 to 12 feet wide, runs $1,900 to $3,400 in Hurst. A double swing gate, which means two leaves and two hinge posts, runs $3,800 to $7,200. A sliding gate, including track and carriage, runs $4,200 to $8,500. Pedestrian gates run $700 to $1,800 depending on steel and size. If your existing iron panels are worth salvaging, we can sometimes reuse them and just replace posts, hinges, and the operator, which brings the price down. Every quote is written, and the price we agree on before we start is the price on your invoice. No surprises.
We Also Serve Cities Near Hurst
Our Gate Installation services cover the full Mid-Cities area. If you’re in Hurst, you’re already in our home turf. We also work regularly in Bedford, Haltom City, Fort Worth, and Grand Prairie. The soil, the housing age, and the gate problems are similar all along this stretch of Tarrant County, and we know exactly what to do with them.
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
In Hurst, it is almost always a footing problem. The clay under your gate swells with spring moisture and tips the post a little further out of plumb every year. The hinges may be worn, but replacing them is a temporary fix if the post is still moving. The real repair is excavating the old footing and pouring a new one below the active clay line. That’s the fix that lasts.
Often, yes. If the gate panels themselves are sound, we can remove them, reset the posts on proper footings, and re-hang the original iron. Then we can retrofit a modern operator with current safety photocells and a new control board so the gate works like new without losing the look your house has had for fifty years. We’ll tell you honestly if the panels are worth saving. In Hurst, many of these original gates are well-built iron that just needs what’s underneath them fixed.
It means the footing has to go deeper than the old one did. The active clay layer in Hurst swells and shrinks with every wet and dry season. A shallow footing moves with that cycle and tips the post over time. We set new post footings to a depth of 30 inches, belled out at the bottom below the clay line, so the post stays put through the cycle. Anything shallower is a gate that will lean again.
Ice storms load the entire gate with hundreds of pounds of frozen weight. The motor strains against that load, and so do the arms, the hinges, and the welds. Sometimes the motor dies right then. More often, it’s weakened and fails weeks or months later, after the homeowner has stopped thinking about the storm. February 2021 did this to a generation of Hurst gate operators, and we’re still replacing the ones that hung on a little too long. Call (817) 286-7391 for an honest look at yours.
If your gate was installed before modern UL 325 safety standards, it may be missing the photocells, edge sensors, and obstruction-reversing features that current code expects. We can often retrofit those onto an existing gate and operator without replacing everything. The breaker is whether your current control board has inputs for those sensors. Older boards don’t, and some of them are long out of production. We’ll check what you have and show you the retrofit cost against the replacement cost, and you make the call.
Written by Victor Salinas, Owner at Ironworks Gate Co., serving Hurst and the surrounding Mid-Cities area. We specialize in driveway and estate gates, with 42 years in the trade and a written 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job. Call (817) 286-7391 for a free estimate, any hour of the day or night.