Cedar Park Metal Gates is the Texas capital region's trusted expert in replacing worn first-generation gates, specializing in automatic driveway gates, wrought iron fencing, and gate replacement. We offer new post footings, leaves cut to clear a grade, and operators sized to the swing of a heavy leaf.
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Our team provides photo eyes and reversing edges with sandblasted, zinc-primed and powder-coated steel, delivering a leaf that opens cleanly for both residential and commercial properties whose original posts have reached the end of their life. Backed by 17 years in business and an 18-month workmanship warranty on welds, hinge set, footings and gate travel, our 1,483 completed projects range from a single walk gate to a long perimeter fence.
From the first level reading to the final photo eye check, our team handles every detail on the job. Serving Austin and neighboring Round Rock, Cedar Park and Leander, we build each gate to the lot it stands on.
Request a free estimate, and our lead welder will shoot your drive with a level and measure the trees beside it before anything is ordered.
Beckett, Great Hills, Austin
The original swing gate sagged on its first post and dragged on the uphill side of the drive.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
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Beckett in Great Hills had a swing gate that sagged on its first post and dragged on the uphill side of the drive. We set a new powder-coated tube steel post on a new footing and cut the 14 ft single leaf to clear the grade, after measuring the large oak beside the drive before digging. It was an estimated $3,200 to $4,400 job that typically took 1 to 2 days, and the leaf now clears the grade through its full swing.
An older gate on a sloped drive usually fails at the first post, because the post leans, the leaf drops, and the low corner then scrapes the uphill side. Homes built since 2000 make up 43% of Austin housing (ACS 2024), so a large share of the gates and fences here are first generation, with posts now around 20 years old.
The original swing gate sagged on its first post and dragged on the uphill side of the drive at Beckett's Great Hills home. Beckett's job was a 14 ft single leaf on a sloped drive, in powder-coated tube steel on a new steel post. Replacing the post alone rarely holds, so we re-set the footing and re-cut the leaf together. A single swing drive gate with an operator is estimated at $2,700 to $4,900 over 1 to 2 days, and a trackless cantilever for a steeper drive is roughly $6,200 to $9,800 over 2 to 4 days.
A solid fence on a property line in Austin may not exceed 6 ft measured from natural grade, and a section along a grade change of at least 1 ft may be 7 ft, so we read the ground at every post, and you should confirm current text with the city first.
That reading decides whether a run is racked to follow the slope or stepped in panels. Ornamental tube steel panels are estimated at $52 to $83 per linear foot over 2 to 4 days, and a stepped run on a steep lot is typically drawn with more posts than a flat one.
A large tree beside the drive changes where the footing goes, and the city says that if trees 19 inches or greater in diameter stand on your property, you may need a tree review, so confirm current text with the city before any digging near one.
We measure the trunk with a tape, mark the root zone, shoot the drive with a level before any gate type is chosen, and move the post or the swing arc away from it where we can. The measuring is part of the estimate, as it was beside Beckett's large oak, and a new post footing with a trimmed leaf is typically a 1 to 2 day visit.
An Austin drive with a steady grade usually suits automatic driveway gates cut to the slope, while a worn run of old fence suits wrought iron fencing set on fresh footings. A walkway gate beside the drive is estimated at $650 to $1,450 over 4 to 8 hours, and a leaf past repair is better served by gate replacement.
A swing gate on a sloped Austin drive is priced by the post work and the leaf cut, so a tube steel single swing gate with operator is estimated at $2,700 to $4,900 and typically takes 1 to 2 days. When the grade is too steep for a swing, a trackless cantilever gate on roller carriages with a counterbalance tail is estimated at $6,200 to $9,800 over 2 to 4 days.
If the leaf is sound and the motor has failed or was never fitted, an operator added to the existing gate is roughly $1,900 to $3,700 over 4 to 8 hours. A keypad at the end of a long drive is a separate choice, since video intercom and keypad entry is estimated at $750 to $4,300 over 4 to 8 hours.
Gate posts get a 48-inch minimum footing, with rock bits used wherever a limestone ledge stops the auger. Prices here are estimates that can change once the slope and the trees are measured, and the written quote after that visit sets the final price and the schedule.
We work Great Hills, Canyon Creek and the Spicewood Springs Road corridor, and the crew that built Beckett's gate also covers Round Rock and Leander in the same week. More Travis County and Williamson County towns we work are listed on our service area page. Maren's 90 lf in Blackhawk in Pflugerville replaced a leaning run on clay, an estimated $5,600 to $7,400. Emmett's rock-bored footings on the University Club side of Steiner Ranch show how we work around buried utilities.
The drive from our Cedar Park shop to Austin is typically 27 minutes, and the crew that measures your drive at Great Hills or Canyon Creek is the crew that sets the post. The 18-month workmanship warranty on welds, hinge set, footings and gate travel comes with every job, and operators stay under the maker's parts warranty.
Austin owners often pair a new leaf with gate access control, and a tired motor usually needs gate operator installation. A heavy powder-coated tube steel leaf rides on ball-bearing heavy-duty hinges, with battery backup on every operator. Owners replacing a gate on a slope sometimes add an ornamental stair or balcony guard in the same visit, estimated at $68 to $132 per linear foot over 5 to 10 hours. Every other gate we build is listed on the services page.
A solid fence on a property line may not exceed 6 ft from natural grade, or 7 ft for a section with a grade change of at least 1 ft, so confirm current text with the city.
Possibly, since trees 19 inches or greater in diameter on your property may call for one, so ask the city before digging near a large trunk.
The first post has usually leaned on a sloped drive, and a new footing with a leaf cut to the grade fixes the clearance.
A single swing drive gate with operator is estimated at $2,700 to $4,900, and the written quote for your own drive fixes the final figure.
Expect an estimated 1 to 2 days for the footing, the post and the leaf.
Yes, when the motor is sound we refit it to the new leaf, and if it has failed, a new operator added to the gate is roughly $1,900 to $3,700.
Yes, an Austin visit is often paired with a Round Rock or Leander one in the same week.
Contact us today, and our lead welder will shoot the grade, measure your trees, and quote a new post and leaf at an estimated $3,200 to $4,400 for a drive like Beckett's.
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