Cedar Park Metal Gates is the Texas capital region's trusted expert for electric gate repair, specializing in dead control boards, storm damage, failed keypads and the low-voltage wiring that links them. We offer board replacement and surge protection for swing and slide gates already automated.
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Our team provides meter testing, sensor alignment and wire tracing, delivering a gate that answers its keypad and remote again for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by 17 years in business and our 18-month workmanship warranty, we've completed over 1,483 projects, from one dead control box to a gate group with mixed brands.
From the power feed and the control board to the sensors and the keypad, our team handles every detail of the signal path. Serving Cedar Park, Round Rock and Lakeway, we trace the fault with a meter first, so you pay for the part that failed.
Request a free estimate, and we will test the power and signals at your gate and name the failing part.
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Wes, Quinlan Park Road side, Steiner Ranch
A gate dead after a storm with a burned board and a chewed low-voltage run
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Wes's gate in Steiner Ranch, on the Quinlan Park Road side, was dead after a storm with a burned board and a chewed low-voltage run. We set a control board, surge protection and a keypad. The job was an estimated $900 to $1,700 and took an estimated 4 to 8 hours on site. Wes now has surge protection on the line that took the hit.
The table pairs each symptom with its likely cause.
| Symptom | Likely cause | What we test | Typical fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nothing happens, no lights | Power feed, blown fuse, burned board | Voltage at the box and the board | Reset power, replace the board |
| Opens but will not close | Photo eye, edge, close-limit | Beam alignment, edge wiring | Realign or replace the sensor |
| Remote works, keypad does not | Keypad, wire run, chewed line | Continuity on the low-voltage run | Replace the keypad or splice the run |
| Reverses at random | Sensor fault, loose wire, debris | Edge and eye signal | Clean, rewire or replace the sensor |
On Lakeway and Volente hillsides, a long low-voltage run to a far column fails more often than the board. On flat Round Rock streets, a lightning hit on the supply line is the more common story.
Pedestal or column entry device tied to a phone app and resident codes
Motor, photo eyes, edges and remotes fitted to a sound leaf
A single person-sized leaf with a keyed or magnetic latch
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
A control board, surge protection and keypad repair in Cedar Park typically costs an estimated $900 to $1,700, with an estimated 4 to 8 hours on site. The board model, the wire run and the storm damage move the price most.
| Job | Est. investment | Est. duration on site |
|---|---|---|
| Video intercom and keypad entry (keypad and wiring) | Est. $750 to $4,300 per system | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Operator added to an existing gate (board and power) | Est. $1,900 to $3,700 per gate | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Walkway or courtyard entry gate (latch and strike) | Est. $650 to $1,450 per gate | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
A new video intercom and keypad entry job with fresh wiring runs an estimated $750 to $4,300, while a gate that needs an operator added to an existing gate sits near an estimated $1,900 to $3,700.
Treat these figures as estimates for a dead-gate callout. A cooked board, a long chewed run or a second failed part can change them, and only the written quote we give after the meter testing sets the final price and the schedule.
A wet cabinet after a storm on Steiner Ranch or Lakeway drives is a shock risk, so we kill the supply before we open the box. A hardwired 120V operator needs an electrical permit if the repair touches its feed. A board swap can change how the safety inputs read, so we retest the photo eyes and edges on every Shady Hollow and The Hills gate. A repaired Round Rock gate still needs its city-approved Knox key switch and a passed acceptance test before it runs (confirm current text with the city). Crystal Falls and Travisso gates fall under the Leander Fire Marshal's published Knox Box guidelines, so check those too.
Low-voltage wiring runs in conduit, never loose on the post, because chewed lines are a repeat repair, as on Wes's gate on the Quinlan Park Road side. Boxes mounted on steel gate posts or masonry columns stay cooler on the shaded side. Powder-coated aluminum and hot-dip galvanized steel enclosures resist Texas sun, and a sealed box keeps ants and moisture off the board.
Our owner has watched 17 years of Cedar Park gates fail, and the 1,483 projects behind that show up in the repairs that last. Every repair carries our 18-month workmanship warranty, and our lead welder rebuilds a damaged box on the spot, so customers in Old Town and Wolf Ranch get one crew for the metal and the wiring.
We repair gates across a 40-mile radius of Cedar Park, with many storm calls from Steiner Ranch and Lakeway drives, and board swaps along Round Rock streets. Volente, Shady Hollow, The Hills and Rollingwood owners get the same service. Browse the service area page. The board is not always the fault: on Mina's 14 ft leaf on the Brodie Lane side of Shady Hollow, the drag at the latch came from worn hinges and a roller. Cora's Slaughter Creek side gate in Shady Hollow had operators 18 years old with discontinued parts, so a new linear pair with battery backup was the honest fix. On Noor's gate in Flintrock Falls, a 1990s leaf got a new linear operator with photo eyes and edges, after the hinges were checked. Harold's Wolf Ranch plan in Georgetown covers six automated gates from mixed brands, with a dated record per gate. Clint's Volente Road leaves run on solar, with sealed batteries and DC operators, because a trench for power would have cut oak roots. Jerome's gate on Andice Road sits 900 ft from the house, so it runs on solar with a long-range remote and an exit sensor in the road base. Cole's two 8 ft leaves in Crystal Falls use linear operators and a loop detector, the same low-voltage parts we test on a repair call.
If the leaf is dragging, see automatic gate repair for hinges and rollers, and gate opener repair for the motor and the repair-or-replace call, or gate access control for new entry devices.
An estimated $900 to $1,700 covers a control board, surge protection and keypad repair from Rollingwood to Georgetown, and your written quote sets the final price.
A burned board and a chewed low-voltage run, as on Wes's Quinlan Park Road side gate, are the usual causes.
Plan on an estimated 4 to 8 hours, longer if the wire run has to be pulled again.
It helps, and we fit a surge device on both the line and the board.
The keypad run and the remote receiver are separate signals, so one chewed run can stop the keypad while the remote still works.
A hardwired 120V feed needs an electrical permit if we touch it, so we check that feed first.
Request a free estimate and we will put a meter on the power and the signal wires at your gate, then quote the repair.
Start to finish
An estimator walks the opening, reads the grade and marks where the leaf or the slide run has to clear.
Steel gets cut only after you sign off on a scaled drawing that names the tube, the coating and the opener.
Our Cedar Park welders build it, the steel goes for galvanizing and powder coat, and it ships finished.
Posts cure, the leaf goes up, the opener gets wired, and you watch each photo eye and edge stop the gate.
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