Cedar Park Metal Gates is the Texas capital region's trusted expert in Horizontal Slat Gates, specializing in modern drive gates, matching walk gates and privacy runs with an even reveal from end to end. We offer shop-built slat gates with hidden frame bracing, so a long leaf stays straight after years of daily swings.
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Our team provides drawing, fabrication, powder coating and operator setup, delivering a clean modern front for homes and a screened entry for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by 17 years in business and our 18-month workmanship warranty on welds, hinge set, footings and gate travel, we've completed over 1,483 projects, from a 14 ft single leaf with an arm operator to full street frontages.
From the first slat layout to the last operator test, our team handles every modern gate. Serving Cedar Park alongside Round Rock, Leander and Lakeway, we weld and coat in the shop, then hang the finished leaf with little disruption to your drive.
Get a free estimate: we take the opening's size first, sketch the slat spacing and show you the screening it gives before any steel is cut.
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Marcus, Ranch at Brushy Creek, Cedar Park
A picket gate from the original build no longer matched a remodeled limestone and stucco front.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Marcus had a picket gate from the original build at his Ranch at Brushy Creek home in Cedar Park, and it no longer matched a remodeled limestone and stucco front. We replaced it with a 14 ft single leaf with an arm operator, built from steel slats on a tube frame, charcoal powder coat. It ran an estimated 1 to 2 days, and the estimated range for that scope was $3,400 to $4,800. The gate now reads as one calm plane from the street and swings clear of the drive.
A slat drive gate is priced as a complete system, and our Ranch at Brushy Creek leaf landed at an estimated $3,400 to $4,800 with its operator. Width matters most on the wider Lakeway and West Lake Hills drives, since every added foot brings more slats and more weight for the hinges to carry. Closer slats raise the price in any city, because a tighter pattern uses more steel and more welds across the same Round Rock or Leander opening.
One leaf, one operator, keypad and remotes, for a narrow suburban drive
Two leaves on heavy hinges for a wide drive with level swing room behind the gate
Weathering steel panels on steel posts beside a slat gate, with a plan for runoff staining
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
| Job | Est. investment | Est. duration on site |
|---|---|---|
| Tube steel single swing drive gate with operator | Est. $2,700 to $4,900 per complete system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Double leaf swing entry with operators | Est. $4,200 to $7,800 per complete system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Cor-Ten panel fence run | Est. $85 to $145 per linear foot | Est. 2 to 4 days |
These slat gate figures are estimates that can change with steel prices, so your written quote sets the final price and the schedule.
Spacing sets how much of the yard the street can see, so we decide it before anything else, and small even gaps gave the Marcus gate a calm face from straight on.
| Slat layout | What the street sees | Best fit |
|---|---|---|
| Tight reveal | Very little, mostly a solid plane | Front yards where privacy comes first |
| Medium reveal | Glimpses when walking past at an angle | Most suburban drives |
| Wide reveal | Clear shapes through the gate | Courtyards and side yards that need airflow |
| Mixed bands | A pattern of tight and open rows | Long frontages that would look flat in one reveal |
A gate that looks open from directly in front can look closed from down a curving Steiner Ranch street, so we check the layout from where your neighbors and visitors actually stand.
A tighter slat catches more wind, and that is the real tradeoff of a privacy gate. On a ridge lot in Volente or Lakeway, a nearly solid leaf acts like a sail and loads the hinges, the operator and the post. We open the reveal a little on those lots, or we step up the frame and the operator, because the gate has to keep moving on a gusty day and not trip its safety stops.
Slats add weight along the whole span, so the frame carries a hidden diagonal or a heavier top rail to fight sag, and our hinge rating standard is ball-bearing heavy-duty hinges rated above the finished leaf weight, with the leaf weighed before the hinge is ordered.
Powder-coated tube steel is our usual slat material because it holds a long span, and powder-coated aluminum weighs less for a walk gate or a short Pflugerville side yard. Cor-Ten panel fence run pricing sits at an estimated $85 to $145 per linear foot, and those weathering steel panels pair well beside a dark slat gate, though a young panel can stain pale concrete below it, so we plan a gravel strip or drain line where that water lands. A sloped drive in The Hills may suit a trackless cantilever gate, estimated at $6,200 to $9,800, and our cantilever gates page explains that choice. Owners who want a keypad and remotes can read about automatic driveway gates or custom driveway gates.
The most common mistake is buying a thin slat for its looks, then finding it bows between supports after a few Austin summers, so we add hidden uprights behind any full-width run. The second is ignoring the wall color, since a pale gate can vanish against a pale stucco front in Shady Hollow while charcoal stands out cleanly. The third is hanging a privacy leaf where the swing cannot clear the slope of the drive, which we catch by shooting the grade first.
You get a scale drawing of the slat reveal before steel is ordered, and one crew measures, welds, coats and hangs the gate, then returns if travel needs adjusting under the 18-month workmanship warranty on welds, hinge set, footings and gate travel.
We build slat gates across the 40-mile radius around Cedar Park, including modern limestone homes in Lakeway, West Lake Hills and Rollingwood. Newer subdivisions in Leander and Round Rock often ask us to check the HOA guidelines first, since slat spacing and color can both need approval.
Owners planning a slat gate often add a matching courtyard entry gate or a run of wrought iron fencing so the metalwork lines up across the front of the house.
A complete single swing system is typically estimated at $2,700 to $4,900, and a double leaf entry at $4,200 to $7,800.
A single swing leaf takes an estimated 1 to 2 days on site after shop fabrication, and a double leaf entry takes an estimated 2 to 3 days.
A tight reveal gives strong privacy from straight on, though no slat gate is a solid wall, so the drawing shows the spacing first.
They can if the frame is too light for the span, so we add hidden bracing and weigh the leaf before ordering hinges.
Sometimes, though the Marcus project in Cedar Park replaced the leaf outright, because a heavier privacy leaf often needs a stronger frame than the old one had.
It can while the panel is young, so we route the runoff with gravel or a drain line and avoid setting panels above pale concrete.
Get a free estimate from us: we shoot the grade, size the opening and send a written quote with a scale drawing of your slat layout.
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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