Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in driveway gates, specializing in swing gates, iron entry doors, and low open front-yard iron. We offer set-back layouts and blunt-top steel finished in a multi-stage wash, zinc-phosphate primer and electrostatic polyester powder coat, 3 to 5 mils thick.
Our team provides field-measured drawings, delivering gates that clear the street for homes and secure drives for both residential and commercial projects. Rollingwood owners get 3 years of workmanship warranty covering welds, hinge alignment, sag and travel, the product of 11 years in business and over 1,412 completed projects, a single walk gate in a stucco wall on one end and a 26 ft cantilever across a loading entrance on the other.
From the first tape measure on the driveway to the final operator test, our team handles the job from start to finish. Serving Rollingwood and neighboring West Lake Hills, Sunset Valley and Lost Creek, we draw each gate around the car that has to wait for it.
Book a free estimate, and our location manager will measure your driveway and mark where the gate has to stand.
Quinn, Rollingwood street, Rollingwood
A driveway where the gate had to sit so a car stops off the street and the leaves swing away from it, with no sharp finials
Rosalind, Rollingwood residence, Rollingwood
A front entry at the end of a gravel drive where the old wood door had warped and let air in
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
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Quinn has a Rollingwood driveway where the gate had to sit so a car stops off the street and the leaves swing away from it, with no sharp finials. We built a 14 ft double leaf in powder-coated steel with a laser-cut oak-leaf panel and a rounded top, set back for the car length and hinged to open away from the street, an estimated $5,200 to $7,000 project that typically took 2 to 3 days on site. Quinn's powder-coated steel, 14 ft double leaf clears the street and meets the front-yard rules on openness.
Rosalind lives on a Rollingwood residence street and had a warped wood front door that let air in. We hung an 8 ft arched entry door in iron and glass at the end of her gravel drive, with a sealed threshold, in the same black as the drive gates in front of it, an estimated $6,500 to $11,000 job that typically took 1 to 2 days. Rosalind's 8 ft arched entry door in iron and glass closes tight and matches the gates.
A Rollingwood gate is drawn from the car backward, because a vehicle waiting at the gate has to be completely off the street, and the gate has to open parallel to or away from the street. That is how a city staff handout on the fence code puts it, and the handout carries no date, so confirm the current text with the city. The practical result is that vehicle length sets the setback, so a longer leaf and a shorter leaf need their hinges in different places.
Quinn's 14 ft double leaf was drawn this way, with the hinges on the street side so the leaves open inward and away.
The same handout describes the front-yard fence class as low, open and set back, the opposite of a tall solid estate entry in West Lake Hills. It lists not over 3 ft from finish grade, posts up to 4 inches higher, an average of 80 percent visibility through, and every part at least 15 ft from the curb or pavement edge. It also bars chain link, barbed wire, electrified fences and exposed sharp or pointed materials, including decorative fence tops, so a hand-wrought forged iron fence with pointed tops would need the city to confirm it, and it bars any fence in a public right-of-way. The handout's title mentions newer height changes, so ask the city for the current limit and treat these numbers as a starting point, since the rules that govern a Rollingwood front yard differ from those in Sunset Valley and Lost Creek.
For you, that means spear-point finials come off a Rollingwood drawing first. Flat-top finials and open pickets with 3.5 to 3.875 inches clear between pickets are what we draw, since an average 80 percent visibility target needs open iron set well back from the curb.
An automated two-leaf swing entry in Rollingwood is generally estimated at $4,000 to $8,000, and Quinn's job sat in the middle of that range. Common Rollingwood jobs appear in the table, each priced as an estimate.
| Rollingwood job | Est. investment | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Single-leaf swing gate with operator | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 for each system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Automated two-leaf swing entry | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 for each system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Ornamental walk-through gate | Est. $600 to $1,500 for each gate | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Pivot entry door in iron or steel | Est. $6,500 to $11,000 per door | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Stair or balcony rail in iron | Est. $65 to $135 a linear foot | Est. 5 to 10 hours |
Rosalind's arched door was estimated across the full $6,500 to $11,000 door range, and a walk gate beside the drive is an ornamental walk-through gate at an estimated $600 to $1,500.
These figures are estimates for Rollingwood and are subject to change. The written quote you get after the site visit fixes the price and the schedule, and 3 years of workmanship warranty cover welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel on the work.
Most Rollingwood owners choose custom driveway gates for the drive and iron entry doors for the house. Every steel gate is built in galvanized steel with an electrostatic polyester powder coat 3 to 5 mils thick, hung on ball-bearing barrel hinges sized to the leaf weight. Posts and hollow rails are G90 hot-dip galvanized tube, so rust cannot start from the inside, and the steel we fabricate uses 16-gauge pickets and 14-gauge rails, with posts from 11-gauge to 3/16-inch.
The install runs in four steps, and the crew works from a drawing that already shows the car length, whether the gate is Quinn's 14 ft double leaf or an ornamental walk-through gate. First our estimator measures the driveway and the setback for a 12 ft single leaf or a 16 ft slide leaf, then you approve the drawing. Third, after free Texas811 marking, we fabricate the leaf in our shop, with posts set 24 to 36 inches deep in concrete, sized to the soil on the lot. Fourth, the crew hangs the gate, mounts 24V DC continuous-duty operators sized to the leaf, and runs monitored photo eyes plus edge sensors on every automatic gate, with a reverse test before we leave.
The crew that measures your driveway builds and installs the gate, so the setback on the drawing is the setback in the ground, a habit from 11 years and 1,412 projects. Our Georgetown shop sits inside a 45 mile service radius of Rollingwood, and our 1,412 finished projects include a Cedar Park cantilever and a Round Rock fence run. We fit gate catchers and positive travel stops on every swing and slide leaf, and a gate that opens away from the street gets its stops set on that side.
West Lake Hills and Sunset Valley both have finished work of ours, and the service area page lists the rest.
Rollingwood jobs often pair a new drive gate with gate access control at the street, or iron balconies on the house.
Far enough back that a car waiting for it is completely off the street, as with Quinn's 14 ft double leaf, per a city staff handout; confirm the current text with the city.
The staff handout lists 3 ft for a front-yard fence, and its title points to newer height changes, so ask the city for the current limit before we draw.
The handout bars exposed sharp or pointed materials, including decorative fence tops, so we draw flat-top finials and confirm with the city.
A single swing gate usually lands at an estimated $2,500 to $5,000, and the final price is whatever the written quote says once the drive is measured.
Plan on an estimated 1 to 2 days on site for one leaf and an estimated 4 to 8 hours for a walk gate.
Yes, both are stops on the weekly route we run from Georgetown.
Contact us today, and we will measure your driveway, draw the setback and hand you a free written quote for a single-leaf swing gate with operator or an ornamental walk-through gate.
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