Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in estate entry gates, specializing in forged steel double swing leaves, limestone-column entries, and powder-coated iron railings. We offer field-measured drawings and galvanized frames finished in muted colors.
Our team provides permit-ready packages, delivering entries that match the house for homes and secure drives for both residential and commercial projects. West Lake Hills installs carry 3 years of workmanship warranty for welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel, and you also get the experience of 11 years in business and over 1,412 projects, the smallest a single walk gate in a stucco wall and the largest a 26 ft cantilever across a loading entrance.
From the first elevation sketch to the final operator test, our team handles the job from start to finish. Serving West Lake Hills and neighboring Rollingwood, Steiner Ranch and Lost Creek, we draw each gate so the paperwork and the steel arrive together.
Book a free estimate, and our location manager comes out to walk your entry and list what the city needs to see.
Octavia, off Bee Cave Road, West Lake Hills
An entry that the city treats as its own entry gate permit, with a fire district approval for the electric operator
Percival, Westlake Drive, West Lake Hills
A balcony with a failing rail anchored into stone
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
What you can hold us to
Octavia has a home off Bee Cave Road where the entry gate needed its own city permit and a fire district approval for the electric operator. We built a 16 ft double leaf in forged steel between limestone columns, an estimated $6,800 to $7,900 project that typically took 2 to 3 days on site. The permit and the fire letter went in as one package, so the gate was built once.
Percival lives on Westlake Drive and had a balcony rail anchored into stone that had started to move. We field-measured a 22 ft balcony and Juliet rail in powder-coated steel, an estimated $1,800 to $2,700 job that typically took 5 to 8 hours. The anchors went into the structure and were sealed against water so the balcony drains away from them.
Octavia's entry off Bee Cave Road used forged steel with limestone columns, so the 16 ft double leaf was drawn to the stone rather than the other way round. Percival's Westlake Drive job used powder-coated steel, a 22 ft balcony and Juliet rail whose old anchors were set in stone.
West Lake Hills treats an entry gate as its own permit type, so the application comes before fabrication. The city's fence permit application lists Fence, Pool Enclosure and Entry Gate as separate choices and asks about front yard work and impervious cover. The same form asks for elevations measured from natural ground grade, renderings, and a tree and topo survey. We build those drawings with you, because a hillside entry rarely sits on level ground. The elevation drawing is where your height gets checked with the city, so call the city for the limit on your lot before you settle on one.
An automated West Lake Hills gate needs an approval letter from ESD 9 before the permit goes in. The city's form asks for that letter for electronic gates, if applicable, so the operator choice is made before the application, not after. On gates across fire lanes the fire marshal can also require a Knox key switch or Opticom receiver, and we fit one when asked.
A staff comparison quotes the city code as asking for muted fence colors and no bright or shiny finishes, with barbed wire and sharp materials prohibited. Confirm the current code with the city. We lean to a muted black or bronze finish either way, applied as a multi-stage wash, zinc-phosphate primer and electrostatic polyester powder coat, 3 to 5 mils thick, and the color is set on the drawing.
An automated two-leaf swing entry in West Lake Hills is generally estimated at $4,000 to $8,000, and a forged steel leaf with limestone columns lands near the top of that range. We list the most frequent West Lake Hills jobs in the table, with estimated prices.
| West Lake Hills job | Est. investment | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Automated two-leaf swing entry | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 for each system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Single-leaf swing gate with operator | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 for each system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Stair or balcony rail in iron | Est. $65 to $135 a linear foot | Est. 5 to 10 hours |
| Ornamental walk-through gate | Est. $600 to $1,500 for each gate | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Hand-wrought forged iron fence | Est. $85 to $130 a linear foot | Est. 3 to 6 days |
Octavia's double leaf landed in the upper half of the dual swing range, and Percival's balcony landed near the middle of the railing range because of the stone anchoring.
A steep hillside drive that a swing leaf would hit is often better served by a cantilever gate clearing a wide or sloped entry, estimated at $6,000 to $10,000 and typically 2 to 4 days of work. A Cedar Park or Round Rock owner on flat ground rarely needs one, but West Lake Hills grades make it a regular option. A walk gate beside the drive is an ornamental walk-through gate at an estimated $600 to $1,500, and a pool-side or garden run of hand-wrought forged iron fence is estimated at $85 to $130 a linear foot.
These figures are estimates for West Lake Hills and are subject to change. The table gives a range; the site visit in West Lake Hills and the written quote that follows settle the exact price and schedule.
Most West Lake Hills owners choose estate entry gates for the drive and iron railings for stone stairs and balconies. Each West Lake Hills steel gate is galvanized steel finished in electrostatic polyester powder coat 3 to 5 mils thick, on ball-bearing barrel hinges sized to the leaf weight. Pickets are 16-gauge and rails are 14-gauge, with 3.5 to 3.875 inches clear between pickets, and posts and hollow rails are G90 hot-dip galvanized tube so rust cannot start from the inside. Finials are chosen per lot and per city rule, from spear to flat-top, and rackable panels follow a Westlake Drive slope while steps handle grade that is too steep to rack.
The install runs in four steps, and the crew works from a drawing the city has already seen. First our estimator walks the entry and measures from natural grade, then you approve the drawing, which goes to the city with the fire district letter. Third, we fabricate the leaf in our shop, with posts set 24 to 36 inches deep in concrete, sized to the soil on the lot, since soil depth changes from one hillside lot to the next. Fourth, the crew hangs the gate on ball-bearing barrel hinges sized to the leaf weight, 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 at the entry, before we leave. Digging in West Lake Hills starts only after the free Texas811 marking is done.
The crew that measures your entry builds and installs the gate, so the drawing the city saw is the gate you get. Our location manager also runs our Steiner Ranch schedule, so hillside entries and stair rails get the same safety testing across the hills. Our Georgetown shop sits inside a 45 mile service radius of West Lake Hills, and our 1,412 finished projects include a Cedar Park cantilever and a Round Rock fence run. Every swing and slide leaf gets gate catchers and positive travel stops, and a solar panel with dual-battery backup is an option where trenching power across a hillside is not practical.
We work the streets around the Emmett Shelton Bridge, Bee Cave Road, Yaupon Valley Road and Westlake Drive. Neighbors can see our work in Rollingwood, Steiner Ranch and Austin, and the full list sits on our service area page.
West Lake Hills jobs often pair a new entry with gate access control for the drive, or iron balconies on the house.
Yes, the city lists Entry Gate as its own permit type, as with Octavia's entry off Bee Cave Road; confirm the current form with the city.
The city sets that limit, so call the city before you settle on a height; the elevation drawing in the permit packet is where height is checked.
On a dual swing gate, the typical estimate is $4,000 to $8,000, and the written quote we prepare after measuring the entry sets the final price.
The city's form asks for an ESD 9 approval letter for electronic gates, if applicable, so we request it before we submit.
A double leaf typically takes an estimated 2 to 3 days on site, and a balcony railing an estimated 5 to 8 hours.
Yes, both are covered by our standard weekly route.
Contact us today, and our crew will walk your entry, prepare the permit drawings and hand you a free written quote.
Your local contact
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Location manager covering West Lake Hills
Runs the West Lake Hills schedule from the first site measure to the final safety test.
Call us or send the form, and we will book a site measure and a written estimate.
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