Georgetown Metal Gates builds resident gates, telephone entry and walk gates for apartment managers and multifamily owners across Central Texas. Projects run from 1 keypad swap to 2 vehicle slide gates with a telephone entry and a resident walk gate.
We phase each stage around residents, so one vehicle lane stays open during the work. In 11 years and 1,412 projects, our crews have learned that a rental property cares most about uptime and about changing codes without a service call.
From the walk with your manager to the staff handover on the new system, our team handles every step of the access project. Serving Georgetown, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander and Pflugerville, we schedule loud work for the middle of the day and keep residents informed with a notice you can post.
Request a bid with your site map, lane count and unit count, and our estimator will walk the property and price the access system from what the walk shows.
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Leopold, Old Settlers Park, Round Rock
A garden apartment community manager with a broken resident entry gate that stood open most of the week, and a tenant list that changed every month.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Leopold manages a garden apartment community near Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, where the broken resident entry gate stood open most of the week and the tenant list changed every month. We installed separate entry and exit slide gates with safety sensors, a telephone entry that the office can update, and a walk gate kept apart from the vehicle lanes. The project took an estimated 3 to 5 days and sat in an estimated range of $7,800 to $11,500. One entry lane stayed open during each stage of the work, and the office now changes resident codes without a service call.
A video intercom or telephone entry on one entry is typically estimated at $1,500 to $3,400 in Georgetown, and a vehicle slide gate is typically estimated at $1,500 to $5,000 per lane. Lane count, the entry system and any new power or data lines set your total. Most managers also ask about upkeep, and a preventive maintenance plan with 4 visits a year is typically estimated at $88 to $113 per gate each month.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
| Scope | Est. price | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Telephone entry or video intercom, one entry | Est. $1,500 to $3,400 | Est. 4 to 7 hours |
| Vehicle slide gate per lane | Est. $1,500 to $5,000 | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Resident walk gate | Est. $600 to $1,500 | Est. 5 to 8 hours |
Use these community figures as estimates that can change by property. The written quote after the walk sets the final price and the schedule, and any power or data line is listed on its own line.
A telephone entry suits a property with frequent visitors, a keypad suits a smaller one, and a fob or credential suits a property with high turnover. Most managers combine two parts of a keypad or intercom access package at a single entry, so residents use a fob and their guests use the directory. The real test is how your office updates it, because a system that needs a technician for each move-out soon gets ignored.
| System | Best for | What to weigh |
|---|---|---|
| Telephone entry directory | Visitors, deliveries and larger communities | Needs a phone or cellular line, and a directory kept current |
| Keypad codes | Smaller properties | Codes spread, so plan to change them on a schedule |
| Fobs or credentials | Higher-turnover properties | Each lost fob has to be cancelled by the office |
Plan fire access before you pick a gate, as Harriet's project did on a shared truck entrance on a fire lane where the gate needed the fire department's switch and sensor. In unincorporated Williamson County, the Fire Marshal's office takes a Gated Access Permit Application, and its checklist asks the plan to show how the gate is operated, naming a Knox Box as an example. Inside city limits, we ask that city's fire authority what it wants before we draw the plan.
The federal ADA Standards cover gates under section 404, Doors, Doorways, and Gates, and we review that section against your accessible route when a walk gate serves residents. An ornamental walk-through gate for residents should also stay separate from the vehicle lanes, so a person on foot never shares the path of a moving gate. Our automated track-guided slide gate runs on 24V DC continuous-duty operators sized to the leaf, and we fit the sensors that stop the gate when something is in the way, then test the reverse before handover.
We keep one lane running at all times, because a rental property cannot close its only entry. We build the new exit lane first while the old entry stays in service, the same order we used on Leopold's 2 vehicle slide gates, a telephone entry and a resident walk gate. Then we move traffic over, rebuild the entry, and test both lanes together. Your staff get a posted notice for each stage, and we keep loud work in the middle of the day.
The cutover is the step most projects get wrong. We load the resident list and test codes before the old system comes down, and the office practices adding and removing a resident while we are still on site.
Harriet's 26 ft cantilever across a loading entrance near Old Settlers Park sat on a fire lane, so it needed the fire department's switch and sensor, and it passed the fire marshal's test. Winston off Brodie Lane in Sunset Valley runs six gates across one property, three of them had been stuck open for months, and every gate now closes with logs that show when it was last tested. Xavier's 200 ft perimeter run on Jones Road replaced a thin chain link line that was cut twice, which is the upgrade to look at when a property keeps losing its fence. Lucinda off Williams Drive had deliveries stopping at the gate, and the video intercom, keypad or phone entry with delivery codes that solved it works just as well for a leasing office. Kasper's 18 ft double leaf at Serenada Country Estates opens for emergency access, because a closed gate has to answer to more than the people who live behind it. Florence's 16 ft slide leaf on the Cypress Creek side fits a narrow side drive, and that layout often suits a rear lane at a garden community.
Across 1,412 projects, we have found that managers remember the first week after cutover, so our 3-year workmanship warranty and an on-site staff handover cover it.
We work on apartment and multifamily properties across a 45-mile radius, including Round Rock, Pflugerville and Cedar Park. Round Rock garden communities often have older swing gates ready for replacement, and Pflugerville properties more often add a second lane as they grow.
Managers planning access work often start with our commercial gates overview, add a gate service contract after handover, or compare it with gated community entries for HOA boards. Properties that need a harder perimeter can see security fencing, where anti-climb steel panels answer a yard with a thin chain link perimeter that was cut twice, and owners can also start from the Georgetown Metal Gates home page.
Telephone entry or a video intercom on one entry is estimated at $1,500 to $3,400, and Leopold's full two-lane project sat in an estimated range of $7,800 to $11,500.
Most two-lane projects need an estimated 3 to 5 days on site, spread across stages so a lane stays open, as Leopold's Round Rock project was.
Yes, because we choose a system your staff can update, and they practice adding and removing a resident during handover.
No lane plan is final until your manager signs it, and we keep one vehicle lane open during each stage.
Plan on it, and we confirm what the fire authority for your address wants before the drawings are final.
Yes, through a service contract, and a plan is typically estimated at $88 to $113 per gate each month.
Yes, because a separate walk gate keeps people away from the moving gate and gives you a clearer accessible route.
Request a bid with your site map, lane count and unit count, and our estimator will walk your property in Georgetown, Round Rock, Cedar Park or Pflugerville.
Start to finish
We measure the opening, the grade and the swing or slide path before anything is drawn.
You approve a scaled drawing, the metal, the finish and the operator before steel is cut.
The gate is welded in our shop, then galvanized and powder coated before it leaves for your property.
We set the posts, hang the gate, wire the operator and test every photo eye and safety edge with you.
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Where we work
Call us or send a site plan, photos or a gate count, and we will set a site walk and return a written bid.
Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
