Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in cantilever gates, specializing in counterbalance tails, trackless slide leaves, roller carriages and monitored safety sensors. We offer rack-and-pinion drives, steel frames with picket infill and keypad or video intercom entry, plus solar power where a trench is not practical.
Across a 45-mile radius, our crew provides fabrication, carriage setting and operator wiring under one roof, delivering gates that clear the ground for homes and dependable entries for both residential and commercial projects. Over 1,412 projects in 11 years, with a 16 ft slide leaf through a 20 ft cantilever across a sloped entry among them, have taught us what holds up, so our 3-year warranty on workmanship reaches welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel.
From the counterbalance length to the roller carriages and the photo eye pair, our team handles every part of a cantilever system. Serving Georgetown and neighboring Cedar Park, Round Rock, Leander and Serenada, the same crew that measures your drive hangs the leaf and commissions the operator.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will tell you whether a cantilever fits your wide or sloped entry.
What you can hold us to
Edmund, RM-1431 and Whitestone corridor, Cedar Park
A wide entry on a sloped drive where a swing leaf would have hit the grade
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Edmund's sloped drive in the RM-1431 and Whitestone corridor of Cedar Park made a ground track impossible, since water and gravel would have buried it. We fabricated a 20 ft cantilever, ran a rack-and-pinion drive and added a photo eye pair, an estimated $6,800 to $9,200 job over an estimated 3 to 4 days. The leaf floats above the grade and opens true on every cycle. It is one more of the 1,412 projects our crew has finished in 11 years, and it carries the same 3-year workmanship warranty.
A cantilever floats above the ground on carriages and needs no track, which helps on a Volente or Steiner Ranch slope, while a ground-track slide is cheaper but needs a level, clean path. The table compares the options for a drive in Georgetown, Leander or Lost Creek.
| Layout | Best fit | Est. complete system |
|---|---|---|
| Trackless cantilever | A wide or sloped entry with a clear fence line | Est. $6,000 to $10,000 |
| Ground-track slide | A narrow, level side drive | Est. $1,500 to $5,000 |
| Automated dual swing | A wide drive with room to open | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 |
| Automated single swing | A flat apron up to about 14 ft | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 |
A cantilever in Georgetown or Lost Creek is an automatic gate that moves a long, heavy leaf, so entrapment protection matters in full. DASMA's guidance says most installations need at least two independent entrapment protection means in each direction, and a gate manufacturer's safety summary says controls sit at least 6 ft from the gate. We build monitored photo eyes and edge sensors into every cantilever in Georgetown, Round Rock and Rollingwood as those two means.
Texas law asks for 811 notice before any post hole, and a gate across a fire lane in Round Rock needs a Knox key switch or Opticom receiver and a fire marshal test. Georgetown's code keeps a 25 ft sight triangle clear at corners, so the tail and the leaf have to stay out of it. Check the current rules with your city before you commit to the job.
Every cantilever follows the same path from the first tape measure to the signed-off test:
The tail carries the counterbalance on a Round Rock or Serenada drive too, so the leaf needs roughly half again as much fence line beside the opening as the opening is wide. West of I-35 the limestone shelf can stop a post hole short, and east of it the clay moves with the rain, so a Steiner Ranch or Volente lot gets its ground checked before the footing depth is set. Where trenching power is not practical, a solar panel with dual-battery backup runs the operator.
A trackless cantilever gate for a wide or sloped entry is estimated at $6,000 to $10,000 for the complete package, and the leaf length, the footing work and the entry device move the price most. A keypad or intercom access package typically runs $680 to $3,000 on top.
Galvanized steel, powder coat, one operator, photo eyes and keypad
Two leaves, two operators, ball-bearing hinges, battery backup
Track set in concrete, chain or rack drive, edge sensors
Counterbalanced carriage, rack-and-pinion drive, no ground track
Hand-built leaf, keyed or electric strike latch
Motor, photo eyes and remotes added to a gate you already own
Video intercom, keypad or phone entry, delivery codes
Galvanized tube, powder coat, rackable panels
Forged pickets and scrollwork, finish to the lot
Self-closing, self-latching gate priced extra
Field-measured, anchored to code height
Thermal break, glass, pivot hardware
Engineered, delivered and set with a hoist
Inspection, lubrication, sensor and limit checks
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
| Scope | Est. price | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Cantilever gate clearing a wide or sloped entry | Est. $6,000 to $10,000 for the full system | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| Automated track-guided slide gate | Est. $1,500 to $5,000 for the full system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Automated two-leaf swing entry | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 for the full system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Operator added to a gate you own | Est. $1,800 to $3,800 for each gate | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Keypad or intercom access package | Est. $680 to $3,000 for each system | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
The prices and timelines for cantilever gates below are estimates and subject to change after the site visit. After we visit and measure, the written quote for your cantilever gates sets the final price and the install schedule.
The cantilever leaf can be galvanized steel, ornamental steel or hand-forged wrought iron, and the operator is sized to whichever you pick. See steel gates for tube construction, automatic driveway gates for the full operator package, or wrought iron gates for scrollwork. Edmund's 20 ft leaf is a good picture of a plain steel frame that reads as finished on a long drive.
From Georgetown to Round Rock, our owner walks the drive with you before a drawing is made, and the people who measure the opening also set the carriages and test the sensors. Across 1,412 projects and 11 years, a cantilever that is sized, wired and tested by one crew gives fewer callbacks than one split between a fence company and an electrician. The Georgetown shop's 45-mile radius is our working range, and inside it workmanship is warrantied for 3 years on welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel. Every operator is a 24V DC continuous-duty unit, and every leaf from Lost Creek to Rollingwood gets gate catchers and positive travel stops.
We install within a 45-mile radius of the Georgetown shop, including Cedar Park cantilever gates, Round Rock gate service, Leander driveway entries and Serenada acreage gates. Our service area page also names Steiner Ranch, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Volente, Lost Creek and Sunset Valley. Steiner Ranch and Volente drives often slope, while Round Rock and Leander drives tend to be flatter.
Owners in Leander and Round Rock who choose a cantilever often add gate access control, a solar gate operator or a pedestrian entry gate, and some compare it with a sliding gate.
A cantilever gate with no floor track typically costs $6,000 to $10,000, confirmed in your written quote.
A cantilever wins on a wide or sloped entry in Cedar Park or West Lake Hills, because it floats above the ground and needs no track to clog with gravel.
Most cantilevers take an estimated 2 to 4 days on site, as with Edmund's 20 ft leaf in Cedar Park.
Roughly half again the width of the opening, which we confirm when we measure the fence line.
A battery backup keeps the 24V DC operator running through an outage in Georgetown or Serenada, and a manual release lets you push the leaf open by hand.
Yes, because monitored photo eyes and edge sensors stop and reverse the leaf on contact in Rollingwood or Sunset Valley, and DASMA's guidance asks for at least two independent entrapment protection means in each direction on most installations.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will measure your drive in Georgetown, Cedar Park or Leander and send a written quote.
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.
Services
Call us or send the form, and we will book a site measure and a written estimate.
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