Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in courtyard entry gates, specializing in arched walk gates, masonry-anchored steel frames, and visitor-friendly latches. We offer square-top single leaves and paired leaves for wider openings, each measured at your wall before steel is cut.
Our team provides measuring, welding, finish coating and anchoring, delivering gates that latch cleanly for homes and sturdy entries for both residential and commercial projects. Customers get 3 years of workmanship warranty covering welds, hinge alignment, sag and travel from a shop with 11 years in business and over 1,412 projects, a 3.5 ft walk opening in a dry-stacked wall to a 4 ft arched walk gate in a stone courtyard wall.
From the anchor bolt in the masonry to the latch your guests reach for, our team handles every step. Serving Georgetown along with Cedar Park, Round Rock, Leander and Steiner Ranch, we schedule the install so your front door stays usable for the whole visit.
Call us for a free estimate and we will measure your courtyard opening and quote the gate in writing.
What you can hold us to
Beatrix, Old Town Overlay, Georgetown
A stone courtyard wall with an open gap at the front walk, and a door behind it that visitors could not find from the street.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Beatrix's stone courtyard wall in Georgetown's Old Town Overlay had an open gap at the front walk, and visitors could not find the door behind it. We built a 4 ft arched open picket walk gate on ball-bearing hinges, with a keyed latch and the steel anchored to the existing masonry. The job took an estimated 5 to 8 hours on site and sat in an estimated range of $1,100 to $1,500. Guests can now see the front door through the pickets, and the courtyard closes with one latch.
A courtyard walk gate is typically estimated at $600 to $1,500 in Georgetown, and the height, the arch and the anchoring into the wall set where yours lands in that range. A plain square-top gate in a level opening sits near the low end. An arched head, scrollwork or a jamb that needs new steel to meet crooked stone pushes it toward the high end.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
| Scope | Est. price | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Courtyard walk gate | Est. $600 to $1,500 | Est. 5 to 8 hours |
| Video intercom at the courtyard | Est. $1,500 to $3,400 | Est. 4 to 7 hours |
| Welded ornamental side panels | Est. $50 to $85 a linear foot | Est. 2 to 4 days |
Treat these courtyard figures as estimates that can change with the opening. The written quote after we measure sets the final price and the schedule, and any masonry repair is priced as its own line.
An arched gate suits a stone wall and a Mediterranean or Hill Country front, a square top suits a modern front, and a paired gate suits an opening too wide for one leaf. Width decides this before style does, because a single leaf that is too wide pulls on its hinges every time it swings.
| Style | Best for | What to weigh |
|---|---|---|
| Arched single leaf | Stone walls and a formal arrival | The arch has to match any arch already in the wall |
| Square-top single leaf | Modern fronts and tight openings | Simple shape, so the proportions show every error |
| Paired leaves | Wide openings and moving furniture through | Two sets of hinges and a center stop to line up |
We fasten a courtyard gate to the structure behind the stone, because a hinge bolted only into a veneer loosens over time. First we find out whether the wall is solid masonry, block with a stone face, or a thin veneer on framing. Solid walls take sleeve or epoxy anchors drilled into sound material, away from weak mortar joints. A veneer wall usually needs a steel post set beside it, so the wall carries none of the swing.
Limestone adds its own step, because a chipped face is hard to patch so it blends. We drill slowly, keep bits sharp and protect the walk under the opening. On Blackland clay in Georgetown and Round Rock a wall can shift a little with the seasons, so we leave a clearance that lets the gate keep latching as the opening moves.
The door should stay visible from the street, because a visitor who cannot see an entry stops at the gate and calls. Open pickets on an ornamental walk-through gate do this best, and powder-coated steel, laser-cut panel infill gives privacy at the cost of that view. We walk the path with you, stand where a guest would stand, and check where the eye lands before we draw the gate.
The latch matters just as much as the look. A keyed latch suits a home where only family and invited guests come through. A keypad suits a home with regular deliveries, a cleaner or a dog walker. For a gate far from the door, an intercom lets you answer from inside, and our gate access control page covers those options.
The most common fault we repair is a gate hung on a wall that could not hold it. Here are the others we see in Georgetown and Leander courtyards:
A homeowner in a deed-restricted community should also check with the association before ordering, because a visible front gate often needs approval first, and Steiner Ranch owners file an Architectural Modification Application for this kind of change.
Clementine's job on the Barton Creek Greenbelt side in Austin is the closest match to a garden courtyard, because a 3.5 ft walk opening in a dry-stacked wall took flat-bar steel with the wall left as it was. Aurelio's 4 ft walk gate in a stucco side-yard wall at Sun City Texas needed approval from both the Modifications Committee and the city, and it went in with no change orders. Marguerite's 140 ft run with an arched walk gate on the Lake Pflugerville side shows how an arch can carry over from fence to gate. Rosalind's 8 ft arched entry door in Rollingwood is the piece to study if your courtyard leads straight to an iron door, since the door and the gates share one finish. Ambrose in Clarksville has a 14 ft opening between limestone pillars, and that stonework set the pattern of the hand-forged iron with scrollwork. Bernadette, also in the Old Town Overlay, kept her 60 ft front and side run open to the street, so a courtyard gate on her block would read as part of that line.
Choose galvanized steel, black powder coat for a crisp, modern line, and choose hand-forged wrought iron when the courtyard calls for forged scrolls and cast detail. Our steel gate material guide explains galvanizing and powder coat, and our wrought iron gates page covers forged ornament and rust care. A courtyard gate looks best when its finish matches the railing on the front steps, so a 3 to 5 mil powder coat in one color can tie them together.
Across 1,412 projects, we have found that a courtyard gate almost never fails at the steel, and almost always fails where the steel meets the wall.
We install courtyard gates across a 45-mile radius, including Round Rock, Leander and Steiner Ranch. West Lake Hills owners tend to have stone terraces that need careful drilling, while Round Rock owners more often have block walls with a stone face. Sunset Valley and Rollingwood properties can have tighter front setbacks, so we measure the swing before we choose a hinge side.
Owners planning a courtyard gate often add a pedestrian entry gate at the side yard, an iron entry door behind the courtyard, or a custom driveway gate in the same style.
Most courtyard walk gates are estimated at $600 to $1,500, and Beatrix's 4 ft arched gate sat in an estimated range of $1,100 to $1,500.
Most courtyard gates need an estimated 5 to 8 hours on site once the steel is built, though a wall repair adds time to the schedule.
Usually we set a steel post beside the veneer instead, with posts set 24 to 36 inches deep in concrete, sized to the soil on the lot, because thin stone on framing cannot carry a swinging gate for long.
Open pickets keep the door in view and let air through the courtyard, while a solid panel gives privacy and hides the entry from guests.
Yes, and Lucinda off Williams Drive uses a video intercom, keypad or phone entry with delivery codes, which suits a courtyard with regular visitors just as well.
Galvanized tube under a powder coat 3 to 5 mils thick resists rust and chipping well, including on the back side we prime before coating.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will measure your courtyard in Georgetown, Round Rock, Leander or Steiner Ranch 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.
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