Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in custom driveway gate fabrication, specializing in picket patterns, hand-drawn designs, tube sizing and powder-coated finishes. We offer scrollwork, spear and flat-top finials, privacy panels and arched tops, plus a matching walk gate when the drive calls for one in Leander or Lost Creek.
Across a 45-mile radius and 11 years, our crew provides drawings, shop welding and finish work under one roof, delivering one-of-a-kind gates for homes and long-term value for both residential and commercial projects. We stand behind the work for 3 years on welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel, after 11 years in business and over 1,412 projects that run from a plain 12 ft single leaf to a 20 ft double leaf with an arched top.
From the scaled drawing to finished pickets, rails and posts in 16-gauge, 14-gauge and 11-gauge to 3/16-inch steel, our team handles every step of the build. Serving Georgetown and neighboring Cedar Park, Round Rock, Leander and Serenada, we cut, weld, grind, prime and coat every leaf ourselves.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will sketch your gate before you commit to a thing.
What you can hold us to
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
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Quinn's Rollingwood lot left almost no room between the curb and the garage, so the gate had to open away from the street and a car had to stop fully off the pavement. We drew a 14 ft laser-cut oak-leaf double leaf that swings inward, left off sharp finials and rounded the top, an estimated $5,200 to $7,000 job over an estimated 2 to 3 days. The pair clears the sidewalk in Rollingwood and still looks like it belongs to the house. It is one of the 1,412 gates our crew has built in 11 years, and it carries the same 3-year workmanship warranty as the rest.
A prefabricated gate ships faster and costs less, while a custom gate matches your opening, your house and your slope, which matters on a Volente or Sunset Valley lot. The table compares the two paths side by side.
| Choice | Best fit | Shop time | Fit to your opening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefabricated panel | A standard opening with a plain look | Shortest | Trimmed to size on site |
| Custom shop-built gate | An odd width, a slope or a designed look | Longer | Cut and welded to your measurements |
| Hand-forged scrollwork | A formal entry with detail | Longest | Drawn and forged per piece |
Local rules in Georgetown and Rollingwood shape the design before the first weld. Georgetown's code allows a decorative wrought iron front yard fence, keeps it to 4 ft with at least 50 percent transparency, and keeps a 25 ft sight triangle clear at corners, so a solid privacy leaf may need a different placement. Rollingwood's code asks that the vehicle sit fully off the street, that the gate open parallel to or away from the street, and that pointed tops be left off. Confirm current rules with your city, whether Georgetown, Round Rock or Leander, before you commit.
Sun City Texas and the Old Town Overlay go through their own review as well as the city. We check the rules for your Cedar Park or Steiner Ranch address while we draw, so the design is not redone later. Finial choices such as spear, triad, flare, fleur-de-lis or flat-top are picked per lot and per city rule, which is how Quinn's finial-free oak-leaf pattern cleared Rollingwood.
Every custom gate moves through the same shop sequence:
A draft is cheaper to change than a finished leaf, whether a 14 ft single leaf or a 12 ft swing leaf, so we ask you to mark up the sketch before any steel is cut. Posts and hollow rails are G90 hot-dip galvanized tube so rust cannot start from the inside, and the picket gap stays 3.5 to 3.875 inches clear. Where the grade runs, rackable panels follow a slope and steps are used only where it is too steep to rack. Bottom clearance is 2 to 3 inches above lawn grade, less over paved drives.
A custom gate priced like our welded ornamental fence or hand-wrought forged iron fence is estimated by the foot, and the width, the design detail, the finish and the shop time move the price most. Ornamental steel runs an estimated $50 to $85 per ft and hand-forged iron an estimated $85 to $130 per ft.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Welded ornamental fence or gate run | Est. $50 to $85 per ft | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| Hand-forged iron gate or fence run | Est. $85 to $130 per ft | Est. 3 to 6 days |
| Walk gate to match the drive gate | Est. $600 to $1,500 each | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Automated single swing gate | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 for each system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Automated dual swing gate | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 for each system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
Numbers for custom driveway gates are estimates, subject to change with your lot, soil and options. A written quote follows the site visit and sets the final price along with the fabrication schedule.
A custom leaf pairs well with a run of fence in the same pattern, such as a 110 ft front and side run or a 200 ft perimeter run. See wrought iron gates for hand-forged wrought iron detail, steel gates for galvanized steel tube construction, or wrought iron fencing to carry the pattern along the property line. Quinn's laser-cut oak-leaf pair shows how a plain frame can still look custom. A fence run in Cedar Park or Round Rock can repeat the same 16-gauge pickets and 14-gauge rails, so the gate and the fence read as one piece.
From Georgetown to Round Rock, our owner draws or reviews every custom sketch, and our lead welder builds the gate you approved rather than a stock panel with your name on it. Over 11 years and 1,412 projects we have learned that most disputes start with a drawing nobody saw, so the sketch comes first. A custom leaf from our shop is warrantied for workmanship over 3 years, covering welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel. We work inside a 45-mile radius of the Georgetown shop, and the same crew that drew the gate hangs it on ball-bearing barrel hinges with posts set 24 to 36 inches deep.
Our shop sits in Georgetown and serves a 45-mile radius, including Cedar Park custom gates, Round Rock gate fabrication, Leander driveway gates and Rollingwood entries. Serenada, Steiner Ranch, West Lake Hills, Volente, Lost Creek and Sunset Valley are covered on our service area page. A custom gate for a Serenada acreage lot and one for a West Lake Hills hillside need different footings, so the Georgetown shop drafts each against the lot it serves. Round Rock and Leander drives tend to be flatter, while Steiner Ranch and Volente drives often need a rackable panel that follows the slope.
Many custom gates in Cedar Park and Leander are paired with a pedestrian entry gate, upgraded later with automatic driveway gates, or framed by estate entry columns. Owners who want a modern line can compare horizontal slat gates.
Ornamental steel is estimated at $50 to $85 per ft and hand-forged iron at $85 to $130 per ft, with your written quote that fixes the price.
A custom gate takes longer than a prefabricated panel because it is drawn, cut, welded and coated for your opening, typically 2 to 4 days on site in Georgetown or Cedar Park, and your written quote sets the schedule.
Yes, before steel is cut, whether it is a 14 ft single leaf or an 18 ft double leaf on an acre lot, and changing a drawing costs far less than changing a welded leaf.
Not quickly, because the steel gets a multi-stage wash, zinc-phosphate primer and an electrostatic polyester powder coat 3 to 5 mils thick, over G90 hot-dip galvanized tube on posts and hollow rails.
Yes, and we size the frame and hinges from the start for a single-leaf swing gate with operator or an automated two-leaf swing entry so a later upgrade does not need a rebuild.
Some do, such as Georgetown's transparency rule for front yard fences and Rollingwood's ban on pointed tops, so we check your address first.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will draw your custom gate for your Georgetown, Rollingwood or Cedar Park drive 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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