Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in driveway gate installation, specializing in automated swing gates, ground-track sliding gates, and trackless cantilever gates. We offer single and dual swing leaves, operator retrofits and battery or solar power.
Our team provides welding and powder coat prep in-house, so each driveway gate installation job suits residential and commercial customers. Welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel on each driveway gate installation are warrantied for 3 years, drawn from 11 years in business and over 1,412 completed projects, a 4 ft walk gate through a 200 ft perimeter run.
From 24 to 36 inch post footings to the entrapment test at handover, our team handles every step. Serving Georgetown and neighboring Cedar Park, Round Rock, Leander and Serenada, we keep one crew on your drive from the first tape measure to the last remote programmed.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will measure your opening, check the slope and look up the rules for your street before we draw a gate.
What you can hold us to
Delphine, near the Old Town Overlay, Georgetown
A concrete driveway on soil that moved with the seasons, where the last gate post had leaned
Kasper, Serenada Country Estates, Serenada
An acre lot outside the city where no city code applies, but recorded deed restrictions did
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
Ulysses, off Lost Creek Boulevard, Lost Creek
A lot where the owners were not sure which office to ask or which deed restriction applied
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Delphine's concrete driveway near the San Gabriel River moves with the seasons, and her last post had leaned. For a 14 ft double leaf, galvanized steel in black powder coat, we fitted ball-bearing hinges and battery backup on deeper footings, an estimated $4,600 to $6,400 over an estimated 2 to 3 days.
Quinn in Rollingwood needed a car to stop fully off the street, so we hung a 14 ft laser-cut double leaf set back for car length and opening away from the street, an estimated $5,200 to $7,000 job done in an estimated 2 to 3 days.
Ulysses in Lost Creek asked for a 12 ft galvanized double leaf, and we drew it only after pulling the section's deed restrictions, an estimated $4,200 to $5,800 job over an estimated 2 to 3 days. Kasper in Serenada Country Estates needed an 18 ft double swing with a Knox box under his deed restrictions, an estimated $6,000 to $7,800 job over an estimated 2 to 3 days.
A swing gate fits a drive with room in front of the fence, a ground-track slider fits a drive that slopes toward the street, and a trackless cantilever fits a gravel drive where a track would clog. The table compares what we install by estimated cost and duration.
| Gate type | Best for | Est. price | Est. duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated single swing | Drives up to about 14 ft with setback | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Automated dual swing | Wide estate drives such as 16 to 18 ft | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Ground-track sliding | Tight setbacks and sloped drives | Est. $1,500 to $5,000 | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Trackless cantilever | Gravel drives and wide openings | Est. $6,000 to $10,000 | Est. 2 to 4 days |
A Georgetown driveway gate starts with the street, because the unified development code limits front yard fences to 4 ft and asks for at least 50 percent transparency, and it keeps anything over 3 ft and 25 percent solid out of the 25 ft sight triangle where two streets meet. Inside Sun City Texas, perimeter work usually needs the Modifications Committee and a city permit, so we draw to both before fabrication. Rules can differ by deed restrictions, which is why Ulysses in Lost Creek had his restrictions pulled before we drew a thing.
Automatic gates need their own safety hardware as well. The Door and Access Systems Manufacturers Association's guidance says most installations need at least two independent entrapment protection means in each direction and asks for a separate pedestrian opening, so we pair a driveway leaf with a pedestrian entry gate when people will walk in. Texas 811 needs notice before any post hole is dug. Confirm current rules with the city before you commit.
The process runs in the same order on every drive:
East of I-35 the Blackland clay holds water and moves, while west of it the limestone shelf stops a hole short, so we check the ground on site before we quote the footing.
A single-leaf swing gate with operator is estimated at $2,500 to $5,000 installed and an automated dual swing at $4,000 to $8,000, and the opening width, the slope and the automation move the price most.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Automated single swing gate | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 for the full system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Automated dual swing gate | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 for the full system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Ground-track sliding gate | Est. $1,500 to $5,000 for the full system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Cantilever gate with no floor track | Est. $6,000 to $10,000 for the full system | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| Operator added to a gate you own | Est. $1,800 to $3,800 | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
These driveway gate installation figures are estimates only, and any of them is subject to change once the leaf is measured. We confirm the price and the install dates for driveway gate installation in a written quote sent after the site visit.
Our shop builds in several metals, from steel gate installation and custom driveway gate fabrication to wrought iron gates and automatic driveway gates. Octavia off Bee Cave Road chose a 16 ft double leaf in forged steel with limestone columns, an estimated $6,800 to $7,900 job over an estimated 2 to 3 days, after her ESD 9 letter.
Our owner walks the drive with you before a drawing is made, and the crew that measures your opening sets the gate and tests the operator. Operators carry the maker's parts warranty, usually 1 to 5 years on motors and boards, and where trenching power is not practical, a solar panel with dual-battery backup runs the operator. Across 1,412 projects the pattern holds from Williams Drive to Sun City Texas: most callbacks on other crews' gates trace to a shallow footing, not the motor.
We install across a 45-mile radius of the Georgetown shop, including Cedar Park driveway gates, Round Rock gate installation, Leander entries and Serenada acreage drives. Steiner Ranch, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Volente, Lost Creek and Sunset Valley are on our service area page.
Owners around Georgetown often combine a new gate with gate access control and intercoms, solar gate operators or ornamental iron fencing, and businesses call us for commercial gate systems.
Expect an estimated $2,500 to $5,000 installed for an automated single swing gate and $4,000 to $8,000 for a dual swing, with the final price set by your written quote after the site visit.
Most automated swing gates take an estimated 1 to 3 days on site after the gate is built in our shop, as with Delphine's 14 ft pair near the San Gabriel River.
Swing suits a drive with setback, as Quinn's did in Rollingwood, while a slider suits a sloped or tight drive, and we measure before recommending.
Yes, battery backup powers our operators, and each automatic gate keeps a manual release.
Often yes, because front yard height and transparency limits apply and Sun City Texas adds its Modifications Committee, so we confirm the rules for your address first.
Yes, an operator retrofit is estimated at $1,800 to $3,800, and we add photo eyes and edge sensors with it, the way Cyrus's Williams Drive gate was done.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will measure your opening in Georgetown, Sun City Texas or the Williams Drive corridor 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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Call us or send the form, and we will book a site measure and a written estimate.
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