Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in gate operator installation, specializing in continuous-duty swing operators, slide gate drives, and photo eye and edge sensor entrapment protection. We offer photo eye pairs and edge sensor kits.
Our team provides wiring, limit setting and keypad programming, delivering a gate that opens from the car for homes and dependable access for both residential and commercial projects. Every gate operator installation job is warrantied for 3 years on welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel, and our 11 years of work and over 1,412 projects, a 4 ft walk gate to a 200 ft perimeter run, are the record behind that.
From checking the leaf's weight and hinge wear to the final entrapment test, our team handles the job from start to finish. Serving Georgetown and neighboring Round Rock, Leander, Serenada and Cedar Park, we make an old manual gate open on a button and stop on contact.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will inspect your gate, name what it needs before a motor goes on, and send a written quote.
What you can hold us to
Cyrus, Williams Drive corridor, Georgetown
A manual gate the owners hand-dragged open every morning and wanted to automate without replacing
Nadine, Rocky Ridge, Steiner Ranch
A gate far from the house where trenching power would have meant cutting the driveway
Sebastian, north shore of Lake Travis, Volente
A lake-side gate whose old operator corroded and quit
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Cyrus on the Williams Drive corridor hand-dragged a 12 ft single leaf open every morning, so we fitted a continuous-duty operator with photo eyes on both sides and a keypad, an estimated $2,100 to $3,200 job that took an estimated 5 to 7 hours. The old gate now opens from the car and stops on contact.
Sebastian on the north shore of Lake Travis needed a new operator on a 12 ft swing leaf after the old unit corroded, and we added a sealed housing, new limit switches and photo eyes in an estimated 4 to 8 hours for an estimated $1,900 to $3,000. Nadine's solar operator went on a 12 ft double leaf at Rocky Ridge in Steiner Ranch.
Most steel swing and slide gates can take an operator, but the leaf has to swing or roll freely by hand first. Our Round Rock and Cedar Park crews pair 24V DC continuous-duty operators sized to the leaf with ball-bearing barrel hinges sized to the leaf weight, because a dragging leaf burns out a motor. The table shows what we check before we quote.
| Gate condition | What we do | Operator fit |
|---|---|---|
| Heavy steel leaf on sound hinges | Size a 24V DC operator to the weight | Good retrofit |
| Sagging leaf or leaning post | Reset the post and hinges first | Repair, then operator |
| Thin pipe frame from a builder | Rebuild the leaf in heavier tube | Replace the gate |
| Slide gate with a dirty track | Clean and level the track | Good retrofit |
A gate that fails this hand test is not a bad candidate, it is a gate that needs hardware work first, and our gate replacement page covers the cases where a new leaf is the cheaper route.
Every vehicle gate operator we install gets monitored photo eyes, edge sensors and a reverse test, and DASMA's guidance says most installations need at least two independent entrapment protection means in each direction and at least two warning signs. The Door and Access Systems Manufacturers Association adds that a vehicular operator never drives a pedestrian gate, so a walk-in path needs its own gate. A gate manufacturer's safety summary also puts controls at least 6 ft from the gate.
Georgetown adds its own layers. Inside city limits the unified development code limits front yard fences to 4 ft with at least 50 percent transparency, and Sun City Texas perimeter gates usually need the Modifications Committee and a city permit. Texas 811 asks for notice before any post hole or trench, and a private power line to the gate may need a separate private locate at the owner's cost. Current rules are set by your city, so confirm them before you commit.
The install runs in this order:
East of I-35 the Blackland clay moves, so a post that has leaned gets reset 24 to 36 inches deep in concrete, sized to the soil on the lot, before a motor is hung on it. Every swing and slide leaf also gets gate catchers and positive travel stops.
An operator added to a gate you own is estimated at $1,800 to $3,800 for each system, and leaf weight, the number of sensors and the distance to power 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Operator added to a gate you own | Est. $1,800 to $3,800 for one operator system | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Recurring gate service plan | Est. $88 to $113 a gate each month | Est. 1 to 3 hours per visit |
Treat the gate operator installation numbers as Georgetown estimates that are subject to change. After the site visit, the written quote sets the final price and the schedule, and both follow leaf weight, sensor count and the run to power.
An operator drives a leaf, and the leaf decides the drive, so our pages on automatic driveway gates and steel gate installation cover the gates themselves, while solar gate operators cover a gate with no power run. Nadine in Steiner Ranch, in Rocky Ridge, chose a solar panel with dual-battery backup where trenching power is not practical, on a 12 ft double leaf.
After 11 years and 1,412 projects across a 45-mile radius, we know that most callbacks on other crews' operators trace to a dragging leaf or a missing sensor, not the motor. Because of that, we fit monitored photo eyes plus edge sensors on every automatic gate, and the job is warrantied for 3 years on welds, hinge alignment, gate sag and gate travel.
We install across a 45-mile radius of the Georgetown shop, including Cedar Park gate work, Round Rock gate operators, Leander and Serenada. The service area page lists every other town on our route.
Owners who automate often add gate access control for the intercom and keypad, or call us when an older unit quits, as covered in gate opener repair.
An operator retrofit is estimated at $1,800 to $3,800 for each system, and the written quote we hand you is the final price.
Most retrofits need an estimated 4 to 8 hours on site, as Cyrus's Williams Drive gate did in an estimated 5 to 7 hours.
Yes, if the leaf moves freely by hand, and if it does not we fix the hinges or post first, as we did for Sebastian in Volente, who kept his original leaf.
Yes, DASMA's guidance says most automatic gate installations need at least two independent entrapment protection means in each direction.
Yes, every operator has a manual release, and in Leander and Lost Creek we can add a solar panel with dual-battery backup.
Often the gate itself falls under city fence rules and Sun City Texas adds its Modifications Committee, so we check your address first.
Ask for a free estimate on your Georgetown gate, and we will inspect it, test the swing and follow up with 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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Where we work
Call us or send the form, and we will book a site measure and a written estimate.
Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
