Gated Community Entries in Georgetown, TX

Request a bid with your community map, entry count and resident count, and our estimator will meet the board on site and price the entry from what the walk shows.

What a Community Entry Has to Do

A community entry serves residents, guests, delivery drivers and the fire department, and a shared truck entrance on a fire lane where the gate needed the fire department's switch and sensor shows why each group needs its own lane or code. The table sets out the pieces most boards ask us to price.

A long frontage where a swing gate would have needed more setback than the lot allowed is where we steer a board toward a slide leaf. An HOA with one road in keeps a second lane open while that leaf is built, and on a lot where the owners were not sure which office to ask or which deed restriction applied, we read the covenants before we draw anything.

The build below holds whether the community has 30 homes or 300, and we size the leaf and operator to the opening.

• Directory: video intercom, keypad or phone entry with delivery codes, so a resident can release a guest from a phone and a courier gets a code that expires.
• Hinges: ball-bearing barrel hinges sized to the leaf weight, so a heavy decorative leaf does not sag across its first summers.
• Drive: 24V DC continuous-duty operators sized to the leaf, rated for the morning and evening cycling a neighborhood entry sees.
• Safety: monitored photo eyes plus edge sensors on every automatic gate, so the leaf stops when a child or a car is in its path.
• Fire access: Knox key switch or Opticom receiver on gates across fire lanes, as the fire marshal requires, wired before the final test.
• Backup power: solar panel with dual-battery backup where trenching power is not practical, which suits an entry far from the clubhouse.
• Finish: G90 hot-dip galvanized tube on posts and hollow rails so rust cannot start from the inside, with multi-stage wash, zinc-phosphate primer and electrostatic polyester powder coat, 3 to 5 mils thick.
• Footings: posts set 24 to 36 inches deep in concrete, sized to the soil on the lot, which matters where the soil moves with the seasons and an old gate post has leaned.

Boards plan these entries against a reserve study, so the table shows estimated ranges for the pieces a community most often buys, with the time each takes on site.

On gated community entries, payment typically splits into a 50% deposit, a 25 to 40% progress draw and the final 10 to 25% on commissioning. These figures are budgetary estimates, subject to change, and the written quote we issue after the board walk and a look at your plans sets the final price and the schedule.

Harriet's job in Round Rock showed how fire-department hardware shapes any entry with a lane the engines must use. She had a shared truck entrance on a fire lane where the gate needed the fire department's switch and sensor, and we built a 26 ft cantilever across a loading entrance with a Knox key switch, an Opticom receiver and a photo eye and edge sensor set. It sat near Old Settlers Park at an estimated $7,400 to $9,800 over an estimated 3 to 4 days, and it passed the fire marshal's test, which is the sign-off a community entry on a fire lane must also pass.

Working Around Residents

We phase the work so the community never loses its only way in, with crews of 3 to 4 on the motorized stage. In Serenada and Steiner Ranch a second lane carries traffic while the first is rebuilt. In Rollingwood and Volente the same sequence keeps a private street open to residents. A side yard walk gate that the owner needed approved by both the modifications committee and the city before anything was built is why we budget approval time into the schedule.

Why Boards and Managers Choose Us

Boards and managers choose us because one team builds the ornamental walk-through gate, installs the operator and offers a recurring gate service plan afterward. The part we control is under a 3-year workmanship warranty covering gate travel, gate sag, hinge alignment and welds, while the operator carries the maker's parts warranty.

What We Also Offer Boards and Businesses

Commercial gates covers business and storage entries. Commercial security and perimeter fencing covers the fence line around a community. Gate maintenance and service contracts keep a shared entry cycling. Rental properties can see apartment gate access for resident entry systems.

Request a Bid

Send the community map, the number of entries and the resident count, and request a bid for your community entry. We will meet the board on site and return a written scope with a price range.