Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in horizontal slat gates, specializing in aluminum and steel slat infill, welded steel frames, and matching Cor-Ten panels. We offer slide gates and cantilever gates in a slat layout, each drawn to scale before we cut.
Our team provides drawing, welding, finish coating and installation, delivering gates that screen a drive 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 16 ft side drive to a 26 ft cantilever across a loading entrance.
From the slat layout to the last opener test, our team handles every step. Serving Georgetown along with Cedar Park, Round Rock, Leander and West Lake Hills, we build in the shop and bring the finished gate out in one piece.
Call us for a free estimate and we will measure your drive and draw the slat layout for your home.
What you can hold us to
Horace, Cypress Creek and Brushy Creek Road, Cedar Park
A modern limestone home whose picket gate looked out of place and left the parked cars in plain view of the street.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Horace's modern limestone home near Cypress Creek and Brushy Creek Road in Cedar Park had a picket gate that looked out of place and left parked cars in plain view of the street. We built a 16 ft horizontal slat slide gate on a steel frame, with the slat gaps drawn to line up with the mortar courses on the columns. The project took an estimated 2 to 3 days and sat in an estimated range of $3,400 to $4,900. The drive is now screened from the street, and the slats read as one line with the house.
A horizontal slat driveway gate on a slide track is typically estimated at $1,500 to $5,000 in Georgetown, and the opening width, slat material and privacy level set where yours lands. Tighter slat spacing takes more material and more welding, so a privacy gate costs more than an open one of the same width. A cantilever frame costs more again, and is typically estimated at $6,000 to $10,000 where a steep or uneven drive cannot take a ground track.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
| Scope | Est. price | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Slat slide gate on a ground track | Est. $1,500 to $5,000 | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Slat cantilever gate | Est. $6,000 to $10,000 | Est. 3 to 5 days |
| Cor-Ten panel fence beside the gate | Est. $85 to $145 a linear foot | Est. 3 to 5 days |
All of these slat prices are estimates that can change with steel costs. The written quote after we measure sets the final price and the schedule, and footings on rock or a gate opener are listed on their own lines.
Aluminum is the usual slat choice for a moving gate, because it stays light and does not rust where a scratch reaches bare metal. Powder-coated steel, horizontal bars give a heavier look and resist dents, but the added weight calls for 24V DC continuous-duty operators sized to the leaf. A Cor-Ten steel panel fence beside a gate suits the fixed runs better than the moving leaf, and those panels are estimated at $85 to $145 a linear foot.
| Slat option | Look | What to weigh |
|---|---|---|
| Aluminum slats | Clean, light, wide color choice | Dents more easily than steel if a car bumps it |
| Steel slats | Heavy, solid, crisp welded joints | Adds weight, and needs full coating on every face |
| Cedar or composite on steel | Warm, wood-toned look | Wood needs recoating, and it moves as it dries |
| Cor-Ten panels | Rust-colored and architectural | Runoff can stain limestone or a pale drive while it weathers |
Slat spacing is the choice that shapes everything else, because the gap controls how much you can see, how much wind passes, and how much the frame must carry. A tight layout hides cars and trash bins from the street but acts more like a sail in a storm. A wider gap lets some view through at an angle, and the wind has a way past. We usually mock up two gaps at full size on the shop floor, so you can compare them before we weld anything.
Horizontal slats hide more from a person standing level with them, and less from someone looking down from a hill or a second floor. On a hillside lot in West Lake Hills or Volente, that view from above can change which gap we suggest.
Long slats stay straight only if the frame is built to support them, and this is the most common failure we repair on modern gates. An aluminum slat across a wide opening can bow under its own weight, and it can also move with the heat. We add hidden vertical stiffeners and weld or fasten at each one, so the eye still reads one clean horizontal line.
A slatted gate often weighs more than a picket gate of the same size, and that changes the opener and the hinge or roller you need. We size the opener for the actual finished weight and for the wind on a tight layout, not just the width of the drive. On a swing gate, that weight is harder on ball-bearing barrel hinges sized to the leaf weight and on gate catchers and positive travel stops, which is one reason we steer most wide slat gates toward a slide or a cantilever gate.
A tight slat layout can run into local rules, so check them for your exact lot before you choose it. Cities and associations in our area treat a mostly solid front gate differently from an open one. A Steiner Ranch owner files an Architectural Modification Application with the association before a change like this. Quinn's Rollingwood street job shows the same limit, because that 14 ft double leaf had to meet the front-yard rules on openness, so a laser-cut panel did the screening. Thaddeus on the FM 1825 (Pecan Street) side kept the sight line at the street clear on a 16 ft side drive, which is what we check first on any corner lot.
Florence's 16 ft slide leaf on the Cypress Creek side of Cedar Park is the nearest match to a slat gate, with a steel frame with horizontal-bar infill on a narrow side drive with no room for a swing arc. Thaddeus used powder-coated steel, horizontal bars between cedar fence runs in Pflugerville, and that drive now closes with a remote. Edmund's 20 ft cantilever in the RM-1431 and Whitestone corridor shows why a sloped drive skips the ground track altogether, because a swing leaf would have hit the grade. Harriet's 26 ft cantilever near Old Settlers Park in Round Rock carries a shared truck entrance, so a slat frame at that span is well within what our shop builds.
Keep the same slat line running across the gate and the fence, because a break between them is the first thing the eye catches on a modern front. Our steel gate material guide explains galvanizing and powder coat for the frame, and a 3 to 5 mil coating is what we put on the slats too. Where a fence needs to do more than screen, our security fencing page covers taller, harder-to-climb layouts.
Across 1,412 projects, we have learned that clean lines depend on the drawing, so we settle the gaps on paper and on the shop floor first.
We install slat gates across a 45-mile radius, including Cedar Park, West Lake Hills and Rollingwood. Cedar Park drives are often level enough for a ground track, while West Lake Hills and Volente drives often slope and need a cantilever frame. Round Rock owners on Blackland clay ask us about footings, because that soil moves with the seasons and a track has to stay level.
Owners planning a slat gate often compare it with custom driveway gates in other styles, or add a sliding gate at a second entry. If you need new posts and footings first, our driveway gate installation page covers that site work.
Most slat slide gates are estimated at $1,500 to $5,000, and Horace's 16 ft gate in Cedar Park sat in an estimated range of $3,400 to $4,900.
Most slat slide gates need an estimated 2 to 3 days on site, and that is what Horace's 16 ft horizontal slat slide gate in Cedar Park took.
They can be close to it with tight gaps, but some view usually remains at an angle or from above, so we mock up the gap with you first.
Long slats can bow if they are not supported, which is why we hide vertical stiffeners in the layout and fasten the slats at each one.
Yes, with monitored photo eyes plus edge sensors on every automatic gate, a reverse test at install, and a solar panel with dual-battery backup where trenching power is not practical.
They can while the surface is still weathering, so we keep runoff away from pale stone and concrete with the panel base and the drainage layout.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will measure your drive in Georgetown, Cedar Park, Round Rock or West Lake Hills 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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