Georgetown Metal Gates is Central Texas's trusted expert in wrought iron gates, specializing in hand-forged iron, ornamental steel fencing, and matching walk and driveway gates. We offer scrollwork, spear and flat-top styles and operators for iron leaves.
Our crew provides welding and powder coat prep in our own shop, so wrought iron gates for residential and commercial entries come from one team. Wrought iron gate jobs come with 3 years of workmanship warranty covering welds, hinge alignment, sag and travel, backed by 11 years in business and over 1,412 projects, a 4 ft walk gate to a 200 ft perimeter run.
From 24 to 36 inch post footings to a finish that survives Texas sun, our team handles every step. Serving Georgetown and neighboring Leander, Serenada, Cedar Park and Round Rock, we keep one crew on your iron from the first tape measure to the last coat.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will tell you honestly whether hand-forged iron or ornamental steel suits your gate and your budget.
What you can hold us to
Bernadette, Old Town Overlay, Georgetown
A corner lot where the old wood fence blocked the view down both streets
Gideon, Old Town, Round Rock
A front yard where the street yard height limit for solid fence was too short, and the owners wanted a taller run
Octavia, off Bee Cave Road, West Lake Hills
An entry that the city treats as its own entry gate permit, with a fire district approval for the electric operator
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
A wood fence on Bernadette's corner lot in the Old Town Overlay blocked the view down both streets. We replaced it with 60 ft of hand-forged wrought iron, kept open and low near the corner for the sight triangle, an estimated $5,600 to $7,200 job over an estimated 4 to 5 days.
Gideon in Round Rock Old Town wanted 110 ft of prefabricated ornamental steel, and we sized the open run to the city's street-yard rule, an estimated $6,600 to $8,800 job over an estimated 3 to 4 days. Octavia off Bee Cave Road chose forged steel with limestone columns on a 16 ft double leaf, an estimated $6,800 to $7,900 job over an estimated 2 to 3 days.
True wrought iron is hand-forged and scrolled one piece at a time, while ornamental steel is welded tube that looks the same from the street and costs less. The table sets them side by side by estimated cost and upkeep.
| Material | Est. installed price | Upkeep |
|---|---|---|
| Hand-forged wrought iron | Est. $85 to $130 a linear foot | Scrape and repaint every 3 to 5 years |
| Ornamental tubular steel, galvanized and powder coated | Est. $50 to $85 a linear foot | Annual wash and touch-up of chips |
| Pool code aluminum | Est. $30 to $45 a linear foot | A hose rinse, never rusts |
A Georgetown iron gate starts with the street. The city's unified development code limits front yard fences to 4 ft and asks for at least 50 percent transparency, so an open picket or scroll design fits where a solid wall fails. The same code allows decorative wrought iron, and it keeps anything over 3 ft and 25 percent solid out of the 25 ft sight triangle where two streets meet, which is why Bernadette's corner run stayed low and open. Inside Sun City Texas, perimeter work usually needs the Modifications Committee and a city permit.
The common mistakes are a solid panel in the sight triangle, a post set in a public easement without the city's encroachment permission, and an operator bolted onto an old iron leaf without photo eyes and edge sensors. DASMA's guidance puts at least two independent entrapment protection means in each direction on most installations, and Texas 811 needs notice before any post hole is dug. Rules differ by city and change over time, so confirm yours before you commit.
Every iron gate follows the same path from tape measure to handover:
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 first.
A hand-wrought forged iron fence run is estimated at $85 to $130 a linear foot, while ornamental tubular steel is estimated at $50 to $85 a linear foot, and the length, the scrollwork and the slope 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hand-wrought forged iron fence | Est. $85 to $130 a linear foot | Est. 3 to 6 days |
| Welded ornamental fence | Est. $50 to $85 a linear foot | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| Ornamental walk-through gate | Est. $600 to $1,500 for each gate installed | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Automated single swing gate | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 for the full system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Iron railing | Est. $65 to $135 | Est. 5 to 10 hours |
Prices for wrought iron gates are estimates and subject to change. No wrought iron gate price is final until the site visit is done and the written quote is in your hands, and that quote also sets the install schedule.
Our shop builds in several metals, from steel gate installation and ornamental iron fencing to custom driveway gates and iron railings. Gideon's ornamental run and Bernadette's forged iron show the two ends of the range.
Our owner walks the property with you before a drawing is made, and the crew that measures your fence line sets the gate and tests it. Hand-forged iron needs a scrape and repaint every 3 to 5 years, and we say so before you sign, because a finish that is ignored in Texas sun will fail first at the welds. Across 1,412 projects the pattern holds from the Old Town Overlay to Round Rock Old Town: an open, low iron run near a corner gets approved faster than a tall solid one.
We build across a 45-mile radius of the Georgetown shop, including Cedar Park iron gates, Round Rock gate installation, Leander entries and Serenada acreage gates. Details for Steiner Ranch, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Volente, Lost Creek and Sunset Valley sit on the service area page.
Georgetown owners often pair iron gates with automatic driveway gates, pedestrian entry gates or gate access control, and businesses call us for commercial gate systems.
Hand-wrought forged iron fence runs are estimated at $85 to $130 a linear foot and an automated single swing gate at $2,500 to $5,000, confirmed in your written quote.
We build both, and we tell you which is which, because ornamental steel at an estimated $50 to $85 a linear foot looks the same from the street.
Hand-forged iron needs a scrape and repaint every 3 to 5 years, while galvanized and powder-coated steel needs an annual wash and touch-up of chips.
Yes, with a continuous-duty operator, photo eyes and edge sensors we test on the leaf, like the operator retrofit Cyrus had on Williams Drive.
A fence run is typically an estimated 3 to 6 days for forged iron, as with Bernadette's 60 ft run, and a gate is typically 1 to 2 days.
Often yes for front yard height and transparency, and Sun City Texas adds its Modifications Committee, so we confirm the rules for your address first.
Call us for a free estimate, and we will measure your opening in Georgetown, Sun City Texas or the Old Town Overlay 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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