Gatewood Fence & Gate in Pennsylvania

Gatewood Fence & Gate in Pennsylvania

Gatewood Fence & Gate has been fixing gates across Pennsylvania since 2001, long before most repair outfits figured out that a live voice on the phone was worth more than a dozen radio ads. We’re the gate repair company that welds on your driveway instead of hauling your gate off to a shop you’ve never seen. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop, his address is published, and his cell is the number you call. Every Pennsylvania homeowner who books through Gatewood gets the full Locally promise stamped in writing: the owner you talk to is the owner who shows up, and the price he quotes is the price on the invoice. No dispatch queue, no out-of-state call center, no surprise at the door.

Why Pennsylvania Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate

Pennsylvania weather does not go easy on gates. Freeze-thaw cycles in the Alleghenies, the humidity down along the Susquehanna, the salt runoff from winter roads in the Poconos - we’ve seen it all, and we’ve fixed it all, right there in the driveway. Hal Gatewood started this shop in 2001 because he was tired of watching homeowners get told a gate was “totaled” when what it really needed was a half-hour of welding and a technician who knew how to set a FAAC operator without reading the manual for the first time on your property.

We’re certified to service nine major gate brands - LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule - and if your gate isn’t on that list, we’ve probably seen it anyway. The difference is that we repair first. We don’t swap a $900 operator when a $40 limit switch and some honest troubleshooting will do the job. Our 90-Day Done Right Promise is stamped on every invoice, not hidden in fine print: one call, Hal comes back himself, no runaround. That’s been the deal for over twenty-nine years.

Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, but more importantly, they work for Hal, not for some franchisee who changes every spring. We answer the phone with a live person, 24 hours a day, because a gate that won’t open at 6 a.m. when you’re trying to get to Hershey Medical or catch a flight out of Harrisburg is not a “leave a message and we’ll call you Monday” situation. Ask anyone who’s called a national outfit and gotten voicemail, then a callback from a number with a different area code, then a technician who couldn’t name the last three towns he worked in. We’ll tell you straight: Hal lives twenty minutes from his shop, he’s going to run into you at the hardware store, and that is the oldest accountability mechanism there is.

We don’t haggle. Our standing offers are our standing offers: $40 off any repair over $200, no trip charge inside the county, a free second opinion on any written estimate you’ve already got in hand, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans. The price we say on the phone is the price on the invoice. If we find something unexpected, we stop and talk it through before we touch a bolt.

Backed by the Locally Family

Gatewood Fence & Gate carries the Locally name because Hal Gatewood was willing to do what Ward Selby first asked back in 1997: publish his real name, a local address anyone can drive to, and a license number anyone can look up. That’s still the entire standard. When you call Gatewood, you’re not getting routed through a dispatch center in Dallas or talking to a chatbot that thinks “gate repair” is a category. You’re getting Hal, or someone who answers because Hal trained them himself, and you’re getting the Locally guarantee on every job: the person who answers the phone is the person who shows up, and the price he says is the price you pay. The L.O.C.A.L. code - Local roots, On time, Community first, Accountable, Loyal - is how we work, not a poster on the wall. We’ve been at it since 2001. We’ll be here when you need us again.

Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Pennsylvania since 2001.