Gatewood Fence & Gate in Georgia

Gatewood Fence & Gate in Georgia

Gatewood Fence & Gate has been fixing gates across Georgia since 2001, long before most of the national outfits figured out our ZIP codes. Hal Gatewood started this business with a welder and a simple idea: repair what’s broken instead of selling people parts they don’t need. Today, his crew still carries that same welder to driveways from the Piedmont to the Coastal Plain, repairing automatic gate openers, welding broken hinges back solid, and realigning gates that have sagged through twenty Georgia summers. As part of the Locally family, every Gatewood job comes with our trademarked guarantee - the owner’s name, a local address, and a license number you can verify before you ever pick up the phone.

Why Georgia Homeowners Choose Gatewood Fence & Gate

Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop and on every invoice, and that’s not decoration - it’s how he does business. When you call Gatewood Fence & Gate, you’re not reaching a dispatch queue in another time zone. A live person answers, 24 hours a day, and that person can tell you when Hal or one of his background-checked, uniformed technicians will be in your driveway. The window they give you is the window, and if it slips, they call. That’s the “On time” in our L.O.C.A.L. values code, and it’s how Hal has operated for over twenty-nine years.

Here’s what separates Gatewood from the companies that want to haul your gate off and quote you a replacement you didn’t ask for. Hal welds on-site. He fixes the gate where it stands. His repair-first philosophy means he’s not swapping a perfectly good actuator because it’s easier than diagnosing the real problem, and he’s not charging you for a full replacement when a hinge weld and adjustment will do. That approach comes with a 90-Day Done Right Promise stamped in writing on every job - not buried in fine print, not something you have to argue for. If it’s not done right, one call brings him back. No runaround, no transfer to a “customer retention” department that doesn’t exist.

Hal is certified to service nine major gate brands - LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule - so when your automatic opener quits in a thunderstorm or your keypad starts acting up after a humid Georgia July, he doesn’t need to “get back to you” after calling a manufacturer help line. He knows the equipment, he stocks the parts, and he fixes it. His pricing is upfront: $40 off any repair over $200, no trip charge inside the county, a free second opinion on any written estimate you’ve already gotten, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans. No haggling, no “call for pricing” games, no surprise at the door.

The Georgia homeowners who call Hal have usually been burned once. They talked to someone who quoted $150 on the phone and handed them a $600 invoice. They watched a truck with out-of-state plates disappear and never saw the same face twice. Hal lives here, works here, and runs into his customers at the hardware store. That’s the oldest accountability mechanism there is, and it’s why his address is published and his license number is available for anyone to look up.

Backed by the Locally Family

Locally started in 1997 when a retired county extension agent named Ward Selby got tired of hearing the same story: a homeowner called a number, a stranger with out-of-state plates showed up, the price tripled at the door, and the number stopped working when something went wrong. Ward wrote down what you could actually verify in five minutes - a local phone number a person answers, an address you can drive to, the owner’s name, and a license number you can look up - and offered his name to any company willing to publish all four. That list is still the entire standard.

Gatewood Fence & Gate meets that standard, and the Locally family guarantee applies to every job Hal takes across Georgia. The price he says on the phone is the price on the invoice. The person who answers is the person who shows up. And if something’s not right, Hal puts his name on making it right - because “Accountable” is not a slogan in our L.O.C.A.L. values code, it’s how he has done business since 2001. We’re named Locally for the only question our customers actually ask: are you actually local? With Hal Gatewood, the answer is yes, and you can prove it before you ever make the call.

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