Gate Repair

Gate Repair

When your gate won’t open at six on a Tuesday morning or the welding has finally given out after fifteen winters, you need somebody who answers the phone, knows your neighborhood, and fixes it where it sits. Gatewood Fence & Gate repairs what other companies want to replace. Hal Gatewood has been doing this since 2001, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise means one call brings him back if anything isn’t right. No runaround, no passing you between departments, no out-of-state call center reading from a script.

What’s Included

Every gate repair starts with a look at the actual problem, not a sales pitch for a whole new system. Here’s what Hal and his crew handle on a typical week:

Automatic Gate Opener Repair

Motors that hum but don’t move, remotes that lost their pairing, safety sensors knocked crooked by a stray basketball. Hal carries parts for nine major brands, LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule, so most opener repairs finish in one visit without waiting on shipping.

Hinge and Post Welding

A sagging gate usually means the hinge has worked loose or the post footing has shifted. Hal welds on site instead of hauling your gate to a shop, which saves the cost of a second truck and a second trip. In clay-heavy counties, he also checks whether frost heave or drainage is working the post loose so you’re not fixing the same weld twice.

Track and Roller Replacement

Sliding gates chew through rollers faster than people expect, especially when leaves or gravel get into the track. Hal cleans the track, replaces the rollers, and checks the alignment so the motor isn’t straining against a binding gate every cycle.

Intercom and Keypad Repair

Wiring corrodes, buttons stick, and keypads that seemed fine in September sometimes quit after the first hard freeze. Hal traces the actual fault instead of swapping the whole unit, and he’ll show you where moisture is getting in if that’s the root cause.

Security Gate Arm and Barrier Repair

Arms that won’t raise, loops that don’t detect vehicles, or gates that close on cars because the safety eye is misaligned. These are liability issues, not just inconvenience, so Hal documents the repair with photos and a written scope before he starts.

Manual Gate Restoration

Farm gates, garden gates, driveway gates that never had a motor and don’t need one. Hal resets posts, rebuilds latches, and replaces rotted boards or rusted hardware so the gate works smooth and stays square.

Why Homeowners Choose the Locally Family

Locally started with a complaint, not a business plan. In 1997 a retired county extension agent named Ward Selby kept hearing the same story from neighbors: somebody called a number off a listing, a truck with out-of-state plates showed up, the quote at the door was three times the quote on the phone, and by the time anything went wrong the number had stopped working. What bothered him was not that the companies were bad. It was that there was no way to tell the real ones from the rest before you let them into your house. So he wrote down what a homeowner could actually verify in five minutes: a phone number with the local area code that a person answers, an address you can drive to, the owner’s name and face, and a license number you can look up. Any company that would publish all four could carry his name. That list is still the entire standard, and it is still the only thing Locally sells.

Gatewood Fence & Gate fits that standard because Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop, his address is published, and he has been at it since 2001. The L.O.C.A.L. values mean something specific here: Local roots, Hal lives twenty minutes from most of his customers and runs into them at the hardware store on Saturday. On time, the window he gives you is the window, and he calls if it slips. Community first, he hires here and sponsors the local team. Accountable, the owner answers the phone and puts his name on the work. Loyal, he’d rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. The 90-Day Done Right Promise is stamped in writing on every job, not buried in fine print. If it’s not done right, Hal makes it right with one call, no voicemail, no dispatch queue, no chatbot.

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