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Electric gate repair in Hollywood, FL typically costs $280-$640 for common motor, opener, and control board diagnoses, with full operator replacements running $900-$1,800 depending on the gate’s size and the hardware involved. We schedule most Hollywood repairs within 24 to 48 hours, and we answer the phone live around the clock at (626) 649-4572. If a gate is stuck open or closed across a driveway, we treat that as an emergency and move the schedule to get a technician out the same day whenever possible.
Hollywood is a narrow coastal strip between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal Waterway, and the Hollywood Lakes canal grid pushes salt air deep into residential streets. That changes how we spec every motor, hinge, and circuit board. A gate two blocks from the ocean in North Beach corrodes faster than one near Stirling Road, and a technician who has not worked both will miss it. We have worked both, for years, and we bring the right hardware for the street you actually live on.
Why Latch & Post Gate Repair Is Hollywood’s Preferred Electric Gate Repair Company
Hollywood homeowners keep calling us back because we show up knowing what a salt-humidity envelope does to a FAAC or Viking board before we even open the housing. Our Electric Gate Repair team keeps local parts stock for the brands families in Hollywood actually own, so a LiftMaster control board or a BFT safety sensor does not mean a week of waiting on a distributor. We carry marine-grade stainless fasteners and sealed connectors as standard on every Intracoastal and canal-adjacent job.
Every technician is background-checked and uniformed, and every visit runs on the C.A.R.E. routine that Cody Beckman built into the Cedarwell family of gate specialists: we explain the price in writing before touching anything, we put on shoe covers and lay drop cloths when the gate job takes us through a courtyard or into a garage, and we photograph the clean-up before we leave. If your dog is napping and the kids are down for the afternoon, we can work quietly or come back when the house is ready for us.
We founded Latch & Post in 2009 because every gate comes down to two parts: the latch that holds it and the post that carries it. That focus is why Hollywood HOAs along U.S. 1 and the beach condos trust us with shared vehicular gates that cycle hundreds of times a day. One stalled operator there blocks every resident at once, and they need a crew that treats a half-open slide gate as a real emergency. We do.
Automatic Gate Repair in Hollywood
Automatic gate repair in Hollywood usually means a gate that opens with a click, a code, or a remote, and has stopped doing exactly that. It covers the full operator system: the motor, the control board, the safety photocells, the keypad, the receiver, and the limit switches that tell the gate when to stop. In Hollywood, we also check the gate panel and post structure at the same visit, because Florida Building Code wind-load rules mean a sagging panel or a cracked hinge post can destroy a new board within a season.
A standard automatic gate repair call in Hollywood runs $280-$640 for the service visit, diagnosis, and most board, sensor, or receiver replacements, with the written price in your hand before we turn a screw. Full operator swaps where the motor itself has corroded through or the rack and pinion has seized land closer to $900-$1,800. No charge for the estimate itself, and no pressure during the visit.
Salt-Corrosion Board and Solenoid Work
On Intracoastal-facing streets and the Hollywood Lakes canal grid, the boards and solenoids oxidize at a pace inland Broward never sees. We open the housing, photograph what we find, and quote a repair or replacement based on that specific failure, not a generic service menu.
Post and Hinge Correction Before Operator Work
A swing gate that drags is usually a post problem before it is a motor problem. We re-set the hinge post, perform sag correction, and confirm the gate swings level before we touch the operator, because a panel fix without the post just fails again.
Electric Gate Motor in Hollywood
An electric gate motor in Hollywood works hard in air that is damp and salty year-round, and the motor housing is often the first component to show it. When a motor strains, hums without moving the gate, or trips its breaker, the cause in Hollywood is frequently inside the windings or the gearbox, not the remote. We test the motor under load before recommending a repair, because replacing a capacitor on a healthy motor is cheap, but replacing a full motor on a gate that also needs post work is not a job to guess at.
Motor replacements in Hollywood run $500-$1,200 for residential swing and slide gates, depending on the brand and the gate’s weight. A Viking or FAAC hydraulic-style operator on a heavy HOA slide gate can exceed that range, and we will give you the exact number in writing before ordering anything. We keep common LiftMaster and BFT motors locally so a Hollywood repair is not waiting on a freight truck from out of state.
Marine-Grade Hardware on Every Motor Job
When we mount a new motor or re-attach an operator arm, we spec stainless fasteners and sealed connectors as the baseline, not an upgrade. On a canal-front street in Hollywood Lakes, standard galvanized hardware can fail in two to three years; marine-grade gives the motor a fighting chance for much longer.
Shared Driveway Slide Gate Motor Failure
In Emerald Hills and the U.S. 1 condo corridor, lots are tight and many gates slide because a swing gate will not fit. That means one failed motor blocks both the vehicle lane and the pedestrian path at once. We keep one travel lane open while we work, and we carry the slide-gate rack, motor, and sensor parts needed to get the gate cycling again that day.
Trusted Brands We Service in Hollywood
Our Hollywood crews are factory-trained on the brands families actually own: FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, plus LiftMaster, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. We stock local parts for the most common Hollywood failures, which means a BFT control board or a Viking motor does not sit on backorder while your driveway stays open. For Hollywood’s condominium and HOA gates, FAAC and BFT hydraulic operators and Viking slide-gate systems are the workhorses we see most, and we keep the seals, solenoids, and boards those systems need on hand.
Common Electric Gate Repair Problems We See in Hollywood Homes
- Salt-humidity corrosion on Intracoastal and canal-facing gates. Solenoids, motor housings, and circuit boards oxidize fast in the Hollywood Lakes canal grid and along the beach side of U.S. 1. Standard galvanized hardware there can fail in two to three years, so we swap it for marine-grade as a matter of course.
- Seized slide gate operators on shared driveways. Emerald Hills and the condo corridors along the Intracoastal have narrow lots where a slide gate is the only option. When the rack and pinion seizes, the whole community loses access at once, so we carry slide-gate parts on the truck and keep one lane open while we work.
- Original 1950s to 1980s operators past serviceable life. Much of Hollywood’s housing stock went up during the post-war boom, and many swing-arm and slide-gate operators from that era are still in service, now thirty or forty years old. They fail more from age and wind exposure than from any single event, and a repair on them often needs post footing work first.
- Wind-load failures on older HOA gate posts. Hurricane season and Florida Building Code wind-load requirements apply to the gate panels and hinge posts themselves, not just the house. Many older Hollywood HOA gates were never brought up to current standards after past storm seasons, and a panel that flexes in a storm puts stress on every component behind it.
Pricing for Electric Gate Repair in Hollywood, FL
A standard electric gate repair in Hollywood, FL runs $280-$640 for diagnosis and most component-level work: control boards, safety sensors, keypads, receivers, and limit switches. Motor replacements land at $500-$1,200 for residential gates, and full operator replacements on heavy slide or swing gates run $900-$1,800. The local factors that move a Hollywood quote are salt-corrosion severity, gate weight and length, and whether the hinge post or track needs structural correction before the operator can be safely re-installed. Every quote is written and agreed before any work starts. Call (626) 649-4572 for a free estimate: we’ll tell you what we find, what it costs, and what we would do if it were our own gate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Hollywood
Our Electric Gate Repair in Hollywood crews also cover North Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami Gardens, and Plantation. If you are a few blocks outside Hollywood’s city limits, call us at (626) 649-4572 and we will get you on the schedule just the same.
Serving Hollywood, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Hollywood area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Electric Gate Repair in Hollywood
Hollywood sits in a narrow coastal strip bounded by the Atlantic on one side and the Intracoastal Waterway on the other, and the Hollywood Lakes canal grid carries salt humidity deep inland. Davie is ten miles west and gets nowhere near that airborne salt load. In the Hollywood Lakes canal grid, we consistently find that standard galvanized hardware fails within two to three years, while the same hardware just inland on the same block lasts five or more. That gradient is steep enough that we spec hardware street by street, not ZIP code by ZIP code. Call (626) 649-4572 if you want a technician who already knows your block’s corrosion profile.
Yes, we keep one travel lane and the pedestrian path open while we work, and we treat a stalled shared gate in Hollywood as a same-day emergency whenever possible. On a canal-front street in Hollywood Lakes, an HOA’s LiftMaster slide gate operator had been cycling hundreds of times a day until the rack and pinion seized and the gate stalled half-open. We replaced the corroded operator and marine-grade hardware, re-leveled the track, and confirmed the safety photocell and loop detector functions, keeping one lane of vehicle and pedestrian access open throughout. Call (626) 649-4572 and tell us the gate is blocking access, and we will prioritize it.
Usually the gate. A dragged swing gate in Hollywood is most often a hinge post that has shifted or a panel that has sagged, and the motor is straining against a load it was never meant to carry. On an Emerald Hills job, a 1980s swing gate had torn loose from its hinge post; we re-set the post footing and performed sag correction before touching the gate operator, because a panel fix without the post just fails again. We diagnose the structure and the motor together, so you do not pay for a motor replacement that a sagging gate will destroy in six months. Call (626) 649-4572 for an exact diagnosis, not a guess.
Inside the motor housing, at the solenoid terminals, and anywhere standard steel fasteners meet salt air. On Intracoastal-adjacent streets and along the Hollywood Lakes canals, motor housings and circuit boards oxidize so much faster than inland Broward gates that we replace hardware by block, not by city. The solenoids are usually first to go, then the board connectors, and finally the motor casing itself. If your gate is within a few hundred feet of the water, schedule a look before the board fails entirely. Call (626) 649-4572 and we will tell you what is corroding and what it will cost to correct.
Your gate needs functional safety photocells, a reversing edge or equivalent, and limit switches set so the gate stops cleanly at both ends of travel, and we test all of those on every Hollywood repair visit. Florida Building Code and the Underwriters Laboratories standard UL 325 govern automatic gate entrapment protection, and a gate that cannot reverse on contact is a danger to kids, pets, and delivery drivers. We confirm the safety system as part of any operator or motor service, and we will tell you in writing if a sensor is out of spec and what it costs to correct. Call (626) 649-4572 if you are not sure your gate’s safety edge is still functioning.
Written by Cody Beckman, Owner at Latch & Post Gate Repair, serving Hollywood since 2009.