Gate Installation in Irving - Free On-Site Survey, Written Price

Fast, Reliable Gate Installation Across Irving

A new gate in Irving usually runs between $2,800 and $9,500 depending on the gate type, operator, and site conditions, and most installations are completed in one to three days once materials arrive. We serve every corner of Irving, from the tract-home streets of north Irving to the HOA communities along MacArthur Boulevard, and we quote a written price before any work starts. If your gate post has shifted out of plumb on the black clay or your shared driveway can’t clear a swing, call (626) 649-4572 and we’ll walk you through what your site actually needs.

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Why Latch & Post Gate Repair Is Irving’s Preferred Gate Installation Company

Our Irving customers tend to hire us after another contractor has already been out once and the gate still drags or trips the operator. Two things set us apart here. First, our technicians know the Blackland Prairie soil under Irving’s west and north neighborhoods, and they won’t pour a shallow footing that shifts within a season. Second, every crew member follows the same Cedarwell C.A.R.E. routine: shoe covers and drop cloths on every visit, a written price before any tool leaves the truck, and a photo of the cleanup before we leave.

Cody Beckman, our owner, set those rules when the company started in 2009 as part of the Cedarwell family of independently owned and operated gate specialists. The rules haven’t changed. Whether we’re setting a slide gate on a tight Las Colinas curb line or squaring a swing gate after a clay-soil shift, you get the same written price, the same cleanup, and the same 365-Day Done Right Promise on every job. If something isn’t right within a year, we come back and make it right. No argument, no fine print.

Driveway Gate Installation in Irving

Driveway Gate Installation in Irving usually involves a swing or slide gate matched to the setback and clearance of your specific lot, a motor operator sized for how often the gate actually cycles, and the concrete work that holds everything square as the soil moves. On a standard single driveway in an older north Irving tract-home neighborhood, expect to pay between $3,200 and $6,800 for a completed single swing gate with operator. A double swing gate for a wider Las Colinas-era driveway typically lands between $5,500 and $9,500.

Swing Gates for Standard Irving Lots

A swing gate works well when you have enough flat space behind the gate for the full leaf arc and the driveway doesn’t slope toward the street. In many Irving neighborhoods the front yard setback is fine, but the clay soil under the hinge post is often the real problem. We set hinge posts deeper than a standard footing and bell the bottom of the hole so the post doesn’t walk out of plumb when the clay swells after a rainy spring.

Double Gates for Wider Las Colinas Driveways

Many Las Colinas-era homes on streets like North O’Connor Ridge or along Hackberry Creek were built with wide driveways cut for two cars side by side. That width usually means a double swing gate or a bi-parting slide, and the operator has to handle two leaves moving at once. We spec operators with enough torque for the combined leaf weight and set a center stop in concrete rather than relying on the leaf edges to meet clean.

Sliding Gate Installation in Irving

Sliding Gate Installation in Irving makes sense where a swing gate won’t clear, and that’s common here. Shared driveways, HOA rights of way, and tight side yards around Las Colinas and older north Irving lots often leave too little clearance for a swing leaf. A single slide gate in Irving typically runs from $4,200 to $8,800 installed with operator, track, and safety photo-eyes. The wide price range comes down to gate length, operator duty cycle, and how much concrete work the clay soil forces us to do.

Tight Sites and Shared Drives

We installed a new slide gate at a Hackberry Creek HOA shared driveway off Walnut Hill Lane where a swing gate physically could not clear the neighbor’s fence return. The rack and pinion had to be set inside a 14-inch working envelope between the curb and a gas meter, and we kept both driveways live with temporary pedestrian routing while a DoorKing loop detector and keypad entry were cut over. The original hinge post footing had been poured shallow on Blackland clay and had walked out of plumb, so we re-set it with a deeper bell-bottom footing before the gate operator ever went on the track.

Slide Gates on Sloped Irving Yards

Some Irving lots slope away from the house toward the street, which changes how a slide gate behaves. The gate carries its own weight plus any grade resistance, and the track has to be set level even when the ground isn’t. We cut the track into the existing driveway surface where possible, and we adjust the roller height at install so a wheel doesn’t bind when the slab itself shifts slightly through a dry summer.

Trusted Brands We Service in Irving

We work on and install the brands Irving homeowners actually have, including Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing, plus LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Elite, and Mighty Mule. If you already own an opener and want it reused on the new gate, we can usually do that when the motor is in good shape and paired with the right gate weight. For new installs on Irving lots we stock common parts locally so a missing bracket or loop detector doesn’t stretch the job into a second week.

Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Irving Homes

• Shallow post footings on Blackland clay. Irving sits on North Texas’s Blackland Prairie, and the expansive clay swells with spring rain and shrinks through summer drought. A gate post set in a standard footing can drift out of plumb inside a single wet-dry season, causing the leaf to drag or the latch to miss.
• Shared driveways with no room for a swing arc. Tight HOA rights of way and side-by-side driveways around Hackberry Creek and Cottonhill leave too little clearance for a swing leaf. A slide gate usually solves it, but the site often needs careful measuring before ordering so the gate doesn’t overrun a gas meter or the neighbor’s fence return.
• Residential operators on high-cycle campus gates. Las Colinas corporate gates can cycle hundreds of times a day, and a residential-grade operator like a LiftMaster SL3000 won’t last in that service. We spec commercial-duty operators where the cycle count demands it, and we tell you why before you pay for a unit that will die in eighteen months.
• Aging HOA swing systems hitting their first replacement. Many 1980s and 1990s Las Colinas-era subdivisions installed automated gates as a standard amenity. Those systems are now aging into their first major operator and hardware replacement, and the wiring, loop detectors, and keypads often need updating all at once.

Pricing for Gate Installation in Irving, TX

We Also Serve Cities Near Irving

Our crews work throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, and Irving is central to that range. If you’re outside Irving but still nearby, we also install gates in Dallas, Balch Springs, Hutchins, and Mesquite. Scheduling and dispatch are coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, so a crew serving Irving today might be in Mesquite tomorrow. The same Gate Installation standards and written pricing apply wherever the job is.

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