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Gate installation in West Hollywood runs anywhere from $2,800 for a basic single swing gate to $14,000+ for an automated sliding security gate with access control, with most courtyard and single-family jobs landing between $4,500 and $8,500. That’s the honest range before anyone sets foot on your property. We’re Gatewood Fence & Gate, and we’ve been building, hanging, and automating gates since 2001. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop, the invoice, and the truck that shows up at your place. Call (350) 247-4763 and you’ll get a live person, not a voicemail tree.
What makes West Hollywood different from every other city we serve is the gate stock itself. You’ve got 1920s Spanish courtyard buildings with original wrought iron that predates any modern safety code, sitting next to 1970s and 80s stucco complexes where the intercom wiring has been spliced and re-spliced through three property managers. The work here isn’t just swinging a gate on a post. It’s knowing when to save the iron, when to replace the operator, and how to pull a permit through a city that has its own Building & Safety department completely separate from LADBS.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is West Hollywood’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
We’ve spent more than two decades working gates in West Hollywood, from the courtyard buildings off Santa Monica Boulevard up into the hills around Doheny and Sunset. What that means for you is simple: we’ve seen your building’s gate before, or one nearly identical to it. The 40-year-old Viking operator with no wiring diagram. The ornamental pedestrian gate where the hinge post has rusted through at the base. The slide gate whose track fills with Santa Ana grit every October. None of it surprises us.
Hal Gatewood started this company in 2001 and still runs it owner-operated today. His address is published, his license number is on every invoice, and if the gate isn’t right he comes back. That’s the Gate Installation standard we bring to every job. Calls are answered live, 24/7. Not by a dispatch center. By someone who knows gates.
Every installation carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something’s not right, one call brings us back. No fine print, no runaround. We also stand behind our work with on-site welding, so your gate stays in your driveway instead of getting hauled off to some shop across the county.
And here’s what matters most to the homeowners we work with in West Hollywood: the price we quote is the price you pay, agreed before work starts. No surprise invoice at the door. That’s a promise, not a sales tactic.
Our Gate Installation Services in West Hollywood
West Hollywood’s housing runs from hillside singles on narrow lots to dense courtyard apartments and mid-century multi-unit buildings. Different properties need different gates. Here’s what we handle most often.
Swing Gate Installation
Swing gates are the workhorse of West Hollywood driveways, especially on the Spanish Colonial and Streamline Moderne properties from the 1920s through the 1950s. A new single swing gate on a steel frame with welded hinges and an operator typically runs $4,200 to $7,800 installed here. We weld on site, so the gate is fit to your exact opening rather than a one-size-fits-all panel from a distributor.
Sliding Gate Installation
Sliding gates make sense on West Hollywood lots where the driveway climbs or where a swing gate would block the sidewalk. Canyon-side homes off Laurel Canyon and the flats east of Fairfax both see plenty of these. A new automated slide gate with rack and pinion, roller carriage, and a Viking or Ghost Controls operator lands between $5,500 and $12,000 depending on length and material. We pay close attention to track drainage because Santa Ana winds push grit into the runners, and a gate that fights its track eats motors.
Security Gate Installation
Security gates are common in West Hollywood for a reason. Residents here value privacy, and a steel security gate with an operator and access control is the first real barrier between the sidewalk and your front door. Whether you’re protecting a single-family home north of Melrose or a courtyard building with shared pedestrian access, a new security gate system typically runs $6,000 to $14,000. We handle the operator, the keypad or intercom integration, safety photocells, and the physical gate itself as one job, not three separate invoices.
Pedestrian Gate Installation
Older West Hollywood buildings still have ornate wrought-iron pedestrian gates that are part of the architecture. When those hinge posts fail, we don’t tell you to rip out the iron. We weld new hinge barrels onto the existing frame, reset the post if needed, and keep the original look. A new pedestrian gate in the spirit of the original, built to current code, runs $1,500 to $3,800. Retrofitting an existing iron gate with new hardware is usually less.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in West Hollywood
We’re certified to install and service nine major gate brands, and in West Hollywood we see a lot of Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing operators on the legacy courtyard gates around town. We keep the common parts for these on the truck: control boards, limit switches, photo-eyes, edge sensors. That means when we open a Viking panel from 1988 and the board’s dead, we’re not ordering something from a warehouse across the country and leaving your gate wedged open for a week. We’re back the next day with parts in hand.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in West Hollywood Homes
- Obsolete Viking and Linear control boards with no documentation. We open panels on these 1970s and 80s courtyard gates and find layers of splice repairs behind the keypad, no wiring diagram, and a board nobody makes anymore. The honest answer is often a full panel upgrade, not a board swap.
- Hard municipal water seizing hinge posts. The water in this part of Los Angeles County leaves mineral scale that locks up hinge barrels and corrodes intercom wiring terminals. It gets misdiagnosed as a motor failure by people who don’t look past the operator.
- Santa Ana grit in slide gate tracks. Every fall, the winds push fine dust and debris into the roller carriages and rack teeth on slide gates. Gates that never see maintenance start stripping pinion gears, and the owner assumes the operator failed.
- Gates hung before modern safety codes existed. Many West Hollywood gates predate photo-eye and edge sensor requirements. When we retrofit, the new gear has to bring the whole gate up to current UL 325 standards, which usually means more than swapping the operator.
Pricing for Gate Installation in West Hollywood, CA
Here are real numbers for the West Hollywood market, not a national average. A basic single swing gate on welded posts: $2,800 to $5,400. A double swing gate with an operator: $6,500 to $10,500. A sliding gate with a steel frame and automation: $5,500 to $12,000. A full security gate package with access control and intercom integration: $6,000 to $14,000. Pedestrian gates: $1,500 to $3,800. What moves the number is the length of the gate, the material, whether we’re pulling a city permit, and how much of the existing structure can be salvaged. We give you a written quote before any work starts, and the number doesn’t move. Call (350) 247-4763 for a free on-site estimate.
We also keep our standing offers in place for West Hollywood customers: $40 off any repair over $200, a free second opinion on any written estimate from another company, no trip charge anywhere in the county, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans.
We Also Serve Cities Near West Hollywood
Our crews work across West Hollywood every week, and we regularly run jobs in Beverly Hills, North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, and Van Nuys. If you’re a property manager with gates in multiple buildings across the area, we can schedule them in a single route. One call, one company, the same owner standing behind every gate.
Serving West Hollywood, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the West 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 - Gate Installation in West Hollywood
Yes. West Hollywood runs its own Building & Safety department separate from LADBS, so new gate operator installations and motor replacements need to go through WeHo’s permitting process. An LA-based contractor who assumes standard LADBS rules apply will get the paperwork wrong. We pull the permit ourselves and carry it through inspection, so you don’t get handed a stop-work order six weeks later. Call (350) 247-4763 and we’ll tell you exactly what your specific gate needs before we start.
Sometimes yes, and we’ll tell you honestly which way to go. If the existing operator still has a viable control board and the motor isn’t burned out, we can often retrofit new safety photocells, edge sensors, and a modern receiver onto the old frame and bring it up to code without replacing the entire unit. But on many 1970s and 80s Viking and Linear panels in West Hollywood, the board is obsolete and there’s no documentation, and retrofitting costs more than a new operator. We’ll show you both numbers before you decide. Call (350) 247-4763 and we’ll put eyes on it.
The most common cause here is Santa Ana grit. During wind events, fine dust and debris blow into the track and roller carriages, and if the track wasn’t cleaned and the carriages weren’t lubricated with the right product, the gate binds within weeks. The second most common is hard water scale on the rack and pinion. We clean the full track run, replace worn rollers, and set the gate so it doesn’t fight itself. Call (350) 247-4763 and we’ll have someone on it.
You start with the hinge post, not the motor. A gate sags in the post, not in the middle, and if the post has moved out of plumb or the hinge barrels are worn, a new operator is just going to burn itself out fighting the weight. We inspect the post, the hinges, and the gate frame, then tell you whether we’re welding new hinge barrels, resetting the post footing, or replacing the gate. We’ll quote you the fix that’s actually going to last. Call (350) 247-4763 for an honest assessment.
Yes. Any automated gate installed or retrofitted in West Hollywood today must meet current UL 325 entrapment standards, which means photo-eyes across the gate opening, contact edge sensors on the leading and trailing edges, and in most cases a reversing mechanism built into the operator. This applies even when you’re putting a new operator on an older gate. It’s a safety requirement, and we install it on every automated gate we touch. Call (350) 247-4763 and we’ll walk you through exactly what your gate needs.
What Makes West Hollywood’s Permitting Different - and Why It Matters
Here’s the thing most gate contractors from outside the city don’t know: West Hollywood is its own incorporated city with its own Building & Safety department, completely separate from the City of Los Angeles. LADBS paperwork doesn’t fly here. When you install a new gate operator in West Hollywood, the permit goes through WeHo’s process, not the standard LA one. Out-of-area crews who do LA County work routinely miss this and leave the homeowner holding an unpermitted gate and an inspection problem. We pull WeHo permits as a matter of course. We’ve been doing it long enough that we know the reviewers and the inspectors, and we know what they’ll flag before we ever break ground.
That matters because so much of West Hollywood’s gate stock is legacy equipment on older buildings. We replaced a 1980s Viking swing gate operator on a courtyard apartment off Santa Monica Boulevard after the original control board failed. The property manager had no wiring diagram, two generations of splice repairs hid behind the keypad, and the hinge post had pulled 3 inches out of plumb. We pulled a WeHo permit, set a new post footing, and retrofitted the gate with a LiftMaster operator and safety photocells to pass current UL 325 entrapment standards. That job took knowing the city’s process, knowing the gate, and welding on site instead of hauling the panel off to a shop.
The retrofit-vs-replace math in West Hollywood is different from anywhere else we work. On a 1970s courtyard gate with an obsolete Linear board, the board is the cheap part. The real question is whether the post footings, the hinge barrels, and the operator platform can support modern safety equipment. Sometimes the honest answer is that pouring a new post footing and hanging a new gate is cheaper than chasing a failing frame for another five years. We’ll tell you which side of that line your gate is on, in plain English, before you spend a dollar.
Call Gatewood Fence & Gate for Gate Installation in West Hollywood
If you need a new gate, an operator retrofit, or an honest opinion on whether your existing gate can be saved, call (350) 247-4763. A live person answers, day or night. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop and on every invoice. We’ll give you a written quote before any work starts, and we’ll stand behind it with our 90-Day Done Right Promise. No dispatch queue. No call center. Just a local company that’s been doing this since 2001.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving West Hollywood and surrounding communities since 2001.