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Gate parts and welding in Los Angeles usually come down to one question: can the hinge post be saved, or does the whole frame need rebuilding? In most Los Angeles neighborhoods we work in, the answer is that the post can be re-plumbed and the gate welded back square on site, often the same day we look at it. We’re Hal Gatewood’s crew at Gatewood Fence & Gate. We’ve been fixing gates in Los Angeles since 2001, and we do the welding in your driveway, not in some shop across the county. Call (350) 247-4763 and a live person picks up, any hour. We’ll tell you what’s actually wrong and what it costs before any torch gets lit.
If your gate drags, binds, or won’t latch, the problem is usually in the post or the rail, not the panel itself. On hillside lots and shared driveways across Los Angeles, that distinction matters more than most companies admit. We’ll get into why below, but the short version is this: a gate that sags in the hinge post doesn’t get fixed by welding the panel. It gets fixed by re-setting the post. That’s the work we do every day here.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Los Angeles’s Preferred Gate Parts & Welding Company
Hal’s name is on the shop, and the shop’s phone rings to a live person around the clock. That’s not a slogan; it’s just how the business runs. When you call about gate parts and welding in Los Angeles, you get someone who knows the difference between a frozen roller and a shifted footing. We don’t route you through a menu tree, and we don’t send a stranger with a clipboard who’s never welded a hinge in his life.
Los Angeles homeowners ask us the same thing on nearly every call: “Can you actually come see it, or are you going to quote it over the phone and change the number at the door?” We come see it. The price is quoted and agreed in writing before any work starts. And we stand behind it with the 90-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, one call brings us back. No runaround, no fine print. Hal’s been at this since 2001, and his address is published. It’s a lot harder to disappear when your name is on the invoice.
Our Gate Parts & Welding crew has run hundreds of calls in Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Woodland Hills, and up through the canyon roads. We know which apartment buildings along Wilshire have original steel frames under decades of paint, and which post-war Valley garages poured gate tracks thin enough to crack with a hard shove. That local knowledge changes what we look for first, and it changes what we quote.
Our Gate Parts & Welding Services in Los Angeles
Hinge Replacement
Original wrought-iron gates on 1920s and 1930s Spanish Colonial homes in Los Feliz, Silver Lake, and Hancock Park often still have their original pintle hinges. The iron holds up; the fasteners and pilaster anchors don’t. We cut out the corroded anchors, sleeve or replace the hinge post, and weld in new barrel or ball-bearing hinges sized to carry the gate’s actual weight. On Los Angeles hillsides, we check the post plumb before we touch the hinge, because a new hinge on a leaning post just transfers the sag to the panel.
Post Replacement
Post replacement in Los Angeles is the repair most national outfits want to skip, because it means concrete work and welding in the same visit. Around here, skipping it is the fastest way to fix the same gate twice. A shifted post binds the operator arm, drags the gate bottom against the apron, and throws the latch out of line. We dig out the old footing, set a new post in a 24-inch concrete pour, and weld the gate back square while the concrete cures. On steep lots in Laurel Canyon and Bel Air, we offset the footing for slope pressure and soil creep, which is the difference between a post that lasts five years and one that lasts twenty.
Rail Repair
Gate rails take more abuse in Los Angeles than anywhere we’ve worked. Santa Ana winds bend tubular steel frames, strip rack and pinion teeth on slide gates in Sherman Oaks and Encino, and pull latch hardware out of alignment. We straighten or replace the rail, weld cracked joints, and re-set the track so the gate travels clean instead of riding up on the stops. For shared driveways where a swing gate won’t fit, the slide rail is the whole game; if it’s not dead level, the gate fights the operator every cycle.
Custom Welding
Custom welding is where we make something that doesn’t exist off the shelf. In Los Angeles, that often means a custom steel bracket to hold a latch or photocell on a 100-year-old gate, a welded extension to match new driveway heights, or a pedestrian gate leaf matched to the existing ornamental iron in scale and section. We TIG and MIG weld on site, so the gate never leaves your property. We also weld safety photocell brackets onto operators to keep the system UL 325 compliant without drilling through the panel face.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Los Angeles
We’re certified to service nine gate brands, and in Los Angeles we see a lot of Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing operators on residential gates, plus Elite and Linear on commercial drives. If you have a Viking operator that won’t close in the morning or a DoorKing that hums but won’t move, we diagnose and fix the motor, board, or limit switch on site. We keep common parts stocked locally for Los Angeles calls, so we’re not waiting on a warehouse three states away when a board fries the week before Thanksgiving. If it’s a part we don’t stock, we tell you straight what the lead time is.
Common Gate Parts & Welding Problems We See in Los Angeles Homes
- Earthquake-shifted posts. A 3.6 or 4.2 shaker is enough to move a gate post an inch or more out of plumb on a hillside. The gate still looks fine, but the operator binds, the latch misses, and the bottom rail drags on the driveway. Re-welding the hinge won’t fix it; the post has to be re-plumbed.
- Santa Ana wind damage. From September through November, high wind events in the San Fernando Valley and the eastern basin blow slide gates off their tracks, bend frames, and strip rack teeth. We see a predictable surge in calls the morning after a big wind event.
- UV-degraded operator boards. Year-round Southern California sun bakes the rubber seals and circuit boards on LiftMaster and FAAC operators, especially on gates with the board box facing south or west. Marine overcast gaps don’t help; the heat-soak cycling is what kills boards early.
- Corroded pilaster anchors on old iron gates. Central LA’s 1920s-1940s Spanish Colonial homes often have original wrought-iron gates with fasteners that have spent eighty years in contact with stucco and coastal air. The iron is usually sound; the anchors are powder. We replace anchors and weld in new mounts without replacing a gate that doesn’t need replacing.
Pricing for Gate Parts & Welding in Los Angeles, CA
Hinge replacement in Los Angeles typically runs $180 to $320 per hinge, depending on gate weight and whether the post needs re-plumbing. Post replacement runs $450 to $900 for a single hinge post, including a new 24-inch footing and welding the gate back square. Rail repair runs $250 to $600 depending on the damage; rack and pinion replacement on a Valley slide gate usually lands between $300 and $580. Custom welding work is quoted by the hour plus material, and in Los Angeles that’s $110 to $145 per hour with material at cost. Every price is quoted and agreed before work starts. Estimates are free. Call (350) 247-4763 and we’ll come look.
We Also Serve Cities Near Los Angeles
Beyond Los Angeles proper, we run calls in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and North Hollywood. The drive time from our Los Angeles office to most of those cities is under 45 minutes in normal traffic, and we schedule by neighborhood so we’re not fighting the 405 across town twice in one day. If you’re in one of those cities and your gate is down, call first; we’ll tell you when we can be there.
Serving Los Angeles, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Angeles 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 Parts & Welding in Los Angeles
Because the previous repair almost certainly fixed the panel and skipped the post. Hillside lots in the Hollywood Hills, Laurel Canyon, and Bel Air have soil creep and grade changes that push posts out of plumb over time, and every seismic event accelerates it. If the post isn’t re-plumbed and the track re-leveled, the operator arm binds and the gate bottom drags within months. The fix is to re-set the post, not to re-weld the hinge or adjust the operator limits. Call (350) 247-4763 and we’ll check the plumb first.
We section the work so the driveway keeps functioning the whole time. On a shared driveway in Silver Lake last fall, we replaced a hinge post and welded a custom bracket by staging the truck on the property’s uphill side and keeping the pedestrian gate on its original pintle hinges while the vehicle gate was off for two hours. We communicate the schedule ahead of time and never leave a shared driveway blocked after dark. For most rail work in Los Feliz we can keep at least one lane open.
You almost never need a whole new frame. For wrought-iron gates from the 1930s, the iron is usually recoverable; it’s the post, anchors, and fasteners that wore out. We cut up the old post, pour a new 24-inch footing, and weld the original gate back onto new hinges. The gate keeps its original character, and you don’t pay for replacement iron you don’t need. We’ll tell you straight if a panel is too far gone, but in more than twenty years, that’s rare.
Yes. We carry rack and pinion sections on the truck for common gate brands like Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing, and we weld them in on site. If the frame bent, we straighten it with a torch and re-weld any cracked joints before re-mounting the operator. During Santa Ana season in the Valley, we run these calls constantly; most are done same day. Call (350) 247-4763 and we’ll give you an honest arrival window.
Yes, and we do it without drilling through the panel face. UL 325 requires photoelectric sensors or a reversing edge on automated gates, and many older Los Angeles installations predate the standard or have brackets that rusted off. We fabricate and weld bracket mounts directly to the frame or post, position the sensors at the correct height, and verify the reversal test before we leave. It’s a small job that keeps the gate legal and safe.
If your gate binds, sags, or won’t latch in Los Angeles, call (350) 247-4763 for a free estimate. The price is quoted and agreed before any work starts, and everything carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise. Hal Gatewood has been doing this since 2001, and his name is on the invoice.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Los Angeles since 2001.