Leander Metal Gates is the metro's trusted expert in metal gate installation, specializing in solar gate operators, sliding gates, and wrought iron gates. We offer dual swing gates, pedestrian entry gates, and gate access control.
Our team provides measuring at your driveway and fabrication in our own shop, so an Austin homeowner gets a welded steel frame and a business gets a heavy-duty leaf, residential and commercial alike. Across 14 years in business, backed by a 2-year workmanship warranty, we have finished over 1,127 projects, from a 42 inch walk gate up to a 28 ft cantilever slide.
From footing layout to operator programming, our team handles the whole job on one schedule. Serving Austin and neighboring Leander, Cedar Park, Round Rock and Lakeway from a shop on the north side of the metro, we send the crew that measured your opening to hang the gate too.
Call today for a free estimate, and we will walk the line with you before a single post hole is marked.
Thea, Avery Ranch, Austin
A power trench to the manual gate would have crossed the root zone of a big live oak.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Numbers first
Thea in Avery Ranch had a manual gate, and a power trench to it would have crossed the root zone of a big live oak. We fitted a solar panel, dual batteries and arm operator on one 14 ft leaf, which needs no trench at all, and set the panel on the limestone pier without cutting a limb. The estimated cost was $2,000 to $3,100, and the work took an estimated 4 to 8 hours. The gate now opens from a phone, and the ground under the oak in Avery Ranch stayed untouched.
Three questions about the ground come before any gate in Austin: is the lot in a floodplain, is a protected tree near the line, and has 811 been called. Callers from Avery Ranch, Northwest Hills and Balcones Woods get the same three checks, because each answer changes what we build.
Floodplain comes first, because the City of Austin requires a fence permit in a floodplain regardless of the fence height. That covers even a short run beside an Austin driveway, so we ask for your lot's floodplain status at the first visit. For any lot outside a floodplain, such as one in Northwest Hills or Balcones Woods, check with the city.
Trees come second. Trees decide where a post can go, and the city arborist defines a heritage tree as 24 in or more across at 4.5 ft, in a listed species that includes all oaks, pecan and bald cypress, and removal is prohibited except under the city's code section 25-8-641. Pruning more than 25% of the canopy needs a permit for regulated trees, which start at 19 in, so at Avery Ranch we mounted the panel on the pier and left the limbs alone. A trench that cuts the roots of such a tree is a bad bet, so we shift the line or skip the trench, as we did for Thea in Avery Ranch.
Utilities come third. Texas law, which applies in Austin as everywhere in the state, has the excavator notify the state notification center no earlier than the 14th day and no later than the 48th hour before digging, and Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays do not count toward that window. We time the call to the install date for Austin, Lakeway and Round Rock jobs alike, so the marks are down when the auger arrives.
A solar operator needs no power trench, so it is the cleanest answer where digging would hurt a tree. Thea's gate in Avery Ranch used a panel, dual batteries and an arm operator on a 14 ft leaf, with the panel on the pier under the oak. Our solar gate operators page covers the sizing for Austin and Round Rock gates far from a power run.
Leaf type, opening width and operator move an Austin gate price more than anything else. The table shows the jobs we quote most often in Austin and Leander, as estimated ranges.
| Job | Est. investment | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| One-leaf swing gate | Est. $2,600 to $4,800 | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Track slide gate | Est. $1,800 to $4,900 | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Cantilever slide gate | Est. $6,300 to $9,700 | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| Walk-through gate | Est. $700 to $1,400 | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Operator added to a manual gate | Est. $1,850 to $3,600 | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
A two-leaf automated swing entry is typically $4,300 to $7,900 over roughly 2 to 3 days, and a scheduled gate service plan is roughly $89 to $112 per gate per month. Every figure here is an estimate drawn from 14 years and 1,127 projects, and it can change once we see the lot, because the written quote fixes the final price and the install schedule.
Every frame starts as 11-gauge frame tube with 14-gauge infill, moved up a size when a leaf runs past 14 feet, then blasted, primed in zinc and finished in polyester powder. For a long driveway in Austin or Georgetown, our sliding gate installs and steel gate builds are the usual picks, while a lighter swing entry suits custom driveway gates.
The most common failure in Austin is a gate set before the ground was checked, so a post lands on a root, a buried line or a floodplain boundary.
Footings are the second risk, since a heavy leaf on a shallow post will sag within a season, so the auger decides depth and rebar at each post, with belled concrete piers 36 inches or deeper under a 14 ft leaf.
Thea's solar retrofit in Avery Ranch is the kind of job one crew sees through, from the first measurement to the last hinge adjustment. Meet the team behind the welds, 14 years and 1,127 projects deep, with weld integrity, post plumb, hinge alignment and gate sag all under the 2-year workmanship warranty.
Our crews reach Austin from the Leander shop, within 35 miles, and work Cedar Park, Round Rock, Georgetown and Lakeway most weeks. Steiner Ranch, Volente and The Hills are all in range of the shop, whether the job is a 42 inch walk gate or a 28 ft cantilever slide. Every town we cover, inside a 35 mile radius of the shop, is on our service area page.
Many Austin owners pair a new gate with automatic driveway gates, a gate access control panel or gate operator installation on a gate they already own.
In Austin a track slide gate runs an estimated $1,800 to $4,900 and a one-leaf swing an estimated $2,600 to $4,800, before the written quote sets the price.
A fence in a floodplain needs a City of Austin permit regardless of height, so tell us at the first visit if your lot is mapped as one, and for any other lot check with the city.
Yes, a solar operator needs no trench, and a retrofit like Thea's in Avery Ranch is typically $2,000 to $3,100 over roughly 4 to 8 hours.
Call no earlier than the 14th day and no later than the 48th hour before digging, not counting weekends and legal holidays, and we time the call to your install date in Austin, Lakeway or Round Rock.
Not before the tree is checked, because a heritage oak is protected, so we shift the post or the line, as for Thea in Avery Ranch.
Each Austin gate carries our 2-year workmanship warranty on welds, post plumb, hinge alignment and gate sag.
Ask for a free estimate in Austin, Cedar Park or Georgetown and we will measure the opening and check the ground.
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