Leander Metal Gates is the metro's trusted expert in metal gate installation, specializing in cantilever gates, automatic driveway gates, and commercial gates. We offer gate access control, gate operator installation, and gate replacement.
Our team provides shop fabrication and operator programming, delivering welded steel leaves for homes and high-duty operators for both residential and commercial projects. After 14 years in business, with a 2-year workmanship warranty on the work, we've completed over 1,127 projects, and they range from a 42 inch walk gate up to a 28 ft opening for a loaded truck yard.
From the first tape measure to the handover test, our team handles every detail. Serving Round Rock, along with Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander and Lakeway, we keep the crew that measured your opening on the job to hang and wire the gate.
Call today for a free estimate, and we will measure your Round Rock opening before a single tube is cut.
Naomi, Forest Creek, Round Rock
A home office owner fielding a dozen couriers a week and tired of walking down to the gate
Terrence, Chisholm Trail Road, Round Rock
A distribution yard whose floor track kept failing under loaded trailers
Kendra, Behrens Ranch, Round Rock
A rotted wood driveway gate on steel posts that were still plumb and solid
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Numbers first
Terrence on Chisholm Trail Road ran a distribution yard whose floor track kept failing under loaded trailers. We built a heavy tube cantilever on a commercial operator for a 28 ft opening, about 60 trucks a day, a trackless slide with a high-duty operator and in-ground exit loops, so trailers roll across a clean slab and the yard stayed open through the swap. It was an estimated $7,600 to $9,650 job that took an estimated 3 to 4 days.
Naomi in Forest Creek ran a home office and fielded a dozen couriers a week, tired of walking down to the gate. We mounted a video intercom and keypad on a steel pedestal, one entry with two phones, with cellular video intercom, one-time courier codes and a logged visitor list. Deliveries get answered from a phone, and each code expires by itself. The estimated range was $1,700 to $3,400 over an estimated 4 to 8 hours.
Kendra in Behrens Ranch had a rotted wood driveway gate on steel posts that were still plumb and solid. We kept the posts and the operator pad and changed only the leaf and the arm, a 14 ft single leaf in steel replacing cedar on existing posts. The site work bill disappeared, and the new leaf no longer warps in summer. The job was an estimated $2,700 to $3,900 over an estimated 1 to 2 days.
Round Rock's July 2023 Emergency Access Controlled Gate Systems Guidelines call for a city-approved Knox key switch on gates that control emergency access. The Fire Marshal's Office tests these gates, and the guidelines say a gate shall not be placed in operation until the acceptance test is complete and approved. Ask the city for the full text before you order.
Round Rock had 119,468 residents in 2020, and the estimated median owner-occupied home value is $418,600 (ACS 2024). Brushy Creek runs through town, and Brushy Creek MUD easements and drainage can cross a lot, so ask for the plat before we draw. The Balcones Escarpment divides flat clay ground from rockier ground to the west, so footing depth changes with the side of town. Check with the city on fence heights.
These are the jobs that reach our quote desk most in Round Rock, and each figure is an estimated range.
| Job | Est. investment | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| Trackless cantilever slide gate | Est. $6,300 to $9,700 | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| One-leaf automated swing gate | Est. $2,600 to $4,800 | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Walk-through entry 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 |
| Two-leaf automated swing | Est. $4,300 to $7,900 | Est. 2 to 3 days |
Naomi's Forest Creek intercom was an estimated $1,700 to $3,400, and Kendra's Behrens Ranch swap was an estimated $2,700 to $3,900. A gate service plan is estimated at $89 to $112 per gate per month, with visits of an estimated 1 to 3 hours. Treat all of these figures as estimates, subject to change. The final price and the install schedule come from your written quote.
Our tube schedule is 11-gauge frame tube with 14-gauge infill as the starting point, moved up a size when a leaf runs past 14 feet. Hinges are sealed ball-bearing hinges rated well past the finished leaf weight, with a greasable option on heavy pairs. Drives are articulated arm, linear or pad-mounted slide operators, selected from leaf weight, column depth and daily cycles. Paint is blast, zinc primer, then polyester powder cured in the oven, with touch-up kits left on site for later scratches. For a yard, see our commercial gates and cantilever gates, and for a home, our automatic driveway gates and gate replacement.
First, we fit a Knox key switch, siren sensor or strobe as the local fire marshal asks, confirmed before the drawing is signed. The second is a floor track under heavy traffic, which is why Terrence's yard on Chisholm Trail Road runs trackless.
Safety closes the list: monitored photo eyes and edges wired for each entrapment zone, all tested at handover. Footings come next: belled concrete piers 36 inches or deeper, with depth and rebar decided by what the auger hits at each post.
Operator makers warrant motors and control boards for 1 to 5 years depending on the model, and our 2-year workmanship warranty stands behind weld integrity, post plumb, hinge alignment and gate sag. Meet the team.
Our crews cover a 35 mile radius around the shop, including Georgetown, Cedar Park and Lakeway, plus Steiner Ranch and Volente on our service area page.
A new Round Rock entry often goes in with gate access control, solar gate operators or gate operator installation, and a gate service contract keeps the hardware serviced afterward. Malcolm's Teravista run is our horizontal slat gate job here.
The July 2023 guidelines call for a city-approved Knox key switch on emergency access controlled gates, so confirm the full text with the Fire Marshal's Office.
A one-leaf automated swing gate is estimated at $2,600 to $4,800, and the quote we write after measuring holds the final price.
An operator added to a manual gate takes an estimated 4 to 8 hours.
Yes, if they are plumb and solid, as with Kendra's rotted wood driveway gate on steel posts in Behrens Ranch, where only the leaf and the arm changed.
Battery backup and a manual release come on every operator, and a gate beyond the reach of a power run can be sized for solar.
The gate carries a 2-year workmanship warranty on weld integrity, post plumb, hinge alignment and gate sag.
Schedule a free look at your Round Rock gate.
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Location manager covering Round Rock
Runs the schedule for Round Rock from the first site measure to the final safety test.
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