Leander Metal Gates is the metro's trusted expert in driveway gates, specializing in automatic driveway gates, custom driveway gates, and cantilever gates. We offer iron railings and wrought iron fencing, including a hand-forged iron fence built in our own shop for each opening.
Our team provides gate access control and solar gate operators, delivering footings, operators and finishes for both residential and commercial projects. With 14 years in business, 1,127 completed projects and a 2-year workmanship warranty that covers weld integrity, post plumb, hinge alignment and gate sag, our work ranges from a single walk gate to a multi-lane community entry.
From a walk-through entry gate to a stair or balcony guard, our team handles every detail. Serving Steiner Ranch and neighboring Lakeway, The Hills and West Lake Hills, we plan each ridge lot around the fall the level actually finds.
Book a free estimate, and our Steiner Ranch location manager will walk your lot, measure the fall and sketch the gate before anything is ordered.
Lorenzo, The Bluffs, Steiner Ranch
A wobbly builder-grade guard on a low stone wall beside the drive, with a young child at home
Elena, University Club Drive, Steiner Ranch
A home set back from the road after a break-in through a low side entrance
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Numbers first
Elena on University Club Drive called us for a home set back from the road after a break-in through a low side entrance. We built a 16 ft single leaf of anti-climb steel with shielded hinges, an estimated $3,400 to $4,700 job that typically took 1 to 2 days on site.
Lorenzo in The Bluffs had a wobbly builder-grade guard on the low stone wall beside the drive, with a young child at home. We welded 28 linear ft of flat-bar steel balusters and a top rail and anchored the panels into the wall, an estimated $2,300 to $3,500 project with an estimated install of 6 to 10 hours.
Slope comes before everything else on a Steiner Ranch gate, since the community spreads over about 4,600 acres of ridge between Lake Travis and Lake Austin. A drive climbing away from the street, so a normal leaf would strike the slab halfway through its arc, is the usual trouble on a steep ridge lot with a retaining wall. We answer it with racked panels on gentle ground and stepped sections on steep lots, with rise-and-run hinges for a drive that climbs, so every leaf swings clear of the pavement.
The paperwork is the second pattern, because the community is split between two sets of association covenants depending on the area. Confirm which association governs your lot and get its written approval before we build, and we will draw the gate to that book.
Lake Travis Fire Rescue serves unincorporated Travis County areas such as Steiner Ranch, so we ask the department what it wants on a gate across your drive. The usual answer is a Knox key switch, siren sensor or strobe as the local fire marshal asks, confirmed before the drawing is signed.
The City of Austin requires a permit for a fence in a floodplain at any height and for fences over 7 feet, but that applies only if your lot sits inside Austin city limits, so check with the city about your address before you plan a tall run.
A one-leaf automated swing gate in Steiner Ranch is estimated at roughly $2,600 to $4,800, and the leaf width, the slope, the footing depth and the operator move the price most.
| Steiner Ranch job | Est. investment | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| One-leaf automated swing gate | Est. $2,600 to $4,800 per complete system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Two-leaf automated swing entry | Est. $4,300 to $7,900 per complete system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Walk-through entry gate | Est. $700 to $1,400 per gate installed | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Stair or balcony guard | Est. $66 to $134 per linear foot | Est. 5 to 10 hours |
| Open-view steel fence line | Est. $51 to $84 per linear foot | Est. 2 to 4 days |
Footings on a ridge are belled concrete piers 36 inches or deeper, with depth and rebar decided by what the auger hits at each post, which is why rock can move the number. Stepped lots typically sit toward the top of each range because the footing and hinge work take longer on a slope. Every price here is an estimate and subject to change; your final price and start date come in a written quote once we have walked the lot.
Most owners start with security gate installation for street-facing drives and iron railings for stairs and landings, with steel gate installation as the material behind both. The coating order is blast, zinc primer, then polyester powder cured in the oven, with touch-up kits left on site for later scratches, so a scrape from a trailer hitch gets fixed in minutes.
The process runs in four steps. First, we walk the lot and measure the fall, the post locations and the opening width, and we read the clearance from the high point of the drive arc, usually 2 to 4 inches, so a crowned slab never drags the leaf. Second, you approve a scaled drawing, and your association gets it for written approval before steel is ordered. Third, we fabricate the gate in our shop and set the footings. Fourth, our crew hangs the leaf, wires the operator and tests the monitored photo eyes and edges in each entrapment zone at handover.
The same crew that measures a Steiner Ranch lot builds and installs the gate, so nothing is lost between the sketch and the weld. Our Steiner Ranch location manager books the association paperwork alongside the install date, so approvals do not hold up the schedule. Our 2-year workmanship warranty goes with every gate, and the operator comes with its own maker's warranty.
We work across Steiner Ranch, from the ridge lots near Lake Travis to the streets that face Lake Austin, and our crews cross into Lakeway homes, The Hills properties and West Lake Hills estates the same week. Every city we cover is listed on the gate service area page.
Steiner Ranch owners often pair a new driveway gate with gate access control for an intercom, keypad or phone entry, or add a pedestrian entry gate for the front walk.
Expect roughly $2,600 to $4,800 as an estimate for a one-leaf Steiner Ranch system, with your written quote setting the final price after we measure the slope.
Yes, confirm which association governs your lot and get written approval first, then we draw to that book.
Yes, rise-and-run hinges, an outward swing or a sliding leaf let a gate clear a rising drive.
Most installs take an estimated 1 to 3 days on site once the drawing and approval are done.
Ask Lake Travis Fire Rescue before we order, because a gate across a fire route may need a Knox key switch.
Every leaf is blasted, primed in zinc and powder coated, and we leave touch-up kits on site.
Call us today, and we will walk your Steiner Ranch lot, measure the fall and hand you a free written, itemized quote.
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