Automatic Gates Built, Automated, and Repaired in Central Texas
We build automatic gates for Central Texas properties, and we make them work, with one crew, start to finish. The same people who weld your gate set the footings, run the conduit, mount the operator, and come back if it stops moving.
Tell us what you’re working with, and we’ll tell you what it takes. Call (512) 236-5178 or contact us.
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What we actually do
Building a gate and automating one are usually sold by two different companies, and most of our callouts started at the seam between them. We do both, so we size the panel to the operator that has to drive it, rather than hanging it and hoping it works.
On a new project, we run from fabrication through new gate installation and the gate operator that moves it. We weld in steel and iron, size the panel to your opening, set the posts, trench the conduit, and wire the entry device you’ll use every day.
The rest of the work is other people’s gates. Repairing gates we didn’t build takes up a good share of the calendar, and so does gate access hardware, which runs from a single keypad on a house to a system serving a few hundred residents. If a manual gate is already sitting on the property, automating what’s there is often cheaper than starting over, and we’ll look at the posts, the panel, and the way the drive falls before we tell you either way.
What a gate job involves
Most of what decides whether a gate still swings true in year three happens before it goes up. The opening comes first: its width, whether the ground rises away from the road, and how much room a panel has to arc into without clipping a car or a wall. That conversation usually settles the swing versus slide comparison on its own, and reading through the gate types available beforehand makes it shorter.
Then there are the footings, the part nobody sees and everybody eventually pays for. Hinge posts carry the full weight of the panel through every cycle, and the depth that holds in one part of the metro won’t hold in another. We dig for the soil we’re standing in, not a number on a sheet.
After that, it’s fabrication, the operator, and the sensors that stop a gate from closing on a vehicle. Whether a gate stops when it should comes down to setup and testing, nothing cleverer. Vehicle detection matters most on a swing panel, which sweeps through the space a car is sitting in. We cycle it on site until the problems show themselves, while we are still there to fix them.
When a job needs a new circuit, we bring in a licensed electrician instead of improvising. Everything we build carries a one-year craftsmanship warranty; we’ve been doing this work here since 2013, and we’re fully insured.
Who we work for
Three kinds of property, and they ask for different things. Homeowners on standard suburban drives usually want a residential gate that suits the house and an entry method the whole family can use without thinking about it. Still, there’s more to weigh up than most people expect.
If you’re early in that process, our notes on what automation actually buys you cover most of the first-round questions. Security comes up on nearly every driveway. The honest answer is narrow: a gate stops casual entry and slows the rest down.
Acreage and ranch owners are a different problem. Long approaches, real slope, cattle guards, and often no power near the road make solar operators stop being a nice idea and start being the only practical answer.
Acreage openers cover what those approaches need. Slide systems come up a lot out that way as well, so how sliding gates work is worth understanding before you commit to one.
Commercial gate systems come down to two numbers: how many people need to get through, and how long a failure leaves the entrance standing open. A busy apartment or business entrance cycles forty or fifty times a day, which wears chain, rollers, and hinges on a schedule a house gate never approaches. We spec those heavier and plan for the day something goes wrong.
Where we work
Ace Automated Gates | Austin works out of North Austin at 1821 Heatherglen Ln, Austin, TX 78758, and we cover the metro and surrounding cities. That means gates across Austin itself, plus Round Rock driveways north of it.
Pflugerville entrances are mostly apartment work, while west, Bee Cave properties mean rock.
South, Buda replacements are subdivision gates aging out together.
Conditions change what we build more than most people expect. East of the interstate, the ground moves, and posts that went in plumb three years ago often aren’t anymore, so we go deeper on footings and are stricter about cure time. West of town, drives are long, and power is far away, so much of what we install out there runs on solar, and a fair number of service calls turn out to be charging problems rather than gate problems. Up north, in the newer subdivisions, the gates cycle constantly and wear their parts almost on schedule.
None of that changes the job. It changes how we build for it.
Working with us
You’ll get the same crew from the first visit through the last cycle test, and a straight answer about what your gate needs. We don’t have an exclusive line with any operator manufacturer, so we’re not quietly trying to move hardware, and we’ll tell you when a repair isn’t worth it. A gate that fails again in eighteen months isn’t a job either of us wanted.
If you’d rather see the work before you call, you can view recent work in the gallery, photographed on properties around the metro. You can find how we started on our About page.
The full service list covers everything we handle, from a single keypad swap through a full acreage entrance. The blog goes deeper on the questions that come up most often on driveways. It’s written for people trying to decide, so it’s fairly blunt about what isn’t worth spending money on.
Two useful starting points. DIY maintenance between service visits prevents a decent share of the calls we end up taking. And the guide to what a gate costs will at least tell you whether the quote in front of you sits in the right range.
Ready to talk it through? Call us on (512) 236-5178, and we’ll come out and look at the opening.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes one gate company different from another?
Whether they do both halves of the job. Most firms either fabricate the panel or fit the automation, then subcontract the rest. We weld the gate and wire the operator with the same crew, so the panel is sized to the machine that has to move it, not the other way around.
How long will an automatic gate last?
Fifteen years or more, provided the panel is built for the ground it sits on. Operators have a shorter service life and depend far more on how freely the gate moves than on brand. A gate that binds quietly consumes hardware, which is why alignment matters more than the badge on the motor.
What does the first visit involve?
We look at the opening and watch how the drive actually works. Width, slope, turning room, and distance to power decide most of what follows, and none of that survives description over the phone. On an existing gate, we watch it cycle a few times before opening anything up, since the fault is often visible from ten feet away.
Do you work on gates across all of Central Texas?
We cover the Austin metro and surrounding cities, with full service available throughout that area. Distance changes when we can get to you, not whether we take the job at all. The practical answer is to tell us the address, and we’ll tell you straight away whether we are the right people for it.
Is an automatic gate worth the money on a normal house?
For most properties with a drive worth protecting, yes. Security and convenience are real, and a gate changes how a property feels when you arrive every day. But we would rather tell you when the answer is no than sell a system you use twice a week and resent the rest of the time.
Who writes the content on this site?
The business does. Everything here comes from the crew doing the work, checked against our own project records before it goes up. When we don’t know something, we say so rather than fill the gap, which is why you will not find certifications or figures on these pages that we cannot stand behind.