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Gate repair in Crowley usually means one of two things: a swing gate that’s sagged off its latch, or a sliding gate that’s dragging because the post heaved. Either way, you want it fixed before your car is stuck in the driveway or the gate won’t close and your dog gets out. We’re Carver Gate Repair Fort Worth, led by Lonnie Burke, and we work in Crowley neighborhoods every week. Call (817) 840-7067 and a live person answers, any hour, any day. You’ll get a written price before the work starts, and that number doesn’t move.
What makes Crowley different from Fort Worth or Burleson is the soil. The black clay under these subdivisions expands when it rains and shrinks when it dries. Your gate posts sit in that. After a spring storm, we see a cluster of calls from Crowley homeowners whose gates suddenly bind, drag, or refuse to latch. It’s not bad luck. It’s the ground moving under the hardware.
Why Carver Gate Repair Fort Worth Is Crowley’s Preferred Gate Repair Company
Crowley homeowners call us because we answer the phone and we show up. No voicemail tag, no waiting on a callback from a dispatcher who might get to it Monday. The phones are staffed by a live person 24/7, including weekends and holidays. When you call about a gate that won’t open at 6:40 a.m., you talk to a human who starts arranging help, not a recording.
Every technician sent to a Crowley home is background-checked and arrives in uniform. You know who’s walking up your driveway before you open the door. That matters in family-centric subdivisions where kids play in front yards and neighbors notice unfamiliar trucks. Our crews introduce themselves, explain what they found, and hand you a written price before touching a single bolt. The price is the price, quoted and agreed to up front.
We also carry the parts Crowley gates actually need. Linear control boards, Ghost Controls slides, Viking operators, DoorKing hinges. If your builder-grade gate came with a cheap rack and pinion, we’ve probably replaced the same unit in another Crowley subdivision that month. We know what fails here and we stock for it. Gate Repair is all we do, so the truck is organized around gate work, not a dozen unrelated trades.
Our reputation in Crowley is built on the Garrison Standard: every repair gets a written guarantee, good for a full year. If the same repair fails inside that year, we come back free. No argument, no invoice, no “that’s a different part.” It’s in writing because Lonnie Burke insists on it, and that’s been the rule since 2008.
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Sliding Gate Repair in Crowley
Sliding gate repair in Crowley is one of the most common jobs we do, and it’s almost always a post problem, not a panel problem. A slide gate rides a track or a rack along its length. One end hangs on a fixed post. In Crowley’s expansive clay, that post heaves with every rain cycle. The gate gets out of line, the gear teeth start chewing the rack, and the whole thing jumps or drags. Homeowners call thinking the motor died. Often the motor’s fine and the post is the culprit.
Here’s what a typical sliding gate repair in Crowley involves, and what it costs:
- Rack and pinion realignment: $180 – $340. Includes shimming, re-seating the rack, and re-syncing the opener travel limits.
- Post stabilization (concrete collar or replacement): $250 – $600. Needed when the heave has shifted the post enough that the gate won’t track straight.
- Sliding gate opener troubleshooting and motor replacement: $320 – $750. Depends on brand and whether we’re replacing a Ghost Controls, Linear, or Viking unit.
We quote the full job before starting. No “we found more once we opened it up” surprises. The number you approve is the number on the invoice.
When the gate drags but the motor runs
If the opener hums but the gate lurches or stops midway, the rack and pinion have likely separated. In Crowley, this happens after a wet spell when the post shifts. The fix is often a shim job and resetting the opener limits. Takes a couple of hours on site. If it’s caught early, you’re usually in the $180 – $340 range.
Shared driveways and right-of-way gates
Crowley has more shared driveways than older Texas towns, thanks to infill development and narrow side yards. When a slide gate serves two homes, we schedule the repair so access stays open. You and your neighbor both need to get cars in and out, and our crews work around that. We’ll coordinate a window that doesn’t leave anyone blocked in.
Wrought Iron Gate Repair in Crowley
Wrought iron gate repair in Crowley is a different job than sliding gate work. These are ornamental gates, usually swing-style, hung on heavy posts with barrel hinges. In Crowley’s hot, humid summers and storm-driven springs, the iron takes a beating: surface rust forms at weld points, hinges wear, and the clay soil tilts the hinge post inward until the latch side drags and the lock won’t seat. The panel itself is usually fine. The hardware and the footing are not.
Costs for common wrought iron repairs in Crowley:
- Hinge replacement and post shimming: $220 – $480. When the hinge post has tilted, we true it up before re-hanging the panel.
- Latch and lock realignment: $140 – $280. Includes adjusting the strike plate so the lock catches cleanly.
- Weld repair and rust treatment: $180 – $400. For cracked welds at the stile joints, followed by spot priming and a rust-inhibiting topcoat on the affected area.
Every repair carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If that weld cracks again inside a year, the second visit is free.
Post heave on ornamental gates
The classic Crowley iron gate failure looks like this: the gate opens fine in dry weather, then after a heavy rain the latch side drags on the concrete and the lock won’t throw. The hinge post has tilted. We straighten it, pack the footing, and re-hang the gate so it swings with an even gap top to bottom.
Rust and weld integrity
North Texas humidity works on iron year-round, and Crowley’s storm season accelerates it. Hail chips paint, rain sits in the joints, and rust blooms at the weld roots. We grind out the failed material, re-weld, and treat the area so moisture doesn’t immediately restart the cycle. If the panel is structurally sound, you don’t need to replace it.
Trusted Brands We Service in Crowley
We’re trained on nine gate-motor brands and carry parts for the ones Crowley builders actually installed: Viking, DoorKing, Linear, and Ghost Controls cover most of the subdivision work here. If your keypad or opener was put in by a production builder, chances are it’s one of these four. We stock local repair stock for Crowley customers, so a bad control board or a stripped limit switch doesn’t mean waiting on a parts truck from Dallas. Same-week repair turns around faster when the part’s already in the van. Gate Repair in Crowley runs smoother when the technician recognizes the motor before he gets out of the truck.
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AfterCommon Gate Repair Problems We See in Crowley Homes
- Slide gates jumping off the rack: The post footing under the rack shifts in clay soil, the gear loses contact, and the gate jerks or jumps. In Crowley, this follows nearly every heavy rain. Left alone, it strips the rack teeth and you’re replacing the whole drive assembly.
- Swing gates binding on the latch post: When the hinge post tilts inward from soil heave, the latch side drops and drags. Homeowners see the gap at the top hinge widen, then the lock stops lining up.
- Solar gate opener batteries dying early: Crowley’s summer heat cooks the battery cells inside solar powered openers. The controller stops sending the open command, and the gate just sits there with a green light on. Replacing the battery and moving it to a shaded mount usually fixes it.
- Narrow side-yard gate clearance issues: Many Crowley homes were built with swing gates on side yards too narrow for a full arc. The gate barely clears the neighbor’s fence, and any post movement turns a working gate into one that scrapes or stalls. We commonly convert these to sliding gates, which is often the only fix that lasts.
Pricing for Gate Repair in Crowley, TX
A basic gate repair in Crowley, like a latch realignment or a hinge adjustment, typically runs $140 to $280. Post stabilization and rack realignment on a sliding gate sits in the $250 to $600 range. Full opener replacement with a new Linear, Viking, or Ghost Controls motor runs $320 to $750 installed. Wrought iron weld repair falls between $180 and $400 depending on how much material needs rebuilding.
What moves the number is the post condition, not the gate panel. Clay heave under a tilted post needs a concrete collar or a re-pour, and that’s labor. We always quote the entire job in writing before work begins. The price you see is the price you pay. Estimates in Crowley are free. Call (817) 840-7067 and we’ll walk you through a real number, not a range that balloons at the door.
Last spring we rebuilt a Ghost Controls sliding gate at a home in the Huntwick subdivision. The original rack and pinion had been mounted to a 4×4 post with no concrete collar. After a storm, the clay shifted the post just enough that the gear chewed the rack. Our tech re-poured a 24-inch-deep post footing, re-seated the rack with shims, and re-synced the loop detector so the gate cleared on every cycle. No more dragging on the driveway.
We Also Serve Cities Near Crowley
Our crews work throughout the area, so if you’re just outside Crowley in Burleson, Mansfield, Fort Worth, or Haltom City, the same written-price, written-guarantee standard applies. Dispatch is coordinated from our Dallas-Fort Worth office, and Crowley gets local response seven days a week. Call the same number: (817) 840-7067.
Serving Crowley, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
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FAQs About Gate Repair in Crowley
The clay soil under your gate post expanded after recent rain and shifted the post out of line. The gate now sits lower or off-track, and it drags as it cycles. We realign the post, re-seat the rack, and reset the opener limits. That usually resolves a dragging slide gate in one visit, typically $180 – $340. Call (817) 840-7067 and we’ll put a written quote on it.
If you want the gate to auto-reopen when a car is in the path, yes, a loop detector is the reliable way to do it. Many builder-installed gates in Crowley either don’t have one or the sensor was never tuned. We install and sync loop detectors on shared driveway slides so the gate won’t close on a vehicle that’s still entering or leaving. It’s factored into the written quote before work begins.
Yes, hailstorms frequently knock out gate keypads and the wiring between the keypad and the control board. Hail strikes crack the keypad housing and water gets inside, shorting the switches. We test, replace, and seal the new keypad. In most cases the repair is $120 – $250 depending on keypad type. Call (817) 840-7067 and we’ll have a tech out.
Usually not. What you’re describing is a post tilt, not a panel failure. The hinge post has started leaning inward from clay movement, which drops the latch side. We straighten the post, re-pack the footing so it stays, and re-level the panel. It’s a repair, not a replacement, and it’s covered by our full-year written guarantee.
Yes. On sliding gates we brace or prop the panel in the open position during the work so you can get in and out. If it’s a shared driveway, we coordinate with both homeowners and do the work in sections. You’ll never be locked in. Call (817) 840-7067 to schedule; we’ll tell you exactly how access works for your specific layout before we start.
Written by Lonnie Burke, Owner at Carver Gate Repair Fort Worth, serving Crowley and the surrounding DFW area since 2008.