Round Rock Metal Gates is the Capital Area's trusted expert in custom metal gate installation, specializing in automatic driveway gates, ornamental iron fencing, and gate access control. We offer ranch and estate entry gates, solar gate operators and pedestrian entry gates.
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Call today and we will come out for a free estimate, measure your opening and follow up with a written, itemized quote.
Our team provides in-shop steel fabrication and operator installs with tested photo eyes and edges, delivering gates that suit the house for homeowners and safe, code-ready entries for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by 12 years in business and our 2-year workmanship warranty on our welds, hinges, footings and operator installation, we've completed over 1,187 projects, from a 42 in walk gate to a 26 ft fire-lane cantilever.
From the site survey and footing layout to the logged safety test at handover, our team handles every detail. Serving Round Rock and nearby Georgetown, Lakeway, Leander and Cedar Park, we send the same crew that measures your opening to hang the gate.
Dennis, cul-de-sac lot near Old Settlers Park, Round Rock
A long leaf had to open uphill on a driveway with a slight crown near the street.
Roy, acreage tract off US 183, Leander
The entry sat far from the house, with no power at the road and a trailer turning in every week.
Hank, storage property off I-35 near La Frontera, Round Rock
A gate across a fire lane had to meet the Round Rock Fire Marshal's guideline for controlled gates.
Phoebe, older home near Old Town, Round Rock
The front walk had no gate, and the old fence had pulled away from the stone post.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Dennis had a cul-de-sac lot near Old Settlers Park and a 14 ft single leaf, and a long leaf had to open uphill on a driveway with a slight crown near the street.
Hank's storage property off I-35 near La Frontera was the fire-lane case: a gate across a fire lane had to meet the Round Rock Fire Marshal's guideline for controlled gates.
Phoebe's older home near Old Town got a custom pedestrian entry gate, because the front walk had no gate, and the old fence had pulled away from the stone post.
Roy's acreage tract off US 183 was the remote case: the entry sat far from the house, with no power at the road and a trailer turning in every week.
See every case study on our gate projects page.
The short version
A swing gate fits when the leaf has room to open, a slide fits when it does not, and a cantilever suits a slope or a busy lane.
| Gate type | Space it needs | Best fit |
|---|---|---|
| Swing, single or dual | A clear arc inside or outside the property | A level or gently rising drive with room to open |
| Ground-track sliding | A straight run along the fence line, plus a poured track | A level opening with no room to swing |
| Trackless cantilever | A counterbalanced run behind the opening and nothing on the ground | Slopes, gravel and busy commercial lanes |
Marshall's narrow side-entry lot in Leander needed a slide, because a garage sat too close to the street for any swing leaf to clear a parked car. Our sliding and rolling gates and automatic driveway gates pages go through each style in turn.
An acreage drive needs a wider opening and either a long power run or a solar operator. Arlo's tract past Lake Georgetown sat well past the end of the power line, so a 30W panel and a deep-cycle battery beat trenching, and the gate still opens by hand from the release if the battery fails. Our ranch and acreage entry gates and solar gate operators pages cover the sizing.
Williamson County has two kinds of ground, and we check which one your drive sits on before we mark a post hole. The Balcones Escarpment divides the county, with dark loamy and clayey blackland soils to the east and light to dark loamy soils over limey subsoil to the west. On every job, grade is shot across the full swing or slide path, and bottom rail clearance is set from that measurement, so the soil and the slope are both written into the scope before any hole is dug.
The Round Rock Fire Marshal's July 2023 Emergency Access Controlled Gate Systems Guidelines are the rule for gates across fire lanes. They call for a Knox key switch about 5.5 ft up that bypasses the keypad, an Opticom receiver 8 to 10 ft up on the property side, a gate that opens freely or by hand release on power loss, a clear opening no narrower than the 20 or 26 ft fire lane, UL 325 and ASTM F2200 construction, and a Fire Marshal acceptance test. The guideline speaks of fire lanes, so we treat it as the rule for those gates and confirm with the city before applying it to anything else.
Round Rock requires no building permit for a residential fence, though a Historic Overlay lot needs a Certificate of Appropriateness first, and a 2016 ordinance limits the lean of a street-facing fence over 4 ft to 1 ft. Texas SB 711, effective September 1, 2025, lets an HOA require a driveway gate set back 10 ft where the driveway meets a laned road, with fences built before that date excepted. Flat-top rails and brown or bronze finishes are stocked for neighborhoods whose design rules bar spear points or black, so the covenant review goes smoothly before we draw the gate.
A powered gate is a crush hazard, so we set up monitored photo eyes and edge sensors and test each one before handover. Kendra's older opener off US 79 had no working eyes and a child's bike had been struck in the drive, so we replaced the arm and added monitored eyes on both sides. Our gate operator installation team adds working eyes and edges to an older opener and proves it reverses.
Steel is our default for strength and stiffness, aluminum is the choice where rust is the worry, and forged iron carries a front line. Rudy's steep shared drive in The Hills went to 11-gauge steel over aluminum for the stiffness, while a pool fence goes aluminum. See steel gate installation, wrought iron gates, wrought iron fencing and custom driveway gates.
Our owner checks every leaf for square before it leaves the shop, and the crew that measures your opening is the crew that hangs the gate. Our 2-year workmanship warranty covers every gate we set, and gate operator makers add their own coverage, typically 1 to 5 years on parts. Meet the team behind the shop, from our location managers to our lead welder.
We install across a 35-mile radius of our shop, from Cedar Park, Georgetown and Leander to Lakeway, Steiner Ranch and West Lake Hills. Every other city we serve is on our service area page.
Owners often pair a new gate with gate access control, which adds video intercom, keypad or phone entry to the post, or a pedestrian entry gate. Property managers on our commercial gates team can sign a preventive maintenance agreement for four gates on a quarterly schedule. For the full list, see our gate services.
Book a free estimate, and we will measure your opening, check the ground and send you a written, itemized quote.
How a job runs
We read the grade, the soil and the swing or slide path before a line is drawn.
You sign off on a scaled drawing, the metal, the finish and the operator before any steel is cut.
Our welders fabricate the gate, then it goes out for its coating before it comes to your property.
We set the posts, hang the leaf, wire the operator and run every photo eye and safety edge in front of you.
A single swing driveway gate with an operator typically costs an estimated $2,500 to $5,000, and the gate style, the opening width and the grade move the price most.
| Job | Est. investment | Est. duration on site |
|---|---|---|
| Single swing driveway gate with operator | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 per complete system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Dual swing estate gate with operators | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 per complete system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Ground-track sliding gate with operator | Est. $1,500 to $5,000 per complete system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Trackless cantilever gate | Est. $6,000 to $10,000 per complete system | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| Operator retrofit on an existing gate | Est. $1,800 to $3,800 per operator system | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Ornamental steel fence | Est. $50 to $85 per linear foot | Est. 2 to 4 days |
Footings, columns and utility locates are site work, covered on our driveway gate installation page. The opening, the material, the slope and the entry devices can change any figure here, since each one is an estimate, and we fix the final price and the schedule in a written quote after the site visit.
Meet the team
Names, photos and stories are on our about page.
Owner
Round Rock location manager
Cedar Park location manager
Lakeway location manager
Lead Welder and Fabricator
Gate Automation Technician
Estimator and Project Coordinator
Where we work
Budget an estimated $2,500 to $5,000 for a typical single swing driveway gate with an operator, with the final price settled in a written quote after we visit the site.
Most gates take an estimated 1 to 4 days on site, and an operator retrofit typically takes an estimated 4 to 8 hours.
Round Rock requires no building permit for a residential fence, but a Historic Overlay lot needs a Certificate of Appropriateness first, and your HOA may have its own rules.
Yes, under Texas SB 711 an HOA may require a driveway gate set back 10 ft where the driveway meets a laned road, with fences built before September 1, 2025 excepted.
Yes, our access control installs add video intercom, keypad or phone entry to a new or existing operator.
Every gate carries our 2-year workmanship warranty on our welds, hinges, footings and operator installation, and the operator maker covers the motor and the control electronics.
Phone the shop or use the form to set a time for a site measure and a written estimate.
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