Free on-site gate assessment - hinges, posts, and your LiftMaster or Nice gate operator checked before anything is quoted
The assessment is free and the quote is the invoice.
Before
After
Before
After
Before
AfterFast, Reliable Gate Motor & Opener Across Hurst
Gate motor and opener repair in Hurst typically runs $180-$340 for a service call that covers diagnosis, parts, and labor on common failures like burnt capacitors, stripped gears, or misaligned photocells. A full motor replacement on an existing gate in Hurst usually falls between $650 and $1,400 depending on the operator type and whether the posts need re-plumbing. Most repair visits are completed the same day we arrive.
At Ironworks Gate Co., we’ve spent 42 years learning how gates fail in North Texas, and Hurst has its own particular story. Homes in 76053 and 76054 were built mostly between 1955 and 1975, and many of those original gates and openers are still in service, or clinging to it. When an opener stops working here, the cause is rarely just the motor. It’s the clay soil shifting the posts, or a control board from the 1980s finally giving out. Call (817) 580-8494 and a live person answers, any hour, any day.
Why Ironworks Gate Co. Is Hurst’s Preferred Gate Motor & Opener Company
Hurst homeowners tend to stay put. We meet people who have lived in the same house on the same block for thirty years, and they don’t want to gamble on a handyman who’s never seen a Viking board. They want somebody who knows what the clay does to this ground and how it translates to the motor above it.
Our Gate Motor & Opener team works on nine automation brands: LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. That breadth matters in a city like Hurst, where the equipment under the cover is often fifteen or twenty years old. The replacement board for a 2004 FAAC isn’t on the shelf at the big box store. We carry it, or we know exactly where to get it, and we don’t make you wait while we figure that out.
Victor Salinas leads the crew, and he holds the bar on the Keystone Standard: every job, no exceptions, written 90-Day Done Right Promise. If the gate misbehaves after we leave, we come back and make it right. No arguing. No forms in triplicate. That’s the whole promise.
Our Gate Motor & Opener Services in Hurst
Motor Repair
A Hurst gate opener that hums but doesn’t move, or trips its breaker repeatedly, usually means the capacitor, the gear train, or the arm itself is fighting a gate that’s no longer swinging true. We trace it properly. On a mid-century ranch with an original chain-link gate, the motor often gets blamed for what’s really a post that has drifted half an inch out of plumb. Repair starts at the root, not the symptom. Most motor repairs in Hurst run $180-$340.
Motor Installation
Installing a new opener on a gate that’s fifty years old takes real care. The gate leaf has to hang square, the pintles have to take the load evenly, and the weight has to be balanced before the first bolt of the operator goes on. We set new footings where the clay needs them. We run the conduit neatly along the fence line. Then we mount the operator, dial in the force settings, and test it empty and loaded. A full motor installation in Hurst generally falls between $850 and $1,400 when the existing gate is in good condition.
Linear Motor
Linear arm operators are common on the ranch-style homes across Hurst because they mount directly to the gate post and the gate face with minimal concrete work. The trade-off is that every millimeter of post movement lands directly in the motor arm. In 76053, after a wet spring, we regularly see linear arms faulting because the post walked and the arm is now fighting the gate’s own weight. Re-plumbing the post and resetting the arm solves what a new motor alone never will.
Slide Motor
Slide gates in Hurst are usually found on homes with wider side yards or on small estate lots along the city’s western edge. A slide operator lives and dies by its track: if the track settles, sinks, or fills with clay-silt runoff, the motor strains and the wheels bind. We check the track level, the chain or rack tension, and the safety edges before we ever condemn a slide motor. Properly set up, a slide system will run for years. Set up wrong, it eats motors.
What happens when you call
- 1
A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
- 2
You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
- 3
A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
- 4
You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Hurst
We work on LiftMaster, Mighty Mule, FAAC, and BFT openers every week in Hurst, and we stock common parts for those brands on the truck so a repair doesn’t stretch into a two-trip job. Older boards, limit switches, and receiver modules for 1990s-era operators are harder to come by, but we source them from suppliers we’ve used for years, not from a marketplace listing with no lineage. When a board is gone beyond repair, we’ll tell you honestly and quote a retrofit that keeps your existing gate. When the gate itself is done, we’ll say that too. The square deal is the whole deal.
Common Gate Motor & Opener Problems We See in Hurst Homes
- Clay heave binding the gate leaf. Hurst sits on Tarrant County’s expansive black clay. After a wet spring, the clay swells and pushes gate posts upward, sometimes an inch or more overnight. The gate binds against the latch, the motor overloads, and the breaker trips. A post-reset beats a new motor on this one, every time.
- Safety photocells knocked out of alignment. The 1950s-to-1970s gates in Hurst were never designed for modern UL 325 safety sensors. When posts shift seasonally, the photocells mounted on those posts drift apart, and the gate reverses mid-cycle or refuses to close. Re-aligning them is a fifteen-minute fix; replacing them usually isn’t needed.
- Legacy control boards failing from attic heat. Many Hurst homes have the opener control board in a garage or attic enclosure where summer temps push past 120°F. Boards from the 1980s and 90s cook slowly over years, then fail without warning. Symptoms are a dead keypad, a remote that stopped pairing, or a motor that runs but won’t follow limits.
- Worn pintles and hinges overloading the operator. Original iron gates on Hurst’s mid-century homes are now 50-plus years old. The pintles wear thin, the leaf sags, and the opener has to work twice as hard. Motors burn out faster, gears strip, and capacitors pop. Re-hanging the gate with new pintles is the repair that makes the opener last.
Pricing for Gate Motor & Opener in Hurst, TX
Here’s what Hurst homeowners can expect to pay. A diagnostic service call runs $89, which includes the on-site evaluation and a written quote before any work begins. Motor repair on common failures like capacitors, limit switches, or gear kits runs $180-$340. A full opener replacement on an existing gate typically falls between $650 and $1,200 depending on the operator style and horsepower. New motor installation with fresh concrete footings and conduit runs $850-$1,400. A complete new gate with automation, custom-built to the house, starts around $2,800 and goes up with size, material, and design.
Every price is quoted and agreed in writing before we turn a bolt. Not an estimate that drifts. A price. Victor Salinas stands behind that with the same 90-Day Done Right Promise on a $89 tune-up or a $3,000 gate. Call (817) 580-8494 for a free estimate, and while we’re out, we’ll check the whole system: motor, hinges, photocells, safety edges, everything.
We Also Serve Cities Near Hurst
Our Gate Motor & Opener in Hurst coverage extends naturally across the Tarrant County line. We run service to Bedford, North Richland Hills, Colleyville, and Euless regularly, so a Hurst customer’s family in any of those cities gets the same crew, the same pricing, and the same warranty. Same live phone line, too: (817) 580-8494.
Serving Hurst, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Hurst area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Gate Motor & Opener in Hurst
The expansive clay under Hurst swells when spring rains soak the ground, and your gate posts heave up and shift out of plumb. The opener’s track or arm is still pointed where the gate used to be, so the gate binds, and the limits fault. Fix the post movement first, and the opener usually settles back in. We see this pattern every year across 76053 and 76054. Call (817) 580-8494 and we’ll check the posts before selling you a motor.
Yes, in most cases. Older LiftMaster swing and slide operators can take a battery backup module, though on pre-2000 boards the wiring points are sometimes absent and need a small retrofit harness. We install battery backups regularly on Hurst homes where storms knock out power and leave the gate stuck closed. The installed cost for a battery backup kit typically runs $300-$600 depending on the operator model.
Because the posts move. Hurst’s clay heave shifts those original posts seasonally, and the photocells mounted on them drift apart enough to open the safety loop. The gate then reverses or refuses to close. We reset the post, re-align the cells, and the problem quits for years instead of weeks. In south Hurst’s 76053 blocks, this is the single most common spring repair we do.
If the board in your Viking slide operator is original and the motor still runs when triggered, replacing the board makes sense. A new board runs $350-$600 installed, and it brings your gate up to current safety-code performance. But if the motor bearings are grinding or the gear rack is binding, a new board won’t fix the strain that failed the old one. We’ll open the cover, listen to it run, and tell you straight which way the money goes.
Once a year, and ideally in late fall after the first big clay shift. A seasonal tune-up in Hurst runs $89 and covers post checks, hinge and pintle inspection, safety photocell alignment, force-setting verification, and a full cycle test. That annual pass catches the heave-driven wear before it eats a motor. It’s the cheapest insurance a 1960s gate in 76053 will ever have.
Call Ironworks Gate Co. for Gate Motor & Opener Work in Hurst
We answer the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A live person, not a menu. Tell us what the gate is doing, or not doing, and we’ll tell you what a service call costs and when we can be there. We offer $50 off any repair over $250, a free second opinion on any written estimate from another company, and a standing 5% discount for seniors and veterans. Call (817) 580-8494 for a free estimate. Done right, and backed in writing.
Written by Victor Salinas, Owner at Ironworks Gate Co., serving Hurst and the Tarrant County area.