For a one-off entry, Round Rock Metal Gates acts as the Capital Area's top-rated team in custom driveway gate fabrication, specializing in ranch scroll panels, hand-welded tube frames, and bronze and black powder coat finishes. We offer arched top rails and flat-top designs for neighborhoods that bar spear points.
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Our team provides drawn-to-fit fabrication, delivering a one-of-a-kind entry for homes and heavy-duty frames for both residential and commercial projects. Scroll pairs cut from a family gate and plain single steel leaves alike count among the over 1,187 projects we have completed in 12 years in business, and each carries our 2-year workmanship warranty.
From the tape-measure survey of your opening to the last coat of powder, our team handles every detail. Serving Georgetown, Round Rock, Cedar Park and Leander, we build each gate in our shop and set it on posts we pour ourselves.
Request a free estimate, and bring a photo of the gate you want so we can draw it to your opening.
The short version
Lupe, acreage lot off SH 29, Georgetown
The owner wanted the scroll from an old family gate worked into a new pair.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Lupe's acreage lot off SH 29 in Georgetown needed a new entry, and the owner wanted the scroll from an old family gate worked into a new pair. We traced the old scroll for the Georgetown pair, cut new panels from it and built the frames in heavier tube, a build that typically takes 2 to 3 days to hang. The 18 ft opening with two 9 ft leaves in an 11-gauge steel frame, ranch scroll panel, bronze powder coat came to an estimated $5,400 to $7,600 over an estimated 2 to 3 days on site. Lupe's two matched leaves hang on new posts, and the Georgetown fence permit was in hand before the first hole.
A custom gate starts as a drawing of your actual opening and ends as welded steel that has been finished before it leaves the shop. The order matters because a leaf that is drawn first never has to be forced to fit later.
A custom driveway gate in Round Rock typically costs an estimated $4,000 to $8,000 for a dual swing estate pair with its operators, and the opening width, the steel gauge and the amount of scrollwork move the number most. A plain single leaf sits at the low end of that range, while an arched pair with forged detail sits at the top.
One leaf, one operator, photo eyes and remotes, best on a driveway with room for the leaf to clear.
Two matched leaves on heavy posts or columns, two operators, safety devices and a stop.
A leaf on a poured track, for a short drive or a level opening with no room to swing.
A counterbalanced leaf on carriages with nothing in the opening, for slopes and busy commercial lanes.
New motor, photo eyes and remotes on a manual or worn automatic gate that is still sound.
An entry device and its wiring added to a working gate, from one keypad to a full video setup.
Tubular steel panels 4 to 6 ft tall, galvanized and powder coated, set on poured posts.
Solid bar and forged parts built to a drawing, for a front line that has to carry the house.
Aluminum panels with tight pickets, plus a self-closing, self-latching gate quoted on top.
A manual walk gate matched to the fence or the driveway leaves, with a latch set at your hand height.
Ornamental steel or wrought iron fitted to the stair or slab, with balusters spaced to our 3.5 to 3.875 in spec.
Steel or iron treads on a center column, from a stock kit to a site-measured build.
A steel or iron door with glass and thermal breaks, hung on hinges or a pivot once the frame is set.
Scheduled visits for commercial and association gates: lube, force test, sensors and a written log.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
| Job type | Est. investment | Est. duration on site |
|---|---|---|
| Dual swing estate gate with operators | Est. $4,000 to $8,000 per complete system | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Single swing driveway gate with operator | Est. $2,500 to $5,000 per complete system | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Custom pedestrian entry gate | Est. $600 to $1,500 per gate | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
Read these ranges as estimates that can change with the gauge you settle on. Once the drawing is approved and the site is measured, we write a quote for your steel, design and finish, and that quote holds the final price and the start date.
Gauge, scroll weight and top line decide how a Lakeway or Round Rock custom gate looks and how long it hangs true. The table compares the common builds by what each is best for.
| Build | Best for | Watch for |
|---|---|---|
| 14-gauge tube frame | Standard leaves up to a typical driveway width | Needs a heavier tube as the leaf lengthens |
| 11-gauge to 3/16 in frame | Long, tall or scroll-heavy leaves | Needs heavier hinges and posts |
| Flat-top rails | Neighborhoods that bar spear points | Fewer finial choices |
| Arched pair between columns | Estate entries with stone or brick columns | Columns set the arch height |
A custom gate in Round Rock rarely needs a fence permit, but a lot on a Historic Overlay needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before any structure, fences included. In Round Rock a 2016 city ordinance also covers street-facing fences over 4 ft, which allows no more than 1 ft of lean and sets a 60-day repair clock, and in 12 years we have seen it matter on older streets. HOA covenants are the other gate, and Texas SB 711 lets an association require a driveway gate set back 10 ft where the driveway meets a laned road, which matters from Cedar Park to Lakeway. We read the covenant before we draw, from Shady Hollow to Steiner Ranch.
Steel takes a custom shape best, and the finish decides how it ages outside in Round Rock or Leander. We compare frames on our steel gate installation page, and our wrought iron gates page covers the forged and cast parts that give a gate its ornament. Ground around the Balcones Escarpment runs blackland to the east and limey loam to the west, so we dig, check the soil on site and set the footings to what we find.
Owners choose our shop because the same crew draws, welds and hangs the gate, and our owner signs off the drawing before steel is cut. Over 1,187 projects in 12 years have taught us where a custom leaf sags, and the 2-year workmanship warranty stands behind the welds.
We fabricate for Round Rock and the nearby cities, with most custom pairs going to Georgetown, Cedar Park and Leander, and the larger estate entries to Barton Creek and Lakeway. Shady Hollow and Barton Creek sit inside our 35-mile service radius, and a pair reaches them already welded and coated.
A custom gate usually pairs with automatic driveway gate operators, the estate entry gates and columns they hang between, and a driveway gate installation crew for the footings. Curtis in Buttercup Creek chose a 14 ft horizontal slat gate.
Cedar Park owners typically see an estimated $4,000 to $8,000 for a dual swing estate pair with operators, though the approved drawing and your written quote fix the final price.
Most Georgetown installs take an estimated 2 to 3 days on site for a pair, after the shop has welded and finished the leaves.
Yes, we trace a photo or an old gate the way we traced Lupe's family scroll, and draw it to your opening.
The frame steel on a pair like Lupe's is 14-gauge tube for standard leaves, 11-gauge to 3/16 in where a long or tall leaf has to hold its line.
Base protection goes on before any color, then a TGIC polyester powder coat at 3 to 5 mils, oven cured, picked from physical samples.
Yes, unless your neighborhood bars them, since flat-top rails and brown or bronze finishes are stocked for neighborhoods whose design rules bar spear points or black, as in Lakeway.
Usually not, since Round Rock requires no residential fence permit, though we hold the drawing for a Historic Overlay lot until its Certificate of Appropriateness is issued.
The maker covers parts separately, and ours is a 2-year workmanship warranty on our welds, hinges, footings and operator installation.
Request a free estimate, and we will survey the opening, draw the gate and write an 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.
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