Round Rock Metal Gates is the Capital Area's trusted expert in estate entry gates, specializing in arched gate pairs, stone-clad column entries, and bronze powder coat finishes. We offer hidden operators and low arch profiles for properties that answer to a review committee.
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Our team provides estate entrances, delivering a grand first impression for homes and wide, formal openings for both residential and commercial projects. A 12 ft pair between short piers sits at one end of the over 1,187 projects we have done and a 20 ft arched pair between tall columns at the other, all from 12 years in business with a 2-year workmanship warranty behind the hanging.
From the first drawing to the final sensor test, our team handles every detail with 12 years in business behind it. Serving Round Rock and communities such as Barton Creek, West Lake Hills and The Hills, we draw each entry to pass review the first time.
Request a free estimate, and we will bring finish samples that match your review rules in Round Rock or Steiner Ranch.
The short version
Nadia, estate lot off Barton Creek Boulevard, Barton Creek
The architectural review committee wanted the arch to stay low and the finish to read brown.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Nadia's estate lot off Barton Creek Boulevard in Barton Creek needed a 20 ft arched pair between two stone-clad columns. The architectural review committee wanted a low arch and a brown finish, so we built the 20 ft pair in 3/16 in steel, bronze powder coat, stone-clad columns, and hid the operators behind the columns. Nadia's 20 ft arched entry came to an estimated $6,200 to $8,000 and took an estimated 2 to 3 days on site. Nothing shows from the road in Barton Creek except the gates and the stone.
An estate entry is a gate plus the structure around it, so the columns, the arch and the finish decide whether it clears review. The gate is the last piece hung in Lakeway or Leander, after the footings and the stone are set.
| Entry feature | What it solves | Common review request |
|---|---|---|
| Stone-clad columns | Hinge load and hidden motors | Match the house stone |
| Low arch | A quieter profile | Cap the arch height |
| Bronze powder coat | A softer color | No black finish |
An estate entry gate in Round Rock typically costs an estimated $4,000 to $8,000 for a dual swing pair with its operators, before any column or stone work. The opening width, the arch and the finish move the number most, and the columns are priced by the mason, not by us.
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 |
| Custom pedestrian entry gate | Est. $600 to $1,500 per gate | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
| Video intercom, keypad or phone entry | Est. $800 to $4,500 per entry | Est. 4 to 8 hours |
An estate entry's numbers are estimates, subject to change, until a review committee has weighed in. With the opening width, the arch and those review rules known, the written quote we draft fixes your final price and schedule.
Round Rock leaves an estate frontage free of a residential fence permit, yet a Certificate of Appropriateness comes first on a Historic Overlay lot, and street-facing fences over 4 ft answer to a 2016 ordinance. A committee in Barton Creek can set its own rules: Barton Creek guidelines run 6 to 8 ft with bronze or brown wrought-iron-style pickets, and Amarra Phase 2 prohibits front-yard gated driveways. Texas SB 711 lets an HOA in Cedar Park or Georgetown require a driveway gate set back 10 ft where the driveway meets a laned road, effective September 1, 2025. Round Rock's Fire Marshal published Emergency Access Controlled Gate Systems Guidelines in July 2023 for fire-lane gates, and a house entry is not a fire-lane gate. We read the covenant before we draw, from Round Rock to Leander.
An estate entry fails when a column moves, so on a Lakeway or Steiner Ranch estate the footing is the part we plan around. A stone column carries a heavy leaf on a ball-bearing pair rated from 500 to more than 1,500 lbs, and a footing set on soft ground can lean. We pour to the depth the soil allows and check it on site, since the Balcones Escarpment splits blackland east from limey loam west and we make no assumption about where it changes. A tall arch also catches wind, so we weld the arch as one piece and test the reversal at every point of travel.
Steel carries a wide arched leaf best, and the finish keeps it from fading. Compare frames on our steel gate installation page, forged ornament on our wrought iron gates page, and the gated entries we build for neighborhoods on our gated community entries page. G90 hot-dip galvanizing or a zinc-phosphate and e-coat base goes on before any color, then TGIC polyester powder coat at 3 to 5 mils.
Barton Creek and Round Rock owners choose us because the same crew draws the arch, welds the leaves and hangs them on the columns. Over 1,187 projects in 12 years have taught us what a committee asks for, and the 2-year workmanship warranty stands behind the welds.
We build estate entries across Round Rock and the nearby cities, with most formal work in Barton Creek, West Lake Hills and The Hills, plus Lakeway and Steiner Ranch. Cedar Park and Georgetown sit close to the shop, well inside our 35 mile service radius.
An estate entry often pairs with a dual swing gate design, a pedestrian entry gate beside the drive, or gate access control at the pillar.
A dual swing estate gate with operators in Round Rock is typically an estimated $4,000 to $8,000 before column work, and the written quote you receive fixes the final price.
Nadia's arched pair in Barton Creek took an estimated 2 to 3 days on site, after the columns were set.
Yes, flat-top rails and brown or bronze finishes are stocked for neighborhoods whose design rules bar spear points or black, as on Nadia's Barton Creek entry.
Yes, they sit behind the stone-clad columns, as on Nadia's estate lot off Barton Creek Boulevard.
No, a mason builds the stone, and we set the hinge plates and hang the gates, as on the 20 ft pair in Barton Creek.
Yes, every West Lake Hills entry gets monitored photo eyes and edge sensors, and a reverse test on each device before we leave.
Not as a rule, since the city asks for no residential fence permit; an estate on a Historic Overlay is the exception and starts with a Certificate of Appropriateness.
Ours is the 2-year workmanship warranty, covering our welds, hinges, footings and operator installation in Round Rock, while the motors behind your columns fall to the operator maker separately.
Request a free estimate, and we will bring samples to Lakeway or Round Rock, check the review rules 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.
Services
Phone the shop or use the form to set a time for a site measure and a written estimate.
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