Foyers left dark by faded wood are the reason owners call Round Rock Metal Gates, the Capital Area's premier team for custom iron entry doors, specializing in glass sidelites, thermally broken frames, and hinged or pivot doors. We offer seeded glass and oil-rubbed finishes for entries where a faded wood door leaves the foyer dark.
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Our team provides steel and iron door builds, delivering more light for homes and a solid front for both residential and commercial projects. In 12 years in business we've completed over 1,187 projects, from one standard door in an existing frame up to a tall door with sidelites in a new masonry opening, and a 2-year workmanship warranty stands behind the welds and hinges on each one.
From the first opening measurement to the final threshold check, our team handles every detail. Serving Round Rock and communities such as Barton Creek, West Lake Hills and Lakeway, we build each door to the opening it has to fill.
Request a free estimate, and your opening gets measured and the foyer light checked before we show you glass and finish samples.
The short version
Claudia, stone home off Barton Creek Boulevard, Barton Creek
A dark wood door had faded on a west-facing entry, and the owner wanted more light in the foyer.
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Claudia called us about a stone home off Barton Creek Boulevard. In Barton Creek, a dark wood door had faded on a west-facing entry, and the owner wanted more light in the foyer. We measured the masonry opening twice and built a thermally broken frame with seeded glass. The single 4 ft by 9 ft door with sidelites, in steel with thermal break, seeded glass, oil-rubbed bronze finish, came to an estimated $7,500 to $12,500 and took an estimated 1 to 2 days. The foyer of that stone home off Barton Creek Boulevard gets afternoon light now, and the door swings without touching the threshold.
A hinged door suits a standard opening, a pivot door suits a wide or very tall one, and sidelites suit a foyer that needs more light.
| Door style | What it needs | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Hinged iron door | A set frame and ball-bearing hinges matched to the door weight | Replacing an existing door in a standard opening |
| Pivot entry door | A floor and head pivot set once the frame is true | Wide or tall openings with room for the swing |
| Door with sidelites | A wider masonry opening, measured twice, and glass on each side | Dark foyers, like the 4 ft by 9 ft door at Barton Creek Boulevard |
A custom iron entry door in Round Rock typically costs an estimated $3,000 to $12,500 for a standard build, and the door height, the glass and the sidelites move the number most.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Custom iron entry door | Est. $3,000 to $12,500 per door | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Iron door with sidelites | Est. $7,500 to $12,500 per door | Est. 1 to 2 days |
| Pivot entry door | Est. $5,000 to $20,000 per door | Est. 1 to 2 days |
Door prices above stay estimates, subject to change, because the opening decides so much of them. After our second measure of the opening, and once you settle on glass and finish, a written quote fixes your final price and install schedule.
An iron door fails first at the fit, because a heavy leaf in an opening that is out of square will drag on the threshold. On a west-facing entry, a door also takes the afternoon sun, and that is why Claudia's frame has a thermal break between the outer and inner steel. From Georgetown to Steiner Ranch we measure every masonry opening twice, at the top and the bottom, since old stone rarely runs parallel. The door has to carry its own weight too, so we size ball-bearing hinge pairs, rated from 500 to more than 1,500 lbs, to the weight of the finished door.
An iron door goes in over four steps, and the frame is set before the leaf is hung.
Round Rock's historic review applies to every structure on a Historic Overlay site, so on one of those lots we check whether a new front door needs a Certificate of Appropriateness first. The Estates of Barton Creek sends fence materials, colour, design and size to its ARC, so we ask that committee whether a door falls under the same review before we pick a finish. Steiner Ranch and Shady Hollow may carry their own covenants, and we confirm anything on the opening itself with your building inspector.
Steel with a thermal break carries most of our doors, and wrought iron detail can go on top of that frame, as on our forged wrought iron gates page, where solid bar with forged scrolls and cast collars, bronze finish went into Nell's pair near Courthouse Square. For the frame steel itself, read our steel gate comparison page, where 11-gauge tube with a zinc-phosphate base and black powder coat went on Rudy's 12 ft single swing on a steep grade. Seeded glass softens the view into a foyer and still lets the light through, which suits a dark entry like Claudia's.
Round Rock owners choose us because the same crew measures the opening, builds the frame and hangs the door. Our 12 years and more than 1,187 projects taught us how far an old opening can drift, and the 2-year workmanship warranty on our welds, hinges and footings backs the work.
We build iron entry doors across Round Rock and the nearby cities, with most door work in Barton Creek, West Lake Hills and Lakeway, plus Georgetown and Cedar Park. Leander, The Hills and Shady Hollow all fall inside the 35 miles we cover from the shop.
A new door often pairs with an estate entry gate, like Nadia's 20 ft arched pair between two columns on an estate lot off Barton Creek Boulevard. Above the door, Perry's 14 linear ft of Juliet and balcony rail on our iron balconies page shows the same finish thinking, and Phoebe's 42 in walk gate near Old Town on our walk gate page shows how new iron gets matched to an old fence.
Claudia's single 4 ft by 9 ft door with sidelites came to an estimated $7,500 to $12,500, and your written quote sets your own final price.
A thermal break is a separating layer between the outer and inner steel of the frame, so the inside of the door stays closer to room temperature.
Yes, we measure the masonry opening twice and build the frame to it, as we did at the stone home off Barton Creek Boulevard.
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, oven cured, picked from physical samples.
Setting the frame and hanging a custom iron entry door takes an estimated 1 to 2 days on site, since the door itself is built in the shop beforehand.
A door on a Round Rock Historic Overlay lot may need a Certificate of Appropriateness first, and we confirm anything else with your building inspector.
Your door carries our 2-year workmanship warranty on our welds, hinges and footings.
Ask for a free estimate, and your masonry opening gets measured twice before we show you samples and write an itemized quote.
How a job runs
We read the wall, the slab and every anchor point before a line is drawn.
You sign off on a scaled drawing, the metal and the finish before any steel is cut.
Our welders fabricate the piece, then it goes out for its coating before it comes to your property.
We set the anchors, fix the piece in place and check it for plumb, level and spacing in front of you.
Where we work
Phone the shop or use the form to set a time for a site measure and a written estimate.
Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
