San Antonio Gate Pros: Wrought Iron, Automatic & Ranch Entry Gates for Homes, Ranches and Businesses
Residential and commercial gate design, fabrication, automation, and access control. Wrought iron, ornamental steel, aluminum, wood, and vinyl gates built and wired across Bexar County and the Hill Country by a licensed, insured crew.
- ✓Licensed & Insured
- ✓15+ Years of Experience
- ✓Free On-Site Estimate
- ✓Se Habla Espanol
Why San Antonio Chooses San Antonio Gate Pros
- ✓Over 15 years installing and servicing gates across Bexar County and the Hill Country
- ✓In-house metal shop — we weld and powder coat our own gates rather than reselling panels
- ✓Footings sized to your actual soil, clay on the south side or limestone north of 1604
- ✓Every operator wired to UL 325 with photo eyes, loop detectors and tested entrapment protection
- ✓Full access control: telephone entry, card and fob readers, long-range tag readers, free-exit loops
- ✓Insured and bonded, with a written workmanship warranty
- ✓Se habla espanol
How It Works
1. Design & quote
We come out, measure the opening, check the grade and the soil, and find out what power is genuinely available at the gate. You get an itemized quote you can compare line by line.
2. Fabrication & prep
We cut and weld the gate in our own shop, prep and powder coat it, then drill footings sized to your soil, clay or limestone, and run conduit for the operator, loops, and access control.
3. Install & automate
We hang the gate, mount and align the operator, wire the keypad, exit loop, and photo eyes, then program remotes and readers and set travel and force limits to UL 325.
4. Test & hand off
We cycle the gate until we are satisfied, test entrapment protection with a real obstruction, show you the manual release and battery backup, and leave the manuals and the access codes documented.
Our Gate Services in San Antonio, TX
Wrought Iron Gates
Heavy iron is still the entry people want in San Antonio, and pricing one honestly starts underground. Before anyone talks about scroll patterns, somebody has to answer a simpler question: how far down does the auger get before it stops turning?
Ornamental Steel Gates
Ornamental steel gives you the look of forged iron out of formed tube, and on a rock lot that weight saving turns directly into money. Every pound you take off the leaf is load the foundation does not have to carry, and here the foundation is the expensive part.
Garage Gate Installation
Garage and parking-deck gates are the one category in San Antonio where none of the usual excavation problems apply. There is no hole to drill, because the structure already gave you a flat, engineered slab to bolt to.
Aluminum Gates
Aluminum is what we reach for when a driveway sits on rock. It will not rust, and a welded aluminum leaf weighs roughly a third what the same gate weighs in steel.
Wood Gates
Cedar reads right on a Hill Country entry in a way painted metal never does. Two things decide whether it still reads right in five years: what the gate hangs on and how the sun is handled.
Vinyl & Composite Gates
Vinyl and composite are popular around San Antonio for one legitimate reason: an HOA wants privacy and nobody wants to refinish wood. Where the product gets oversold is at the driveway, and the reason is not the panel.
Sliding Gates
Slide gates suit driveways with no room to swing, a wall close to the opening, or a street where a swinging leaf would reach into traffic. There are two ways to build one, and in San Antonio the choice usually comes down to what concrete already exists on your property.
Swing Gates
On limestone, a swing gate wins on arithmetic before anyone discusses looks. It needs two foundations.
Cantilever Gates
Cantilever gates are the standard answer for the wide entries around San Antonio: ranch drives, acreage lots, contractor yards and anywhere a thirty-foot opening has to clear in one movement. The gate hangs from roller trucks on posts to one side and nothing touches the ground across the opening.
Bi-Fold & Vertical Pivot Gates
Vertical pivot and bifold gates have a reputation as premium equipment, and on a limestone lot they are sometimes the cheapest sound design on the table. The reason has nothing to do with the gate.
Automatic Gate Operators
Automating a gate in San Antonio is usually an easy job with one hard part in the middle of it, and the hard part is not the operator. It is getting power and control wiring from the house out to a gate with a rock driveway sitting between the two.
Access Control & Keypads
Access control is where San Antonio sites get the best return, because most of the equipment mounts to things that already exist. A keypad on a column, a reader on a pedestal, a receiver in the operator box.
Telephone Entry Systems
Telephone entry lets a visitor find your name on a directory, press call, and reach your phone wherever you are. For gated communities and apartment properties it is the right product.
Safety Sensors & UL 325 Compliance
UL 325 is what stands between an automatic gate and a child, a pet or a vehicle in its path. Two independent means of entrapment protection are required in each direction of travel, external devices have to be monitored, and the operator has to match the site's usage class.
Gate Motors & Solar Power
Solar is not a compromise in San Antonio. On plenty of properties it is the cheaper option outright, because the alternative means getting conduit across limestone.
Custom & Ranch Entry Gates
An estate entry on the Hill Country side has an advantage most sites do not: the rock under it makes an excellent foundation. Once you have paid to cut into it, what you get back is masonry and ironwork that sits exactly where you put it for decades.
Security Fencing & Perimeter
This page comes with a budget warning. We build ornamental steel and aluminum fencing, welded panel and heavy commercial systems, and install a great deal of it.
Commercial & Industrial Gates
Commercial gates get judged on uptime. An apartment community entrance that jams strands residents in the street, and a yard gate that fails leaves trucks queued on a public road.
Welding & Gate Fabrication
We run our own metal shop, which on a rock market matters more than it sounds. Half the foundation solutions we use need a part made for the situation the drill found, and a contractor who only installs catalog parts designs around what is in the warehouse.
Emergency Gate Service
A gate that will not open strands you outside your own property. A gate that will not close leaves an apartment community open all night.
What San Antonio Customers Say
Ranch entrance with our brand cut into the panel and a solar operator at the county road. They sized the panel to our actual traffic and it has run through two winters without a hiccup.
Short driveway, no room for a normal swing gate. They put in a bi-fold and it clears the sidewalk with room to spare. Nobody else who bid it even mentioned the option.
Our HOA needed the call box converted off the old phone line and the tag readers replaced. They did both, rebuilt the directory, and documented every code for the board.
Rock drilled the post footings properly instead of stopping when they hit limestone like the previous crew clearly did. Dual swing gate has stayed square through a full year.
Lightning took out the control board on a Sunday. They were out that afternoon, replaced it, added surge protection, and did not charge me a fortune for the timing.
Custom iron gate with hand-forged scrollwork that matches our courtyard gate. Clean welds, and they coordinated with our mason so the hinge posts are inside the stone columns.
San Antonio Gate Pros is an insured gate contractor with over 15 years of experience designing, fabricating, automating, and servicing driveway gates for residential, ranch, and commercial properties in San Antonio, TX.
We build custom wrought iron and ornamental steel gates, powder-coated aluminum gates, cedar wood gates on welded steel frames, vinyl and composite privacy gates, single and dual swing gates, roller and cantilever slide gates, bi-fold and vertical-pivot gates for tight lots, ranch and estate entrances with pipe and cable fencing, security fencing, and parking barrier arms.
On the access control side we install and service LiftMaster, DoorKing, FAAC, Ramset, and Apollo operators, telephone entry systems, keypads, card and fob readers, video intercoms, long-range tag readers, loop detectors, photo-eye sensors, solar power kits, and Knox box fire-department access.
Every operator we hang is set up to UL 325 safety compliance with the correct Class I through Class IV classification for the property, two independent means of entrapment protection wired and tested, and force limits set correctly rather than turned up until the complaints stop.
Bexar County hands us two very different ground conditions and both matter for footings: expansive clay on the south and east side that swells and shrinks with the season, and Hill Country limestone north of Loop 1604 that has to be drilled rather than augered. We size and drill accordingly instead of pretending one footing detail fits the whole county.
Steel is hot-dip galvanized or primed and powder coated, frames are 14-gauge and 16-gauge tube sized to the span, and every gate, operator, and access system carries a written workmanship warranty.
About San Antonio Gate Pros in San Antonio, TX
San Antonio Gate Pros has spent over 15 years designing, building, automating, and repairing gates across Bexar County and out into the Hill Country. We started in a welding shop taking on ranch work, trailer repairs, and handrails, and we still approach a gate the way a fabricator does rather than the way a catalog does.
Today we handle custom wrought iron entrances in the tradition this city has had since the missions, ranch entries with brands and pipe fencing, cantilever slides for industrial yards, barrier arms, and full access control for gated communities and apartment properties, all with our own crews.
What separates a gate that lasts from one that does not here is almost never the design. It is the footing, the coating, and the operator sizing.
We drill footings sized to the actual soil, whether that is expansive clay on the south side or limestone north of 1604, hot-dip galvanize or powder coat inside and out so humidity does not start rust inside the tube, and specify operators to the real gate weight and daily cycle count rather than to the cheapest model that technically fits.
Every operator is wired to UL 325 with photo eyes, loop detectors, and tested entrapment protection. We are licensed, insured, and bonded, a member of the International Door Association, and everything carries a written workmanship warranty.
Wrought iron, ornamental steel, aluminum, wood, vinyl, sliding, swing, cantilever, and bi-fold gates, plus operators, keypads, telephone entry, tag readers, safety sensors, solar power, security fencing, and emergency service. One call, one crew, and a company that still answers when you ring back. Se habla espanol, and the on-site estimate is always free.
Recent Projects Across the San Antonio area
Service Areas
San Antonio Gate Pros serves San Antonio, TX and surrounding communities including:
Commercial, Industrial & Gated-Community Gate Services in San Antonio
We install, automate, and maintain commercial and industrial gates for gated communities, HOAs, apartment complexes, self-storage, distribution yards, and municipal and institutional sites across Bexar, Comal, and Guadalupe counties. Truck-rated cantilever slides on 14-gauge galvanized frames, Class III and Class IV operators, telephone entry with maintained directories, proximity and long-range tag readers, free-exit loop detectors, barrier arms, and Knox box fire-department access, all wired to UL 325 and kept inspection-ready.
- ✓Gated communities & HOAs
- ✓Apartment & condo complexes
- ✓Self-storage & distribution yards
- ✓Truck-rated cantilever slides & barrier arms
- ✓Telephone entry, tag readers & keypads
- ✓Class III/IV operators wired to UL 325
- ✓Knox box fire-department access
- ✓Scheduled maintenance contracts
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a driveway gate cost in San Antonio?
Most automated driveway gates around San Antonio run from roughly $4,000 into the $12,000s depending on width, material, single or dual swing versus a slide gate, and the access control you add. Ornamental steel and aluminum sit at the lower end, custom wrought iron and long ranch entrances at the upper end. We quote firm and itemized after a free on-site measure.
Do gate footings need to be different north and south of town?
Yes, and it is one of the more common reasons a gate fails early here. The south and east side of Bexar County has expansive clay that swells with rain and shrinks hard in August, so posts need footings deep enough to sit below the active zone.
North of Loop 1604 you are into Hill Country limestone, which does not move but does have to be rock-drilled rather than augered. Quoting the same footing for both is how a crew ends up two feet short.
What is UL 325 and does my gate have to meet it?
UL 325 is the safety standard for powered gate operators. It requires two independent means of entrapment protection, correct Class I through Class IV classification for the property type, monitored safety devices, and warning placards. Everything we install meets it, and if we service an older gate that was never brought up to code we show you exactly what is missing before you spend anything.
Do you handle commercial access control and gated communities?
That is a large share of our work. We install and maintain HOA and apartment entrances, telephone entry with maintained resident directories, proximity card and fob readers, long-range tag readers so residents do not have to stop, free-exit loops, barrier arms, and Knox box fire-department access across Bexar, Comal, and Guadalupe counties.
Do you repair gates and operators you did not install?
Constantly. We diagnose dead control boards, blown transformers, failed limit switches, misaligned photo eyes, and bad loop detectors on any brand, replace rollers, chains, and hinges, and get stuck gates cycling again regardless of who built them or how long ago.
Can a gate run on solar out on a ranch property?
Usually yes, and on a long ranch entrance it is often the only sensible option. Trenching power a quarter mile to the county road costs more than the gate. What matters is honest sizing: amp-hours per cycle, cycles per day, realistic winter harvest, and battery capacity. We size to your actual traffic and tell you plainly if the gate is too heavy or too busy for solar rather than selling you a kit that quits in January.