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Gate installation in Los Angeles costs roughly $1,900 to $6,500 for a standard automated driveway gate, and $800 to $2,400 for a pedestrian gate, including labor and basic materials. Most jobs take one to two days once materials arrive. We’re Portcullis Gate Repair Los Angeles, an independently owned Kingswell company, and we’ve been doing this work here since 2008. Call (213) 322-0062 and you’ll get a live person, a real arrival window, and a written price before a single bolt is turned.
We know Los Angeles gates differently than a company that just runs trucks here from another county. We know what the salt air does to a Westside iron gate, what the hills do to a Hollywood Hills hinge post, and what happens when a 1950s Spanish Colonial gate finally rots at the footing. That local knowledge changes what we recommend, and it changes what the job actually costs.
This page is built for Los Angeles homeowners who’ve been burned before. You want to know what a Gate Installation really costs, how long it takes, and whether your old gate can be saved. We answer those questions directly.
Why Portcullis Gate Repair Los Angeles Is Los Angeles’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
We carry a strong local reputation in Los Angeles because we do the thing most gate companies refuse to do: we give you the price in writing before work starts, and we put the guarantee in writing on the invoice. Every repair and installation carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we come back and fix it at no charge. That’s not a slogan. It’s a written commitment, and Dean Prescott, who leads this location, stands behind it.
Our technicians are background-checked and arrive in uniform. When you book a gate installation in Los Angeles, you know who’s showing up, what they’ll drive, and when they’ll arrive. Calls are answered by a live person 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays. No voicemail trees, no callback queues.
We’re an independently owned Kingswell location. That means we’re held to the same four Kingswell Guarantee promises on every job: a written price before any work starts, a real arrival window, a clean job site, and a written guarantee on the repair. The Kingswell Way is five plain commitments: say the price before the work, show up in the window we gave, leave the place cleaner than we found it, put the guarantee in writing, and come back if it fails. Our Los Angeles crews live by that standard.
Styles & brands we work with
Gate Opener Installation in Los Angeles
Gate opener installation in Los Angeles typically runs $1,200 to $3,800 depending on the operator brand, gate weight, and whether new safety equipment is required. The opener, or operator, is the motorized unit that physically moves the gate. Many Los Angeles homes have operators that were installed in the 1980s or 1990s, before modern entrapment protection became standard, and those units often cannot accept today’s safety photocells or keypad entry systems without a full swap.
Retrofitting Older Operators
If your Los Angeles gate still has a working motor but no safety sensors, we can often retrofit a photocell and edge sensor onto the existing operator. That job typically runs $400 to $900. We’ll tell you honestly if the control board won’t accept the new components, because on some older DoorKing and Linear units, a retrofit isn’t possible and a new operator is the cheaper long-term answer.
New Operator on an Existing Gate
When the old operator is beyond saving, we replace it with a new unit matched to the gate’s weight and cycle rate. We service and install nine major brands, including Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing, so the technician arriving at your Los Angeles property already knows the specific system on site. Every new operator is tested through at least 20 full open-close cycles before we consider the job finished.
Gate Fabrication in Los Angeles
Gate fabrication in Los Angeles typically runs $2,500 to $7,000 for a custom steel or aluminum driveway gate built to your property’s measurements and style. Fabrication means building a gate from scratch rather than hanging a pre-made one. Los Angeles has an enormous range of architectural styles, from 1920s Spanish Colonial to Mid-Century Modern to contemporary hillside construction, and a stock gate rarely matches the house.
Matching Historic LA Styles
We regularly fabricate steel gates to match the ornamental ironwork on 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles homes. The goal is a gate that looks like it was always there. We take the existing design language, the scrollwork, the finials, the original hinges, and we build the new gate to match. You don’t lose the original look. You get a gate that’s square, safe, and automated, but looks like it belongs to the house.
Replacing Rotted or Sagging Wood Gates
Wood gates from the 1950s don’t fail all at once. They rot at the hinge post first. In Los Angeles, the dry climate slows rot compared to coastal regions, but the Westside’s salt air and the Valley’s summer heat both take their toll. When a wood gate has sagged past the point where hinge adjustment fixes it, the answer is usually a new steel or aluminum gate fabricated to the same proportions, with a new post footing poured. That’s the fix that lasts.
Trusted Brands We Service in Los Angeles
We stock common parts for Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, and DoorKing operators, which means faster turnaround on gate installation and repair across Los Angeles. Our technicians hold certified service experience across nine major gate-operator brands: LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. When your Los Angeles property has an older DoorKing slide gate with an obsolete control board, we can usually source the replacement board or swap the operator without making you wait two weeks for a part to ship.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Los Angeles Homes
- Pre-1990s gates without UL 325 entrapment protection. Many Los Angeles driveway gates installed before the 1990s were never retrofitted with safety photocells. A common installation call is adding a safety photocell across a narrow driveway where a swing gate sweeps within inches of a stucco wall.
- Hinge post failures on hillside properties. In the Hollywood Hills and other steep areas, soil movement and minor seismic shifts slowly push gate posts out of square. A sag correction on the hinge doesn’t last if the footing itself has moved. The proper fix is re-squaring the gate and pouring a new post footing.
- Corrosion on Westside iron gates. Coastal salt air accelerates corrosion on ornamental iron gates in areas like Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, and the broader Westside. We see rack and pinion gears seized solid, which burns out the motor trying to move a gate that won’t budge.
- Dry rot at the hinge post on older wood gates. Spanish Colonial homes from the 1920s through the 1960s often have heavy wood gates that rot at the hinge post, causing a sag that only worsens. Re-hanging the gate without replacing the post buys a few months at best.
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Here’s what we tell Los Angeles homeowners before we ever schedule a visit:
- Pedestrian gate installation: $800 to $2,400
- Driveway gate installation (single swing): $1,900 to $4,200
- Driveway gate installation (double swing or slide): $3,200 to $6,500
- Gate opener installation only: $1,200 to $3,800
- Custom gate fabrication: $2,500 to $7,000
- Safety photocell or edge sensor retrofit: $400 to $900
What moves the number: gate width and weight, whether the existing posts and footings are reusable, terrain (a Hollywood Hills slope costs more than a flat Valley driveway), and whether new conduit or power work is required. The price we quote is the price you pay, and it’s always in writing before work starts. Call (213) 322-0062 for a free estimate on your specific Los Angeles property.
We Also Serve Cities Near Los Angeles
While this page is for Gate Installation in Los Angeles, our crews also work in South Gate, Bell Gardens, Gardena, and Lawndale. If you’re close to the city line and unsure whether we cover your block, call (213) 322-0062 and ask. A live person answers.
Serving Los Angeles, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Angeles 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 About Gate Installation in Los Angeles
It depends on the control board. Many 1960s and 1970s gate operators in Los Angeles were built before UL 325 entrapment protection existed, and their control boards cannot accept a modern safety photocell or edge sensor. If the board has open input terminals for a photocell, we can retrofit a safety system for roughly $400 to $900. If not, the honest answer is a new operator, which runs $1,200 to $3,800 installed. Either way, you’ll get a written price before we touch the gate. Call (213) 322-0062 and we’ll tell you over the phone what your operator can accept.
Seismic movement in the Hollywood Hills gradually pushes gate posts out of square, which means a gate that once swung cleanly starts scraping the slope or failing to close fully. In the flat Valley, soil movement is minimal and gate issues are usually mechanical or electrical. Hillside gate installation often requires re-squaring the gate and pouring a new post footing before the new gate or operator goes in, which adds labor and sometimes concrete work to the job. Our crew recently replaced a worn Viking gate operator on a steep Hollywood Hills driveway where the original hinge post had shifted after years of minor seismic movement. We re-squared the swing gate, poured a new post footing, and installed a LiftMaster operator with a loop detector and safety photocell so the gate no longer scrapes the slope during opening.
Yes. We fabricate gates to match the existing ornamental ironwork, scrollwork, and proportions of the original. You get a steel gate that looks like it was always there, but it’s square, properly hinged, compatible with a modern operator, and built to current safety standards. Custom fabrication for a Los Angeles Spanish Colonial home typically runs $2,500 to $7,000 depending on gate size and details. Call (213) 322-0062 and we’ll walk your property and write a firm number.
For a long Los Angeles hillside driveway with no power at the gate, the most common solution is a DC-powered operator with a solar panel and battery bank, or a DC operator run on low-voltage wire from the house. LiftMaster and Ghost Controls both make strong DC swing and slide operators suited to this exact situation. We size the operator to the gate’s weight and the daily cycle count, and we’ll tell you honestly whether solar will hold up for your specific shade and sun exposure. A solar-ready hillside opener installation typically runs $1,800 to $4,500 including the panel, batteries, and wiring.
Usually it’s a track or rack problem, not the motor. When a slide gate grinds and stops halfway, the most common Los Angeles causes are a rusted or bent track, a seized rack and pinion gear (especially on Westside properties with salt air corrosion), or a wheel bearing that’s failed. The motor keeps trying to move a gate that physically can’t move, and eventually it burns out. We diagnose the gate on site, and we’ll tell you whether a track repair or a rack replacement fixes it, or whether the motor has already been damaged. A track repair typically runs $300 to $700; a full rack and pinion replacement runs $800 to $1,500. Call (213) 322-0062 and we’ll give you a written number before any work begins.
Schedule Your Gate Installation in Los Angeles
If your Los Angeles gate is sagging, stuck, obsolete, or just not doing what it’s supposed to do, call us. You’ll reach a live person, not a voicemail queue. We’ll ask about your gate, your property, and what’s been done to it before. Then we’ll give you a real arrival window and a written price. No surprises at the door. No price that doubles after the gate is apart. No repair that fails six weeks later with no one answering the phone.
That’s the Kingswell Guarantee, and it’s on every invoice. Every Los Angeles gate installation and repair carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise, in writing. If it’s not done right, we come back and fix it free. Call (213) 322-0062 today.
Written by Dean Prescott, Owner at Portcullis Gate Repair Los Angeles, serving Los Angeles since 2008.