Gates & access
Walk gates, double drive gates, sliding driveway gates, automatic openers — and repairs for the saggers. A fence is only as good as the part of it that moves, so we build gates on the strongest posts in the line.
Start your estimate — drop your Indiana address
Pick your address, draw the fence line, place your gates, see an installed number. About a minute.
Owner-operator Dave Rogers runs the crew · (260) 499-1418 · Prefer email? Request a quote →
Every gate we hang
Installed pricing alongside your fence, any material we build — wood, vinyl, chain link, aluminum, farm. Gates on standalone visits carry a small-job minimum; we'll tell you the number before we roll a truck.
$225–$525
The everyday gate — 4 feet wide, matched to your fence material, hung on adjustable hinges with a latch that works one-handed with a grocery bag in the other. Every fence we quote includes the walk gates you actually need, placed where you live: trash-can route, mower route, dog-out-the-back route.
$550–$1,100
Ten to twelve feet of clear opening for mowers, trailers, campers, and the one-day-I'll-pour-a-pad plan. Two leaves on heavy hinges with a drop rod to lock one side. If you might ever want vehicle access to the back yard, frame it now — adding it later costs more than the difference.
Quoted per site
For openings where swing room doesn't exist — sloped drives, short setbacks, snow country. Track or cantilever style, quoted after we see the grade and the run. Width and slope move this number more than material does.
Quoted per opener class
Swing and slide operators with keypads, remotes, and safety sensors — wired or solar. Gate weight, slope, and daily cycle count decide the hardware class, so we quote after a site check instead of guessing off a satellite photo.
Size the opening
4 ft walk gate
$225–$525 installed
The everyday opening — trash-can route, dog-out-the-back route, grocery-bag-in-one-hand route. Matched to your fence material, hung on adjustable hinges with a latch that works one-handed. Most yards want two: one per side of the house.
5 ft wide walk gate
Top of the $225–$525 walk-gate range
A standard 4 ft gate clears most push mowers; a 5 ft leaf makes it comfortable for wide-deck mowers, wheelbarrows, and moving-day furniture. If a zero-turn lives in your garage, measure the deck before we frame — one extra foot now beats a rebuild later.
10–12 ft double drive gate
$550–$1,100 installed
Two leaves on heavy hinges with a drop rod to pin one side. Ten feet clears most trailers and boats with mirrors folded; twelve gives you swing room to actually make the turn off the driveway. If you might ever want vehicle access, frame it now — adding it later costs more than the difference.
12 ft+ opening — sliding or automatic
Quoted per site
At RV width the question becomes swing room and grade, not just opening size. Sloped drives and short setbacks usually mean a sliding gate; daily-use vehicle openings earn an automatic operator (swing or slide, wired or solar). We quote after a site check — width and slope move this number more than material does.
The engineering bit
"Every sagging gate in Tippecanoe County tells the same story: the post moved. Clay heaves a concrete-set post half an inch, the hinge line goes out of plumb, and suddenly you're lifting the gate to latch it. Gate posts carry all the load in a fence — so ours are driven steel, below the frost line, and they stay where I put them."
Code corner
Gates fail more pool inspections than every other barrier component combined. Self-closing, self-latching, outward-swinging, latch at 54 inches — and hardware that still does all of that after a winter of freeze-thaw. If there's water behind the fence, read our pool fence page for the full code walkthrough, or just bring us the inspection checklist and we'll build to pass the first walk-through.
Recent installs
Walk gates, drive gates, and the hardware that keeps them swinging true. Tap to enlarge.
Common questions
Cost, sag, retrofits, and openers — the ones we hear every week.
Installed with your fence: a standard 4-foot walk gate runs $225–$525 depending on material (chain link at the low end, aluminum and vinyl at the top). A 10-foot double drive gate runs $550–$1,100. Pool-code walk gates with self-closing hinges and a compliant top-pull latch run $475–$725. Sliding driveway gates are quoted per site — track, grade, and width move the number more than material does.
Ready?
Drop your address, draw the fence, place the openings where you actually walk and drive. Our crew locks the final number in person.