Free on-site gate assessment - hinges, posts, and your LiftMaster or Nice gate operator checked before anything is quoted
The assessment is free and the quote is the invoice.
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Gate installation in Marietta typically runs $3,200-$8,500 for a full driveway system with automation, depending on whether you’re replacing a failing builder-grade operator or starting from a manual gate. Most East Cobb and Marietta Square projects take one to three days once materials arrive, and we measure and quote in writing before any work starts. Call (706) 928-9815 for a free estimate - our crews serve Marietta daily from our Atlanta dispatch office.
We’ve been working in Marietta long enough to know the local pattern: a wave of 1990s and early-2000s subdivisions in East Cobb - Walton, Pope, and Lassiter school districts - where the original ornamental iron gates were hung manual or fitted with the cheapest operator the builder could spec. Those motors are quitting now, all at once, and the fix is rarely just swapping a box. The hinge posts heave in Georgia red clay. The conduit was never run. The gate that worked fine by hand binds once a motor tries to pull it. That’s the work we do in Marietta.
Why Vance Gate Repair Roswell Is Marietta’s Preferred Gate Installation Company
We’ve installed and repaired gates in Marietta since 2014, and our records show the same failure modes repeating across specific neighborhoods - shallow post footings in the East Cobb cut-and-fill lots, humidity-swollen boards near Marietta Square’s older craftsman homes, ice-bent iron from the January storms that hit harder here than in Atlanta proper. That pattern recognition means we diagnose faster and quote accurately the first time.
Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and named before they arrive - license number on the truck, photo sent to your phone. Under The Haven Standard, every Marietta job leaves with a written price agreed before work started (Clause 1), a photographed record of what was found and what was set (Clause 4), and the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if anything’s not right, we make it right at no charge within one full year.
A live person answers our phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week - no voicemail loop, no callback queue. For Marietta, that means same-day response on urgent calls and scheduled installation work with a firm arrival window, not a four-hour guess.
We also offer a free second opinion on any written estimate from another company. Bring the paperwork. We’ll review it at no cost and tell you what we see.
Our Gate Installation Services in Marietta
Swing Gate Installation
Swing gates are the default in East Cobb’s brick-front subdivisions - single or double leaf, ornamental iron or aluminum, opening inward over a sloped driveway. We install new swing gates and, more commonly in Marietta, retrofit automation onto manual gates that were never meant to carry a motor. The critical step most installers skip: checking whether the hinge post is plumb and the footing is deep enough. In the red clay off Lassiter Road or Shallowford Road, we’ve pulled posts that heaved two inches and reset them on concrete piers below the frost line before the operator ever gets bolted on. A gate that swings free by hand will destroy a motor in six months if the geometry is off.
Sliding Gate Installation
Sliding gates suit narrow driveways or steep grades where a swing arc won’t clear, and we’re seeing more Marietta homeowners choose them for side-yard access or alley-facing garages. The track must be level, the rollers rated for the gate weight, and the v-groove wheels aligned to prevent the gate from climbing the track - a common failure when an installer eyeballs it. We document the track elevation with a laser level, photograph the roller placement, and leave you the readings. For Marietta’s hillside lots, we also spec chain-drive or rack-and-pinion operators with enough torque to handle the load without oversizing the motor.
Driveway Gate Installation
Full driveway gate systems in Marietta range from a simple single swing with a keypad to dual-slide community entrance gates with loop detectors, safety photocells, and telephone entry. Our Gate Installation team handles the complete scope: post setting, gate hanging, operator mounting, control wiring, and access-control integration. On new Marietta builds, we coordinate with the electrician to spec the power run and conduit during construction - the cheapest moment to do it right. On retrofits, we trench and sleeve the low-voltage wiring ourselves, because in most of these 1990s East Cobb subdivisions, that conduit was never put in.
Pedestrian Gate Installation
Pedestrian gates - the walk-through door in a longer fence run - get less attention than driveway gates but take more abuse. Near Marietta Square, we install cedar picket and board-on-board pedestrian gates to match 1940s-1960s home styles, with self-closing hinges and mag locks where code requires pool enclosure compliance. In newer Marietta neighborhoods, aluminum pedestrian gates with keypad or fob entry integrate with the main driveway access-control system. We always check the latch alignment after the first full season of clay heave; a gate that latched in September may not in March.
What happens when you call
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
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We install and service nine major gate automation brands - LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule - and we stock common parts for FAAC, BFT, and Linear operators locally. That matters in Marietta because a failed control board on a 20-year-old Viking or Elite operator doesn’t have to mean a full replacement if the part is still available. We check our inventory before we quote, and if we can repair instead of replace, we tell you. The Haven Standard applies either way: written price first, photo record after, 365-day coverage on all completed work.
Common Gate Installation Problems We See in Marietta Homes
- Builder-grade operators failing simultaneously across East Cobb subdivisions. The 1990s-2000s building boom installed the same undersized motors across hundreds of homes. Now they’re all hitting end-of-life - control boards browning out, limit switches drifting, capacitors bulging - and homeowners assume the gate is broken when it’s just the original cheap operator doing what cheap operators do.
- Hinge posts heaving in shallow-compacted red clay. Cut-and-fill lots in subdivisions off Lassiter Road and Shallowford Road were graded fast and compacted shallow. Gate posts tilt within a decade. The operator fights the bind. Rack and pinion strips. We reset the footing deeper, then reinstall.
- Manual gates retrofitted with automation, minus the infrastructure. A gate that swings fine by hand drags once a motor pulls it. The post was never meant to carry torque. The power was never run underground. We see this weekly in Marietta - the operator gets blamed, but the real fix is geometry and conduit.
- Ice damage from January storms. Marietta sits higher than Atlanta, accumulates more ice, and drops more limbs from mature white oaks and tulip poplars. Bent iron panels and knocked operators are our February busy season. We install with breakaway hinges and reinforced top rails where the tree canopy threatens.
Pricing for Gate Installation in Marietta, GA
| Service | Typical Range in Marietta |
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| Manual swing gate, single leaf, aluminum | $3,200-$4,800 |
| Manual swing gate, double leaf, ornamental iron | $4,500-$6,200 |
| Automation retrofit on existing manual gate | $2,400-$4,100 |
| Full driveway system with operator, keypad, safety photocell | $5,800-$8,500 |
| Sliding gate with track, operator, access control | $6,500-$9,200 |
| Post reset and footing replacement (red clay heave repair) | $1,800-$3,400 |
| Underground conduit and power run (retrofit) | $900-$2,200 |
These are Marietta-specific ranges based on our 2024-2025 job records. Your actual price depends on gate width, material, brand choice, and whether we find heaved posts or missing conduit once we dig. We measure every site in person, then hand you a written, itemized price before any work starts. No call-for-a-quote runaround. No invoice larger than the agreed number. That’s Haven Standard Clause 1.
Free estimates. No obligation. Call (706) 928-9815 to schedule.
We Also Serve Cities Near Marietta
Our crews work daily in Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Atlanta, and Roswell. Dispatch and scheduling run from our Atlanta office, with local technicians assigned by territory to keep response times short.
Serving Marietta, GA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Marietta 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 - Gate Installation in Marietta
Yes, and we do it regularly - but the gate must be plumb, the hinge posts must be solid, and the power must reach the operator location. In East Cobb, we almost always find shallow post footings and no buried conduit, so the quote includes resetting the post deeper and trenching low-voltage wiring before the operator goes on. Call (706) 928-9815 for a free site measure - estimates are free.
Stripped gears usually mean the gate is binding against a tilted or heaved post, and the motor is pulling harder than the drive train was designed for. In Marietta’s red clay, especially on 1990s cut-and-fill lots, posts heave within a decade. We check post plumb with a level, measure the gate swing free-hand, and fix the geometry before we replace the operator. Otherwise you’re buying the same repair twice.
Every automated gate operator needs 110V power at the motor location and low-voltage conduit for safety devices - photocells, loop detectors, keypads. If your Marietta home was built in the 1990s-2000s, that infrastructure was almost certainly not installed. We trench, sleeve, and backfill the run ourselves, or coordinate with your electrician on new construction. The operator won’t work reliably without it, and surface-run extension cords fail inspection.
Marietta accumulates more ice than Atlanta proper because of its higher elevation in the Cobb County foothills. January and February ice events load the canopy of mature white oaks and tulip poplars; when limbs fall, they bend ornamental iron panels and knock operators out of alignment. We see more physical damage calls from Marietta than from lower-elevation Atlanta neighborhoods after the same storm system.
We install and service LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule - nine brands total, with local parts stock for FAAC, BFT, and Linear. We don’t steer you toward any single brand; we match the operator to your gate weight, cycle frequency, and existing access-control setup. Call (706) 928-9815 and we’ll walk through what fits your specific gate.
Ready to get a written price for your Marietta gate installation? Call (706) 928-9815. A live person will answer, schedule your free site measure, and you’ll have an itemized, fixed quote before any work begins. Under The Haven Standard, that written price is the price you pay - and every job carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise.
Written by Adrian Vance, Owner at Vance Gate Repair, serving Marietta since 2014.