Gate Repair in Tujunga - Same-Day Repair, Priced Before We Start

Fast, Reliable Gate Repair Across Tujunga

Gate repair in Tujunga typically runs $185 to $540 for hinge, post, and realignment work, and $260 to $690 when a control board or motor needs replacing. Most jobs are done in a single visit. If your gate is sagging, grinding, or not responding to the opener, call us at (925) 693-7978 and we’ll give you an exact price before any work begins.

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Our Gate Repair team has spent years working on the specific problems that come with living at the mouth of Big Tujunga Canyon. Older ranch homes, hillside lots, canyon winds, and fire-season ash all take a toll on gate hardware in ways you won’t see down in Burbank or Glendale. We know what to look for before we start turning bolts.

Key takeaways:

• Repairs in Tujunga run $185 to $690 for most hinge, post, realignment, and control board work.
• We respond to Tujunga calls within 24 hours, with emergency service available 24/7.
• Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise, in writing.
• We handle fire-access compliance: Knox-Box, UL 325 safety photocells, and emergency responder entry hardware.
• Upfront pricing: the quote is agreed to before a single bolt is turned.

Why Ironworks Gate Co. Is Tujunga’s Preferred Gate Repair Company

Forty-two years in the gate trade teaches you something: every neighborhood has its own failure patterns. In Tujunga, it’s canyon winds racking swing gate frames, fine ash killing control boards, and 1940s-to-1970s era gates that were hung decades before modern safety standards existed. We’ve seen all of it, and we fix it correctly the first time.

When a homeowner off Foothill Boulevard calls about a gate that won’t close, they’re not just dealing with a mechanical problem. They’re dealing with a security gap on a hillside property where fire access matters, and where a stuck-open gate invites a different set of problems entirely. Victor Salinas, who runs our Tujunga service area, has been repairing and retrofitting gates in this community long enough to quote a repair over the phone and be right about it. That’s the kind of local knowledge you can’t get from a generalist handyman.

We answer the phone live, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No voicemail trees, no callback queues. When a Santa Ana wind event strips a hinge at midnight and your gate is banging against the post, you want a person on the line, not a recorded message. That’s what we provide.

Our Gate Repair Services in Tujunga

Electric Gate Repair

Electric gate repair in Tujunga involves the operator, the control board, the safety sensors, and the wiring that ties them together. On hillside lots off Mount Gleason Avenue and around the Verdugo foothills, we routinely find operators that have been working against gravity since the day they were installed, motors that were never sized for the grade. We test, diagnose, and repair or replace the specific component that failed, whether it’s a Viking control board, a dead capacitor, or a stripped drive gear.

Hinge & Post Repair

Hinge and post repair is the most common call we get from Tujunga homeowners. Canyon-funneled Santa Ana winds load a swing gate far beyond what its original hardware was designed to take. On a hillside lot off Foothill Boulevard, our crew found a 1960s ornamental wrought-iron swing gate pulling its hinge post out of a cracked post footing, the operator’s DoorKing control board dead from fine ash that had infiltrated the enclosure during the last Big Tujunga Canyon fire season. We reset the post in a new concrete footing, reinforced the hinge post with a steel sleeve, and replaced the control board, then added a Knox-Box and UL 325 compliant safety photocells. That’s what the job takes here, and that’s what we do.

Gate Realignment

Gate realignment in Tujunga usually comes down to one of two causes: the frame has been racked by wind, or the post has shifted in its footing. Many Tujunga homes sit on decomposed granite hillside soil that heaves with seasonal rain, and a post that was true in 1965 may be three inches out by now. We straighten the frame, shim or reset the post, and realign the hinges so the gate closes square and latches without slamming.

Lock Repair

Locks on older Tujunga gates, especially the original ornamental wrought-iron and wood swing gates that have never been upgraded, tend to be worn to the point that they’re decorative rather than functional. We repair or replace lock assemblies, install keypad-compatible latching hardware, and make sure the lock works with whatever automation system you have or want to add.

Trusted Brands We Service in Tujunga

We’re trained and equipped on nine gate automation brands, including LiftMaster, FAAC, BFT, Linear, Viking, Ghost Controls, DoorKing, Elite, and Mighty Mule. Around Tujunga, the older installations skew toward DoorKing and Viking, and we keep their common control boards, photo eyes, and limit switches ready to go so most repairs happen in one visit. If you’ve got a Ghost Controls or Elite system, we service those too, with the same upfront pricing and the same 90-Day Done Right Promise on the work.

Common Gate Repair Problems We See in Tujunga Homes

• Canyon-funneled Santa Ana winds rack swing gate frames. Winds channeled through Big Tujunga Canyon hit gates measurably harder than on the Valley floor, stripping hinge screws and enlarging holes until the gate sags past correction. Left alone, this ruins the frame.
• Fine ash from Big Tujunga Canyon fires infiltrates operator motor housings. After active fire seasons, we get a wave of calls where gates have fried control boards, not from the fire itself, but from fine ash working into motor enclosures during weeks of smoky conditions. This failure pattern is essentially unknown in Burbank or Glendale flatlands.
• Pre-UL 325 installations lack safety photocells or edge sensors. Gates hung in the 1950s through the 1970s, before modern safety standards existed, often have no entrapment protection and fail current LA fire-access compliance. We retrofit these systems with UL 325 compliant sensors and emergency responder entry hardware.
• Older ornamental gates on hillside lots have failing posts. Decomposed granite soil heaves with seasonal rain, and posts that were set decades ago may no longer be plumb. Hinge posts crack their footings and pull out under repeated wind load. We reset them in fresh concrete with steel reinforcement sleeves.

Pricing for Gate Repair in Tujunga, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Tujunga

Beyond our regular work in Gate Repair in Tujunga, we serve Burbank, Sun Valley, Glendale, and North Hollywood. If you’re on the edge of Tujunga or just over the line into one of those neighborhoods, call us. We’ll tell you honestly whether your location is in our regular service area.

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