Gate and fence repairin Fresno.

Joaquin Ag Repair handles gate repair and wrought iron repair in Fresno, including sagging gates, broken hinges, bent frames and damaged panels.

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Panels in at $85/hrHung gates need a calloutQuotes from photos

Welder joining a square-tube steel frame outdoors

Gate and fence repairs we take

Sagging driveway gates

Broken hinges and latches

Bent or cracked frames

Wrought iron panels

Fence posts and rails

Gate wheels and stops

Security screens and covers

Custom panels to match

Why gates sag

Most gate problems start at the post or the hinge.

The hinge post moved, because wet winters and a heavy gate walk it out of plumb, and squaring the gate without resetting the post does not hold.
The frame racked, which happens to a gate with no diagonal brace under its own weight.
The hinge ear tore, which a thin ear on a heavy gate will do after enough swings.
Somebody hit it, and bent top rails and torn latch sides come in regularly from packing yards.

Where the work happens

Panels come off, posts do not.

A field gate or a wrought iron panel lifted off its hinges is bench work at $85 an hour. A gate hung on set posts, or a fence line in the ground, needs somebody to drive out on a callout.

Gate repair or replacement

Repair when the frame steel is sound and only the joints, hinges or brace have failed.
Replace when the tube is rusted through along a whole rail, because welding sound metal to rotten metal does not last.
Automatic gates are a split job, where we handle the steel and the opener, the loop and the wiring are the gate company side of it.

Rates

$85/hrPart brought to the shop, by appointment

Quotes and estimates: No charge
Billing after the first hour: By the quarter hour

Part brought to the shopMost work	$85/hr	One hour minimum
Callout, Monday to Saturday, 7am to 9pmBooked ahead	$130/hr	$450 minimum
Callout after 9pm, Sundays and holidaysAfter hours	$195/hr	$550 minimum
Same-day callout, any hourEmergency	$260/hr	$650 minimum

Most of the work here is done at the bench, and a part brought in is billed by the hour from the time the work starts, with a one hour minimum and nothing added for a trip. A callout is the other way around: the minimum covers the drive, the equipment for the day and the first two hours on site, and the clock runs by the quarter hour after that. Several jobs at one address, or several stops on the same run, are billed at the hourly rate without a second minimum. Rates do not stack, so a callout at 10pm is billed at the emergency rate rather than at the emergency and the after-hours rate together. Example jobs and what they came to are on the welding rates page.

Questions we get

Can you fix a sagging driveway gate?

Usually we can square the frame and reinforce the hinge side, and if the post has moved it gets reset first.

Do you repair wrought iron?

We repair wrought iron panels, pickets, rails and posts, matched to what is already there.

Do you paint the repair?

We clean and prime bare steel so that it does not flash rust, and finish coats are yours to match or something we can quote separately.

Do you work on gates attached to a building?

We do that work under $1,000 per job. Joaquin Ag Repair is not a licensed contractor, and that is the limit the state sets for unlicensed work on fixed structures.