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FAAC Welding & Fabrication: The Carrollton Owner’s Guide

If your FAAC gate has a cracked hinge, a broken mounting plate, a torn operator arm bracket, or a failed weld on the gate frame itself, we fix it. Our Carrollton shop fabricates and welds FAAC-compatible steel and aluminum components daily, and most repair welds run between $180 and $450 installed, depending on where the break is and whether the gate needs to come off its hinges. We stock common FAAC bracket patterns and raw stock on our trucks, which means most Carrollton calls are completed the same day we show up.

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Here’s how owners usually find us: the gate starts dragging on the driveway, or it shudders halfway through a cycle, or they hear a pop near the hinge side and the gate suddenly wags like a loose tooth. On FAAC swing systems, the stress points are predictable. The operator arm pushes against a welded bracket, and that bracket is attached to a gate frame that’s been flexing every single cycle. In Carrollton’s clay soil, which shifts seasonally, the concrete piers under gate posts move just enough to change the geometry of the whole assembly, and the welds take the punishment. By the time the gate binds or the opener strains, the metal has usually been failing for a while.

We’re an independent service provider, not affiliated with FAAC. That matters because we’re not obligated to steer you toward a new operator or a new gate. We fix the metal that’s already on your property.

Which FAAC Models This Applies To

We handle welding and fabrication across the FAAC lineup that runs on Carrollton residential and light commercial properties: the 400, 402, 412, 415, 770, S418, S450H, C720, C721, and the older 390 and 750 series that are still out there running. The welding we do falls into two buckets: the gate frame itself (hinges, stiles, bottom rails, cross members) and the automation hard points (operator mounting brackets, arm clevis ends, limit-stop plates, and the short steel posts that hold photo-eyes and keypads).

If you’re identifying a bracket you need matched, look for the molded or stamped FAAC part number on the component itself. Most FAAC operator brackets have a number pressed into the steel on the flat face, typically formatted like 63000421 or similar. The arm attachment points matter more than the marketing series name: a 415 and a 412 often share the same clevis geometry, but the S450H moves to a taller bracket pattern that changes the pivot height. We measure the hole centers, the tube diameter of the arm, and the offset from the gate face before we cut anything. It’s the only way to avoid a repair that makes the opener fight the gate for the next five years.

Signs Your FAAC Welding & Fabrication Is Failing

• Gate squeals or grinds near the hinge side every cycle. A cracked weld lets the gate leaf flex against the hinge pin instead of pivoting cleanly. The noise is metal-on-metal rubbing; by the time you hear it, that crack has usually propagated through half the weld bead.
• The gate leaf droops and drags on the driveway at the latch end. The bottom hinge weld has stretched or the gate frame’s bottom rail has cracked. Droop is geometry, not opinion. If the latch no longer lines up with the receiver, measure the gap at the top hinge versus the bottom hinge; a difference over a quarter inch means something in the frame has moved permanently.
• The opener strains or trips its thermal limiter mid-cycle. When an FAAC arm mounting bracket flexes, the motor has to push through a moving pivot point. The board sees higher amp draw, gets hot, and trips. Replacing the control board won’t fix it; the slop is in the steel.
• Paint flakes off in a straight line along a tube joint. That’s not weather. That’s a hairline crack opening and closing with every cycle, pumping moisture into raw metal. It shows as a dark line or rust streak that follows the weld edge exactly.
• You can move the gate leaf by hand and feel a dead spot of flex before resistance. Grease has masked the feel of good bearings for years. If the gate feels like it shifts a few degrees before the opener arm takes up the load, the welded attach point is loose.

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Replacement Cost & What’s Included

Here’s the Carrollton price picture. A simple crack repair on a mild steel gate frame, ground out and re-welded with the gate still on its hinges, runs $180 to $260. A bracket replacement where we cut out the old FAAC mount, fabricate a new one from plate or box stock, and weld it in with fresh anti-corrosion primer runs $260 to $380. Full fabrication of a new gate leaf or a complete operator post assembly, where we’re cutting and fitting new steel rather than repairing old, runs $450 to $900 depending on the size and whether we’re matching an existing ornamental pattern. Aluminum gates, which need TIG welding and more careful heat control, consistently land at the higher end of these ranges.

Every price is written down and handed to you before we strike an arc. Not an estimate you squint at. A flat number on paper, parts and labor separated, with the part number noted if we’re installing an OEM FAAC component. Some jobs do reveal hidden damage once we grind back a cracked weld and find the rust goes deeper than the surface suggested. We photograph what we find, show it to you, and get your sign-off on any adjustment before we proceed. You never pay more than you agreed to, and you never find out about an upcharge after the fact.

All our welding work is covered by the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the repair isn’t right within a full year, we make it right at no additional charge. No argument, no fee, no expiration date inside that window.

DIY or Call Us?

Welding on a gate is not a weekend job with a borrowed flux-core machine. The honest reality is that a failed weld on a gate frame or operator bracket involves geometry you can’t see: the gate’s weight distribution, the opener’s thrust angle, and material fatigue around the original failure. A bad weld looks fine for a month, then fails catastrophically mid-cycle, usually while a car or a kid is in the path. For a gate that weighs 250 to 800 pounds, a poor repair is a liability, not a cost saving.

What you can safely do: photograph the cracked or broken area, measure the gate leaf, and note the FAAC model number from the operator’s label. That record helps us bring the right stock on the first visit. But the welding itself, and especially the removal of any spring-loaded or counterweighted components around FAAC swing arms, belongs with a trained professional. Call us at (817) 778-4585 and we’ll give you a straight answer on what you’re looking at before we ever load a truck.

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