It still works, but it sounds wrong.

That is a real symptom. Noise generally arrives before failure does, and it is a much smaller job at that stage.

There is no room for a gate to swing.

Then it should not swing. A slide or a cantilever gets the same opening without needing an arc that is not there.

Will it overhang the sidewalk?

It should not, and that is a design constraint rather than a preference — whatever the gate does happens inside the property line.

What does the county require?

Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so wind rating is set by code. The permit itself is local, and an HOA architectural review often runs alongside it.

Gate Repair & Diagnosis in Hollywood, FL

Technician working on an ornate iron gate at a residential entrance

Repair or replace · Hollywood, FL

We diagnose first, then tell you which of the two is worth doing.

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Barrier arm lowered across the entry lane of a gated residential community. — Central Broward — The older inland grid either side of I-95 and the canal network that runs through it.

Hollywood · Broward County

Sometimes it is one part and an hour. Sometimes the frame has gone and a new operator would just be bolted to a losing argument. That call gets made after the diagnosis, out loud, with the reasoning attached.

On a short driveway a gate that stops halfway blocks the sidewalk as well as the car. Getting it moving and secure is usually the first visit's job, with the permanent fix behind it.

Older inland streets mix construction from several decades, so two openings on the same block are not necessarily the same problem.

Ask before the steel is ordered

Broward is inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the wind rating is settled by code rather than by preference. What is not settled by code is the local review — Hollywood handles that itself, and starting it early is the cheapest decision on the whole project.

Gate Repair — the full breakdown

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

Same job, same angle. Nothing staged between the two frames.

Corroded gate operator caked in oil and grime after years of coastal salt exposure — Same-day repairSeized operator, replaced

Clean replacement gate operator installed in the same housing — Same-day repairSeized operator, replaced

Gate Repair · Hollywood

06 frames

Newly laid ground track running along a street where a sliding gate rolls

Track relaid

Chain drive and worn hardware exposed alongside an overgrown sliding gate rail — Chain drive stripped

Open gate operator control box with the board out and test gear laid on the ground — Board out, meter on

Sagging white gate frame swallowed by ivy at a brick garden entrance — Sagged and overgrown

Weathered timber gate with split boards leaning against a chain-link fence — Split and weathered

Rusted-through metal gate panel with peeling paint and a broken bottom rail — Rusted through

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It still works, but it sounds wrong.: That is a real symptom. Noise generally arrives before failure does, and it is a much smaller job at that stage.
There is no room for a gate to swing.: Then it should not swing. A slide or a cantilever gets the same opening without needing an arc that is not there.
Will it overhang the sidewalk?: It should not, and that is a design constraint rather than a preference — whatever the gate does happens inside the property line.
What does the county require?: Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so wind rating is set by code. The permit itself is local, and an HOA architectural review often runs alongside it.