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FAAC Welding & Fabrication: The West Palm Beach Owner’s Guide

FAAC gate welding and fabrication repair in West Palm Beach typically runs between $240 and $680 installed, depending on whether we’re repairing a cracked hinge bracket in place or fabricating and installing a new steel mounting post. We complete most FAAC weld repairs in a single visit, and we stock the common bracket assemblies and raw steel profiles on the truck. Most owners discover the failure the same way: the gate starts sagging at the hinge, drags against the ground, or the FAAC operator begins laboring because the geometry underneath it has shifted.

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The welding on a FAAC gate system is not decorative. It carries the entire load of the leaf: hinge barrels, post plates, operator mounting brackets, and the receiver posts that hold the lock. When one of those welds cracks in South Florida’s salt air and heat cycles, the gate’s movement changes enough that the motor starts working against friction it was never set up for. Adrian Vance has documented this pattern for years: the motor is rarely the first thing to fail. The steel around it usually goes first.

Which FAAC Models This Applies To

We weld and fabricate for the full FAAC residential and light-commercial range we see across West Palm Beach: the 400 Series operators (412, 422, 391), the 750 and 770 swing operators, the 844 and 884 slide operator families, and the C720/C721 hydraulic units that show up on older estate properties. The fabrication work is platform-specific because the mounting plates and bolt patterns differ between series. A 400 Series swing bracket does not interchange with a 750 bracket, even though both are FAAC swing arms.

How you identify the right part: look at the operator cover for the model plate, then measure the bolt centers on the existing bracket. The hole spacing tells us more than the model number does, especially on gates that were retrofitted years ago. For FAAC specifically, we recommend OEM mounting plates and hinge-reinforcement brackets when the operator attaches to them directly, because the hole alignment is machined to factory spec. For non-load-bearing fabrication like post caps, decorative strap plates, or corrosion repairs to the gate frame itself, we fabricate in-house from 11-gauge steel or schedule 40 pipe, cut and welded to match the original profile. A quality local fabrication usually beats an OEM replacement part on cost by 20 to 40 percent with no functional difference.

Signs Your FAAC Welding & Fabrication Is Failing

• The gate sags at the latch side and scrapes the driveway. The upper hinge weld has stretched or cracked. The leaf is now hanging on one point instead of two, and every open/close cycle is grinding the misalignment deeper.
• Faint popping or creaking from the hinge area while the gate moves. A weld that is failing under load makes noise before it lets go. The sound is steel flexing in a space that should be rigid.
• The FAAC operator pushes but the gate hesitates or stutters mid-travel. The motor is hitting resistance from a shifted bracket. The mount has moved a few millimeters, and the leverage is now wrong.
• Visible rust streaks or hairline cracks at welded joints. Salt air corrosion in West Palm Beach eats weld points first because the heat-affected zone around a weld is more electrically active than the surrounding steel. A crack today is a dropped gate within months.
• The gate post has started leaning toward the street. The post base weld or its gusset plates have lost integrity. This is the most serious failure because a falling post takes the operator, the gate, and part of the column with it.

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Replacement Cost & What’s Included

Here is what we charge in West Palm Beach for typical FAAC welding and fabrication work, written out the way we would hand it to you before any work starts:

• Weld repair at a hinge or bracket, no disassembly: $240 to $360. Includes grinding back to clean steel, re-welding, and a rust-inhibiting cold-galv coating.
• Fabricate and install a new operator mounting plate: $310 to $450. Includes cutting a new plate to the original bolt pattern, welding it in place, and re-mounting the FAAC operator.
• Re-set a leaning gate post with new gusset plates: $480 to $680. Includes post straightening, fabricated reinforcement, and concrete anchoring.
• Custom fabrication outside standard profiles: Quoted per job after measurement, always in writing, always before work begins.

Every price we hand over in West Palm Beach is a flat number: parts, labor, and the visit are already in it. No hourly billing, no surprise line items at the end. The work carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the weld fails or the bracket shifts inside a year, we come back and fix it at no charge. You get a photo record of the weld before and after, plus the part number and material spec written on your service record. That is Haven Standard Clause 1 and Clause 4, and we do not skip either one.

DIY or Call Us?

Here is the honest split. What you can safely check: run the gate open and watch the hinges. Look for the crack, the rust streak, or the leaning post. Measure whether the gap between gate edge and post changes from top to bottom. That inspection is useful, and you should do it before you call us so we both know what we are talking about.

What you should not do is attempt the weld yourself. A gate leaf weighs hundreds of pounds, and the springs or counterbalance on a FAAC system are under enough tension to remove fingers. If a bracket lets go mid-repair, the gate falls with nothing but gravity and momentum against whoever is underneath it. Even setting the FAAC operator back onto a plate that is off by three degrees will burn out the motor in months. We have corrected enough DIY and handyman welds in West Palm Beach to say plainly: this is one job where the labor cost is cheaper than the hospital bill. Call us at (561) 725-8048 and we will have a technician out to measure, photograph, and price it before any cutting starts.

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