How Everest Gate Repair Service Dallas Fort Worth Was Born in Fort Worth
It was a Tuesday afternoon in 2013, and Dennis Price was standing in a driveway off McCart Avenue in Fort Worth, watching a elderly woman write a check for $847 to a gate company that had just spent twenty minutes swapping a $45 limit switch and telling her she needed a “complete control board replacement.” The gate worked fine when they arrived. It worked fine when they left. But she’d been scared into thinking her whole system was failing, and she’d paid for parts she didn’t need.
Dennis wasn’t even supposed to be there. He was doing a favor for a neighbor, checking why the gate was sticking. He found the real problem in three minutes: a bent track bracket from where the lawn service had backed into it. Cost to fix: nothing, just his time. The woman cried. Not from relief — from anger at what she’d almost paid.
That night, Dennis told his wife, “I’m starting my own company, and we’re never going to do that to anyone.” He called it Everest because the job felt like climbing one — hard, honest work with a clear view from the top. Eleven years later, that promise still stands. Every quote we give in Fort Worth is the price you’ll pay. No phantom parts. No manufactured urgency. Just the truth, and a gate that works.
Dennis Price’s Personal Connection to the Gate Repair Trade
Dennis didn’t grow up dreaming about gate openers. He grew up in his grandfather’s machine shop in East Texas, where the air always smelled of cutting oil and the concrete floor was dark with fifty years of grease that never quite washed out. His grandfather fixed everything — tractors, pumps, the neighbor’s washing machine. “Machines are honest,” he’d say. “They break for a reason. Your job is to find the reason, not just make the noise stop.”
Dennis was twenty-two when he first touched a gate operator. It was a broken Mighty Mule on a ranch outside Weatherford, given to him by a friend who’d already called two companies who both quoted replacement at $1,200. Dennis spent four hours with that operator. Took it apart on a tailgate in hundred-degree heat. Traced the circuit board with a multimeter his grandfather had given him. Found a failed capacitor that cost $7 at an electronics supply store in Fort Worth. When that gate rolled open smooth and quiet, something clicked in him — the same feeling he’d had as a boy when his grandfather would run a rebuilt engine for the first time.
That was 2013. Since then, Dennis has crawled under gates in flash floods in the Berkeley Place neighborhood, replaced actuators in hundred-degree attics in Mistletoe Heights, and driven through ice storms to free a family trapped in their driveway in Tanglewood. He’s seen every brand fail in every possible way — Ghost Controls boards fried by Texas lightning, DoorKing loops crushed by foundation shifts, Elite operators that outlasted three houses. The work isn’t glamorous. Your knees hurt. Your hands never fully clean. But there’s a moment, every time, when a gate that was broken moves again, and the homeowner’s shoulders drop, and they realize they don’t have to worry about this anymore. That’s why Dennis gets up at 5:30 AM. That’s what he’d miss if he did anything else. He says he’d probably be fixing old motorcycles in a garage somewhere, talking to himself — but he’d be lying if he said it would feel the same.
Meet Dennis Price — The Person Behind Every Job
Dennis Price is the Owner & Lead Technician at Everest Gate Repair Service Dallas Fort Worth. For eleven years, he’s been the person who answers your call, drives to your home, kneels in your driveway, and stands behind the work. He’s state-licensed, insured & bonded, and factory-trained on major brands including Ghost Controls, DoorKing, and Elite operators. But what separates Dennis from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he’s the one who started the company, and he’s the one who still shows up when the job is hard.
Dennis lives in Fort Worth with his wife and two dogs. He’s the guy who still carries a notepad in his truck because he doesn’t trust phone notes, who will spend twenty minutes explaining exactly what failed on your gate and why, even if you’d rather just have him leave. On weekends, you’ll find him at the Fort Worth Farmers Market or working on a 1974 Honda CB750 that he’s been “almost finished” with for four years. His personal commitment to every customer is straightforward: “I’ll fix your gate like it’s my mother’s gate. Anything less, and I shouldn’t be in your driveway.”
Our Promise to Fort Worth Homeowners
Honest pricing, always. We don’t quote low to get in the door and find “additional problems.” In 2019, a homeowner in Arlington called us after another company quoted $2,100 for a “complete system failure.” Dennis found a disconnected safety sensor wire. The repair took twelve minutes. We charged our standard service call. That homeowner still calls us for every issue, and still tells the story.
Quality parts that last. We use OEM components from brands we trust — DoorKing, Elite, Ghost Controls — never cheap aftermarket boards that fail in eighteen months. We keep a running log of every part we install, and if it fails within our warranty period, we replace it at no charge, including labor. No arguments. No paperwork battles.
We stand behind every job. If your gate isn’t working right after we leave, we come back. Period. A family in University Park called us at 8 PM on a Saturday because their gate was reversing — a sensitivity issue we’d missed. Dennis drove back, adjusted the limits, and refused additional payment. “That’s on me,” he said. That’s our policy: if we touched it, we own it.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed gate repair contractor — meets all Texas requirements for automated gate system work
- Insured & bonded — full liability and workers compensation coverage for your protection
- 11+ years in business serving Fort Worth and surrounding communities
- 707 verified reviews averaging 4.8 out of 5 stars
These aren’t just checkboxes. When you hire someone to work on an automated gate — a machine that can exert hundreds of pounds of force, that your children walk past every day — licensing means they’ve been vetted by the state for competency. Insurance means if something goes wrong on your property, you’re not paying for it. Bonding means your deposit is protected. And 707 reviews averaging 4.8 stars means hundreds of your Fort Worth neighbors have already trusted us in their homes, and we’ve earned that trust repeatedly. Dennis doesn’t ask for reviews; most of them come from people who remember to leave one weeks later, when their gate is still working perfectly.
Rooted in Fort Worth
We’ve repaired gates in the historic homes of Mistletoe Heights, the new builds of Walsh Ranch, and the ranch properties outside city limits where the nearest neighbor is a mile away. Dennis has grabbed breakfast at the Ol’ South Pancake House on University after dawn emergency calls, and he’s waved to customers at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. We don’t just work here — we know how the black gumbo clay shifts foundations and misaligns gate posts, how the hailstorms in March dent aluminum slats, how the summer heat cooks control boards in direct sun. When you call Everest Gate Repair Service Dallas Fort Worth, you’re not getting a national dispatch center. You’re getting a Fort Worth technician who understands that your gate isn’t just an entrance — it’s the thing that keeps your family safe at night.
Written by Dennis Price, Owner at Everest Gate Repair Service Dallas Fort Worth, serving Fort Worth since 2013.