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Ghost Controls Welding & Fabrication: The Boca Raton Owner’s Guide

Ghost Controls welding and fabrication work in Boca Raton typically runs $215-$485 installed, depending on whether we’re repairing a cracked gate bracket, rebuilding a hinge post, or fabricating a custom mounting plate for an older swing-arm setup. We stock Ghost Controls-compatible brackets, post mounts, and arm hardware on the truck, and most bracket or mounting repairs are finished the same day we arrive. The failure usually announces itself as a gate that sags, groans, or stops mid-travel – less often as a visible crack, and more often as a gate that suddenly won’t close flush against the stop.

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What most Boca Raton homeowners discover is that the motor is fine and the geometry underneath it is not. Salt air near the Intracoastal and the seasonal humidity cycles mean a steel bracket that looked fine in March can be structurally done by September. We see it most on gates facing east, where morning moisture sits on the hardware before the sun burns it off.

Which Ghost Controls Models This Applies To

This covers the full Ghost Controls residential line – the TSS1 and TDS1 single and dual swing gate openers, the AXP1 solar-compatible kits, and the older GTR-series retrofits that show up on homes from the 2010s. The welding and fabrication need usually isn’t the opener itself. It’s the hardware around it: the horizontal mounting brackets that bolt to the gate frame, the post-side pivot plates, or the steel reinforcement inside a gate leaf that’s finally given up.

Here’s a compatibility gotcha that matters: Ghost Controls ships mounting hardware sized for gate tubing between 1-1/2 and 2 inches square or round. If your gate was built with thinner aluminum or an odd profile, the factory bracket won’t clamp right even when the bolts draw tight. That’s when we fabricate a shim plate or a custom saddle so the arm has a true pivot point instead of a wobble. OEM Ghost Controls brackets are fine parts. The aftermarket equivalents we’ve tested in the field vary widely – some are stamped from steel a full gauge thinner than the factory part, which is a bad trade in Boca Raton where the salt air rewards every shortcut. we stock OEM Ghost Controls hardware plus our own shop-fabricated plates cut from 3/16-inch steel when the factory part isn’t the right tool for the gate in front of us.

We’re an independent shop – not affiliated with Ghost Controls – which means we can also swap in properly matched hardware from LiftMaster, Mighty Mule, or DoorKing when that’s what’s already on the property. One company, written price, no brand steering.

Signs Your Ghost Controls Welding & Fabrication Is Failing

• The gate sags toward the latch side when it’s open. This is usually a cracked weld on the hinge-side post bracket or a gate leaf that’s racking out of square. The motor keeps working harder to compensate until the limit switch reads the wrong position and the gate stops a foot short.
• You hear a metallic creak or pop at the start of each travel cycle. That’s steel shifting against steel – a bolt that’s ovalized its hole or a bracket flexing under load. Over months in Florida humidity, that movement widens the hole until the bolt can’t hold torque.
• The gate stutters or reverses partway through its travel. The Ghost Controls controller interprets the added resistance as an obstruction. The motor isn’t failing; it’s fighting a hinge that’s no longer square to the post.
• Visible rust staining runs down from the bracket or post base. By the time the stain shows, the material behind the paint is already compromised. On gates near the water in Boca Raton, we replace rather than sandblast – the metal thickness won’t come back.
• The gate’s closed position drifts over a few weeks. The limit setting isn’t changing; the gates’ frame is twisting as a failing weld lets one corner settle. You can reprogram the limits, but you’ll reprogram them again next month unless the steel gets fixed.

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Replacement Cost & What’s Included

For Boca Raton Ghost Controls owners, here’s what we quote before the first tool comes off the truck:

• Bracket replacement (single gate): $215-$340 – includes OEM or shop-fabricated bracket, hardware, and alignment of the arm geometry.
• Bracket replacement (dual gate, both leaves): $385-$485 – both hinge-side brackets, all pivot hardware, and a full travel-cycle calibration afterward.
• Custom fabrication (shim plate, saddle, or post reinforcement): $280-$450 – priced based on material thickness and whether we’re on-site fabricating or pre-cutting in the shop; this includes the written sketch of what we’re building and the dimensions we cut to.
• Weld repair on a gate leaf, hinge, or post cap: $180-$320 – we grind back to clean metal, weld, and coat with a rust-inhibiting primer matched to the gate’s existing finish where practical.

Every quote is written and handed to you before we start – that’s Haven Standard Clause 1, and it applies every time, no exceptions. The price covers the part, the labor, the hardware, and the calibration. What it also covers is the documentation: before we leave, you get a photographed record of what was cracked, what we replaced, the part number that went on, and the new limit positions we set. No future tech has to guess what’s behind the last repair. And under the 365-Day Done Right Promise, if the weld or the bracket fails within a year of our work, we come back and make it right at no charge.

DIY or Call Us?

There’s a middle ground here, and it’s worth being plain about it. If you want to know whether a bracket is cracked before calling anyone, shut the gate’s circuit breaker off first, then grab the gate midway up the stile and push laterally, away from the hinge, with maybe ten pounds of force. Watch the hinge bracket. If the metal flexes with the load or you can see daylight through the bolt hole, that’s your answer. What you shouldn’t do is a repair that involves cutting, grinding, or any welding near the mounting points while the opener has power to it. The Ghost Controls controller stores enough energy to throw the arm unexpectedly when a wire gets nicked, and welding current through an attached board is a fast way to turn a $300 bracket job into a $900 controller replacement. We’d rather have you call (754) 666-7602 and have us put eyes on it, give you the number on paper, and let you decide from there.

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