Who is responsible for the entry?

Usually the association rather than any one resident, which changes who we talk to and who signs the work off.

Is the paperwork the same as Miami?

No. Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so it is a different product-approval set, and permitting is administered locally on top of that.

Why is the spec different up here?

Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone that governs Miami-Dade and Broward, so the approval route the counties south of it use is the wrong one.

I have a sketch, not a drawing.

A sketch is enough to start. We draw it properly and show you the gate on your entrance.

Custom Ironwork & Gate Matching in Boca Raton, FL

Welder in a hood laying a bead on steel with sparks flying across the bench

Matching what exists · Boca Raton, FL

An existing panel, a neighbouring run, or a detail off the house itself.

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Black double swing gate open onto a paver driveway lined with clipped hedging. — The south county cities — The densest run of gated communities anywhere in the three counties.

Boca Raton · Palm Beach County

Half of custom work is not inventing anything. It is reproducing a picket profile, a scroll or a cap that already exists on the property so the new piece does not announce itself as new.

Matching something that already exists is most of the work — an existing panel, a neighbouring run, or a detail lifted off the house itself.

A shared entrance belongs to everybody, which makes downtime a governance problem as much as a mechanical one.

Different county, different approval route

Because Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the approvals a Miami-Dade contractor quotes from memory are the wrong ones here. What Boca Raton actually requires is set locally, and where a town or an association runs its own design guidelines those shape the finish as much as the code shapes the frame.

Custom & Welding — the full breakdown

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

Drag the divider to see the change. Where a frame is marked Concept it illustrates the starting point rather than photographs it.

Illustration of bare cut steel sections clamped on the bench before welding — FabricationBare steel to welded panel

Fabricator welding the finished panel in place on site — FabricationBare steel to welded panel

Custom & Welding · Boca Raton

07 frames

Gilded heraldic crest mounted on an ornamental iron gate

Crest, gilded

Tall ornate iron gate with scrollwork between stone pillars and lanterns — Scrollwork and lanterns

Torch cutting through steel box section on a bench with sparks pouring off — Cutting the sections

Angle grinder throwing a fan of sparks off a steel edge — Dressing the edge

Welding arc flaring as a bead is laid on a steel frame in a dark shop — The arc

Fabricator welding an aluminum picket fence panel in place on site — Welded on site

Sparks falling in front of a metal fence panel being worked on — Sparks off the panel

Straight answers

Drawn in-house
Cut and welded here
On-site welding
Ornamental ironwork
Shared-entry duty cycle

Who is responsible for the entry?: Usually the association rather than any one resident, which changes who we talk to and who signs the work off.
Is the paperwork the same as Miami?: No. Palm Beach is outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so it is a different product-approval set, and permitting is administered locally on top of that.
Why is the spec different up here?: Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone that governs Miami-Dade and Broward, so the approval route the counties south of it use is the wrong one.
I have a sketch, not a drawing.: A sketch is enough to start. We draw it properly and show you the gate on your entrance.