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.

Is Broward the same as Miami-Dade?

For wind load, yes — both counties are inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. For permitting, no: that is administered locally and it is not identical from city to city.

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.

Can you match something that already exists?

Yes — an existing panel, a neighbouring property's detail, or a piece of the house itself.

Custom Fabrication & Welding in Hollywood, FL

Torch cutting through steel box section on a bench with sparks pouring off

In the shop · Hollywood, FL

Designed, cut, welded and finished in-house, then hung by the people who built it.

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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

Cut list, jig, weld, dress, finish, hang. Keeping all six steps in one place is why a one-off is possible at all — nothing has to be ordered to a standard size, and the people who fabricated it are the people who hang it.

Tight urban openings are exactly where a gate gets made rather than bought — an odd width, an awkward pier, a wall that is not square to the road.

On a short frontage the gate, the operator and the access hardware are all competing for the same few feet.

One code, many counters

The wind-load requirement in Hollywood is the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone standard that governs the whole of Broward. The review that sits on top of it is local, and in a county this dense with planned communities an association's architectural approval is frequently the longer of the two.

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Custom & Welding · Hollywood

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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

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

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

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Ornamental ironwork
Drawn in-house
Cut and welded here
On-site welding
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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.
Is Broward the same as Miami-Dade?: For wind load, yes — both counties are inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. For permitting, no: that is administered locally and it is not identical from city to city.
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.
Can you match something that already exists?: Yes — an existing panel, a neighbouring property's detail, or a piece of the house itself.

Same county

The towns marked Central Broward share the same geography as Hollywood.