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

In the shop · Jupiter Inlet Colony, FL

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

Ornamental iron gate lit from below at night, palms above it against a dark sky.
On the waterBarrier-island and inlet addresses, most of them with a town or association design guideline of their own.

Jupiter Inlet Colony · Palm Beach 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.

Ornamental work this close to the water is a materials conversation first. What gets drawn has to survive the exposure, which rules some sections and some finishes out before the design starts.

Spray carries further inland than people expect, which is why a finish specified here is not the one specified well away from the water.

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 Jupiter Inlet Colony 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 · Jupiter Inlet Colony

06 frames
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
Gilded heraldic crest mounted on an ornamental iron gate
Crest, gilded

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
Fabricator welding the finished panel in place on site
Concept · sample
FabricationBare steel to welded panel

No sales script

  • Ornamental ironwork
  • Drawn in-house
  • Cut and welded here
  • On-site welding
  • Specified for salt exposure
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.
Can you match something that already exists?
Yes — an existing panel, a neighbouring property's detail, or a piece of the house itself.

Next step

On-site consult in Jupiter Inlet Colony. You see the gate on your own entrance before you commit to anything.

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