Can you work from a photograph?

Yes. A photograph of the detail you want matched is usually more useful than a description of it.

Does custom mean a different scale of job?

Not necessarily. Where the opening is an odd width or the pier is not square, a made piece is often the only thing that fits at all.

Can ornamental ironwork be repaired?

Frequently — that is welding and dressing rather than replacement, and it happens on site where the piece is already fixed.

Will it survive this close to the water?

Salt is the design brief on the coast, so material, fixings and finish are chosen for the exposure rather than for the photograph.

On-Site Welding & Structural Repair in Key Biscayne, FL

Fabricator welding an aluminum picket fence panel in place on site

On-site welding · Key Biscayne, FL

Posts, frames, hinges and rails repaired in place rather than carted away.

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Waterfront estate seen from the water, its lawn lined with tall palms above a seawall. — The barrier islands — Ocean on one side, the bay on the other, and nothing in between to break the salt.

Key Biscayne · Miami-Dade County

Not everything needs to become a new gate. A cracked hinge boss, a post that has moved, a rail that has torn away from its stile — those are structural repairs, and they happen on site with the gate still hanging.

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.

Waterfront and inlet addresses frequently sit under a town or association design guideline of their own, on top of whatever the county requires.

Inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone

Miami-Dade sits inside the Florida Building Code's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the strictest wind-load regime in the state, so the rating on posts, panels and hardware is not a nice-to-have here. Permits on top of that are issued locally — by the municipality or by the county — so what Key Biscayne wants to see on paper is worth confirming before anything is cut.

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 · Key Biscayne

05 frames

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

The arc

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

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

Before you call

Drawn in-house
Cut and welded here
On-site welding
Ornamental ironwork
Specified for salt exposure

Can you work from a photograph?: Yes. A photograph of the detail you want matched is usually more useful than a description of it.
Does custom mean a different scale of job?: Not necessarily. Where the opening is an odd width or the pier is not square, a made piece is often the only thing that fits at all.
Can ornamental ironwork be repaired?: Frequently — that is welding and dressing rather than replacement, and it happens on site where the piece is already fixed.
Will it survive this close to the water?: Salt is the design brief on the coast, so material, fixings and finish are chosen for the exposure rather than for the photograph.