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.

Do I need a permit for this?

Often, and Miami-Dade is inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the wind rating matters too. Permits are issued locally, so we confirm what your authority wants before we start.

The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone — the Florida Building Code's strictest wind-load region. It covers all of Miami-Dade, which is why the hardware spec here is not the spec further north.

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 Gate Fabrication in North Miami, FL

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

Custom fabrication · North Miami, FL

Drawn properly, then shown on your own entrance before a cut is made.

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Custom & Welding · North Miami

06 frames

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

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

Black automatic swing gate standing open across a residential driveway, palms and a low stucco house behind it. — North Dade — The band between the county line and the airport — mid-century driveways, newer builds behind them.

North Miami · Miami-Dade County

Most custom gates begin as something drawn badly on a phone. That is genuinely enough. It gets turned into a real drawing, put on a photograph of your entrance, and changed there — where changes are free.

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

Planned communities repeat — the same frontage width, the same setback, and often the same entry problem several hundred times over.

Wind load first, paperwork second

The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone covers Miami-Dade in full, which is what decides the frame and the fixings long before anyone picks a finish. Approval is a separate, local question: in North Miami it runs through whichever authority has jurisdiction, and where a homeowners' association governs the street its architectural review usually runs alongside it.

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

Worth knowing

On-site welding
Ornamental ironwork
Drawn in-house
Cut and welded here
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.
Do I need a permit for this?: Often, and Miami-Dade is inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the wind rating matters too. Permits are issued locally, so we confirm what your authority wants before we start.
What is the HVHZ?: The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone — the Florida Building Code's strictest wind-load region. It covers all of Miami-Dade, which is why the hardware spec here is not the spec further north.
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.