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.

Does the finish need redoing eventually?

Coatings on the water have a working life. Knowing that at the start is better than discovering it, and it is part of what the material choice trades off.

Custom Gate Fabrication in Ocean Ridge, FL

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

Custom fabrication · Ocean Ridge, FL

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

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Custom & Welding · Ocean Ridge

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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

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

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

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

Ocean Ridge · Palm Beach 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.

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.

Everything within a few blocks of open water runs on the same clock: salt reaches fixings, hinges and enclosures whether or not the house faces the ocean.

The coastal towns add a layer

Palm Beach County sits outside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the product approvals differ from the two counties to the south. On top of that, several towns and associations in this county run design guidelines of their own — so what Ocean Ridge expects is worth reading before a finish is chosen, not after.

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

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

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.
Does the finish need redoing eventually?: Coatings on the water have a working life. Knowing that at the start is better than discovering it, and it is part of what the material choice trades off.