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.

Custom Ironwork & Gate Matching in Surfside, FL

Angle grinder throwing a fan of sparks off a steel edge

Matching what exists · Surfside, FL

An existing panel, a neighbouring run, or a detail off the house itself.

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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.

Surfside · Miami-Dade County

Half of custom work is not inventing anything. It is reproducing a picket profile, a scroll or a cap that already exists on the property so the new piece does not announce itself as new.

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.

Wind exposure on the water is not only a number in a code table — it is what actually loads a gate leaf, every afternoon.

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 Surfside 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 · Surfside

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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

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

Straight answers

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.