Can you match a fence that is already there?

Usually. Picket profile, rail height and spacing get measured off the existing run rather than guessed from a photograph.

How deep do the posts go?

Deep enough for the panel height and for the ground it is going into. That is a calculation, not a habit.

Do I need a pedestrian gate in the run?

One somewhere sensible is the thing nobody regrets and plenty of people come back to add later.

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.

Estate & Security Fencing in Miami Beach, FL

Long run of ornamental iron fencing with spear-top pickets beside a planted border

Estate fencing · Miami Beach, FL

Ornamental estate fencing, security runs and matched side returns.

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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.

Miami Beach · Miami-Dade County

A boundary is usually three or four different problems: the frontage anyone sees, the side returns nobody does, and wherever it meets a neighbour. They get treated as one run so the finishes and the heights actually agree.

Aluminum does not rust, which is most of the argument on a boundary this close to the water. Steel takes the ornamental work, but the coating has to be specified for the exposure.

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

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 Miami Beach wants to see on paper is worth confirming before anything is cut.

Fencing — the full breakdown

Fencing · Miami Beach

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Spear-top finials

Black horizontal louvre slats silhouetted against water at sunset — Louvre, backlit

Aluminum picket fence running along a planted boundary — Aluminum picket run

Horizontal slat gate and fence at the side of a modern rendered house — Slat, side return

Ornamental iron fence running behind a clipped hedge under a line of palms — Iron behind hedge

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Ornamental estate
Set to the grade
Matched to the gate
Aluminum or steel
Specified for salt exposure

Can you match a fence that is already there?: Usually. Picket profile, rail height and spacing get measured off the existing run rather than guessed from a photograph.
How deep do the posts go?: Deep enough for the panel height and for the ground it is going into. That is a calculation, not a habit.
Do I need a pedestrian gate in the run?: One somewhere sensible is the thing nobody regrets and plenty of people come back to add later.
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.