Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros provides professional welding & gate fabrication in Fort Lauderdale, FL for residential and commercial properties across Broward County. Welding for the water is a different craft from welding for a dry climate, because a weld is a metallurgical discontinuity and salt attacks discontinuities first. Most of what we do in the shop is aimed at leaving as few of those as possible.
On stainless, the heat of welding can precipitate carbides at the grain boundaries next to the bead and leave a narrow zone that corrodes preferentially. The mitigations are ordinary and mandatory: low carbon filler and base metal, controlled heat input, and pickling and passivating the weld afterwards so the protective oxide layer reforms. A stainless weld left with its heat tint on is a rust line waiting for a wet season.
On aluminum, the heat affected zone loses temper, so a weld is a soft band across a member that was extruded strong. We design around it. Welds go where load is low, corners get internal gussets or mechanical fastening, and long spans avoid a continuous welded seam in the middle of the bending moment. Filler goes in at 5356 where strength matters more than crack sensitivity.
On galvanized steel, any weld or cut destroys the zinc for an inch either side. That has to be restored, properly, with a zinc rich repair applied to clean metal, not painted over with whatever color matches. Skipping it is the single most common shortcut we find on gates that arrived rusting at the joints within two years. The repair coating has to carry enough zinc in the dry film to keep working sacrificially.
Joining aluminum to steel is its own problem here, and we solve it by not welding it. There is no sound weld between the two, so the joint is bolted with an insulating gasket between the faces, isolation bushings in the holes and stainless hardware through them. Where a steel post has to carry an aluminum leaf, the hinge plate gets that treatment, because a bare joint between those metals fails in a couple of years.
All of which is an argument for shop work. We fabricate, finish and dry fit before anything leaves, because a shop can blast, pretreat and coat in a controlled sequence and a driveway cannot. Field welding on a finished gate means grinding through the coating system you just paid for. Rebuilding a coating with a brush in this humidity is not the same product, however carefully it is done.
Repairs are the exception and we do plenty of them. When a gate has been struck or a rail has rotted through, we cut back to sound metal, splice in matched section, and treat the repair area as its own small finish job rather than as a touch up. Straightening a bent member is nearly always false economy, because worked metal fails again at the same point.
With 15+ years of experience, our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — wrought iron and ornamental steel fabrication, marine-grade powder-coated aluminum, cantilever and roller slide gates, LiftMaster, DoorKing and FAAC operators, Class I-IV operator classifications, UL 325 entrapment protection — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Fort Lauderdale and nearby communities including Pompano Beach, Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
What We Handle
Everything our welding & gate fabrication in Fort Lauderdale covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of welding & gate fabrication work in Fort Lauderdale, FL. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- gate welding Fort Lauderdale
- custom metal fabrication
- mobile welding services
- gate frame repair
- aluminum and stainless welding
- on-site gate welding
- handrail and railing fabrication
- gate post replacement
- dock and seawall metalwork
- structural steel repair
- gate hinge welding
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Fort Lauderdale services.
Materials, equipment and how we do welding & gate fabrication
The difference between welding & gate fabrication that lasts and welding & gate fabrication that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with wrought iron and ornamental steel fabrication, marine-grade powder-coated aluminum, cantilever and roller slide gates, LiftMaster, DoorKing and FAAC operators, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Fort Lauderdale job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of gate work in Broward County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do welding & gate fabrication outside Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros covers Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding communities of Broward County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Welding & Gate Fabrication in Pompano Beach, FL — Broward County, incorporated as the Town of Pompano on July 3, 1908, population 112,046 at the 2020 census
- Welding & Gate Fabrication in Oakland Park, FL — Broward County, incorporated as Floranada on November 25, 1925, population 44,229 at the 2020 census
- Welding & Gate Fabrication in Wilton Manors, FL — Broward County, incorporated as a village on May 13, 1947, population 11,426 at the 2020 census
- Welding & Gate Fabrication in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL — Broward County, incorporated November 30, 1927, population 6,198 at the 2020 census
- Welding & Gate Fabrication in Lighthouse Point, FL — Broward County, incorporated as a town on June 13, 1956, population 10,486 at the 2020 census
- Welding & Gate Fabrication in Deerfield Beach, FL — Broward County, incorporated as a town on May 12, 1939, population 86,859 at the 2020 census
Start on the Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 938-4596 and describe the job.
Why Fort Lauderdale Chooses Fort Lauderdale Gate Pros
- ✓Over 15 years installing and automating gates across Broward County
- ✓In-house metal shop — we weld and powder coat our own gates rather than drop-shipping them
- ✓Marine-grade aluminum and hot-dip galvanized steel specified for coastal salt air
- ✓Waterfront, canal-front and marina-community gate work is a specialty, not a sideline
The standards behind welding & gate fabrication
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The welding & gate fabrication work we do in Fort Lauderdale follows published industry standards: DASMA is the standards body for door and access systems, and UL Solutions publishes UL 325, the safety standard for automatic gate operators. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every welding & gate fabrication project in Fort Lauderdale gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 938-4596 for a free welding & gate fabrication free estimate in Fort Lauderdale, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.