Ornamental steel and iron fences and gates that frame a home without hiding it — installed and repaired across Portland, Lake Oswego, West Linn, and surrounding communities.
True wrought iron is hand-worked iron, and you'll still find it around some older Portland homes. Most new wrought iron fences are really ornamental steel: welded steel pickets and rails, finished with a protective coating and often a powder coat. They give the same classic look with strong, even construction.
Rain is iron's main enemy. Wherever the coating is scratched, chipped or worn — often at welds, picket tops and where posts meet the ground — moisture gets in and rust starts. A wrought iron fence lasts a very long time if those spots are caught early, cleaned down to sound metal, primed and repainted.
Repair work covers rusted posts and rails, broken welds, bent pickets, leaning sections and gates that sag or won't latch. Where a post has rusted through at the base, it can often be cut and replaced or sleeved rather than replacing the whole run. For new work, we set posts in concrete shaped so water runs away from the steel.