Brammock Iron Co. · Welding & fabrication · Osterhault, the Coal Kiln road
THE CARD IS THE QUOTE. THE WELD IS THE PROOF.
No showroom, no consult fee, no quote-by-silhouette — a fabrication shop on the Coal Kiln road that publishes what things cost and lets the beads argue the rest. TIG where you will look, MIG where you will lean, and the numbers below updated every quarter.
Rates updated this quarter · 1,900 jobs out of Osterhault · zero deposits before a signed drawing
Services & rates
The card
The whole card, homeowner and contractor the same number. One caveat printed in the shop window: anything within sight of road salt or the river leaves hot-dip galvanized under its powder, and the kettle adds what the kettle adds — it is on the quote before you sign it.
Railings — fabricated & installed$92–138 / linear ft
Load-calculated past the 200-lb code push, tested on our floor
Gates — driveway & pedestrianfrom $1,850
Drawn per opening, wind-load checked, conduit framed in
Stair stringers — plasma-cut pairsfrom $235 / stringer
Drilled, notched, load-rated for the run
Aluminium TIG — rails, brackets, trailers$110 / hr
AC balance set, 4043 filler, the joint a general shop declines
Mobile welding & repair$95 / hr
The rig covers Osterhault same-week
Powder-coat, any card colour$26 / linear ft
Blasted, zinc-primed, baked at 200°C
Osterhault, 2025 — 2026
Jobs, unstyled
Six off the floor this year, photographed the hour they left. Galvanized-and-powdered unless the caption says otherwise — sparks are how the work happens, not how it ships.
The floor, in figures
How it goes
Phone call to powder, in order
The call
Feet, photographs, and what it fixes to — enough for a card-rate estimate on the phone, and a drawn fixed price within two business days.
The drawing
A dimensioned sketch with the load rating on its face and the finish named — kettle, powder or primer. You sign the drawing, not just the number.
The floor
Plasma-cut parts, frames squared on the bench, MIG in the joints that carry and TIG on the joints people read. Certified hands, logged welds.
The coat and the hang
Blasted, primed, baked at 200°C in the colour you picked — then installed, torque-checked and push-tested by the crew that cut it.
Fair questions
The counter questions
The five the counter hears before eight most mornings. The shop line at the bottom runs six to six, and whoever answers is standing beside whoever welds.
What amps do you run — and why do I care?
Because the number is the difference between a weld and a scar. Thin 16-gauge sheet gets TIG at 60 amps or it blows through; 1/8-inch structural takes 105–120 with a 3/32 lanthanated tungsten; the deep laps inside a gate frame go MIG at 24 volts. If a shop cannot tell you its settings, it cannot tell you its welds either.
Why does salt air change the quote?
Because zinc-rich primer is paint — seventy-five microns that hosts zinc and holds for years somewhere dry. Near road salt or the river we hot-dip galvanize: eighty-five to a hundred microns of zinc fused to the steel, then powder over it. The kettle costs more than the sprayer, and replacing a gate costs more than both.
Are the railing loads actually calculated?
Yes — 200 pounds concentrated at any point and direction on the top rail, fifty pounds per linear foot along it, and the calculation sheet goes in your folder with the weld log. The municipal assessor stopped phoning us back in 2019.
Can you match my 1930s gate?
Photograph the picket profile dead-on and send one caliper reading if you can. The plasma table cuts a matching picket from the photograph, and we age the finish so the new leaf sits beside the old one instead of embarrassing it.
How fast, honestly?
Repairs: inside the week, the rig covers all of Osterhault. Rails and gates: two to four weeks, and the powder queue decides which — we name the week at the quote, not after you chase it. Small bracket work sometimes ships in days; the plasma table likes small batches.
The card said ninety-two a foot. The folder said the load maths. The invoice said ninety-two a foot. I have hired three fabricators in this town and this is the first one where all three documents agreed.
They TIG’d the aluminium trailer frame another shop called unfixable — you could see the machine was set up for it, not just pointed at it. Three seasons of salt and the beads still read like type.
Wind-load check on a four-metre leaf, in writing, before I paid a cent. The gate closes in a gale with one finger, which is more than the house it hangs on can say.
A weld you can read and a card you can trust. That is the entire business plan.
The counter opens six to six, Saturday to noon · (555) 014-2861 · card@brammockiron.example
Read us the tape measure
Feet, material and the town you are in — enough for the card rate, and a drawn fixed price within two business days. Photos with a boot in frame are welcome. card@brammockiron.example