Structural welding & fabrication · Wrenfield, the Iron Reach · Est. 1998
Certified to hold. Finished to be looked at.
Wrenfield welds structural steel, guards and gates for the Reach’s builders and homeowners — every structural joint laid to AWS D1.1 by certified hands, every guard built past its 200-pound test before it ships, and every finish chosen for the life the piece will actually lead.
AWS D1.1 certified procedures · 27 years without a failed inspection · the load test documented on every drawing
Services
The numbered card
01
Structural steel — $115 / hr + steel at cost
Beam pockets, posts, moment connections and the steel the drawings call for. Welded to certified procedures, documented joint by joint, and coordinated with your engineer’s stamps — we carry the package, you do not chase the paperwork.
02
Railings & guards — $98–145 / linear ft
Interior and exterior, built past the code’s 200-pound concentrated load and fifty pounds per foot along the rail — then physically tested on our floor with a gauge, the date written on your install sheet. Pickets, cable, or glass-ready frames.
03
Gates & entries — from $2,100
Drawn per opening: leaf weight, hinge spec and wind load on the drawing before steel is ordered. Automation conduit framed into the structure, not zip-tied to it afterwards, and hung on bearings rated for decades.
04
Mobile repair & reinforcement — $95 / hr
Sagged gates, cracked welds, the guard the snowplough argued with. The rig is out same-week anywhere on the Reach, and what we weld back is stronger than what was there the first time.
2025 — 2026
Work on the Reach
Certifications
The paperwork that holds
Anyone can buy a welder. The difference on a structural job is procedure: Wrenfield works to AWS D1.1 with certified welders, welds sample coupons from every batch of structural consumables, and hands you a folder — drawings, procedure qualifications, test results — that an inspector can read in one sitting and a building department can file without a follow-up call.
The test is on the drawing
Every guard leaves with its load-test sheet in the folder and the test date on the install sheet. If an inspector ever asks us to prove it again on site, that visit is free — in twenty-seven years, twice have asked, and neither wrote a word.
How it goes
Four movements, every job
The site measure
Steel tape, laser, photographs of every surface we anchor into — and the load path sketched on paper you keep before we leave the site.
The stamped drawing
A dimensioned shop drawing with the load rating on its face, reviewed by our engineer where the structure asks for it. You sign the drawing, not just the number.
The floor
Plasma-cut parts, frames pinned square on jigs, MIG penetration where the load lives and TIG on the beads that show. Coupons from the batch go in the folder.
The torque and the test
Anchors torqued to spec, gates cycled, guards pushed to the code load with a gauge on the rail. The folder lands on your kitchen table.
The five we always get
Straight answers
From homeowners and site managers alike. If the question is stranger than these, the shop line at the bottom runs six to six and the person who answers owns the shop.
Can you take out my load-bearing wall?
We do the steel, not the judgement. You bring an engineer or we bring ours — the beam size comes stamped, we fabricate and set to that drawing, and the building department gets a package it can file. What we will not do is size a beam from a look and a handshake; the house outlives both of us.
Patina, galvanized or powder-coat?
Patina — weathering steel that grows its own seal-brown armour — is gorgeous and honest on a sheltered garden gate, and a streaky mistake anywhere run-off drains onto stone. Within reach of salt water or road grit we hot-dip galvanize first and powder over it: the zinc takes the weather, the colour takes the compliments. Indoors, powder-coat alone outlasts paint five to one.
Can you match my 1920s railing?
Bring a photo of the picket profile and one caliper reading if you can. Half the Reach’s period rails are two standard patterns; the odd ones our plasma table cuts from a photograph, and we age the finish to sit beside the original rather than shame it.
What do the certifications actually promise?
That the welder passed a test on the procedure your joint uses, that the procedure itself is qualified to AWS D1.1, and that the paper trail says so when the house changes hands in thirty years. It is not a mood — it is a folder, and it is yours.
How fast?
Repairs are usually inside the week — the rig covers the whole Reach. New guards and gates run four to six weeks through drawing, floor and finish; structural steel follows your build schedule, not ours.
The district inspector arrived with his clipboard, put his level on the rail, put his hands on it, and then read the load-test sheet for longer than he had looked at the steel. “Nobody hands this over unasked,” he said, and signed. Sixteen metres of cliff-path guard, three winters, and still not a rattle in it.
The shop, in figures
Free measures Reach-wide · (555) 013-5519 · shop@wrenfieldiron.example
Send the span, get the drawing
Rough length, height, and what it bolts to — enough for a per-foot estimate on guards and a drawn price on gates. Structural work starts with the engineer’s number, and we are glad to help you get one. shop@wrenfieldiron.example