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Protect Your Property with a Metal Gate

There are a lot of things to like about having a metal gate and fence for your property. The addition of privacy, safety, and security can save you money, worry, and more. That’s why you should protect your property with a metal gate and fence. Pro Weld provides the highest quality metal gate and fence combos in Toronto. Here are some of the benefits.

Privacy in Your Home

When you protect your property with a metal gate and fence, your property becomes off-limits to those who might wander through it. Cutting through your yard just got a lot harder. While someone walking on your lawn may not be a big deal to you, approaching your home means seeing things you may deem private.

For example, if you have a large property, you may undress in front of open windows without thinking much of it. If no one is in your yard, they’re not in the right place to see. However, if someone is walking through your yard – or worse, intentionally spying, your perceived privacy disappears. When access to your yard is cut off to outsiders, you don’t have to worry about your privacy being stripped away.

A Safer Yard for Kids

Want to improve yard safety for your kids? Protect your property with metal fencing. Having a large yard means giving your kids a lot of space to play and roam free. However, if they’re young enough to not understand the danger the outside world poses, they may ander off. Putting a clear barrier around the yard means you can let your kids play outside without worrying they’ll end up blocks away.

Plus, we can’t forget stranger danger. While most random people are harmless, it’s not unheard of for children to get abducted from their yards. This risk is higher if your yard is large and not all visible from the kitchen window. Putting up a fence makes it impossible to just swoop in and grab a child playing on the lawn.

Restricted Pool Access

If you have a pool in a suburban area with teenagers, there’s a good chance they’ve used it, whether you know it or not. Even if you haven’t caught strangers using your pool, it’s probably happened. When you go away on vacation, your pool becomes unsupervised. With no adults to come out and yell at them, local teenagers who don’t have a pool at their own house are quick to take action.

While they may not be vandalizing anything or damaging the pool, there are other risks posed. If some teenager gets injured using your pool, you could end up liable for not having your pool blocked off.

Security and liability are both important and risky. Therefore, you should protect your property with a metal gate and fence to prevent unauthorized pool use.

Higher Security

And, finally, we can’t ignore the huge boost in security. After all, if there’s a whole street of houses and a burglar wants to case one of them, they’re not going to choose the one with a big fence around it. The added obstacle of a fence and gate, especially a tall one (perhaps with spikes at the top), is not attractive to a thief. They want to get in and out as fast as possible. That makes a fence one of the best security measures you can invest in. Even security cameras can be safely ignored if someone disguises themself well enough. A disguise won’t do anything to assist in fence-hopping.

Gothic Wrought Iron Designs You’ll Love

While gothic design isn’t for everyone, those who enjoy it tend to be a bit dedicated. If you want to bring gothic design to your home, Pro Weld is about to be a vital component in that endeavor. Here’s why:

Gothic Architecture

Gothic architecture rose to prominence in late medieval France. When you think of goth, you may simply think of someone wearing all black. However, gothic architecture started more on the white end of things, with ivory.

When ivory was brought to France, people would carve intricate designs and images into it. This, naturally, expanded into decorating buildings, extensively, with ivory carvings. Following that came the ornate use of wrought iron. While modern day gothic architecture is a bit darker than its original form, having evolved with the advent of goth music and fashion, many of the original features remain. The most prominent of those features is ornate, wrought iron designs. You’re on your own finding a substitute for ivory carvings, but Pro Weld is your one-stop shop for all things wrought iron.

Wrought Iron Features

While there are a variety of gothic, wrought iron designs we can create from our own repertoire, we can also take commissions for custom designs. If any of the following items are things you want to try your hand at designing, we can help you polish the design and make it happen.

Railings

Our specialty, here at Pro Weld, is the famous, wrought iron railing. Detailed, wrought iron railings to line loft spaces, stairways, and balconies are a must for gothic homes. Maybe you prefer a more modern interpretation of gothic architecture, with simplistic, vertical bars. We can do that too. However, if your heart sings for the original excess of gothic, iron artistry, we’re here to help. Gothic railings may have many winding branches, leaves, thorns, and more.

Fence and Gate

Modern and historical gothic design extends the same way to fences and gates. We can make things detailed, or we can tone it down with a towering, pointy-looking fence. Want your home to have the same ease of approach as the one in The Addams Family? We’re on it. Not only does a fence around the property look amazing, it will also improve your privacy, prevent solicitors from stopping by, and up the security.

Ornaments

There’s a lot more to do with wrought iron designs than just railings and fences. One of the classic uses of wrought iron in gothic architecture is to make doorknockers. If you want a gothic home, a doorknocker is the cherry on top. Something black, heavy, and somewhat intimidating will tie everything together. Plus, how cool would it be to answer the door to a loud, echoing knock instead of a modern doorbell?

Additionally, wrought iron can be put to use making chandeliers, door surface ornaments, doorknobs, and more. If you can tell us what you’re looking for, we can make it a reality.

How to Design a Custom Iron Railing

Want your home to have custom iron railing designs that you made yourself? The first step to achieving your dream is knowing how to. Pro Weld is the #1 custom iron railing manufacturer of Toronto. We’re here to help you get started.

Find Inspiration

The first step in how to design a custom iron railing is finding the right inspiration. Take a look around online and find some iron railings that stand out to you. Make a collection of images with iron railing designs you really like. These will give you inspiration when it comes time to make your design.

When you start designing, you can use your collection of inspirational railings to see what’s possible, what things look nice to you, and what your limitations are.

Incorporate Something Personal

If you want to create a design for something like a wrought iron gate, it’s a great opportunity to incorporate something personal. A custom iron railing or gate looks great with something like the family initial included in it. It’s a way to make your gate recognizable and personal.

Create Your Design

When you’re ready to get to work, get out some graph paper or use an electronic design software on your computer. Having something with a grid will make keeping your drawing the right shape easier. Plus, you can use the boxes to ensure the railing is scalable.

The sky is the limit when it comes to custom iron railing design. You can incorporate leaves, flowers, sweeping, wrought iron bars. Or, if you prefer something a bit simpler, you can go for something geometric, with straight or diagonal, intersecting bars. Whatever fits your home and your style, putting it down on paper is the first step to making your vision into reality.

Have Your Design Polished

The next step is bringing your design in to the Pro Weld workshop so that we can turn it into something polished. Unless you’re a professional designer, there are likely parts of the design that need to be ironed out.

Our team of professional metalworkers will take your design and polish it to a shine, getting it ready to be made tangible. With everything in order, we’ll be able to make your custom iron railing design into something we can actually install.

Custom Iron Railing Installation

After your design has been polished, it’s time for us to get started on making your railings. We’ll need to know whether the railings are going inside or outside, the distance they’ll need to cover, and a few more details. Then we can get to work.

When your railings are finished being made, our team will come out and install them right where they belong at your home. Whether your design will protect a loft or offer privacy to your property, it will look great. Plus, it’s not often that people get to tell guests that they designed their own railings. When you’re ready to make your design a reality, give us a call. We look forward to working with you.