Can you work from a photograph?
A photograph is useful for the style, but never for the size. A quote from a photograph alone would be a guess, so dimensions are taken on site or supplied by you before a price is given.
Welding shop · one man, made to measure
Steel cut and welded to the size you actually have
Aktan Urmaat Uulu makes gates, railings, balustrades, frames and brackets one at a time, from an opening that was measured rather than assumed. The drawing is agreed before any steel is cut, and the welds are dressed back clean enough to take paint without filler.
What comes out of the shop
Five kinds of work cover almost everything that goes on the bench. All of it is made to a measurement, not picked from a catalogue of standard sizes.
Gates and yard doors
Swing and sliding gates for drives, yards and side passages. Hinges are sized to the leaf rather than to habit, the frame is braced so it does not drop out of square in its first year, and the drop bolt is fitted to the ground that is really there.
Railings, balustrades and handrails
Stairs, landings, balconies and ramps. Heights and gaps are set out on the actual rise and going of the stair, and the rail is made to be gripped along its whole length rather than only between the posts.
Frames, brackets and racking
Machine stands, shelf and tank frames, wall brackets, trolleys and storage racking. Load is carried by the steel and the weld, not by the paint: nothing is held together with self-tappers and hoped for.
Repairs to steel already in place
A cracked bracket, a gate post pulled loose, a rail sheared at the weld. The old joint is ground out and re-run rather than covered over, and if the part has been repaired twice already you are told so and offered a new one instead.
Cutting and shaping to a drawing
Plate, flat bar, angle, box and tube cut to a cutting list you supply or one worked out here from your dimensions. Edges are deburred and holes drilled where the drawing says, so the parts fit together when they reach you.
How a job is set out
Four steps, the same for a single bracket and for a run of railings. Steel is not cut until you have seen the drawing and the price that goes with it.
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Measure, not estimate
The opening is measured at top, middle and bottom, and both diagonals are taken. Almost nothing on a building is square, and a gate made for a square opening binds in the first week.
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A drawing you can check
You get a simple dimensioned drawing with the section sizes, the finish and the price. That is the moment to change the design, and there is no charge for it.
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Fabricated on the bench
Cut, fitted up, checked for square, then welded in a sequence that keeps the heat from pulling the frame out of shape. Welds are dressed back where they will be seen.
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Protected and handed over
Mill scale and grinding dust off, primer on before it leaves, and the fixings sent with it. You are told what the finish is and what it will need.
What you should know before asking for a price
The things people most often assume one way or the other. Better written here than found out halfway through the work.
- Material
- Mild steel for most work: flat, angle, box section, tube and plate. Stainless and aluminium are welded only on small repair work, and larger jobs in those materials go to a shop set up for them.
- Finish
- Shop primer as standard, or top coat by brush and roller on request. Hot-dip galvanising and powder coating are not done here; if a job needs them it is made ready for them and you arrange the coater.
- Fitting
- Fitting is quoted separately from fabrication and only where the fixing can be reached from the ground or a step-up. Work needing scaffold, a lift or roof access is not taken on.
- Drawings
- Your own drawing is welcome and is worked to as given, with any dimension that cannot be built queried before cutting. Where there is no drawing, one is made from the measurements and sent for approval.
- Lead time
- One pair of hands means one job at a time. A realistic date is given with the price and, if something ahead of you overruns, you are told before your date passes rather than after.
Asked before the first quote
If what you need to know is not here, put it on the request page.
Is a single bracket too small a job?
No. One bracket, one gate hinge or one length of handrail is a complete job. There is no minimum order and nothing has to be bought as a set.
Can an existing gate be repaired instead of replaced?
Usually, and it is said plainly when it cannot. If the frame has corroded from inside the section, a repair only moves the next failure a few centimetres along, and that is explained before you spend anything on it.
Who answers an enquiry?
The same person who would do the welding, in writing, one enquiry at a time. Nothing on this site replies automatically or books a date by itself.
Have an opening to fill or a bracket to make?
Send the dimensions you have, or a sketch, and say where it is going. You get a drawing and a price back in writing before anything is cut.