Having custom features added to your truck, trailer, or home isn’t something that most contractors or repair shops are outfitted for. This is the responsibility of highly trained, professional welders. When adding new trailer hitches to your truck, or coming to your home to weld in new fencing or gates you’ll need a welding specialist.

The majority of professional welders treat their trade as an art, not just a skill. Welding is simply in concept, heat two pieces of metal to their melting point and then joint them together. However professional welders spend time customizing their passes and making the weld as attractive as the piece they are installing. This attention to detail delivers the ability to add detailed and delicate architectural items. While the raw materials have a cost, about 60% of the bill is usually associated with the skilled labor.

Project Affects Welding Costs

During a remodel on a home most homeowners find out about needing a welder from their architect or their contractor. Certain spans and spaces cannot be supported by a glulam support beam. Steel is needed, and a welder is needed to install and permanently weld these I-beams into place. They are typically load bearing structures in your home or business’s design. The mobile welding services can be applied to the structural elements, safety features, and even artistic architectural elements.

Welding Security Features

Whether you are in the city or country security is getting more and more important every year. For cities having a fire escape welded together and professionally installed is a huge safety and security factor. Homes that have ground floor windows benefit from having steel bars installed over the windows, and doors. Security doors are the primary defense for a lot of urban homes and businesses.

Welding of Fencing, Gates, Railings

Some of the most common residential welding jobs are the welding of gates, fences, and railings. These structures are both aesthetically pleasing and strong. They also increase security, but also add eye appeal and value to your property. The cost in these installation is influenced by the size of the property. Smaller residential homes will only need a perimeter fence and gate system. While large farms and ranches love having grand entryways, sometimes even featuring the name of the ranch fabricated onto the metal pillars.

Welding in Garages or Barns

These structures are most useful when they are more wide open. Welding in these applications helps install sturdy materials that can span greater distances and provide the wide open spaces. While much of the garage or barn’s construction will be done with screws or nails having the main support structure welded helps ensure that it will stand strong for many years to come.

Determining Welding Costs

It’s a difficult task to estimate the costs of a welding job. There are many variables that are specific to nearly every project. An example of this is when barns are going to have a second level for storage. The design engineer must calculate the final load that will be applied to the structure. Then each weld must follow that plan to ensure that it is the right size and can carry the weight. Design engineers also must decide which will be the most cost effective but quality filler metal. Clearly the experience of each welder also changes their cost of labor, so that is also a factor in the cost of welding.

Mesa Mobile Welding Service

If you need welding at your home or business in the Phoenix area Cliff’s Welding has professional on-site mobile welding services. We can come and consult with you on the project, get you a quote on services, and then apply our years of experience to professionally weld, or repair any metal structure that you need fixed.