Got an idea that needs metal? Mabutas builds one-off custom and decorative pieces for DuPage County homes and businesses: railings, brackets, fire features, signs, furniture frames, and the projects that don’t fit a category. Bring us a sketch or a photo and we’ll figure out how to build it. Some of the older decorative pieces we are asked to copy or repair turn out to be castings rather than steel, and that changes both the filler and the cooling: here is
welding cast iron the right way. Matching an original picket, rail or finial profile usually starts with a corroded one.
This guide to rusted wrought iron fences covers when a section has to be remade rather than recoated. Where a post has to be fabricated to the original profile rather than sleeved,
the rusted fence post breakdown shows where that line falls. Stainless details on a steel frame need their own filler and finish, covered in
can you weld stainless steel to mild steel.
