Custom Wrought Iron Fence Installation in the Bay Area
Custom iron fencing for homes, estates, pools, commercial properties, and gated entrances. Designed to match your architecture and gate, professionally finished, and installed by one licensed local team.
Wrought Iron Fencing Built for Your Property
Written by the licensed team at Automatic Gate Masters · CA Contractor #10601804.9 average across 150+ total reviews
Wrought iron fence installation is the design, fabrication, finishing, and setting of a steel picket or panel fence along a property line, a pool enclosure, or a commercial perimeter, with the posts, footings, transitions, and gate openings planned as one system.
Every layout is measured on site. Iron fencing rarely runs across flat, straight ground in the Bay Area, so post spacing, panel lengths, and grade changes are worked out before anything is cut. We plan the posts, panels, slope transitions, and gate openings together, so the finished line looks deliberate instead of pieced together.
Style matters just as much. We match the fence to the house and to any existing gate, whether that means traditional pickets on a period home, quiet horizontal lines on a modern build, or a heavier security profile for a commercial site. We also settle what the fence is for: security, pool safety, a clear boundary, or the architecture itself. You get a written estimate before work begins, and our fence and railing installation page covers every material we work in.
Types of Iron Fencing We Build
Four common project types, each planned and quoted from the site itself.
Residential and ornamental
Front and side yard fencing with picket, finial, or scroll detail that follows the style of the house, sized to the setting rather than a stock panel.
Estate and perimeter
Long runs across sloped or wooded lots, with masonry columns, stepped panels, and matching entry gates, holding a clean line over uneven ground.
Pool and safety fencing
Pool enclosures designed around the requirements that currently apply to your property, including the self-closing and self-latching hardware the pool gate needs.
Commercial and security
Taller pickets, anti-climb spacing, and heavier posts for business sites, HOAs, and industrial yards, tied into commercial gate installation where needed.
Iron Fence Styles and Finishes
Pick the look first. We build the structure to suit it.
- Traditional vertical pickets, the most common residential profile
- Spear tops and cast or forged finials
- Ornamental scrollwork and decorative panel inserts
- Modern horizontal or clean vertical lines with no ornament
- Privacy combinations with metal or wood infill panels
- Matching pedestrian and driveway gates in the same profile
- Powder coating, the finish we specify on most projects
- Zinc-rich primer where the application calls for it
- Galvanizing where the exposure makes it appropriate
- Satin black, bronze, and custom colors on request
One Design for the Fence, Gate, and Entry System
Most fence calls turn into a gate conversation, so we plan both at once. The same picket profile, rail height, and finish carry from the fence into the pedestrian and driveway gates, with the entry hardware specified at the same time.
That means wrought iron gates, walk-through pedestrian gates, automated driveway gates, operators, intercoms, and gate access control are handled by one team, on one schedule. If the design is still open, our custom gate design page shows how we work through it.
Our Iron Fence Installation Process
Site measurement and consultation
We walk the line with you, measure the runs, check grade changes and access, look at the house and any existing gate, and talk through what the fence needs to do.
Design and written estimate
You get a design direction with the picket profile, height, and finish, plus a written estimate. We identify permit or HOA requirements during planning and clarify what is included in the written proposal.
Fabrication and site prep
Panels and posts are built to the measured layout while the site is prepped, post locations marked, and footings set for the soil and slope on your property.
Installation and walkthrough
We set the fence, hang and adjust any gates, check hardware, clean the site, and walk the finished line with you before we call it done.
One licensed local team, start to finish
- Licensed California contractor, CA #1060180
- Fully insured crews on every job
- Fence and gate work coordinated by one team
- Residential and commercial perimeter experience
- Clear written estimates before work begins
- 4.9 average across 150+ total reviews
Recent Iron Fence and Ironwork Projects
Real Bay Area ironwork installed by our crews.
Security perimeter fence
Tall vertical picket run with close spacing and heavier posts, built for a commercial perimeter.
Commercial property fence
Boundary fencing installed along a working commercial site and finished in satin black.
Residential perimeter fence
Street-facing picket fence that follows the grade of the lot without breaking the top line.
Modern horizontal iron fence
Clean horizontal rails with no ornament, used where the architecture calls for a quieter line.
Traditional decorative ironwork
Scrollwork panels and a curved top rail, the traditional profile for period and estate homes.
Custom horizontal iron fence
Custom slat panels built to a measured opening on a hillside lot.
Custom Iron, Ornamental Aluminum, and Tubular Steel
A simple comparison to help you choose, not a ranking.
| Point | Custom wrought iron | Ornamental aluminum | Tubular steel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appearance | Heaviest, most detailed look, fully custom profiles | Lighter look, mostly stock profiles | Clean and uniform, limited ornament |
| Strength | Highest of the three | Lowest of the three | Strong, between the other two |
| Rust resistance | Depends on keeping the coating intact | Does not rust | Depends on keeping the coating intact |
| Customization | Fully custom, built to your design | Limited to the available systems | Moderate, some custom work possible |
| Maintenance | Periodic inspection and finish touch-ups | Very little | Periodic inspection and finish touch-ups |
| Best use | Estates, ornamental work, security perimeters, matching gates | Low maintenance runs where custom detail is not the priority | Straightforward fencing where uniform panels suit the site |
There is no universally superior material. The right option depends on appearance, environment, security needs, maintenance, and budget. Automatic Gate Masters builds in iron, steel, and wood, and does not fabricate aluminum fencing.
Wrought Iron Fence Installation Across the Bay Area
Automatic Gate Masters & Garage Doors, 877 S Winchester Blvd #350, San Jose, CA 95128. (650) 560-4646
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Planning a Custom Wrought Iron Fence?
Tell us about the property, the design you have in mind, and whether you want a matching pedestrian or driveway gate. We measure the site and put it all in one clear written estimate.