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Mobile Welder for Wollongong and the Illawarra
We do mobile welding across Wollongong and the Illawarra, which means the welder and the gear come to your place instead of you pulling a gate off its hinges and driving it somewhere. Gates that have dropped, handrails that have come loose, cracked trailer frames, snapped brackets, rusted posts. If it is metal and it has broken where it stands, it can usually be fixed where it stands.
Mobile welding across Wollongong and the Illawarra
Most repairs are done in a single visit. The work is licensed and insured. Send a photo to 0413 147 335 and you will get a straight answer on what it needs and how it gets quoted, not a sales call. The full range of work is on welding and metal fabrication.
Gate and fence repairs on site
The most common call we get. A gate that was hung years ago has dropped at the latch end and now scrapes, catches or will not close at all. It is usually one of three things: a hinge that has worn, a cracked weld at the hinge plate, or a post that has rusted through at ground level where water has sat against it.
Dropped and sagging gates
We re-square the frame, replace or re-weld the hinges, and add a diagonal brace if the frame was never braced properly to begin with. A wide gate without a brace will drop eventually.
Snapped hinges, latches and drop bolts
Replaced and welded in place, matched to the weight of the gate rather than to whatever was on the shelf.
Rusted posts and bottom rails
The rusted section gets cut out, new steel gets welded in, then it is primed and coated. Replacing the whole gate is often unnecessary and we will say so. Where corrosion is the main problem rather than a broken weld, rust and weld repairs goes into it properly.
Handrail and balustrade repairs in Wollongong
Loose stair rails, wobbling balcony balustrades, rusted wall fixings and rails that have pulled away from brickwork. These get re-fixed and re-welded on site.
If a rail is loose because the balustrade no longer meets the height or opening rules, we will tell you, because a repair that leaves a non-compliant rail in place is not worth paying for. A barrier is required where the fall is 1 metre or more, the minimum height is 865mm above the nosing line of stairs and above ramps and 1m above landings and balconies, and no opening may let a 125mm sphere pass through. See gates, handrails and balustrades for new work.
Machinery, trailer and ute tray welding
Cracked trailer chassis and drawbars, broken tipper hinges, mower decks, forklift forks and mast brackets, ute tray repairs and excavator bucket wear plates. These are jobs where the machine cannot easily be moved, which is exactly what a mobile service is for. Full detail is on machinery and trailer repairs.
What cannot be done on site
Worth being straight about, because it is the question people actually have before they book.
Anything needing bench accuracy.
A balustrade run that has to be dead square, or a gate frame that must stay true while it is tacked, gets built in the workshop and fitted in one visit.
Sprayed or powder-coated finishes.
Those need a booth. On site we prime and brush or roll, which is right for a repair and wrong for a feature piece.
Jobs in a confined space, over water, or needing scaffold or a hot works permit.
Those need planning first, not a callout.
Structural steel on a building under construction, where the documentation and the sequence have to be sorted out with the builder before a welder turns up.
How a mobile job gets quoted
We do not publish an hourly rate or a callout figure, because a mobile job turns on things that only become clear when someone looks at it: the metal and how much of it, how hard the spot is to get to, the condition of what is already there, the finish it needs, and whether it is one visit or two. A photo usually tells us most of that.
From there you get a firm figure in writing before anything starts, and anything extra that shows up gets agreed in writing before it is done. The instant estimate tool on this page gives you a starting point in the meantime, or call 0413 147 335.
Suburbs we cover for mobile welding
All 24 suburbs across the Illawarra and South Coast. Coastal suburbs from Helensburgh, Thirroul, Woonona, Bulli and Corrimal down through Wollongong, Fairy Meadow, Port Kembla and Warilla to Shellharbour, Shell Cove, Kiama, Gerringong and Berry, plus Figtree, Unanderra, Dapto, Horsley, Albion Park, Oak Flats, Minnamurra, Jamberoo and Nowra.
The Northern Illawarra and Kiama and South Coast pages list what each area takes in, and the full set is on all our Illawarra and South Coast service areas.
Get a mobile welder out
Text a photo to 0413 147 335, use the instant estimate, or call. You will get told whether it is a one-visit job, what it will cost once it has been looked at, and whether it is worth fixing at all.
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Steel Cages for Concrete Footings
Welding 600mm round reinforcing cages for concrete footings, one down, a hundred to go.
Want a firm price on this?
Send a photo and a short description. You get a straight answer on what it needs and what it costs before anything starts.
Welding By Suburb
Mobile Welding Across 24 Illawarra Suburbs
Questions
Mobile Welding Questions
Do you actually come to my house to weld?+
Yes, that is the whole point of a mobile service. Most gate, rail and trailer repairs are done on site in a single visit. Only work that needs bench accuracy or a sprayed finish goes through the workshop, and that gets measured on site and fitted in one visit.
Do you need power or water at my place?+
No. The gear runs off its own generator, so a job in a paddock or on a driveway with no outlet is no different to one in a garage.
Can you weld galvanised steel?+
Yes, with ventilation and the right precautions, because galvanising gives off zinc fumes when it is heated. The coating gets cut back, the weld is made, then the bare metal is re-protected. Hot-dip galvanising is done to AS/NZS 4680, and repairing a damaged coating afterwards is a real and normal step rather than a sign something has gone wrong.
Is a gate worth repairing, or should it be replaced?+
Repair, in most cases, provided the frame itself is sound. Replacement makes sense when the frame is rusted through in several places or the design was wrong for the opening to begin with. You get told which one it is before anything starts.
Will a repaired handrail still be compliant?+
That depends on what is there now. A barrier is required where the fall is 1 metre or more, the minimum height is 865mm above the nosing line of stairs and above ramps and 1m above landings and balconies, and no opening may let a 125mm sphere pass through. Where the fall exceeds 4m there is also a no-climb rule, with no horizontal or near-horizontal elements between 150mm and 760mm above the floor. If a repair would leave the rail outside those rules, we will tell you before doing it.
How do I get a price for a mobile job?+
Send a photo to 0413 147 335 or use the instant estimate on this page. For anything beyond a simple repair we look at the job first and then give you a firm figure in writing before work starts, because access, metal and the condition of what is there all change what it takes.
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