Graydie Welding - Providing Garden Design Arbors and Art, as well as all other Emergency Welding Project

GALLERY OPENED BY APPOINTMENT 302-753-0695

Located in Camden, Delaware

Please come by and check out my work


	Recently Completed Projects
	and a couple current projects.





	This is an arbor with two swinging gates and two adjoining fence panels (to be added) for a customer down here in Camden, De. I'll fabricate, paint, and install everything for just $300.

	This metal sculpture had to rust before it looked right.










	I refurbished this whole entrance for only $3,000. That's including material. It took just two weeks. I'm filling the gap beneath the new fence with a load of topsoil for free since this customer has been so nice to me.
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	I recovered this 90 gallon water tank from the trash. I'm going to either send a 2" pipe looping through the wood stove from the tank and back to heat the water or weld the tank right to the stove to heat the water. My clothes need to be washed in hot water and I need long hot showers. With the wood stove heating the house and tank all night I'll wake up to a warm house and 90 gallons of hot water. If we all shower in the morning my hot water heater won't need to kick on. After this I'll reconnect the well in my back yard and hook it up to either a wind powered pump or solar panels that will pump the water to the tank. Soon I'll be off the grid!


	This is a handrail I just finished on a beautiful Victorian down here in Camden/ Wyoming, Delaware. This handrail cost the homeowner $300 for each side. He's very happy and giving me more work.





		This is a flower trellis priced at $300.

		These are the window guards I fabricated for a home in Westover Hills. I bent 3/16" flat bar steel and welded it to 3/4" thick, solid square bar steel. These are very heavy. The smallest one weighs nearly a hundred pounds and the largest is several hundred. I included installation with this particular job. It's a stone house so I mounted these window guards on solid steel brackets set in the ground with concrete. They have hinges and locks. The owner was very happy with the job. He gave me a huge bonus and more work. These are the hinges (left) I made for the window well guards. I bent them out of 5/8" solid steel round bars.

		This is a flower trellis I made out of 1/2" solid steel and long screws. I have this priced at $200.


		This is a flower trellis priced at $300.

		One of my pieces is hanging on the outside of an art gallery in Milford, Delaware.

		I priced this arbor at $250. It's strong enough to climb while being light enough for two people to easily carry it out to the beach.

		These are two handrails I fabricated and installed on site in Landenberg, Pennsylvania. The total for this job was $750 and I had it completed in one day.



		This is a set of easels I fabricated with solid mild steel. I'm pricing these at $40 each.

		This is an eight foot, 500 pound flower box mounted on the front of my house.

		This is a fire pit cover I made for a customer here in Camden, Delaware. It has a screen and a handle. This was $100.

		My daughter and I with a plain trellis for vegetables. We are using it for Dipper Guards. This trellis is very strong and light weight. I'm going to charge $50 for these. I can also fabricate these out of aluminum or stainless steel. Get one before it's too late to plant!


		I made this at home in my spare time so I can price these fairly cheap at $250. Light enough to move out to the beach for a wedding or to move around your yard but very stable and strong. I think it would look best with lights and a climbing flower like rose, honey suckle, or even a trumpet flower vine. This particular arbor was donated for an auction at The Hotel DuPont in Wilmington to benefit The Helen Graham Cancer Center.

		This is a fireplace hood I fabricated and installed for Harrison Properties in Wilmington, DE. Bob Harrison says: "Great job Brian! I am very pleased."

		These are obelisks or as my customer called them, tuteurs. Those long legs are 3/4" solid steel. These are 12 1/2' tall. The small one is about 7'. These were about $350 a piece. The customer is going to grow climbing roses and promised to give me a picture next year for my web site.

	My Hand Bent Arbors
		This arbor can be seen from Route #52 in Centreville, DE. This wrought iron garden arbor is 10' tall and weighs 300 pounds. It is composed of solid iron which I bent by hand in my basement using two pegs and a lever. The final arbor has been painted with two coats of high gloss rust inhibiting enamel to prevent corrosion. My unique, custom arbors can be the start to a any new garden beginning with window boxes or by hanging flowers from the iron shelves. They can also take an already exquisite garden to the next level with the addition of flowering vines that thrive on this quality arbor design (be sure you plant the right climber for your demographic, sun direction and desired maintenance). With little effort, this handmade arbor will become an incredible addition to any garden of any size and any kind.
	This is an arbor I made for myself. It weighs around a ton. It's all solid steel with no straight pieces. I bent all this by hand. It has windows, bench seats, flower boxes, and four opposing hooks for hanging plants. This year I planted a few different kinds of Morning Glories at it's base. Soon I will fill the flower boxes on each side. Eventually I'll add lighting. I can fabricate something like this out of aluminum so it would be transportable for beach weddings and such.

	This is the same arbor getting covered with several types of Morning Glories. When it gets covered I'll fertilize for a good bloom.
	The Graydie Welding Story
	I managed several DuPont estates in the last 15 years. I was very happy doing what I was doing but I wasn't making the money I needed to raise my two girls the way I wanted to raise them. On one estate foe a few years I managed a herd of several hundred Whitetail deer. I manually fed the whole herd for most of the year. I maintain unbelievable hunting rights. That was a lot of work and even more fun but I saw the economy tanking and knew I had to do something. I decided on welding because it was something I always wanted to do and I knew that welders make pretty good money. I was instructed at Del-Tech by their welding instructor, William Mozzee. I completed Arc Welding I, Arc Welding II, Advanced Arc Welding I, Advanced Arc Welding II, MIG, TIG, Pipe welding I, Pipe Welding II, Advanced Pipe Welding I and Advanced Pipe Welding II. Then I sold a couple investment properties and bought my first welding rig. My instructor's advice was to buy big, so that's what I did. I bought a brand new F-350 and on it I had a utility bed and one of Millers largest welder / generator mounted, the Big Blue Pro 300. I had to beef up the trucks suspension because of the weight of the welder. I also bought Millers largest Plasma cutter, the Spectrum 2050. Millers largest Mig / flux- cored welder the Suitcase X-treme 12 VS is part of my setup in addition to a full oxyacetylene cutting outfit. My welding truck is equip with everything I need to handle almost any welding job. Graydie is a combination of my daughters' names since they will be running the show when it's time. Graydie Welding LLC is fully insured. I started providing welding services for property management companies by repairing and/or fabricating handrails and fire escapes. Most recently, I fabricated and installed a custom hand railing for Susan Teiser at The Centreville Cafe on Kennett Pike in Centreville, DE. Any free time that I have, I spend bending metal and creating decorative garden structures. This is my mobile welding rig. It's a new F-350 Super Duty. I beefed up the suspension to accommodate all the equipment.	Graydie Welding LLC operates with all new welding equipment. This is my welder/generator, one of Miller's largest, the Big Blue Pro 300. This is my smallest welder, Miller's Maxstar 150 S, for those hard to reach spaces. This is my wire feeder for flux-cored and MIG welding. It's Miller's largest - the Suitcase X-Treme 12 VS. This is my plasma cutter. It's Millers largest, the Spectrum 2050. My truck is equipped with a full oxyacetylene cutting outfit.
	Labor Free For Churches And Other Non-Profits
	With one exception - - - Graydie Welding will no longer volunteer in Wilmington, Delaware's 6th District Please contact us for more information.
	My latest volunteer project is helping the Friends of Historic Riverview Cemetery repair their wrought iron perimeter fence and replace the air vents in the mausoleum. Need something to do? Come and join me for some volunteer work. Check my contact page and make some time.