General contractors

Your Fence and Gate Sub

143 projects for 34 general contractors since 2021.

We've been the fence and iron sub on Costco builds, apartment reconstructions, country clubs and school campuses. We show up when we said we would, we bill the way you need us to bill, and we don't make you chase us for submittals.

Fence installer setting black commercial picket fencing beside a large building
Commercial perimeter installation · Work in progress

Built on repeat work

Who we work for

We've been on the job for

W.L. Butler Construction · Cuesta Construction · Western National Builders · Sukut Construction · Sinanian Construction · Alta Contracting · Slater Builders · Specialized Construction · Geo Stabilization International · B. Foster Construction · Finn Construction & Development · Pacific Rim Builders · Bentley Construction · Woodcrest Construction & Interiors · CJR Builders · N.T. Thomas Construction · Peavey Construction · Pacific Coast Builders · VKW Construction · DJ's Construction · JM Kelley Builders · Arnel Development · Seacoast Development

A few of the projects

Costco Wholesale #910, Otay Mesa · Newport Beach Country Club · Irvine Spectrum · San Marco Apartments · Woodbridge Willows · San Mateo CARe · Esencia Sur · Stone Creek Apartments · Wateridge Apartments · Hilton Garden Inn · Wood Canyon · First Point

W.L. Butler and Western National Builders have both used us five years running. Cuesta four. That's the number we're proudest of on this page.

Prequalification

The paperwork, out of the way

LicenseCalifornia Contractors License #316492 (C-13 Fencing, C-23 Ornamental Metal)
BondingCapacity to $1,000,000. Payment and performance bonds per project.
Insurance$1M/$2M general liability, $2M/$4M available on request. $1M workers' comp. $1M auto. We'll have your certs and additional-insured endorsements to you before we mobilize, not after you ask twice.
Prevailing wageDIR PCWR #2000029586. Certified payroll, eCPR submittals, no hand-holding required.
Retention and progress billingWe're used to it. We bill progress, we hold retention, and we don't call your office every week about it.

On the job

What it's like having us on the job

You already know what a bad sub costs you. Someone who no-shows the week you needed them, or who can't read a detail, or who finishes the fence and then hands your client a business card.

That's not us.

We fabricate, so we can match anything.

Most of our work is custom — matching an existing picket profile, building to an architect's detail, or fabricating something that doesn't come out of a catalog. On the Costco job we matched existing fence and gates and finished them in two-part urethane epoxy. If it can be drawn, we can build it.

We work in phases when the job is phased.

A lot of our apartment work comes in behind a paint or recon phase — repair the iron, spot-paint at the repairs, haul off the old, stay out of the way of the next trade. We've run that cycle across dozens of buildings for Western National Builders.

We handle our own submittals and closeout.

Shop drawings, material data, certified payroll, warranty letters. You shouldn't have to manage your sub's paperwork.

We're not going to poach your client.

We've got plenty of our own work. When we're on your job, we're your sub — your name goes on it, not ours.

We show up with our own people.

No day labor, no rotating crews. The guys who start your job finish it.

Shop and field

The work while it's happening

Welder fabricating a large ornamental metal gate panel in the Fence Menders shop

Custom fabrication

A gate panel taking shape in our Santa Ana fabrication shop.

Fence Menders technician using a power tool while repairing a balcony guardrail

Repair in place

Existing-condition guardrail work performed on site.

Worker installing a horizontal cable barrier along a landscaped slope

Field installation

Layout and installation shaped around the site in front of us.

Trade scope

What we build

01

Ornamental iron, custom fabricated

Fence, gates, railings, enclosures. Built to your detail or matched to what's already there. Powder coat, two-part urethane epoxy, or field paint — your call.

02

Vehicle and pedestrian gates

Slide, swing, cantilever, barrier. Panic hardware, hydraulic closers, electric strike and card reader tie-ins when you've got an access control scope running alongside.

03

Railings and guardrail

Stairway, balcony, cable rail, and code-compliant guardrail. Cable railing and galvanized systems included.

04

Chain link and security screening

Commercial chain link, welded wire mesh, expanded metal, anti-climb, privacy screen, temp fence.

05

Repair and restoration scopes

Damaged iron, bent gates, corroded railing. This is a big part of what GCs hire us for — the scope nobody else wants to price because it's twelve small conditions across a 400-unit property.

06

Trash and equipment enclosures

Steel and iron enclosures, screen walls, condenser screening.

Estimating

Getting a number from us

Send plans.

Email the drawings and the spec section. We'll come back with a written scope and a number — materials, dimensions, post sizes, footing detail, finish. The kind of proposal you can actually level against the other guy's.

Need a walk?

For repair and existing-conditions work, there's no substitute. Tell us where and when.

On a deadline?

Say so. We'd rather tell you we can't hit your bid date than blow it.

Start with the scope

Got a job with fence, gate or iron on it?

Send Us Plans
(714) 437-3194info@fencemendersinc.comOrange County, Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire