San Antonio, since 1954
Aztec Fence & Ornamental Iron builds fence, gates and ornamental metalwork out of a shop on Guadalupe Street. The scrollwork in our mark is the scrollwork we make.
On Guadalupe Street
Nothing below is a marketing number. 1954 is the year the doors opened, five generations is who has run it since, and the combined experience figure is the crew's own count.
1954
Year the shop opened
5
Generations, one family
200+
Years of combined experience
13
Texas towns and cities served
How a gate actually gets made
Most fence companies order a gate in. We make it. That is the whole difference between this shop and the number you found above us in the search results, and it is why the catalogue runs all the way out to guardrail and handrail and one-off metalwork.
Drawing
Design and planning happen before a single length of steel is cut. A driveway gate has to answer to the slope of the drive, the swing of the leaf, the width of a delivery truck and whatever the property already looks like. We work that out with you first, then draw it.
Material
Aluminum, steel, stainless, galvanized. Cedar, cypress, pine, redwood or spruce when the job calls for wood. Material selection is its own step because the wrong choice does not fail on install day, it fails four summers later.
Fabrication
Certified welders and fabricators, over 200 years of combined experience across the crew, and a shop floor that has been running since 1954. Prototyping and quality control are part of the process, not something bolted on at the end.
Install
We obtain the building permits for our own projects, so that is not paperwork you have to chase. Then the crew sets posts, hangs the leaf, wires the operator if there is one, and comes back seasonally to service the access control.
Twelve lines out of one shop
The split matters more than the list does. One half of this shop goes out to your property with post-hole diggers. The other half never leaves the building until the thing it built is finished.
Commercial runs, garden fence, perimeter, gates and railings, custom-made to the property.
Lattice, picket, post-and-rail, privacy, shadowbox and split-rail in cedar, cypress, pine, redwood or spruce.
Galvanized, stainless and vinyl-coated, with barbed wire, razor wire, tension wire or height extensions.
Automatic, double, pedestrian, security, sliding and swing, in six different materials.
Barrier, cantilever, overhead, sliding and swing operators, with seasonal maintenance.
Design through prototyping to assembly, for architecture, industry, furniture and sculpture.
Baluster systems, cable railings, glass, wall-mounted, wooden and wrought iron.
Aluminum, stainless and steel, for commercial buildings, industrial sites and public space.
Load-bearing, partition and retaining, with the drainage worked out before the first course.
Attached, canopy, detached, freestanding and multi-vehicle, in metal, wood, masonry or concrete.
Cleaning, priming and an even charged coat that wraps the section instead of running off it.
In-house architects, engineers, project managers and surveyors, concept through handover.
The vineyard gate
Every leaf and every tendril in those upper panels was drawn, cut and welded in the shop. The monogram in the middle is the owner's. You cannot buy this gate. It is the reason the word fabrication sits in our name next to the word fence.
What customers wrote
We are very happy with the iron rails we purchased and had custom fabricated from Aztec Fence and Ornamental Iron. We needed railing for a very large covered back porch, a front porch and two sets of stairs. Larry was knowledgeable, professional, responsive and just a wonderful person to guide us through this process from start to finish! The rails themselves are not only beautiful but they're so well made. We highly recommend Larry and his team for your fencing or railing needs but for us specifically, the custom rail fabrication!
Larry and his staff are very professional, punctual with competitive pricing. I highly recommend Aztec Fence & Ornamental Iron for all your residential or commercial fencing solutions!
Larry and co re built our entire chain link fence in less than a day. He and his crew came out ahead of schedule and provided a quality black vinyl link fence that really improved our curbside appeal. He was knowledgeable and friends and his team was efficient and hard working.
The shop opened on Guadalupe Street in 1954 and has not moved. The fifth generation is running it now, and the crew between them has been at this for more than two hundred years put together. We work the greater San Antonio area, out through Boerne, Kerrville, Del Rio, Eagle Pass and Cotulla, and we take project work as far as Laredo, Corpus Christi, Houston, Dallas, Midland, Odessa and El Paso.
Before you call
Call the shop between seven and four, Monday to Friday, and you will get somebody who has been doing this a long time. Estimates are free, we pull the permits ourselves, and se habla español.