Catalogs
Look at the options before the estimate, not after it.
Colour, infill and hardware are the three decisions that change how a piece looks and what it costs. Every one of them has a published catalog behind it, so here they are — open them, mark what you like, and bring that to the conversation.
- Catalogs
- 10 references7 open as PDFs.
- Cost to browse
- NothingNo form, no email gate.
- Decided
- At the estimateNot left to the end.
- Bring us
- A colour codeOr a photo. Either works.
How to use these
A catalog is a shortlist, not an order form. What is in these documents is what the supplier publishes; what is right for your piece depends on where it lives, how much sun and salt it takes, how it gets fabricated and what you are willing to maintain. Those four things are not in any catalog, and they are most of the answer.
So the useful thing to do is narrow rather than choose. Find three colours you would be happy with rather than one. Note the board colour you like, not the exact product line. Then at the estimate we will tell you which of them survives contact with your actual conditions — and if the honest answer is that your favourite will chalk out in four years on that wall, we would rather say so before it is fabricated.
Screens lie about colour, and metallics lie worst
Every card below was photographed or printed under lighting that is not the lighting outside your house, and your monitor has its own opinion on top of that. Greys and metallics are the two ranges where the difference between the screen and the finished gate is big enough to be a genuine disappointment. If the colour really matters, ask us for a coated sample of the shortlist and look at it outdoors, on the wall, at the time of day you will actually see it.
Every catalog
Colour, infill, cable and gate hardware.
Grouped by the decision they help with. Each one opens on the supplier's own site in a new tab — the PDFs are large, so they are worth opening on wi-fi rather than data.
Powder coat colour
Powder coat is where nearly every colour decision on a job actually gets made. These are the colour cards ATR works from — pick something you like, bring the code to the estimate, and we will tell you honestly whether it suits the exposure that piece is going to live in.
- Open Essentials colour card
Essentials, Volume 6
The standard range — the colours most jobs land on, in the gloss levels and textures they are actually available in.
- Open Super Durable card
Super Durable, Volume 3
The range worth reading if the piece faces south or west. Super durable powders hold their colour years longer under direct sun than standard polyester.
- Open Metallics card
3D Metallics, Volume 2
Metallic and effect finishes, for when a flat colour is not the look. They read very differently in person than on a screen — treat the card as a shortlist, not a decision.
- Open Cardinal colour card
Powder Coatings Colour Card
A second full colour card, from a West Coast powder manufacturer. Useful as a cross-check when a colour you want is not stocked in the TIGER range.
Composite and wood infill
On a privacy gate or a solid fence panel, the steel is the frame and the infill is what you actually look at. Composite board is the usual answer where nobody wants to be restaining timber every few years. Browse the colours, then we will detail the frame around whatever you choose.
- Browse Trex collections
Decking Collections
Board colours and profiles across the Trex lines. Deck boards, but they cut down and fit a gate frame the same way.
- Browse TimberTech collections
Deck Collections
Composite and PVC board ranges. The PVC lines hold colour noticeably better on a west-facing gate than the entry-level composites.
Cable railing infill
Cable infill keeps a view open where pickets would close it down. It is also the infill people most often get wrong — cable has to be tensioned against a frame stiff enough to take it, or the runs go slack and the spacing opens past code. The hardware references below are what ATR builds to.
- Open CableRail catalog
CableRail Kits
Cable assemblies, end fittings and tensioners, with the post spacing and framing each configuration actually requires.
- Browse Feeney literature
Product literature and specs
The wider library — installation detail, technical drawings and spec sheets, if you want to read past the colour and into how it goes together.
Gate operators and access
An automated gate is two decisions, and the second one gets forgotten. The operator has to be sized to the gate ATR builds — weight, leaf length, duty cycle, slope. The entry side is how a visitor, a delivery or a tenant actually gets in. Both are cheaper to design in now than to retrofit later, which is why we ask about them at the estimate.
- Open operators catalog
Gate Operators
Swing and slide operators with the capacity charts — leaf weight and length against duty cycle. This is the section that decides whether a gate design is automatable as drawn.
- Open accessories catalog
Gate Accessories
Loop detectors, photo eyes, edge sensors, keypads and the safety hardware an automated gate needs to be legal as well as convenient.
ATR Welding is not a dealer for, affiliated with or sponsored by any company listed here. Catalogs are published by those suppliers and open on their own sites; availability, colour ranges and specifications are theirs to change.
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Found a colour you like?
Send us the code and a photo of where it is going. That is enough for us to tell you whether it will still look like that in five years.
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