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Metal Plating in Birmingham, AL

The Magic City's metal, given new life.

We restore and plate metal for Birmingham by mail, working with owners of historic homes and buildings, designers and manufacturers. Pieces ship to our Oceanside, California shop and return insured.

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Metal Finishing Shop Serving Birmingham

A city made of iron.

Birmingham was founded on iron and steel, and a giant cast iron statue of Vulcan still watches over it from Red Mountain. The old furnaces are a landmark now. Medicine and banking lead the economy today, while neighborhoods like Highland Park and Forest Park keep their early 1900s houses.

Sending work from Birmingham means a cross country trip of about three to five business days by ground. We think it should be an informed choice. Email photos, get our written quote, then decide. If you go ahead, we strip, repair, plate and inspect, and insure the return.

Homeowners ask about door hardware, fireplace pieces and lighting from the 1900s to 1920s. Designers ask for custom tones. Building owners downtown ask about lobby and elevator brass. Manufacturers ask about coatings.

What We Do

Plating Services in Birmingham

Birmingham leans traditional: antique brass plating, vintage nickel plating, copper plating and patinas for homes, metal polishing for building brass, and powder coating for ironwork.

Plating and Polishing for Birmingham

Fireplace sets, lobby brass and garden iron.

Iron is part of the city's identity, and a lot of it sits outside. Cast iron urns, benches, gates and railings rust through their paint in humid summers. Our refurbishing process strips, repairs and recoats them, usually in powder. Smaller pieces ship well. Large ones need a freight talk first.

Indoors, the houses of Highland Park and Forest Park still have fine original hardware. Mortise locks, cast brass plates, mantel hardware. We restore it in tones right for the period, and match pieces so a room reads as one set.

Ship It From Anywhere

You don't have to live nearby to work with us.

Customers all over the country pack their parts and ship them to our Oceanside shop. We finish them, inspect them and send them back insured. It starts with a few photos.

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    How It Works

    From Birmingham to Our Shop

    From Birmingham, expect close to a week on the road each way.

    01

    Get your quote first

    Send photos of every part with a short description. We reply with a written quote and a lead time, usually the same business day. Never ship before you have a quote number.

    02

    Pack it like it will be dropped

    Wrap each piece individually, keep metal from touching metal, and use at least three inches of padding on every side. Double box long trim and bumpers.

    03

    Insure and send the tracking

    Ship with any carrier, insure the box for what the parts are worth to you, and email us the tracking number so we know it is on the way.

    04

    Approve, then we ship back

    We send photos when the work is done. Once you approve and pay, your parts go back to you packed the same careful way.

    What Our Clients Say

    Trusted by Professionals

    From custom builders to industrial manufacturers, our clients trust us to deliver the same result every time.

    Where We Are

    Our Location

    One shop, one set of tanks and one inspection standard. Every part from Birmingham is plated in this building.

    Decorative Metal Coatings

    Southern California's metal plating and finishing shop since 1989.

    Business Hours

    • Monday to Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Saturday 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
    • Sunday Closed
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    Sending parts from Birmingham

    Three to five business days is usual for ground service from Birmingham. Heavy cast iron needs a strong box and firm padding so it cannot shift and break through.

    Nearby Cities We Serve

    More Alabama cities we plate for:

    Hoover Huntsville Auburn Mobile

    How Birmingham Customers Ship Parts to Us

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Birmingham owners and designers ask these.

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    Yes. We strip rust and old paint, repair what we can and powder coat for lasting protection. Send dimensions and weight, since freight is the main variable for iron. Urns and benches often arrive with old filler in them, which has to come out first.

    For solid, original hardware, often yes. A box of door sets ships affordably, and good restoration is hard to find. Our written quote comes first, so you can compare. Original hardware also fits the doors it came from, which new hardware rarely does.

    We can. Send a sample or a daylight photo. We plate a test piece for approval, then run the full order to match. A piece of the actual metal is better than any photo, so send one if you can spare it. Daylight photos are the next best thing.

    Removable pieces, yes: plates, pulls, rails and trim. They are polished or replated and lacquered. We work in groups so a lobby is never bare. Tell us the building's hours and we will plan the return shipment around them.

    The work to be done on each piece, the finish, and the price, all in writing with no obligation. Shipping to us is arranged by you. Anything we find once the parts are here gets a call before we proceed.

    Yes, and most of our work starts that way. We strip the old plating down to the base metal, repair what needs repair, then plate it fresh. New plating over a failing layer never lasts, so we don't do it.

    We do. Along with single pieces for homeowners, we run batches of hundreds or thousands of parts for companies in California and other states. Send a photo of a sample, the quantity and the finish, and we'll quote the whole run.

    Steel, stainless steel, aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, pot metal and zamak. Some of them need extra prep so the plating bonds well, and we'll tell you up front if your part does.