My expert blog 4819

An iron gate can look solid long after corrosion has started doing real damage. That is part of what makes rust so deceptive. At first, it reads like a cosmetic problem, a little orange bleed at a weld, a rough patch along the bottom rail, some bubbling under old paint. Leave it alone, though, and the gate starts telling a different story. It gets harder to close cleanly. The finish fails in larger sheets. The hardware works harder than it should. On a moving gate, those ch