ACME-KRIVANEK IRON RAILS & COLUMNS

Our old house was featured in a housing tour, prompting completion of repairs and restoration of two original, 100 year old, wrought iron hand rails installed on sandstone steps exiting a sunroom.  The hand rails supports were mostly rusted through and the upper rail caps were also rusted.  Our choice was to replace them with new rails or find a craftsman to restore the existing rails.  I pulled them out of the stone steps so a mason could repaired the steps and associated brick work.  Bill took the rails to his shop, removed the top covers to removed rust in the top channel and welded the covers back on.  He replaced rusted hollow vertical supports with solid verticals.  After the repair work was complete, he had the repaired rails sandblasted and painted with two-part epoxy paint.  Since the stone steps had been reset, he redrilled the holes and reinstalled the rails with molten lead.  Beautiful restoration work--prompt, accommodating and very competitively priced.  Bill is a wonderful craftsman, with some of the coolest hand made tools tools, including a 70 year old electric drill.   Highly recommended.

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Due to settling of the steps and a harsh Cleveland winter, the hand rails had separated from the house, and several metal base plates attached to the step treads cracked and had to be replaced.  He fabricated wrought iron spaces to fill in the gaps between the rails and the masonry of the house, and now the rail is tight and as good as new.  He also painted the areas he worked on to match the rest of the iron work.  He called ahead to schedule the work and arrived on time and kept to his estimate.  Would definitely hire him again.

It took a couple of months to get it done.