Tips and Stainless Know-How

Stainless steel surface finishes explained in a way that you can understand. It's not complicated but it can seem to be complicated with all the different names out there. The #4 Finish, BA Finish, 2B Finish, #3 Finish, Mirror Finish, and more.

With many homeowners looking for a way to provide modern decoration with function to their backyards, a metallic trellis can be just the touch to add something shiny, weathered, handmade, and functional, to aid in the growth of grape vines, ivy, and other crawling plants along fence lines, in gardens, or wherever. A metallic copper Trellis can look great with other garden features such as pergolas, metallic furniture, and along the length of privacy fence to merge and juxtapose the qualities of wood, metal, earth, and the colors of the foliage.

There are many common terms in the steel industry and just like many things it's hard to get a clear definition. We have clarifed common terms for you and if you need any more explained, feel free to reach out. Our experts will be happy to take a look.

Got an antique piece of furniture that doesn’t quite fit with the spaces you have available? An old handcrafted desk that doesn’t match the carpet, wood chairs that clash with a metallic table, or ugly barstools that don’t match your stainless steel bar? Even a vase that you bought, love, and want to keep, but don’t know how to repurpose it?

You have probably heard the terms pipe and tube used interchangeably, and there’s a good chance you aren’t exactly sure what the difference is between them. Most people, even experts working in related industries, don’t actually know. After all how different can hollow cylinders get, and who really cares enough to go and look? Well, I had to know…

Sometimes you find yourself looking for random information about a metal product or perhaps about chromium (maybe) that is good to know but quite obscure. Here's a list of useful resources, and inventions, that we found to be quite interesting.