Starting a Welding Business

i want to start a big welding business.

I just got a truck a welder a cutting torch setup and every tool necessary. How do i go about licensing and insurance?

i started my own mobil welding 7 months ago i knocked on farmers doors or where ever you may think of something may need welded and after about a month i been busy and making great income from it been averaging around 1800 a week remember do good work and the word will spread and if you do bad work you will be out of business.

I want to startup my own mobile welding business, but don't know how to get started, I've got the experience in all fields in the welding industry and also got all the equipment too get myself going, but just don't know how to find the customers. Can you please give me some ideas to get me started, because i have the encouragement and the motivation to start but just don't know how. cheers

I see a lot of questions that I might have asked however I don't see any answers

i've been thinking of a portable welding business. i live in east Tennessee. do i need a state business license. or one for every county/city i work in as a contractor. and what should my insurance limits be. I am certified as a combination welder where I can weld various metals in all welding positions using the Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) process; Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) process, also known as Metal Inert Gas or MIG welding; and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), also known as Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG), Oxy-Acetylene and Plasma Arc Cutting processes, Tack welding (core),

I'LL LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO START MY WELDING BUSINESS. WHAT I NEED TO DO TO GET STARTED?

I am here to answer some of the questions posted on this site. Although I am new to welding and am taking classes to become certified, I have realized there are endless opportunities with welding fabrication. Every where I look I usually see something that is welded.

There are many businesses that you could start on your own and link welding into your business. For instance in my state, you do not need a license to become a landscape maintenance "guy" but most only offer landscape duties to be performed. When you become certified or have enough welding experience to start, add that to the list of duties.

Another can be starting your own custom iron fence company, I mainly see the average houses with wood or chain linked fences. you could make those types of fences affordable for everyone, and offer warranties and other amenities that set you apart from the rest.

Also bike frames (bicycle or motorcycle frames) make your own design from a design. customize other bikes. and just sell the frames let the hobbyist build his own bike and partner up with engine companies to get discounts for your customer to buy those engine parts at a discount.

Another business you could start is if you love classic cars as I do, and you want to restore or replicate you could fabricate chassis to standards and sell these cars, chassis, and other parts that are welded on those cars. If this would be your interest I would definitely familiarize yourself with fiberglass composites and other necessary items(upholstery)to make these projects work. also there is a great interest in go karts these days. Copy the plans, change it up a little, and then see how much you can sell it for. If you profit more than you spend on materials and time spent building it, you have a profitable company. Make mini replica roadsters or any other hot rods, muscle cars or exotic cars. I learned how to use fiberglass in just under two weeks no schooling required, just the internet and you tube. Who knows maybe you will want to quit welding and make custom interiors and speaker boxes for cars?

Another business could be your own mobile welding business, lets face it, metal rusts and in time those welds become weak and need to be taken care of. go look around your house and make a list of what is welded and what you would like to do and price what you think its worth. then have someone come look at it. and note there price and meet in the middle or just under theres. From all the research that I have seen online about these types of businesses you really need to be a great welder, so don't just go buy a welding machine and think you have what it takes because you have a machine. Get certified through your local community college (for all of the above first).

Another business is, start making art from metal, people love these types of things to place in there yards, offices and wherever else. sell your own creativity on ebay, craigslist or whatever internet site you use but make sure it is something that catches eyes (make it and introduce it to your family and friends to get a reaction mainly people you do not see all the time you need bad ratings to improve your product).lol make sure I don't see it because I will copy it and sell it for cheaper. just kidding.

A cheap welder to buy that is great for welding up to 1/4 metal which is typical with a small business is the hobart handler 140 mig welder can cost any where from $350-600 bucks. If you have money buy that miller you want. make sure it has a gas option.

Remember anything that was created by metal can be duplicated just add your own flavor and you have a custom piece of metal that no one else has. And if you do replicate beat prices from everyone around you and offer the best deals with warranties.

A business to me is not just about the product its about the customers the more you have the better off you will be. so be presentable make clothes, fliers, brochures, price list pamphlets, and other company material with logos. and wake up every morning at 5am and pass those flyers out to peoples' door steps. Do projects and take pictures of everything so you have proof that your work is the best. DO NOT COME TO MY STATE YOUR BUSINESS WILL FAIL!!! Just playing

For those who don't know how to open a business become certified and then call your county or state employment office to learn how to start your own company. I don't recommend this but people do it anyway just weld. Then when you have the money saved up get your company under wraps.

Recommend getting familiar with Microsoft office(power point, excel, word 2007) to make brochures and flyers. I create business flyers and brochures for $49.99 but save your money and do it yourself. You need to learn that stuff. Any other questions just ask me. I might have some Ideas for you. Your own landscaping business could be the easiest I think.

I am just an unemployed person with a family trying to find the solution. So if you have something bad to say about me just keep it to yourself because nobody cares that you waste your time to go out of your way to insult my ideas.

I am going to start a portable welding business. I want to start out welding pipe and cable fence and other welding on near by ranches. If I already have the equipment. How much money should I have saved up for buying materials alone?

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i live in interlachen, fl 32148 united states. trying to find something to build for large businesses from my home, like maybe small parts to be fabricated then welded... i'm unemployed and where i live its hard to find a welding job so i was thinking maybe i should make a fab/weld opportunity for others without a job like me... i just havent found a good idea just yet but need to find something soon... i have many a.w.s. certs plus i'm sense 1 certified... looking to start my business soon so if any ideas thrown my way would be greatly appreciated, thanks... branden hayre

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Hi my goal is to start my own small business I plan to do welding iron fences custom wood fence and power washing driveways and homes I plan to advertise with passing out flyers in rich homes and small businesses I will make business cards and sooner or later make shirts u think this will work email me please let me know what else I should do or how to make this work please

I'm a 27 year old currently unemployed with a small family i'm a structural steel welder/fabricator and i want to know what i have to do to start up my own(being i'm the only employee) business building and installing wrought iron fences and security screens and also where i can get help with funding to start

B-14 2401 southwest 31st place Hallandale FL, 33009. I'm 36 year old from new jersey and moved to Florida a year ago. I rented a garage and I have a miller bobcat225 generator, millermatic 211 mig welder and a miller tig syncrowave 250. I've worked for the plastic industry making machines and parts for 17 years and I'm trying to target that industry . I really don't know how to market myself but I'm very knowledgeable on the mechanical part of it and I have I portfolio of some machines and parts the plastic companies use. Thanks for the input