Fire-Rated Doors in Aurora
Labelled steel and wood fire doors for Aurora — supplied as complete assemblies with their frames and hardware, installed, inspected against NFPA 80 and repaired within the listing. From our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Recent fire-rated door projects near Aurora
These jobs are in neighbouring cities — the same crew and the same trucks cover Aurora.
Hollow metal doors & frames
CL Design
Hollow metal doors & frames
Meadowbrook Construction Inc
Hollow metal doors & frames
Maxximum Media Inc
Fire-Rated Doors across Aurora
We work throughout Aurora — Industrial Parkway North & South Industrial Area, Aurora Business Park, Addison Hall Business Park, Wellington Street East Corridor and the blocks around them. The buildings here are mostly advanced manufacturing, food processing and logistics and financial and corporate services, and each puts different demands on a door: traffic volume, insurance and fire requirements, and how much downtime an opening can afford. Aurora’s 62,057 residents keep those buildings busy.
- Population
- 62,057
- Main industries
- advanced manufacturing, food processing and logistics, financial and corporate services and printing and packaging
- Building stock
- industrial and logistics warehouses, small-bay industrial condominiums, food processing plants and power shopping centres
- Business parks
- Industrial Parkway North & South Industrial Area, Aurora Business Park, Addison Hall Business Park and Wellington Street East Corridor
- Serving since
- 1979
- Industrial Parkway North & South Industrial Area
- Aurora Business Park
- Addison Hall Business Park
- Wellington Street East Corridor
- Yonge Street Commercial Corridor
Broken fire-rated doors in Aurora: we dispatch 24/7.
Aurora is roughly a 50-minute run from our Mississauga shop — less if a technician is already in the area — so a truck is usually on site the same day.
Emergency board-up, security and make-safe first — permanent repair scheduled after.
The two fire-rated doors a building in Aurora uses — steel and wood
A fire door is not a door with a rating written on it. It is a tested assembly — leaf, frame, hinges, closer, latch and any glazing — certified together by a body such as ULC or UL, and it performs as certified only while every part of it stays as it was listed. Which of the two materials goes into a given Aurora opening is settled by where the door sits in the building rather than by budget: steel where the door is a tool, mineral-core wood where the door is part of the interior.
Where a building in Aurora carries fire-rated openings
The rating belongs to the wall first. The Ontario Building Code assigns a fire-resistance rating to a fire separation, and the closure in it — the door — gets a matching rating. In Aurora that lands on the same handful of openings in almost every building, and the count is usually higher than the owner expects.
Related fire door work in Aurora
Fire-rated openings for the work Aurora buildings do
The sectors that dominate Aurora — advanced manufacturing, food processing and logistics, financial and corporate services — each put fire-rated doors in different places.
Advanced manufacturing
The walls that carry a rating are the ones around the process area and the electrical room, and the doors in them are steel because the leaf is in a plant. The recurring finding is a fire-rated door propped open for airflow or cable runs — the legal version of that is a magnetic hold- open tied to the alarm.
Food processing and logistics
The separation here is between the racked floor and the office block: cross-corridor and office-entry doors in a fire-rated wall, and a shipping opening usually too wide for a leaf, which closes on a rolling fire shutter instead. What fails is a frame knocked out of line by a pallet truck until the latch stops throwing.
Financial and corporate services
Stair doors are the largest single group in the building, floor by floor, usually temperature-rise rated and on exit devices. After a fit-out the two findings are always the same: a card reader drilled into a fire-rated leaf, and clearances thrown out by a new floor finish.
Health and medtech
Smoke and fire compartments cut the floor plate into sections, and those doors have to work for a bed and a crash cart as well as for the separation. Cross-corridor pairs run on hold-opens tied to the alarm, and the finished wings take wood because the door is part of the ward.
Food & pharma processing
The rating sits on the separation between production and the rest of the plant, and it has to survive washdown and a sanitation schedule. Gasketing painted over or torn out during cleaning is the commonest deficiency, and putting it back is a listing question rather than a maintenance one.
Retail & storefronts
A unit in a plaza or mall carries fire-rated openings the tenant never thinks about: the back-of-house door onto the service corridor, the stock-room separation, and the mall front itself, which on a fire-rated common area closes with a shutter or curtain on alarm rather than with the shopfront glass.
Get a fire-rated opening quoted in Aurora
Tell us the opening, the rating if you know it, and whether the frame is staying. If you are working from a deficiency list, send it — we quote from those every week. For urgent make-safe work, call 800-522-6825.
Common questions about fire-rated doors
Can wired glass still be used in fire doors?
Traditional wired glass is largely gone from new work. It passes the fire test but fails the impact requirement that now applies to hazardous locations, so new vision lites are typically fire-rated ceramic or specialty-glass products, filmed or laminated to meet impact as well. Wired glass already installed in an existing fire-rated door is generally allowed to remain until the door or the glazing is altered.
What is a fire-rated door?
A complete assembly — door, frame, hinges, closer, latch and any glazing — tested and certified to hold a fire back for a set time. It carries a label from a certification body such as ULC or UL, and the label belongs to the whole assembly rather than to the leaf. Change one certified part for an uncertified one and the opening is no longer fire-rated, which is why fire doors are specified as assemblies and never assembled from spare parts.
How long does a fire-rated door take?
Typically 4–6 weeks to produce a labelled door and frame once the shop drawings are approved, then 1–2 weeks to schedule the job and install it, depending on the size of the project. Certified assemblies are made to order with the hardware prep in the leaf, so the schedule is set by the fabrication rather than the installation. Inspections and most repairs, by contrast, are scheduled in days. Hanging a single labelled door and frame is usually a day on site; a building's worth of rated openings on a new build is scheduled over several weeks with the general contractor.
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