Door installation and repair in Barrie

Industrial doors are the heavy-duty end of the same family — the doors that move vehicles, pallets and air rather than people. Rolling steel, high-speed fabric, sectional overhead, dock equipment and impact traffic doors all sit here. They are specified by cycle count and opening size rather than by appearance, and they usually come with a motor, which means they need scheduled service.

There is no useful single number and a "from" price would mislead: a single aluminum entrance door in existing framing and a rebuilt two-storey glazed elevation are different orders of magnitude. What moves the price is the glazed area, the glass make-up, whether the framing is thermally broken, the door count and hardware, whether the existing framing is reused, the finish, and whether the work has to happen after hours. We measure the opening and send a firm, itemised quote at no charge.

Often, and it is one of the details that gets missed on a retrofit quotation. Where a door is on an egress route or in a rated separation, its behaviour on alarm has to be specified — some doors are required to open and stay open, others to close and latch, and holding a rated door open on a magnet is only permitted where it releases on alarm. The rule follows the opening's role in the building, not the operator's brand, so it is decided with the door, not after it.

A primed steel door left unpainted at an exterior opening will, particularly along the bottom rail where salt and meltwater sit. The specification that prevents it is galvannealed steel — a zinc-iron coating bonded to the sheet before the door is made, which paint holds to and which keeps rusting from spreading under a scratch. We specify galvannealed on every exterior opening and stainless where washdown or chemicals are involved.

Only if the opening is in a fire-rated wall or separation — and then it is a legal requirement rather than a choice. A fire shutter is a different, labelled product that closes automatically on alarm and has to be drop- tested to prove it still does. A security shutter in the same opening does not satisfy the code. We build both, and the fire-rated ones live on their own page with the inspection they require.

Plan on 4–6 weeks to fabricate the framing and the glass once the measure and the shop drawings are approved, then 1–2 weeks to schedule the crew and install it — so roughly 5–8 weeks in total, depending on the size of the project. What usually sets the schedule is the glass rather than the aluminum: tempered and insulating units are made to size and cannot be recut. A broken opening does not wait for any of that — we board it up the same night and glaze when the unit lands. Installing a single entrance or a small storefront is usually a day on site; a large front or a new plaza for a general contractor runs over several weeks.