Fire-Rated Doors in Bradford
Labelled steel and wood fire doors for Bradford — 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.
Hollow metal doors and frames we've installed and serviced in Bradford — for Onward Contracting, Maple Reinders Constructors Ltd — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
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Fire-Rated Doors across Bradford
We work throughout Bradford — Highway 400 Prestige Employment Lands, Artesian Industrial Business Park, Reagens Industrial Park, Holland Street Corridor and the blocks around them. The buildings here are mostly construction and contracting, manufacturing and industrial engineering and transportation, freight and logistics, and each puts different demands on a door: traffic volume, insurance and fire requirements, and how much downtime an opening can afford. Bradford’s 42,880 residents keep those buildings busy.
- Population
- 42,880
- Main industries
- construction and contracting, manufacturing and industrial engineering, transportation, freight and logistics and agri-food processing and cold-chain logistics
- Building stock
- large-format warehouses and distribution hubs, heavy manufacturing and remanufacturing facilities, cold storage and agri-food processing plants and industrial flex and condominium complexes
- Business parks
- Highway 400 Prestige Employment Lands, Artesian Industrial Business Park, Reagens Industrial Park and Holland Street Corridor
- Serving since
- 1979
- Highway 400 Prestige Employment Lands
- Artesian Industrial Business Park
- Reagens Industrial Park
- Holland Street Corridor
- Dissette Street / Bridge Street Corridor
Broken fire-rated doors in Bradford: we dispatch 24/7.
Bradford is roughly a 65-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 Bradford 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 Bradford 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 Bradford 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 Bradford 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 Bradford
Fire-rated openings for the work Bradford buildings do
The sectors that dominate Bradford — construction and contracting, manufacturing and industrial engineering, transportation, freight and logistics — each put fire-rated doors in different places.
Construction and contracting
Fire-rated openings are scheduled against the fire separations on the drawings, with the hardware settled before fabrication because nothing can be prepped afterwards. Fire-rated doors are made to order, so the shop sets the date and the install follows it.
Manufacturing and industrial engineering
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.
Transportation, freight 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.
Retail and commercial trade
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.
Offices & business parks
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.
Healthcare & clinics
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.
Get a fire-rated opening quoted in Bradford
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 fire ratings do doors come in?
20, 45, 60, 90 and 180 minutes are the standard ratings. Which one an opening needs is set by the fire separation it sits in, not by preference: the Ontario Building Code assigns a fire-resistance rating to the wall, and the door in it gets a matching closure rating. Some openings, notably in exit stairs, also carry a temperature-rise limit so the far face of the door stays cool enough to pass.
What makes a fire door fail an inspection?
Almost always the things people do to make a door convenient. Held open with a wedge or a hook, painted over or missing labels, a closer removed or disconnected, a latch that does not throw, gaps at the frame outside the permitted range, holes drilled for a new lock or card reader, and glazing or kick plates that were never part of the listing. Fire and structural damage show up too, but the common failures are alterations, not accidents.
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