Security Shutters & Grilles in Cambridge
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Cambridge and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Shutters, grilles and gates we've installed and serviced in Cambridge — for True Source, WDI Group — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Recent shutter and grille projects near Cambridge
These jobs are in neighbouring cities — the same crew and the same trucks cover Cambridge.
Expandable folding security gate
Private client
Fixed bar grille
Private client
Rolling security shutter
Golden Gate Contracting Inc
Security Shutters & Grilles across Cambridge
We work throughout Cambridge — iPort Cambridge, Boxwood Industrial Park, Cambridge North Business Park, Maple Grove Industrial Area and the blocks around them. The buildings here are mostly advanced manufacturing, logistics, transportation and warehousing and food and beverage processing, and each puts different demands on a door: traffic volume, insurance and fire requirements, and how much downtime an opening can afford. Cambridge’s 138,479 residents keep those buildings busy.
We have completed 6 security shutter and grille jobs in Cambridge since 2023.
- Population
- 138,479
- Main industries
- advanced manufacturing, logistics, transportation and warehousing, food and beverage processing and commercial retail and services
- Building stock
- heavy industrial plants, high-bay warehouses and distribution facilities, food processing and cold-storage buildings and light industrial and flex plazas
- Business parks
- iPort Cambridge, Boxwood Industrial Park, Cambridge North Business Park and Maple Grove Industrial Area
- Serving since
- 1979
- iPort Cambridge
- Boxwood Industrial Park
- Cambridge North Business Park
- Maple Grove Industrial Area
- Hespeler Road Corridor
Broken shutter, grille or gate in Cambridge: we dispatch 24/7.
Cambridge is roughly a 60-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.
Which closure fits the opening
We specify to the opening rather than to one catalogue, and we service any make. Most of what goes on a Cambridge building comes from three manufacturers — Pentagon, MobilFlex and Emart — and the opening usually decides which one before the budget does.
Pentagon security shutters — storefronts, counters and houses
Pentagon build rolling security shutters in three lines, and between them they cover a shop front, a counter and a house window. We supply, install and service all three in Cambridge, and we carry the parts that fail first.
MobilFlex rolling and side-folding closures
MobilFlex, from Québec, build the closures on mall units, bank lobbies, airport shops and school serveries — the ones that must lock a space in Cambridge and still let people see into it. They come two ways: rolling up into a coil, or folding sideways into a stack at the jamb, and which one suits an opening in Cambridge is usually decided by the headroom above it.
Emart expandable security gates
An expandable, or scissor, gate is the simplest closure there is: a steel lattice that pulls across the opening and folds back to a narrow stack at the side. Emart Factory, a Toronto supplier on Magnetic Drive, sell them for storefronts, pharmacies, warehouses and homes, and we measure, fit and repair them in Cambridge — most often on a back door or a unit in Cambridge with no room for a coil.
Inside the glass, outside it, or not allowed at all in Cambridge
Three positions are possible and they are not equally available. What a Cambridge tenant may fit is often settled by somebody else before price is discussed at all.
Security shutters on houses and cottages in Cambridge
Houses are a real part of this work: basement and ground-floor windows, a cottage closed for the winter, a garage, a sliding patio door. Two products do most of it.
A shutter slows a break-in down; it does not stop one
No grille, gate or shutter makes a building in Cambridge impossible to get into. What it does is turn a ten-second smash-and-grab into a noisy job with tools — and that time is only worth something if the rest of the building uses it. Treat the closure as one layer of a security plan for the Cambridge property, not the plan itself.
What a shutter or grille costs in Cambridge, and what moves the number
Everything here is built to a measured opening, so there is no list price to quote. Three things move a number more than width does.
After hours, when it will not go up — on any make
A shutter jammed down is a business in Cambridge that cannot open, and one jammed up is a business that cannot close. We repair Pentagon, MobilFlex and Emart closures and most other makes in Cambridge, whoever installed them.
Related security work in Cambridge
Shutters and grilles for the work Cambridge buildings do
The sectors that dominate Cambridge — advanced manufacturing, logistics, transportation and warehousing, food and beverage processing — each have something different to shut away, and a different hour to do it in.
Advanced manufacturing
A plant closes fewer openings than it protects: the tool crib, the maintenance store, the office window onto the shop floor. A shutter over a service counter goes up at shift change and down at the end of it — which means the operation matters more than the specification, and a crank in an awkward corner gets left open.
Logistics, transportation and warehousing
Rolling steel shutters close the openings a dock leaves behind — the man door beside the levelers, the parts cage, the yard-facing window run. Inside, a folding grille shuts a high-value aisle off from the pick floor without walling it in. Motorised is worth it wherever the curtain is over about ten feet wide.
Food and beverage processing
Anywhere a shutter meets a wash-down or a controlled area the finish is the whole question — mill finish aluminum, powder coat, or stainless where it is hosed. Counter shutters over serveries and dispensaries close the opening without closing the room, and the guides have to be cleanable rather than merely cleaned.
Commercial retail and services
This is the trade’s home ground. A solid slat curtain outside the glass stops the glass being broken at all; a folding grille behind it keeps the window shopping while the unit is shut. Which you can have is often the landlord’s call, not yours — a mall fit-out manual usually names the closure and sometimes the finish.
Hotels & hospitality
Bars, poolside servery hatches and shop units inside the lobby, all of which shut while the building stays awake. Noise matters more here than anywhere else: a curtain running in worn guides above a guest room is a complaint, and it is usually the guides rather than the curtain.
General contractors & new builds
Shutters and grilles are ordered off the drawings and fitted near the end, which is when the opening turns out to be the size it was built rather than the size it was drawn. Head room for the barrel and a power supply at the right side are the two things worth confirming before the walls close in — both are inexpensive now and dear later.
Get a shutter or grille quoted in Cambridge
Tell us the opening — its rough width and height, whether there is headroom above it for a coil, and whether the closure goes outside the glass or behind it. If a shutter is stuck and you cannot open or close up, call 800-522-6825 — the line is answered 24 hours.
Common questions about security shutters & grilles
What goes wrong with them?
Almost always the guides and the bottom bar, not the curtain. Something catches the bottom bar, or the shutter is forced when its lock is still engaged, and the slats come out of the guide. After that: motors and limit switches on powered units, springs and barrels on manual ones, and slats damaged by an impact. Grit and salt in the guides is the winter version of the same problem. Most of it is repairable in place, and slats can be replaced individually rather than replacing a whole curtain.
Can a security shutter be motorized, and should it be?
Yes, and the honest test is how often it cycles and who cycles it. A shutter opened and closed once a day by staff can stay on a chain hoist for years. One that opens several times a day, is very wide or very heavy, or is operated by whoever is on shift, should be motorized — manual operation is where the damage comes from. A motor also brings a key switch, remote or timer, and a manual override for a power failure, which is not optional on an opening people leave through.
How long does a security shutter take to supply and install?
Typically 4–6 weeks to produce once the opening is measured and the finish is confirmed, then 1–2 weeks to schedule and install — around 5–8 weeks in total, depending on the size of the project. Every one of these is made to the opening, so nothing is off a shelf. Repairs are a different clock: common slats, guides, motors and locks are stocked, and most faults are put right in a single visit. The installation of a single shutter is usually a day, done outside trading hours where it has to be.
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