Hollow Metal & Steel Doors in Cambridge
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Cambridge and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Hollow metal doors and frames we've installed and serviced in Cambridge — for Total Concrete, Bill Waddell Maintenance Services, Ayia Contracting Inc, Allyant Design, Builtuff Construction Inc — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Recent hollow metal & steel doors projects in Cambridge and surrounding areas
Ground Up Realty
Renowave Renovation Inc
Fox & Falcon Electric Inc
Hollow Metal & Steel Doors 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 9 hollow metal and steel door jobs in Cambridge since 2021.
- 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 hollow metal & steel doors 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.
What hollow metal doors are, and when to specify one
A hollow metal door is a steel skin over a core in a welded or knock-down steel frame. It is the default choice wherever an opening has to survive traffic, weather, forced entry or a fire code requirement — back-of-house, mechanical rooms, stairwells, loading areas and exterior service doors.
The core is chosen by the opening, not by the door
Every hollow metal door looks alike from six feet away. What separates a leaf that lasts twenty years in a plant in Cambridge from one replaced in five is what fills the cavity between the faces.
Finishes, and what winter in Cambridge does to the wrong one
Finish is the specification most often left to whoever places the order, and it decides how long the door lasts. Four answers, not interchangeable.
Frames — welded or knock-down, and the wall decides
The frame is half the assembly and most of the failures, and which one you buy is usually settled by when the wall gets built.
Supplying hollow metal doors in Cambridge — the price and the date
We install what we supply, and we supply on its own: contractors in Cambridge who hang their own doors buy leaves, frames and hardware from us as one package, prepped to the schedule.
Related hollow metal work in Cambridge
Hollow metal doors for the work Cambridge buildings do
The sectors that dominate Cambridge — advanced manufacturing, logistics, transportation and warehousing, food and beverage processing — each wear a steel door out in a different place.
Advanced manufacturing
A plant is where a steel door earns its gauge: 16-gauge or steel-stiffened leaves on the routes carts and forklifts take, and frames grouted solid into block so a knock moves the wall instead of the jamb. Dents in steel stay, so the specification is written to make them rarer, not to hide them.
Logistics, transportation and warehousing
The steel here is the man door beside the bay and the door onto the yard rather than the overhead itself: 16-gauge galvannealed leaves in welded frames, because both sides of them are outdoors. What ends them is the bottom twelve inches, where salt tracked off a loading pad sits all winter.
Food and beverage processing
Paint does not survive a sanitation schedule, so these openings go stainless — leaf, frame and hardware, seams welded and ground rather than lapped. The frame is the part that gets forgotten and the part standing in the water: a stainless door in a painted frame rusts at the floor inside a year.
Commercial retail and services
The glass is at the front and the steel is at the back — the stock-room door, the door onto the service corridor, the rear exit to the lane. The rear one is the one that gets pried, so it wants a welded frame with no gap to lever against and a leaf that does not flex when someone leans on it.
Hotels & hospitality
Guests never see this half of the building: kitchen and servery doors, the service corridor, receiving, and the stair down to the loading area. They run all night and they take carts, and they are usually changed during a refurbishment while a floor is closed anyway — which is the least expensive time to do it.
General contractors & new builds
Steel doors are a schedule rather than a purchase: every opening listed with its size, hand, frame profile and hardware prep, because nothing can be cut into a leaf after it is made. Welded frames go in with the block and knock-downs into finished drywall later, so the order the site runs in decides which you buy.
Get hollow metal doors quoted in Cambridge
Give us the sizes, whether the frame is staying, and what the opening has to put up with — weather, washdown, forklifts. A door schedule or a photo of the existing frame is enough to quote from. If a door is off its hinges or will not lock, call 800-522-6825 — the line is answered 24 hours.
Common questions about hollow metal & steel doors
What is the rough opening for a double steel door?
For a hollow metal frame with a standard two-inch face, the masonry opening is the nominal pair width plus four inches and the nominal height plus two inches — two inches of frame face at each jamb, one at the head. A 6'0" by 7'0" pair therefore needs roughly a 6'4" by 7'2" masonry opening. Crews working to a field-shimmed tolerance add about another half inch of width and a quarter inch of height so the frame can be plumbed rather than forced into place. The arithmetic uses the pair width, not the width of one leaf, and it should be confirmed against the frame schedule before the wall is built.
What is a standard exterior commercial door size?
A 3'0" by 7'0" single leaf is the commercial standard, and most rear, service and stairwell doors in Ontario are that size. Widths run from 2'0" to 4'0" in two-inch increments and heights are usually 6'8", 7'0" or 8'0", with 4'0" by 8'0" the largest standard single leaf before the door, its hinges and its frame all become custom. Standard pairs are built from two standard leaves — 6'0" by 7'0", from a pair of 3'0" doors, is the common double door. Staying on that grid is the difference between a door that ships in days and one that joins the four-to-six-week production queue.
Can you replace just the door and keep the existing frame?
Often, and it is the smaller job. If the frame is square, solidly anchored and not rusted through, a new leaf can be made to the existing frame's dimensions and hardware locations. What rules it out is a frame that has been pushed out of square, one whose anchors have let go in the masonry, or rust at the floor line that leaves nothing to fix a hinge to. We check the frame on the measure and tell you which of the two jobs it is.
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