Storefront Doors & Glass in Cambridge
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Cambridge and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Glass and aluminum work we've installed and serviced in Cambridge — for Unique Landscaping Inc, Decor Shade Systems Inc, Allyant Design, MAFNA Air Technologies Inc — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Recent storefront projects in Cambridge and surrounding areas
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Storefront Doors & Glass 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.
- 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 storefront glass or a jammed entrance 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.
Aluminum storefront framing, and which series an opening in Cambridge takes
Framing is bought by series, and three things separate one from the next: how deep the frame is, where the glass sits in that depth, and how the corners go together. None of it shows from the pavement; all of it sets the price.
The hardware in a storefront entrance, and what goes first
The glass and the framing almost never fail. What wears out on an entrance in Cambridge is the ironmongery holding the leaf up and pulling it shut, and that is what most storefront service calls turn out to be.
Why a storefront leaks, and it is almost never the glass
Aluminum framing is a drained system, not a sealed one. Water gets past the outer face, runs down an internal gutter behind the glazing pocket and leaves through weeps at the sill. When it shows up inside, one of those three stages has been interrupted — and new glass fixes none of them.
What a 25-year-old Cambridge storefront needs, and in what order
Most ground-floor elevations we are asked to price in Cambridge do not need replacing. The useful question at the survey is which three or four things are due now, and in what order.
Supplying a storefront 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 buy the package cut and prepped to the schedule. Four things move the number more than size does.
Related storefront work in Cambridge
Storefronts for the work Cambridge buildings do
The sectors that dominate Cambridge — advanced manufacturing, logistics, transportation and warehousing, food and beverage processing — each put a different kind of traffic through the front of the building.
Advanced manufacturing
A plant’s storefront is the front office bolted onto a steel building, and the two halves age differently. The framing is usually sound; what lets water in is the joint where aluminum meets precast. The elevation can be rebuilt without touching the production wall behind it.
Logistics, transportation and warehousing
The elevation on a distribution building is the office end of it — a glazed entrance and a window band onto the visitor lot, everything behind it steel. It sees less traffic than a shop door and more abuse than anyone plans for, because it is also the door drivers come through with paperwork in both hands.
Food and beverage processing
Front-of-house glazing on a processing plant is a controlled entrance: an aluminum entry into a vestibule, sidelites either side, and hardware that latches every time because the room past it is pressure-controlled. Anodized rather than painted — the finish gets washed as often as the floor does.
Commercial retail and services
This is the opening the system was drawn for: a narrow-stile leaf, the widest glass the opening allows, and a closer sized to the door traffic rather than to the frame. The work happens after close, bay by bay and hoarded overnight, so the store trades in the morning.
Hotels & hospitality
A restaurant front is the marketing, so the framing finish matters as much as the glass — dark anodized or powder-coated aluminum, and a leaf that takes a whole evening of traffic. Installation goes in on the nights the kitchen is closed, and that sequence is quoted with the product rather than after it.
General contractors & new builds
Contractors price storefront off the glazing and door schedules, and three answers set the number: which series the elevation is drawn in, what the glass make-up is, and the date it lands on site. Supply-only is normal here — a crew that hangs its own doors buys the package prepped.
Get a storefront quoted in Cambridge
Tell us the elevation — its rough width and height, whether the framing is staying, and what your trading hours are, because the sequence is most of the price. A photo from across the street is enough to start. Working from drawings? Send the glazing and door schedules and we quote to them.
Common questions about storefront doors & glass
What type of glass is used in a storefront?
Exterior storefronts are almost always glazed with a 1″ sealed insulating unit — two lites around an argon or air cavity — with a low-E coating on one surface and the outer lite tempered where the Ontario Building Code requires safety glazing. Glass in and beside a door is always a safety glazing location. Interior storefront and partition glazing is usually monolithic 6 mm tempered, and laminated glass replaces tempered where security, sound or fragment retention matters.
How much does an aluminum storefront cost?
It depends on the glazed area, the glass make-up, whether the framing is thermally broken, how many doors are in it and what hardware they carry — a single door in existing framing and a rebuilt elevation are not the same order of number, so a "from" price would mislead. Two things move it more than buyers expect: a thermally broken frame, and working after hours to keep the store trading. We measure and send a firm, itemised quote at no charge.
Can you replace a storefront without closing the store?
Yes, and for retail it is the normal way we do it. The elevation comes out and goes back in section by section, with temporary hoarding over anything left open, and the work is scheduled overnight or on your quietest day. Say at the quote stage what your trading hours are and the sequence gets built around them — retrofitting that constraint afterwards is what turns a four-night job into a two-week one.
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