Storefront Doors & Glass in Etobicoke
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Etobicoke and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Storefronts and glazed entrances we've installed and serviced in Etobicoke — for Exterior By Design Stucco & Stone Inc — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Recent storefront projects in Etobicoke and surrounding areas
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- Glass Aluminum Windows in Etobicoke: Storefronts for 20+ Units Across Three Buildings at 71–91 Kelfield Street
Storefronts and windows replaced on 20+ units across three buildings in Etobicoke, with three crews, a caulking specialist and deeper frames for thermal performance.
Storefront Doors & Glass across Etobicoke
We work throughout Etobicoke — Rexdale, The Queensway, Islington-City Centre, Woodbine and the blocks around them. The buildings here are mostly logistics, light manufacturing and food processing, and each puts different demands on a door: traffic volume, insurance and fire requirements, and how much downtime an opening can afford. Etobicoke’s 365,143 residents keep those buildings busy.
- Population
- 365,143
- Main industries
- logistics, light manufacturing, food processing and retail
- Building stock
- high-bay logistics and distribution warehouses, food processing and cold-storage facilities, flex-industrial and multi-tenant industrial condos and big-box retail and power centres
- Business parks
- Rexdale, The Queensway, Islington-City Centre and Woodbine
- Serving since
- 1979
- Rexdale
- The Queensway
- Islington-City Centre
- Woodbine
- Six Points
Broken storefront glass or a jammed entrance in Etobicoke: we dispatch 24/7.
Etobicoke is roughly a 15-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 Etobicoke 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 Etobicoke 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 Etobicoke storefront needs, and in what order
Most ground-floor elevations we are asked to price in Etobicoke 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 Etobicoke: the price and the date
We install what we supply and we supply on its own — contractors in Etobicoke 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 Etobicoke
Storefronts for the work Etobicoke buildings do
The sectors that dominate Etobicoke — logistics, light manufacturing, food processing — each put a different kind of traffic through the front of the building.
Logistics
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.
Light 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.
Food 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.
Retail
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.
Offices & business parks
A business-park elevation is the whole ground floor — entrance doors, a transom above and a window band running either side, thermally broken where the lobby is heated. Tenant turnover is what brings us back: a new sign, a new cylinder, and often a new entrance in an existing frame.
Healthcare & clinics
A clinic entrance is judged on whether a patient can get through it: clear width, opening force and a power operator, with the framing built to carry the operator header from the start. Adding one afterwards to framing that was never drawn for it is the expensive version of the same door.
Get a storefront quoted in Etobicoke
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
How long does a storefront take from order to installation?
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.
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.
What is the standard storefront door size?
The common commercial single leaf is 3′0″ × 7′0″, with pairs made up to 8′0″ wide and 8′0″-tall leaves where equipment has to pass. Aluminum entrance leaves are 1¾″ thick as standard. The framing around the door is not standard at all — it is cut to your rough opening, which is why a storefront is quoted from a site measure rather than from a catalogue.
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