Hollow Metal & Steel Doors in Kitchener
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Kitchener and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Hollow metal doors and frames we've installed and serviced in Kitchener — for Evanstone Homes Inc, Edge Group Ltd, Meadowbrook Construction Inc, A & H Metal Products, Neutral Contracting Group Inc, Renowave Renovation Inc — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Recent hollow metal & steel doors projects in Kitchener and surrounding areas
Renowave Renovation Inc
Ground Up Realty
Fox & Falcon Electric Inc
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- Hollow Metal Doors in Kitchener: 15 Stairwell Doors with Sidelites for the Grand River Hospital Parking Garage
Fifteen hollow metal stairwell doors with sidelites and heavy-duty hardware in a hospital parking garage in Kitchener, installed one stairwell at a time while it stayed open.
Hollow Metal & Steel Doors across Kitchener
We work throughout Kitchener — Huron Business Park, Bridgeport Business Park, Grand River Business Park, Trillium Industrial Park and the blocks around them. The buildings here are mostly advanced manufacturing and automotive parts, technology and digital media and health care, institutional and life sciences, and each puts different demands on a door: traffic volume, insurance and fire requirements, and how much downtime an opening can afford. Kitchener’s 256,885 residents keep those buildings busy.
We have completed 10 hollow metal and steel door jobs in Kitchener since 2022.
- Population
- 256,885
- Main industries
- advanced manufacturing and automotive parts, technology and digital media, health care, institutional and life sciences and financial, insurance and professional services
- Building stock
- warehouse and logistics buildings, manufacturing and heavy industrial plants, food processing facilities and strip retail plazas and neighbourhood shopping centres
- Business parks
- Huron Business Park, Bridgeport Business Park, Grand River Business Park and Trillium Industrial Park
- Serving since
- 1979
- Huron Business Park
- Bridgeport Business Park
- Grand River Business Park
- Trillium Industrial Park
- Lancaster Corporate Centre
Broken hollow metal & steel doors in Kitchener: we dispatch 24/7.
Kitchener is roughly a 70-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 Kitchener from one replaced in five is what fills the cavity between the faces.
Finishes, and what winter in Kitchener 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 Kitchener — the price and the date
We install what we supply, and we supply on its own: contractors in Kitchener who hang their own doors buy leaves, frames and hardware from us as one package, prepped to the schedule.
Related hollow metal work in Kitchener
Hollow metal doors for the work Kitchener buildings do
The sectors that dominate Kitchener — advanced manufacturing and automotive parts, technology and digital media, health care, institutional and life sciences — each wear a steel door out in a different place.
Advanced manufacturing and automotive parts
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.
Technology and digital media
Every floor holds more steel than anyone counts: mechanical and electrical rooms, janitor closets, the service corridor behind the elevator lobby. After a fit-out the work is matching them — one paint colour and one frame profile across a floor that has been renovated three times in twenty years.
Health care, institutional and life sciences
Doors on a ward route are hit by beds and carts all day, so the leaf takes a heavier gauge, a full-height kick plate and a continuous hinge instead of three butts. Soiled utility and sterilising rooms are washed down, which puts stainless on the list for a handful of openings rather than for the whole floor.
Wholesale, logistics and retail trade
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.
Schools & institutions
A school corridor is the hardest wear a steel door gets — leaned on, kicked, wedged open — and the answer is gauge and a properly anchored frame rather than a better closer. The other half of the job is the odd sizes an older wing was built to, which is why none of it is quoted from a catalogue.
Condos & property management
These are the doors a manager replaces one at a time: garbage and locker rooms, roof access, and the door off the parking ramp that takes every winter’s salt off the cars. That one goes first and always at the bottom rail — worth galvannealed, and worth a frame that can be cut out and rewelded at grade.
Get hollow metal doors quoted in Kitchener
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 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.
What is the difference between a hollow metal door and a steel door?
In commercial work, nothing — hollow metal is what the trade calls a commercial steel door, and the two terms are used interchangeably on drawings and in quotes. A "commercial-grade" door means exactly this assembly: a steel leaf built to an ANSI/SDI level, hung in a steel frame, prepped at the factory for commercial hardware. The distinction worth making is against residential steel entry doors: those are an insulated slab in a wood or composite frame, sold as a finished unit, and they are not built for continuous traffic, commercial hardware or a fire label. They are a different product with a different price, and we supply those too — ask for the residential line rather than this one.
How long does a steel door take to arrive?
Typically 4–6 weeks to produce a door and frame once the shop drawings are approved, then 1–2 weeks to schedule the job and install it, depending on the size of the project. Stock-size doors in a common gauge and prep can be much faster; rated assemblies, custom sizes, galvannealed and stainless leaves and anything with unusual hardware prep set the schedule. Once it arrives, one door and frame is usually a day's work on site, while a full door schedule on a construction project runs for several weeks.
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