Door installation and repair in Newmarket

Typically 4–6 weeks to produce the door once shop drawings are approved, then 1–2 weeks to schedule the job and install it — about 5–8 weeks in total, depending on the size of the project. Sliders sit at the longer end of that range because the operator, the framing and the tempered glass all have to land together, and a missing lite holds the whole entrance. The install itself is usually a day or two per opening, and it is routinely scheduled overnight so the entrance is working when the building opens.

Only if they are made for it. A standard traffic door on a cold opening will sweat, ice up around the edges and eventually fail, because it is not insulated and its gasketing is not designed for the temperature difference. Cold-room openings need insulated panels, gasketing rated for the temperature, and often heaters in the frame. It is a different product at a different price, and substituting a standard door is a false economy that shows up within a winter.

Typically 4–6 weeks to produce a stainless 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. Stainless is a made-to-order product in almost every case — grade, finish, gauge, core and hardware prep are all specified per opening, and there is no stock equivalent to pull from. Once delivered, one stainless door and frame is usually a day's work on site.

Far enough that the trailer stops before it reaches anything behind it — which means the bumper must stand proud of the compressed depth of your dock seal, not its relaxed depth. Four inches of projection is a common minimum on a plain dock face, and more is needed where a seal or shelter is fitted or where the dock face is set back. This is the single most common error we find: correctly sized bumpers that do not project far enough, because the seal in front of them was never accounted for.

Exterior storefront bays are 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 glass is tempered where it is in or beside a door, which the Ontario Building Code treats as a safety-glazing location. Interior storefront and partition glazing is usually monolithic 6 mm tempered. Where a bay has been broken more than once, laminated glass is the upgrade worth pricing.

Tape holds fragments together for photographs and nothing else — it does not make an opening secure or weathertight, and it leaves loose glass in a frame above a pavement. The real answer is a board-up: the remaining glass is cleared out, and plywood is cut and fixed into the frame so the building locks tonight. Ours is done with the glazing stops so the frame is not damaged, and the plywood comes out the day the new unit goes in.