Security Shutters & Grilles in Scarborough
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Scarborough and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Shutters, grilles and gates we've installed and serviced in Scarborough — for Modern Pro Contract And Ink, True Source — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Recent shutter and grille projects near Scarborough
These jobs are in neighbouring cities — the same crew and the same trucks cover Scarborough.
Rolling security shutter
Formtek Structures Inc
Expandable folding security gate
Private client
Security Shutters & Grilles across Scarborough
We work throughout Scarborough — Golden Mile, Tapscott industrial area, Progress Avenue and Scarborough Junction. The buildings here are mostly light manufacturing, healthcare and retail, and each puts different demands on a door: traffic volume, insurance and fire requirements, and how much downtime an opening can afford. Scarborough’s 629,941 residents keep those buildings busy.
We have completed 7 security shutter and grille jobs in Scarborough since 2021.
- Population
- 629,941
- Main industries
- light manufacturing, healthcare, retail and institutional
- Building stock
- logistics and warehousing distribution centres, food processing and cold storage facilities, flex industrial and industrial condominiums and strip retail plazas and commercial centres
- Business parks
- Golden Mile, Tapscott industrial area, Progress Avenue and Scarborough Junction
- Serving since
- 1979
- Golden Mile
- Tapscott industrial area
- Progress Avenue
- Scarborough Junction
Broken shutter, grille or gate in Scarborough: we dispatch 24/7.
Scarborough is roughly a 45-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.
Which closure fits the opening
We specify to the opening rather than to one catalogue, and we service any make. Most of what goes on a Scarborough building comes from three manufacturers — Pentagon, MobilFlex and Emart — and the opening usually decides which one before the budget does.
Pentagon security shutters — storefronts, counters and houses
Pentagon build rolling security shutters in three lines, and between them they cover a shop front, a counter and a house window. We supply, install and service all three in Scarborough, and we carry the parts that fail first.
MobilFlex rolling and side-folding closures
MobilFlex, from Québec, build the closures on mall units, bank lobbies, airport shops and school serveries — the ones that must lock a space in Scarborough and still let people see into it. They come two ways: rolling up into a coil, or folding sideways into a stack at the jamb, and which one suits an opening in Scarborough is usually decided by the headroom above it.
Emart expandable security gates
An expandable, or scissor, gate is the simplest closure there is: a steel lattice that pulls across the opening and folds back to a narrow stack at the side. Emart Factory, a Toronto supplier on Magnetic Drive, sell them for storefronts, pharmacies, warehouses and homes, and we measure, fit and repair them in Scarborough — most often on a back door or a unit in Scarborough with no room for a coil.
Inside the glass, outside it, or not allowed at all in Scarborough
Three positions are possible and they are not equally available. What a Scarborough tenant may fit is often settled by somebody else before price is discussed at all.
Security shutters on houses and cottages in Scarborough
Houses are a real part of this work: basement and ground-floor windows, a cottage closed for the winter, a garage, a sliding patio door. Two products do most of it.
A shutter slows a break-in down; it does not stop one
No grille, gate or shutter makes a building in Scarborough impossible to get into. What it does is turn a ten-second smash-and-grab into a noisy job with tools — and that time is only worth something if the rest of the building uses it. Treat the closure as one layer of a security plan for the Scarborough property, not the plan itself.
What a shutter or grille costs in Scarborough, and what moves the number
Everything here is built to a measured opening, so there is no list price to quote. Three things move a number more than width does.
After hours, when it will not go up — on any make
A shutter jammed down is a business in Scarborough that cannot open, and one jammed up is a business that cannot close. We repair Pentagon, MobilFlex and Emart closures and most other makes in Scarborough, whoever installed them.
Related security work in Scarborough
Shutters and grilles for the work Scarborough buildings do
The sectors that dominate Scarborough — light manufacturing, healthcare, retail — each have something different to shut away, and a different hour to do it in.
Light manufacturing
A plant closes fewer openings than it protects: the tool crib, the maintenance store, the office window onto the shop floor. A shutter over a service counter goes up at shift change and down at the end of it — which means the operation matters more than the specification, and a crank in an awkward corner gets left open.
Healthcare
Pharmacy windows, records rooms, cash and specimen hatches. The closure is usually small, always locked, and inspected as part of the department rather than the building — and on an exit route it has to be openable from inside without a key, which rules some hardware out before price does.
Retail
This is the trade’s home ground. A solid slat curtain outside the glass stops the glass being broken at all; a folding grille behind it keeps the window shopping while the unit is shut. Which you can have is often the landlord’s call, not yours — a mall fit-out manual usually names the closure and sometimes the finish.
Institutional
Canteens, tuck shops, gyms and libraries inside a building that stays open around them. A folding grille across a corridor closes a wing after hours and stacks flat against a jamb in the morning; a counter shutter closes the servery without closing the hall. Exit routes govern both.
Residential property management
Parking entries, bike and locker rooms, amenity counters and the party room bar. The board’s problem is usually not the first fitting but the eleventh year — a curtain nobody has serviced, a motor with no manual override, and a shutter stuck half down across the only vehicle entrance at seven in the morning.
Hotels & hospitality
Bars, poolside servery hatches and shop units inside the lobby, all of which shut while the building stays awake. Noise matters more here than anywhere else: a curtain running in worn guides above a guest room is a complaint, and it is usually the guides rather than the curtain.
Get a shutter or grille quoted in Scarborough
Tell us the opening — its rough width and height, whether there is headroom above it for a coil, and whether the closure goes outside the glass or behind it. If a shutter is stuck and you cannot open or close up, call 800-522-6825 — the line is answered 24 hours.
Common questions about security shutters & grilles
Should a security shutter go inside or outside?
Inside where you can. An interior shutter is out of the weather, out of reach of vandalism and graffiti, keeps the shopfront looking like a shopfront, and rarely needs a permit or landlord approval for appearance. Exterior mounting wins when there is no interior room for the coil and guides, when the glass itself needs protecting from impact rather than the goods behind it, or when the opening has no glazing at all. Heritage and BIA districts often have a view on this, and it is worth asking before ordering.
Can security shutters be fitted to a house?
Yes. Rolling shutters go on basement and ground-floor windows, patio and entry doors, garages and cottages closed for the winter, and Pentagon build a residential line for exactly that. For a sliding patio door an expandable folding gate locked from inside is the simpler option. Any window or door that is a way out in a fire has to stay openable from inside, which we check before quoting.
What goes wrong with them?
Almost always the guides and the bottom bar, not the curtain. Something catches the bottom bar, or the shutter is forced when its lock is still engaged, and the slats come out of the guide. After that: motors and limit switches on powered units, springs and barrels on manual ones, and slats damaged by an impact. Grit and salt in the guides is the winter version of the same problem. Most of it is repairable in place, and slats can be replaced individually rather than replacing a whole curtain.
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