Storefront Doors & Glass in Scarborough
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Scarborough and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Glass and aluminum work we've installed and serviced in Scarborough — for Value Village Store, Yurt Management, Core Development — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Recent storefront projects in Scarborough and surrounding areas
Storefront elevation
Muddy York Electric
Storefront windows
Private client
Storefront entrance doors
J. McBride & Son's Ltd
Written up in full
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- Commercial Windows in Scarborough: New Storefront, Windows and High Warehouse Glazing Before a Grand Opening
All the windows and the storefront on a Scarborough commercial building replaced for its grand opening, working opening by opening around the other trades.
Storefront Doors & Glass 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.
- 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 storefront glass or a jammed entrance 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.
Aluminum storefront framing, and which series an opening in Scarborough 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 Scarborough 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 Scarborough storefront needs, and in what order
Most ground-floor elevations we are asked to price in Scarborough 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 Scarborough: the price and the date
We install what we supply and we supply on its own — contractors in Scarborough 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 Scarborough
Storefronts for the work Scarborough buildings do
The sectors that dominate Scarborough — light manufacturing, healthcare, retail — each put a different kind of traffic through the front of the building.
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.
Healthcare
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.
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.
Institutional
School and college glazing is a summer job — the elevation comes out and goes back inside one shutdown, because it cannot be phased around a timetable. Wider stiles than a shop uses, because these leaves carry exit devices and take the traffic of a bell.
Residential property management
A managed building’s ground-floor elevation is the line on the reserve-fund study nobody wants to open. Usually it does not all need replacing: fogged units, a dropped leaf and a failed perimeter joint account for most of it, quoted separately so a board can see what is repair and what is capital.
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.
Get a storefront quoted in Scarborough
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 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.
Is an aluminum storefront better than hollow metal?
They answer different questions. Aluminum carries large areas of glass on slim sightlines, never rusts, takes any anodized or powder-coat finish and is what a customer-facing entrance should be. Hollow metal is stronger, less expensive per opening and the only one of the two that can carry a fire label — which is why the front door is aluminum and the stairwell, the mechanical room and the back exit are steel. Most buildings we work on have both, and we supply both.
What are the different types of commercial storefront doors?
Four cover almost every storefront. A narrow-stile aluminum door gives the most glass and the slimmest look, and is the retail default. A medium- or wide-stile door carries heavier hardware — an exit device, a mortise lock, a closer taking real traffic — and is what an entrance used all day should have. An all-glass (frameless) door has no vertical stiles at all, on patch fittings. And an automatic sliding or swing door is any of the above with an operator on it, which is how a barrier-free entrance is usually answered.
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