Hollow Metal & Steel Doors in Toronto
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Toronto and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Hollow metal doors and frames we've installed and serviced in Toronto — for Allyant Design, Johnvince Foods (RS), Complete Concrete Restoration Ltd, Harold & Grace Baker Centre, Heritage Nursing Homes Inc, YCC 60 - CO Vista Property Management — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Hollow Metal & Steel Doors we've installed in Toronto
Formtek Structures Inc
TRUGRP Inc
Builtuff Construction Inc
Written up in full
- Commercial Aluminum Door Retrofit in Toronto: Eleven Entrance Systems for St. Albert Catholic School
Every entrance on a Toronto school removed and replaced in one summer: eleven Windspec 655 frames with HTP wide stile doors, insulated panels and a hollow metal service door.
- Double Metal Doors Replacement in Toronto: 17 Electrical Room Doors Replaced Across a Downtown Townhome Community
Seventeen pairs of electrical room doors replaced across a downtown Toronto townhome community, each exterior opening finished and locked the same day.
Hollow Metal & Steel Doors across Toronto
We work throughout Toronto — Downtown core, Liberty Village, Leaside, The Junction and the blocks around them. The buildings here are mostly office towers, retail and hospitality, and each puts different demands on a door: traffic volume, insurance and fire requirements, and how much downtime an opening can afford. Toronto’s 2,794,356 residents keep those buildings busy.
We have completed 302 hollow metal and steel door jobs in Toronto since 2020 — including work on Queen Street East, Kingston Road, Bloor Street West and Bathurst Street.
- Population
- 2,794,356
- Main industries
- office towers, retail, hospitality and institutional
- Building stock
- warehouse and logistics distribution centres, food processing plants and cold storage facilities, flex industrial and industrial condominiums and big-box retail and power centres
- Business parks
- Downtown core, Liberty Village, Leaside and The Junction
- Serving since
- 1979
- Downtown core
- Liberty Village
- Leaside
- The Junction
- Port Lands
Broken hollow metal & steel doors in Toronto: we dispatch 24/7.
Toronto is roughly a 30-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 Toronto from one replaced in five is what fills the cavity between the faces.
Finishes, and what winter in Toronto 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 Toronto — the price and the date
We install what we supply, and we supply on its own: contractors in Toronto who hang their own doors buy leaves, frames and hardware from us as one package, prepped to the schedule.
Related hollow metal work in Toronto
Hollow metal doors for the work Toronto buildings do
The sectors that dominate Toronto — office towers, retail, hospitality — each wear a steel door out in a different place.
Office towers
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.
Retail
The glass is at the front and the steel is at the back — the stock-room door, the door onto the service corridor, the rear exit to the lane. The rear one is the one that gets pried, so it wants a welded frame with no gap to lever against and a leaf that does not flex when someone leans on it.
Hospitality
Guests never see this half of the building: kitchen and servery doors, the service corridor, receiving, and the stair down to the loading area. They run all night and they take carts, and they are usually changed during a refurbishment while a floor is closed anyway — which is the least expensive time to do it.
Institutional
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.
Condominium 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.
Food & pharma processing
Paint does not survive a sanitation schedule, so these openings go stainless — leaf, frame and hardware, seams welded and ground rather than lapped. The frame is the part that gets forgotten and the part standing in the water: a stainless door in a painted frame rusts at the floor inside a year.
Get hollow metal doors quoted in Toronto
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 the rough opening for a double steel door?
For a hollow metal frame with a standard two-inch face, the masonry opening is the nominal pair width plus four inches and the nominal height plus two inches — two inches of frame face at each jamb, one at the head. A 6'0" by 7'0" pair therefore needs roughly a 6'4" by 7'2" masonry opening. Crews working to a field-shimmed tolerance add about another half inch of width and a quarter inch of height so the frame can be plumbed rather than forced into place. The arithmetic uses the pair width, not the width of one leaf, and it should be confirmed against the frame schedule before the wall is built.
What type of doors are best suited for exterior commercial use?
A galvannealed hollow metal door in a galvannealed welded frame, in 16 gauge or heavier where the traffic warrants it. The zinc-iron coating is what survives a salted Ontario winter; a factory-primed door left at an exterior opening will rust along the bottom rail within a season or two. Add a sweep and threshold so water leaves the opening, a thermal break where the space behind the door is heated, and stainless rather than paint where washdown or chemicals are involved. Aluminum and glass belong at the front of the building where appearance matters; steel belongs everywhere the door has a job other than being looked at.
Do you repair steel doors, or only replace them?
We repair them, and most of our steel-door calls are repairs. Frames get straightened and re-anchored, rusted bottom rails cut out and new sections welded in, hinges and closers replaced, latches and strikes realigned, and kick plates and astragals fitted. A hollow metal opening is worth repairing precisely because every part of it is a part — replacement is the answer when the frame is beyond straightening or the leaf has rusted through.
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