Storefront Doors & Glass in Toronto
Supply, installation and 24/7 emergency repair across Toronto and the surrounding GTA — from our shop at 14-1645 Bonhill Road, Mississauga.
Storefronts and glazed entrances we've installed and serviced in Toronto — for Direct Construction, Johnvince Foods (RS), Rendezvous Holdings, Compass Canada Support Services Limited, Canarctic LTD, Queen Medical Clinic — among many more businesses here. Dependable people, quality products, since 1979.
Storefronts we've built and glazed in Toronto
Storefront elevation
Avcon Construction Inc
Storefront entrance doors
J. McBride & Son's Ltd
Storefront windows
Balkool 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.
- Commercial Window Replacement in Toronto: 19 Aluminum Windows for Doodle All Daycare
Nineteen black anodized aluminum windows and doors across four elevations of a two-storey Toronto brick building — through an asbestos hold and a sidewalk-occupancy permit.
- Aluminum Sliding Windows in Toronto: Storefronts and Sliders Replaced Unit by Unit on Sunrise Avenue
Storefronts and sliding windows replaced unit by unit on a Toronto commercial row, in three orders, matched to the existing design in clear anodized aluminum.
- Glass Aluminum Doors in Toronto: A New Secure West Entrance and Vestibule for Temple Sinai Congregation
A new secure west entrance for Temple Sinai in Toronto: grey curtain wall, an interior glass vestibule, laminated glass and barrier-free operators, all in new openings.
- Glass Aluminum Storefront in Toronto: A Yonge Street Front Replaced for Intercity Properties
A Yonge Street storefront in Toronto removed and replaced in Windspec 655 framing, worked early in the day around a busy sidewalk and a COVID delay.
- Office Glass Partitions in Toronto: A New Curtain Wall Front and Frameless Glass Offices for Smoke Arsenal
A curtain wall front outside and frameless glass offices inside for Smoke Arsenal in Toronto: a facade job that grew into a full fit-out, through winter and COVID shortages.
Storefront Doors & Glass 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 49 storefront jobs in Toronto since 2020 — including work on Yonge Street and Dundas Street West.
- 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 storefront glass or a jammed entrance 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.
Aluminum storefront framing, and which series an opening in Toronto 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 Toronto 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 Toronto storefront needs, and in what order
Most ground-floor elevations we are asked to price in Toronto 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 Toronto: the price and the date
We install what we supply and we supply on its own — contractors in Toronto 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 Toronto
Storefronts for the work Toronto buildings do
The sectors that dominate Toronto — office towers, retail, hospitality — each put a different kind of traffic through the front of the building.
Office towers
A business-park elevation is the whole ground floor — entrance doors, a transom above and a window band running either side, thermally broken where the lobby is heated. Tenant turnover is what brings us back: a new sign, a new cylinder, and often a new entrance in an existing frame.
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.
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.
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.
Condominium 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.
Food & pharma processing
Front-of-house glazing on a processing plant is a controlled entrance: an aluminum entry into a vestibule, sidelites either side, and hardware that latches every time because the room past it is pressure-controlled. Anodized rather than painted — the finish gets washed as often as the floor does.
Get a storefront quoted in Toronto
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 type of glass is used in a storefront?
Exterior storefronts are almost always 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 outer lite tempered where the Ontario Building Code requires safety glazing. Glass in and beside a door is always a safety glazing location. Interior storefront and partition glazing is usually monolithic 6 mm tempered, and laminated glass replaces tempered where security, sound or fragment retention matters.
How long does a storefront take from order to installation?
Plan on 4–6 weeks to fabricate the framing and the glass once the measure and the shop drawings are approved, then 1–2 weeks to schedule the crew and install it — so roughly 5–8 weeks in total, depending on the size of the project. What usually sets the schedule is the glass rather than the aluminum: tempered and insulating units are made to size and cannot be recut. A broken opening does not wait for any of that — we board it up the same night and glaze when the unit lands. Installing a single entrance or a small storefront is usually a day on site; a large front or a new plaza for a general contractor runs over several weeks.
Can an aluminum storefront be fire-rated?
A standard aluminum storefront cannot carry a fire label. Aluminum softens well below the temperature a rated assembly has to survive, so where an opening needs a rating we put a labelled hollow-metal or rated wood assembly in it instead, with rated vision glazing if it still has to be seen through. Specialist steel-framed fire-rated glazing systems exist for glazed rated openings; they are a different product and a different price from ordinary storefront framing.
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