Practical guides, maintenance tips, and expert advice on commercial, residential, and industrial doors, windows, and glass across Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area.
How Often Should Fire Doors Be Inspected? Fire doors don’t fail loudly — they fail quietly, usually because a closer got disconnected, a gap opened up past code, or a door was propped open “just for today” and never checked again. Ontario’s Fire Code doesn’t leave inspection frequency to guesswork: fire doors and their assemblies have a defined inspection schedule,
Signs Your Storefront Door Needs Repair Storefront door repair. Your storefront door opens more times in a day than almost anything else in the building — and it’s usually the last thing that gets budgeted for until it’s visibly broken. A door that’s just a little harder to open, a little noisier, or a little draftier isn’t a cosmetic issue:
Steel vs Hollow Metal Doors “Steel door” and “hollow metal door” get used interchangeably on almost every quote request we get — and most of the time that’s fine, because they usually are the same thing. But not always, and the difference matters more than the name suggests: gauge, core fill, and fire rating decide whether a door holds up
If your storefront, clinic, or office entrance in Toronto, Mississauga, or anywhere else in the GTA opens automatically, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) sets specific rules for how it has to open, close, and signal itself — and getting it wrong usually shows up as a failed inspection, an accessibility complaint, or a door that just doesn’t