A fire door is not a door that happens to be made of steel. It is a tested assembly, and the thing being tested was never the door leaf by itself. It was the leaf, the frame, the hinges, the latch, the closer, the gasketing and the way all of it was installed, evaluated together […]

When an entrance door on a commercial or multi-unit building in Ontario finally has to be replaced, the choice usually narrows to two: an aluminum and glass assembly, or a hollow metal door in a steel frame. They look like alternatives. They behave like different species. Neither one is better in general. Each fails in […]

Most people call three companies about a garage door, write the numbers on the back of an envelope, and then stare at the envelope wondering how one door produced three different answers. It is a fair reaction. The spread is often wide enough to look like somebody is wrong. Usually nobody is wrong. The quotes […]

Walk an older Toronto retail strip on a Monday morning and you can pick out the doors that are about to become a service call. One leans a few degrees out of square at the top. One has a closer arm hanging slack so the door drifts shut and never latches. One has a sheet […]

If you have ever come home after a long Toronto rain and found a dark line on the floor just inside the front door, the door itself is probably fine. What has failed is the narrow strip of hardware at the bottom of the opening, and sometimes the part of the frame that strip is […]