Three branches: Ottawa, Mississauga and London
The City of London sells serviced land in four city-owned industrial parks: Huron, Innovation, Skyway and Trafalgar. A building going up on one of those lots has its overhead doors drawn before its walls, and that is the cheapest moment to get them right.
The London branch supplies, installs and services commercial sectional and rolling steel doors from 1003 Farnham Rd in Westmount, for new buildings and old ones; call (226) 270-9715. How the two door types differ is on the commercial doors page.
On a new building the door takes up space in the structure. A sectional door needs headroom above the opening for its track to turn, and backroom behind it for the horizontal run, and that space is also where sprinkler lines, lights and crane rails want to go.
A rolling steel door needs almost no backroom, but it needs room above the opening for its coil and its hood, and width at each jamb for the guides. Whichever it is, the drawings should show it before the building steel and the mechanical layout are fixed.
Three more things are cheaper to settle on paper than on site: the operator's mounting and its power, which is a line on the electrical drawings; the bollards or guards that stop a truck meeting the door frame; and the cycle count the door will run, which sizes the spring.
A loading door specified for a few cycles a day and then run all shift comes back with a broken spring in its first years. Bring the architect's door schedule, or the openings, to the branch while the design is still moving.
Past the city limits the commercial door is usually on a farm building. Middlesex County counts 2,352 farms across 246,592 hectares, and a machine shed door is a wide, tall sectional door sized to the tallest thing that drives through it, on a building nobody heats. Uninsulated steel is common there.
What matters more is the wind: a big door on the side of an open field wants heavier struts and track than its size alone suggests, and a bottom seal that copes with a gravel apron rather than a smooth slab. The operator for those doors, and the power they need, is on commercial openers in London.
The same doors go on buildings well outside the city. The branch covers garage door repair in Woodstock and garage door repair in Ingersoll east along the 401, garage door repair in Tillsonburg to the south-east, and garage doors in Sarnia about 100 km west on the 402. Each of those towns has its own building department, so a new or widened opening there goes through that municipality, not London's.
On a commercial building the trade word is overhead door, and it means the same product. Where a unit is a workshop people stand in all winter, an insulated sectional door is worth its weight; where it is cold storage for equipment, a single-skin door and a heavier spring pack are usually the better use of the budget.
Overhead doors in London, Ontario's industrial zones open onto a loading space the City has already sized. Section 4.13 of Zoning By-law Z.-1 sets a loading space in an industrial zone at no less than 3.6 m wide and 20.0 m long, with 4.5 m of vertical clearance, and in the other zones that require one at 3.6 m by 9.0 m with 4.25 m.
Required spaces go in the side or rear yard, never on a street or a lane, and the driveway to them has to be at least 3.6 m wide.
Those are minimums for the space, not sizes for the door, but a truck that fits one has to pass through the other. The by-law writes 4.5 m as 15.0 feet, and a drive-in door well under that height at the head of an industrial bay limits what can back into it.
The door's height, the headroom its track or coil needs and the operator above it are then sized together.
For an existing building, the job is usually a door that has been hit, a spring or cable gone on a door that runs all day, or a rolling curtain out of its guides. Lock out the operator, find out whether the door moves by hand, and call (226) 270-9715 with the door type, the size and what it is doing.
Send photos through the contact form if the job can wait for a quote.
Everything we do in London · Commercial garage doors: what the job involves
The same range from every branch. What changes between them is who drives out, and on which number.
G-5000
The standard bay door: polyurethane injected between two steel skins, a grooved face, one and three quarter inches thick. Thinner and thicker builds exist at R-12 and R-18, and choosing between them is a question about whether the building is heated.
G-4400
An aluminium frame glazed across the whole face, for a showroom or a service bay the street should be able to see into. It is not insulated, and the glass is chosen per opening from more than twenty types, tempered or not.
Photographs are Garaga’s, the manufacturer whose doors we install. They show the models, not jobs we have completed. Colours shift on a screen, and headroom, backroom and the track decide which of these will physically fit an opening, so everything here is where a measurement starts.
Every one below has a page of its own, written the same way this one was.
Broken garage door springs? We replace torsion and extension springs safely and professionally to get your garage door working properly again.
Garage door sensor repair: the door starts down and reverses, or the opener light blinks. What the photo eyes are telling you, and when it is only alignment.
Garage door off track or not moving properly? Protech can safely realign the door, repair damaged tracks, replace rollers and get it running smoothly again.
Springs, cables, drums, rollers, hinges, brackets, seals and opener parts. What is on the truck, what is matched to the door, and what is not a DIY part.
A door that will not move, or stops halfway. The check order that tells you whether it is the opener, the springs, the track or ice, before anyone touches it.
Match the symptom to the cause: a bang and a heavy door, a crooked door, a door that reverses, an opener that hums. Then go to the page that covers that fault.
Steel, aluminium and glass, wood and composite garage doors from Garaga, Amarr and Stanley. What the material, the layers and the insulation actually change.
Headroom, backroom and track type decide which doors will fit an opening. What an installation involves, and why the springs are sized to the new door.
Panel damage, rust at the bottom section, repeated failures and an uninsulated door on a heated garage. The four cases where replacing beats another repair.
Answered for London, on the number this branch answers.
As soon as the openings are on the drawings and before the building steel is ordered. Door type decides the headroom, backroom or coil space the structure has to leave, and the operator decides a power circuit. A quote at that stage can still change the building; a quote once the walls are up can only fit what was left.
Usually sectional. A shed is normally tall and open inside, so there is room for the track, and a sectional door can be repaired one section at a time after a knock from an implement. Rolling steel suits a shed where the roof structure or a hoist leaves no room for tracks above the opening.
Zoning By-law Z.-1 counts them by total gross floor area: none below 250 square metres, one from there up to 2,500, two up to 7,500, three up to 14,000, and one more for every further 10,000 square metres or part of it. It applies in the industrial zones, and in the commercial zones the by-law names, to any building used for receiving, shipping, loading or unloading goods.
Count the spaces first, then decide which of them get a dock door, a drive-in door or neither.
Call (226) 270-9715, or email info@protechgarage.ca for a new-door quote with no rush.
