Doors
Most door marketing sells the slab. The parts that actually fail here are the ones that move — the latch, the hinges, the weatherstrip. That is where we spend your money.
By type
Front and side entries. Fibreglass or steel, insulated core.
Best for Front entry
Read the spec →Sliding. Maximum glass, no swing into the room.
Best for Deck and yard access
Read the spec →Hinged pair. Better seal than a slider, no track.
Best for Where a slider would be blocked by furniture
Read the spec →Options
On an entry door the lock does two jobs: security, and pulling the slab tight against the weatherstrip. Multi-point hardware does the second job considerably better than a single deadbolt.
Both materials we fit have insulated cores. The difference is what happens to the outside face over time.
Glass inserts are where most of the visual decision happens, and where most of the heat leaves if the insert is poorly specified.
These three parts are what actually fail on a door in Edmonton. Everything else outlasts them.
Doors take colour better than windows do, and the front door is usually where a house is allowed some personality.
Material
What we recommend for most Edmonton entries.
Sound choice for a sheltered or secondary entry.
We do not fit wood exterior doors. In this climate they need refinishing on a schedule most people do not keep, and we would rather decline than sell you something that looks poor in four years.
Hardware
A door in Edmonton opens and closes through a 60-degree swing in temperature across a year. Everything that moves has to keep working at both ends of that.
The hardware and the weatherstrip, not the slab. Cheap latches stiffen and lose alignment through repeated freeze cycles, and compressed weatherstrip stops sealing long before the door itself looks worn.
Fibreglass for an exposed front entry — it will not warp, dent or rust and it insulates better. Steel is a sound, lower-cost choice for a sheltered or secondary door.
Sometimes, if the frame is square, sound and dry. More often the frame is the reason the old door stopped sealing, and reusing it means paying twice. We measure and tell you which case you are in.
A patio door is mostly glass, so a poorly specified one does. Triple-glazed with a warm-edge spacer, a modern patio door performs close to a window of the same area — which is why we recommend triple on patio doors even where double is fine elsewhere.
See what a door quote covers.
