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New and replacement openings

Commercial Door Installation in Charlotte, NC

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You are rarely buying a door. You are buying an opening

The request almost always arrives as a door. The frame is warped, or the leaf is dented past repair, or a tenant wants the entry to stop looking like 1998, and the assumption is that a new slab solves it.

Sometimes it does. Often the door was the symptom. Frames move, buildings settle, anchors work loose, and a jamb that is out of plumb by a quarter inch will make a brand new door bind exactly the way the old one did, only now you have paid for it twice.

So the first thing that happens is a measurement, written down, of the opening rather than the door. Width at head, middle, and sill. Plumb on both jambs. Square across the diagonals. Head deflection. Floor condition at the threshold. Five numbers that decide whether this is a leaf swap, a frame replacement, or an opening that needs rebuilding before anything hangs in it.

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Diagram of a door opening marked with the five measurements taken before quoting: width at head, middle and sill, plumb on both jambs, diagonals, head deflection and floor condition
The five numbers taken on the opening before anything is ordered. They decide whether the job is a leaf swap, a frame replacement, or an opening that needs rebuilding first.
Scope

What we install, and what governs it

Installation scope here covers hollow metal doors and frames, aluminum storefront entries, and fire-rated assemblies. Each carries its own constraints. Hollow metal is forgiving to install and unforgiving about anchoring. Aluminum storefront is sensitive to squaring and to threshold detail, and it telegraphs a bad install within one season. Rated assemblies are governed by the listing before anything else: the door, frame, hinges, closer, latching hardware, and glazing all have to be listed for use together, per NFPA 80 section 6.4, and a substitution made for convenience on site can void the rating on the whole assembly.

Hollow metal doors and frames
Steel leaves and frames for stair, corridor, mechanical, and back-of-house openings. Gauge, core, and hinge reinforcement get specified against the traffic the opening actually sees, not against whatever was there before.
Aluminum storefront entries
Narrow, medium, and wide stile entries. Squaring and threshold detail carry this install.
Fire-rated door assemblies
Rated leaves, frames, and listed hardware supplied as a compatible set. Label legibility gets confirmed at delivery, because an unlabelled or illegible assembly is a finding the day it is hung.
Frame replacement and rebuild
Where the jamb is the fault. Knock-down frames, welded frames, and slip-on retrofit frames over an existing opening, chosen by wall condition and by how much disruption the space can absorb.
Hardware prep and retrofit prep
Cutouts, reinforcement, and mortising for locksets, exit devices, closers, and electric hardware. Prep done at fabrication rather than in the field wherever the schedule allows, because field prep on a rated assembly is where listings get lost.
Technician fitting cylinder and lever hardware to an aluminium storefront door in a commercial building
Hardware prep on an aluminium storefront entry. Prep done at fabrication beats prep done in the field, and on a rated assembly it is where listings get lost.

What moves an installation number

ElementEffect on priceConfirmed when
Leaf only, existing frame soundLowest scope availableAfter plumb and square are measured
Frame replacementSubstantial step up, wall condition dependentAfter the wall opening is exposed or probed
Fire rating on the assemblyRestricts product and hardware optionsFrom the existing label, or from occupancy drawings
Access hours and occupancyAfter-hours and escorted work priced separatelyAt scheduling

Lead time is the variable people underestimate. Standard hollow metal moves quickly. Rated assemblies in non-standard sizes, specific finishes, and anything requiring factory prep can run weeks, and you are told the number before approving rather than after.

How we work it

How an installation runs

  1. 01
    Describe the opening
    Location, what is there now, why it is being replaced, and whether it is rated. Call (333) 333 333
  2. 02
    Site measure
    The five numbers, plus wall type, threshold condition, and how the opening is used through a day.
  3. 03
    Specify and quote
    Product, hardware set, and lead time in writing. Rated work names the listing it is being supplied against.
  4. 04
    Order and schedule
    Delivery confirmed before a crew date is set, so nobody blocks your corridor waiting on a truck.
  5. 05
    Install
    Frame set and anchored, door hung, hardware fitted, and the opening cycled and adjusted before anyone leaves.
  6. 06
    Record
    Opening number, product data, label details where applicable, and final measurements appended to your register.
Why us for this

What you get that you would not get elsewhere

The opening gets measured, not the door
Width at three heights, plumb on both jambs, diagonals, head deflection, floor at the threshold. Written down and kept.
Rated assemblies are ordered as assemblies
Door, frame, hinges, closer, latching hardware, and glazing specified as a listed compatible set rather than assembled from whatever is on the shelf. Substitution on site is how a rating quietly disappears.
We will tell you not to replace
A fair number of installation calls end as an adjustment, a hinge replacement, or a frame anchor repair. That conversation costs us the larger invoice and it happens anyway.
Related

Other work on the same openings

Talk it through before anybody quotes it

Have the location and rough opening size ready, and say whether the door is rated if you know.

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Scoping call, no charge. A number given before anyone has measured the frame is a guess wearing a suit.

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