Steel Door Service
Steel Door Installation and Maintenance
The security and functionality of your facility are heavily reliant on the quality of its assets, particularly when it comes to steel doors. Steel doors encompass a range of components, from the protective shutters on retail windows to grilles guarding parking garage entrances, to the rolling steel doors at the main building entry. These diverse elements all fall under the category of metal door assets.
The selection of high-quality and carefully chosen steel door assets for your facility holds great significance. Several critical reasons underpin the importance of these assets:
- Security from Intruders and Pests: Robust metal doors present formidable barriers against potential intruders and pests. They prove challenging for would-be thieves to breach and are resilient against attempts by vermin to compromise their integrity.
- Protection Against the Elements: Sturdy shutters and tightly sealing doors provide essential protection for your merchandise and equipment, safeguarding them from harsh weather conditions.
- Temperature Control and Energy Efficiency: Insulated steel door assets are specially designed to maintain controlled temperatures within your facility, ensuring that conditioned air stays within the building, thus enhancing energy efficiency.
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Premium Installation and Maintenance by Tradewind Doors
Selecting, installing, and maintaining metal exterior doors, grilles, or shutters involves more complexity than meets the eye. The process entails several essential steps:
- Choosing the Right Steel Door: To begin, you must identify the most suitable steel door by carefully assessing your facility's specific needs and engaging with industry-leading manufacturers to ensure the quality of the door.
- Professional Installation: Once the right door is selected, it's crucial to entrust the installation to trained experts. Proper installation ensures that the equipment functions correctly from day one.
- Ongoing Maintenance: To keep your metal door systems in optimal condition over time, a combination of proactive maintenance and emergency repair strategies is essential. This approach ensures that your doors continue to perform reliably, avoiding unexpected downtime and maintaining employee safety.
Types of Steel Doors For Your Facility
Numerous types of commercial doors can be classified as steel door systems. Whether you require an interior door, an exterior door, a security shutter, a rolling grille, or another type of track-based door, the same fundamental principles apply.
The primary rule is to select the most suitable replacement door asset for your specific requirements. Each use case is unique, and every facility has its distinctive needs. Collaborating with expert consultants from the outset of the hardware procurement and installation process is invaluable.
It's important to note that the steel doors in your facility may not necessarily be perfect for your current needs, even if they came with the building. It's common for older door assets to be ill-suited for their roles, particularly if the facility's original purpose differed from its current function. For instance, a distribution center originally constructed as a retail store may lack appropriate rolling steel door systems.
Here are a few of the metal door options that companies can choose from today, each suited to various building needs:
Rolling Steel Door
Rolling steel doors offer an ideal solution to protect your building against a range of threats, from adverse weather conditions to potential break-ins. When working with Tradewind Doors' network of top nationwide vendors, you gain access to high-quality rolling steel door assets known for their durability and reliability.
These doors come in various frame sizes, accommodating openings as large as 60 feet in width and 40 feet in height. You can select from heavy-, medium-, and light-duty options to match the specific environmental and usage requirements of your building.
The helical torsion springs powering rolling steel doors are designed for up to 25,000 cycles. For steel doors that experience constant opening and closing, high-capacity springs are available for enhanced durability.
With computer-matched counterbalance systems, rolling steel doors from Tradewind Doors move smoothly along their tracks for years of dependable operation. An optional motor operator allows for convenient and responsive opening and closing, making it perfect for entry doors with high daily usage.
Should your primary objective in installing a new rolling steel door be to shield your facility from harsh weather conditions, you can opt for a steel entry door with a high wind load application, providing extra protection.
You can customize the weight, size, and operational features to suit your specific requirements, ensuring that your steel door aligns with your building's aesthetic and color scheme, projecting a professional exterior appearance that inspires trust in your products and services.
Rolling Metal Grille
Rolling metal grilles serve as an excellent asset for securing your facility during off-hours. They have diverse applications:
- Closing off open spaces to protect against the elements, such as in parking garages.
- Providing an additional layer of security in front of glass commercial doors.
- Serving as the primary security door for units within an enclosed space, found in malls, shopping centers, banks, and airports.
Through Tradewind Doors' nationwide vendor network, you have access to both rolling and sliding grille assets. The choice between these two depends on the available headroom above the door frame. Every door installation is tailored to the customer's needs and the specific space involved. Small frame security grille assets can be easily opened by hand, with several manual and mechanical methods available, including push-up, chain, and crank options. In other cases, for larger frame steel grille assets, you can opt for a motorized automatic opener to make it easier for employees to open and close them. For instance, when used as a garage door, an automatic opener connected to a sensor can operate the door as a vehicle approaches. The security grille systems offered by Tradewind Doors are lightweight enough for manual operation but robust enough to deter intruders and protect your premises from unauthorized access. Similar to rolling steel doors, grilles' appearance can be customized to harmonize with your facility's overall exterior aesthetics, creating a professional and trust-inspiring look.
Metal Security Shutter
Metal security shutters operate on the same principles as rolling steel doors but cover smaller areas of a wall, such as a food service counter, a customer service desk, or a retail shop front. These shutters can be installed either on the outside wall of a building or inside, such as in cafeteria settings. Constructed from galvanized steel, these shutters are designed to withstand intruders and provide robust security. They operate on the same principles as full-size rolling steel doors, with options for manual or automatic mechanical operation. The choice between rolling or sliding tracks for steel shutters depends on the frame measurements in the installation area and available headroom. Each installation is customized to match the shutter's intended purpose and the setting in which it's placed.
The Value Of Effective Steel Door Installation and Maintenance
A correctly installed steel door, grille, or shutter can offer years of reliable service, while haphazardly installed assets may experience issues with rough openings and a shortened lifespan. Tradewind Doors' technicians take into account the unique requirements of your facility to ensure that you receive the perfect equipment for your needs, installed to the highest standards by trained door contractors.
