About Thickson Architectural Hardware
Thickson Architectural Hardware works on the part of the door most people never look at until it fails. Closers, exit devices, hold-opens, and the pivots and strikes that decide whether a door actually latches: it is a narrow trade, and doing only that is what lets us walk into a Whitby apartment building, look at forty fire doors in an afternoon, and know which ones need a valve turned and which ones need the unit off the wall.
Our work is commercial, industrial, institutional and multi-residential. Property managers with fire doors that have to hold up to an inspection. Plaza tenants along Thickson, Dundas and Brock whose entrances take salt, grit and freeze-thaw from November to March. Warehouses and shops in the industrial lands south of the 401 where a personnel door cycles more in a week than an office door does in a year. Schools, arenas and community centres with exit hardware and accessible operators that have to keep working. We are insured and WSIB covered, we do not invent problems to sell hardware, and when a closer only needs adjusting we say so and adjust it.
The other half of the job is being straight with people about the season. Half the emergency calls we take in January are doors that had been drifting out of adjustment quietly since November. We would rather do one scheduled pass in the fall than three panic visits in the cold — and every job, planned or urgent, comes with a free assessment and a written, fixed-scope estimate before anyone picks up a screwdriver.
Why Whitby property owners trust us
- Door closers and exit hardware are all we do, all day
- Fire doors handled building-wide, with a written record of what was corrected
- Cold-weather adjustment so Whitby doors still latch in January
- Insured, WSIB covered, and a written workmanship guarantee
Insured & WSIB-covered
We carry full liability insurance and WSIB coverage, and we service closers and exit hardware so fire doors close and latch on their own, the way Ontario’s Fire Code requires — serving property owners across Whitby and the Greater Toronto Area.