About Thickson Architectural Hardware
Stand at the Four Corners in downtown Whitby and most of what you can see was built before hydraulic door closers existed. Those Brock and Dundas Street storefronts have been re-fronted, re-glazed and re-hung more than once since, which is why the hardware on them is such a mixture — a 1980s aluminum entrance inside a nineteenth-century opening, a transom closer sitting above a door that was never prepped for it, a floor spring set into a slab poured over the original wooden floor.
Thickson Architectural Hardware works on that hardware and nothing else. Closers, exit devices, hold-opens, floor springs, operators. Downtown and Brooklin’s Baldwin Street give us the heritage main-street work. South of the 401 in the industrial lands, personnel doors cycle constantly and get clipped by carts. Iroquois Park, the arenas and the community centres bring assembly exits that have to release in one motion under a real occupant load. And the apartment stock and the plazas up on Taunton and Consumers Drive bring rated openings that have to close and latch with nobody helping them.
Whitby weather does two things to a closer, and both are seasonal. Cold thickens the fluid until a door that felt right in September stops a centimetre short of the strike. Wind off the lake at Port Whitby and Whitby Shores pushes on an entrance hard enough to expose a unit that was only just coping in the fall. We set for both, we write down what we did, and we would far rather book the autumn round than take the February call.
Why Whitby property owners trust us
- Heritage main-street entrances where the hardware and the opening never quite matched
- Assembly exits at arenas and community centres, releasing in one motion under load
- Lake-wind exposure at Port Whitby factored into how an entrance is set
- Every rated door walked, released from full open, and the results left in writing
- Liability insurance, WSIB clearance and a guarantee that is written, not promised
Insured & WSIB-covered
Full liability insurance and WSIB coverage, certificates on request, and a written workmanship guarantee. Ontario does not issue a trade licence for door hardware, so we will never wave a number at you — the honest test of this work is whether the rated door still closes and latches on its own once we have gone.