Braid Street · Queensborough · Sapperton · Downtown Columbia Street

Commercial Garage Door Installation New Westminster

New Westminster packs old and new into a few square kilometres: 1970s metal-clad shops on Braid Street, new strata-industrial on the Queensborough side of the river, hospital-district commercial in Sapperton and a wall of high-rise parkades along Columbia Street. Most of our installs here are replacements on buildings that predate standard door sizes, and parkade gates that cycle all day.

Replacement doors on older buildings
Parkade grilles for Columbia Street towers
Dock doors in Queensborough
Measured and ordered to the opening

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Commercial Garage Door Installation New Westminster: who we are and what we do

Custom Commercial Garage Doors Ltd installs new and replacement commercial garage doors throughout New Westminster, BC: rolling grilles and gates for the downtown and Sapperton parkades, insulated sectional doors for the Braid Street and Queensborough industrial areas, and full-view and rolling steel doors for Columbia Street storefronts. Amarr, Hörmann and Raynor doors with LiftMaster, Manaras and GDI operators.

The commercial garage door installation New Westminster strata councils ask us about most is a parkade entry: a rolling grille or steel gate on a high-cycle operator with loop detectors and safety edges, scheduled between the morning and evening rush so residents are not locked out.

This page covers New Westminster specifically. The door types, brands and the full picker live on our commercial garage door installation hub, and existing doors in New Westminster are handled on our New Westminster commercial garage door repair page.

Commercial Garage Door Installation New Westminster: Amarr 4300 rolling grille of the type installed on Columbia Street parkade entries

New Westminster areas we install in

The city is small but the building stock is not uniform, and the right door changes block by block.

Braid Street industrial area. Auto recyclers, fabricators and contractors in metal-clad and concrete buildings from the 1970s and 1980s. Openings were cut for doors that no longer exist, so every replacement here is measured and ordered to fit, usually an insulated sectional with low-headroom or high-lift track.
Queensborough. A mix of new strata-industrial units and warehouses near the Lulu Island waterfront, plus the Queensborough Landing retail buildings. Insulated sectional with vision lites on the units, dock doors with levelers on the warehouses, rolling steel on the retail receiving doors.
Sapperton and East Columbia Street. Commercial and light industrial around Royal Columbian Hospital and Brewery District, with new mixed-use towers that need parkade gates and older shops that need replacement doors.
Downtown and Columbia Street. High-rise parkades, restaurants, breweries and storefronts. Rolling grilles and steel gates on high-cycle operators for the parkades; full-view aluminum where a restaurant or brewery wants a patio opening.
Front Street and the waterfront. Older brick and heavy-timber commercial buildings where headroom, side room and heritage considerations all shape the door and track.
Uptown and the 6th Street corridor. Mid-rise strata with parkade entries off the lane, and small commercial garages where a rolling steel service door is the right fit.

Door types that fit New Westminster buildings

Rolling grilles for the towers

Amarr 4300 rolling grille for ventilated parkade entries, Amarr 4000 flat-slat or 4100 insulated rolling steel where the entry needs to close solid. They coil into a hood above the opening, so they fit the tight ramps on Columbia Street towers. Raynor DuraGrille and DuraCoil are the equivalents.

Insulated sectional for Braid Street and Queensborough

Hörmann 440U/450U, Amarr 2442/2742/2743 or Raynor ThermaSeal, built to the measured opening. For an unheated recycler or fabrication shop the Amarr 2402 heavy-duty ribbed steel or 2732 polystyrene door does the job at a lower spec.

Hörmann 440U insulated sectional door for Braid Street shops in New Westminster

Full-view aluminum on Columbia Street

Hörmann 720A, Amarr 3552 or Raynor AlumaView for restaurants, breweries and showrooms that want daylight and a view; glazing can be clear, frosted or insulated by section.

Fire-rated separations

Amarr 4200 UL-listed rolling fire door and 4500 fire-rated counter shutter (up to 3-hour), or Raynor FireCoil with fusible link, for the mixed-use buildings where a parkade meets retail.

Amarr 3552 full-view aluminum door for Columbia Street restaurants and breweries in New Westminster

Brand pages: Amarr commercial doors, Hörmann 450U, Amarr 2743. Every model named here is one we are a dealer for and service afterward.

Operators we fit on New Westminster doors

New Westminster is heavy on parkades and light on three-phase power in the older shops, so the two operators we fit most are a 10,000-cycle GDI JHMG-VC on a tower gate and a 115 V LiftMaster MJ or Manaras OMJ on a Braid Street shop door. The operator is sized to the door weight, lift type and daily cycles; the full line-up is on our operator installation page.

GDI JHMG-VC

10,000 cycles a day; the parkade-gate operator for Columbia Street and Sapperton towers.

Manaras OTH / OTBH

Heavy-duty trolley with 6.25 inch low headroom; apartment variants rated 30 cycles an hour for mid-rise strata.

LiftMaster MJ / MH / MT

Medium-duty 1/2 HP 115 V operators for Braid Street shops that open up to a dozen times an hour.

Getting to New Westminster from our Richmond shop

From River Road in Richmond, Queensborough is a straight run up Highway 91 over the Alex Fraser and across the Queensborough Bridge, usually 30 to 40 minutes, and Braid Street follows from there via Highway 91A and Brunette. Downtown, Sapperton and Uptown are 35 to 50 minutes over the Knight Street Bridge and along Marine Way and 10th Avenue, depending on traffic. We book measures outside the Pattullo and Queensborough rush. For an existing door that has failed, see commercial garage door repair in New Westminster.

Replacing doors on older New Westminster buildings

Much of New Westminster was built before the current standard commercial door sizes existed, and a lot of the hardware on Braid Street and Front Street is decades old. We treat every replacement as a custom order: measure the width, height, headroom, side room and backroom, check the header and the floor, and order the door and track to those numbers. Low-headroom track handles the shallow ceilings, high-lift track handles the tall warehouse bays in Queensborough. The old door, track and springs come down and are hauled away, jambs are repaired, and the new door and operator go up on the same visit where the structure allows.

For the Braid Street shops, commercial garage door installation New Westminster usually means a replacement on an opening that was never a stock size, measured and ordered to fit with the right track for the headroom.

Want to see it first? Upload a photo of the building to the commercial door designer, line up the opening and try the door types above in your own colours; the 4K download is handy for the owner, the landlord or the strata council. After the install the same crew looks after the door: maintenance programs, spring replacement, cable and track work and 24/7 emergency repair. If a vehicle has hit the door or the header, our impact repair and ICBC property damage pages explain how that is handled.

Commercial Garage Door Installation New Westminster FAQ

Who does commercial garage door installation in New Westminster?

Custom Commercial Garage Doors Ltd, a Richmond-based commercial-only door company. We install Amarr, Hörmann and Raynor doors with LiftMaster, Manaras and GDI operators across New Westminster and service them afterward. Call (604) 206-5727.

Do you install parkade gates for the Columbia Street high-rises?

Yes. Rolling grilles and steel gates on high-cycle operators such as the GDI JHMG-VC, with loop detectors and safety edges, are a regular job for us downtown and in Sapperton.

My Braid Street building has a door opening that is not a standard size. Can you replace it?

Yes. Every commercial door we install is ordered to the opening we measure, so odd widths, extra height and low headroom are handled with the right lift type and track.

Do you install dock doors in Queensborough?

Yes. Insulated sectional dock doors sized to the dock opening, with high-lift track where trailers back under the header, and Hörmann levelers, seals and restraints specified with the door.

Can a restaurant or brewery on Columbia Street get a full-view door?

Yes. Hörmann 720A, Amarr 3552 and Raynor AlumaView full-view aluminum doors with glazing chosen by section are what we install for patio openings and showrooms.

Other installation and repair areas

We install across the Lower Mainland from one shop in Richmond. The hub page covers commercial garage door installation in Vancouver; the city pages below cover the rest.

Ready to spec a new door in New Westminster?

Send us the opening size and a photo, or use the door designer and send the picture straight from it. We quote commercial garage door installation across New Westminster, from Braid Street and Queensborough to Sapperton and downtown. Call (604) 206-5727 or send the details and we will book the site measure.

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