Stittsville sits at Ottawa’s western boundary, and every automatic door installation in this community must account for west Ottawa’s wind exposure as a primary design factor — not a footnote. An automatic door system that is correctly specified for Stittsville’s exposed western location performs completely differently from a system specified for a sheltered Ottawa urban commercial building, and the specification difference starts with the drive system’s force output and the header unit’s weather protection.
The prevailing Ottawa Valley westerlies that reach Stittsville’s commercial entries without the urban shelter that breaks their force across central Ottawa represent the defining variable in every Stittsville automatic door installation. A standard automatic sliding door drive system produces a specific force output that moves a door panel of a given weight at a given speed. That force output must be sufficient to move the panel against the maximum wind load the entry is likely to experience — and in Stittsville’s exposed west-facing commercial entries, that wind load can be substantially higher than the generic Ottawa suburban installation assumption.
We calculate the expected wind load for each Stittsville automatic door installation based on the entry’s specific orientation and the degree of wind protection the surrounding building and landscaping provides. For unprotected west-facing Stittsville installations, we specify drive systems with force margins that accommodate Stittsville’s peak wind events — so the door operates reliably even when the Ottawa Valley westerlies are at their strongest.
The new commercial buildings in the Fernbank corridor represent Stittsville’s growth edge, and automatic door installations here have the advantage of being designed into the building from the start rather than retrofitted into existing entrance systems. We work with Fernbank commercial building owners and their architects during the design phase to specify automatic door systems that are integrated with the entrance design — entrance orientation, header dimensions, electrical service routing, and activation device placement all coordinated before construction rather than fitted around it after.
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We size the drive system, sensor package and header weatherproofing to Stittsville's actual exposure and traffic, serving Main Street independents and the newer Fernbank commercial tenancies. West-end Ottawa cold and wind are treated as primary design factors, not afterthoughts.
Yes. We specify operators and control boards compatible with card readers, mobile credentials and fail-secure/fail-open egress requirements. For the access-control side see access control installation and electric strike installation.
Busy Stittsville grocery and pharmacy entries accumulate their rated cycles far faster than average commercial use, so we specify drive systems and control boards with adequate cycle margin to prevent premature failure.
On exposed exterior entries, yes — header heating is a standard Stittsville specification that prevents the condensation infiltration sustained cold otherwise produces, not an optional upgrade.
We do — see automatic door repair in and the city-wide automatic door repair & installation page. Call 613-265-3667 for a quote.
Yes. We specify and calibrate Stittsville operators to the AODA opening-force and hold-open standards, and add compliant push-pad activation, so the finished entrance is accessible as well as automatic.
Yes. We provide ongoing automatic door repair for the systems we install in Stittsville, and can set up scheduled maintenance so a high-traffic entrance keeps running reliably.
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