Residential, Multi-Family & Commercial Doors in Burnaby, BC

Just Doors is Burnaby's dedicated door specialist — residential and townhouse entry doors, multi-family suite and common-area doors, security and access-controlled doors, and fire-rated / fireproof assemblies, supplied, scheduled, and coordinated to install across Burnaby's town centres and neighbourhoods. Not a lumberyard counter, not a general contractor moonlighting on doors. Doors are all we do. Send us your project and get a door package and quote back — typically within one to two business days.

Who we are: Burnaby's door company

Just Doors is a door company first, and in Burnaby that focus pays off across an unusually vertical market. Burnaby is building up, fast — three major town centres (Metrotown, Brentwood, and Lougheed) are each absorbing clusters of high-rise residential towers, while SFU's UniverCity community grows on Burnaby Mountain and established neighbourhoods fill in with townhouse and low-rise density. A general contractor or a building-supply counter treats doors as one line among hundreds; we do nothing else, which is why our door packages arrive on site ready to hang and pass inspection the first time.

We specify the assembly, supply the doors, frames, and hardware as one coordinated package, produce the door schedule the trades and inspectors build against, and coordinate the install through a vetted Lower Mainland partner. For a Burnaby homeowner, that's a single accountable source for a door done right. For the developers building Burnaby's tower clusters, it means the suite-entry package across a thirty-storey tower — or across three towers in the same master-planned community — is a standardized, buildable, repeatable quantity rather than a per-building scramble. Just Doors is a division of the Builderhaus trade network and an EyeSpyR-verified local business, and because our install partner also frames and finishes walls, the wall repairs and ceiling adjustments a door swap often needs are handled by the same team.

Why Burnaby door work is its own market

Burnaby follows the British Columbia Building Code, administered by the City of Burnaby's building department, with fire review through Burnaby Fire Department — the standard provincial regime, not Vancouver's separate bylaw. What defines Burnaby door work is the building form: concentrated, high-density, transit-oriented high-rise around the town centres, mixed with wood-frame townhouse and low-rise elsewhere, plus a substantial industrial base in the Big Bend flats along the Fraser.

That form drives a few realities. Burnaby's town-centre towers carry the same rated-opening density as any concrete high-rise — dozens of suite entries, stairwell and shaft doors, and service-room separations per floor — so the door schedule and the long-lead items have to be locked early. The master-planned nature of Burnaby's growth (multiple towers rising in the same community over several years) rewards standardization across buildings. And the industrial base in Big Bend brings a whole separate category of hollow-metal, overhead-adjacent, and fire-separation door work. Just Doors works the door schedule backward into the rough-opening requirements so the framing, backing, and clearances are right before the walls close — on a Burnaby tower, that upfront coordination is what keeps the door scope off the critical path.

Door types matched to Burnaby's building stock

Burnaby is really several markets, and the right door package changes with each.

Metrotown: high-rise residential and retail-adjacent density

Metrotown is one of the densest town centres in the region, anchored by Metropolis and a growing forest of residential towers. Door work here is concrete-tower work: 20- to 45-minute fire-rated solid-core suite entries with acoustic drop seals and smoke gasketing; 90-minute to 2-hour hollow-metal stairwell and shaft doors with panic hardware and commercial closers; and the amenity, parkade, and service-room doors that round out a tower package. Retail and commercial podium space at the base adds storefront and aluminum entrance work.

Brentwood & Lougheed: master-planned tower communities

Brentwood and Lougheed have become master-planned tower communities — multiple high-rises rising over shared podiums and retail over a multi-year build-out. The opportunity here is standardization across buildings: a suite-entry package specified once and repeated cleanly across every tower in the community, with consistent hardware groups, ratings, and finishes. That consistency compresses procurement and inspection risk on every subsequent tower and gives the developer a known per-suite door cost across the whole master plan.

SFU / UniverCity: institutional and mountain-top residential

Burnaby Mountain carries SFU's campus and the growing UniverCity residential community. Institutional door work here is heavy-use and code-driven — rated corridor and stairwell assemblies, high-traffic Grade 1 hardware, and access-controlled openings — while the residential community brings suite-entry and townhouse door packages. The mountain-top exposure and weather make durable, weather-appropriate exterior assemblies important.

Burnaby Heights, East Burnaby & townhouse corridors

Away from the towers, Burnaby's established neighbourhoods — Burnaby Heights, the Heights commercial strip, East Burnaby, and the townhouse corridors filling in across the city — run to wood-frame townhouse and low-rise multi-family plus custom single-family. Door packages here are high-volume and finish-driven: unit entry doors (often with a fire-rated garage-to-house requirement), interior passage and closet doors, and demising-wall doors between units, with the standardization payoff that comes from repeating unit plans across a complex.

Big Bend: industrial and commercial

The Big Bend flats along the Fraser carry Burnaby's industrial base. Door work shifts to hollow-metal exterior and rated man-doors, warehouse and overhead-adjacent openings, commercial storefront entrances, and the fire separations that divide industrial and commercial tenancies — heavy-use openings where commercial-grade hardware and proper closers aren't optional.

Security doors and access control across Burnaby

Security is a live driver of door work across Burnaby's sectors. For residential and townhouse clients, that means reinforced entry doors with multi-point locking, solid or steel-reinforced cores, and strike reinforcement that resists forced entry. For multi-family towers — the bulk of Burnaby's growth — security is a system: secured main-entry doors with electronic access control, parkade and bike-room doors on fobs or credentials, amenity access tied to the building's system, and suite entries specified to resist forced entry while still meeting egress and fire code. For commercial and industrial tenancies in Big Bend and the town-centre podiums, it runs from storefront security to secured warehouse man-doors, records and server-room access, and after-hours lockdown hardware.

The specification challenge is that security hardware has to coexist with life-safety code. A secured stairwell or exit door still has to allow free egress under the BC Building Code and NFPA 101 — you cannot lock people in — so electrified hardware, delayed-egress devices, and access-controlled openings must satisfy both the security goal and the egress requirement at once. Electronic access also changes the door and frame prep before hardware arrives: power transfer at the hinge, prep for the strike or mag-lock, and coordination with the low-voltage contractor, all resolved at the door schedule. Just Doors specifies security and access-controlled doors as complete, code-satisfying assemblies — reinforced where it counts, electrified where the building needs it, always compliant with egress.

Fire-rated and fireproof doors in Burnaby

Fire-door compliance is where fast-moving Burnaby tower projects most often lose time, and it's avoidable with the right assembly and paperwork. Under the BC Building Code, multi-family suite entries carry 20- to 45-minute ratings with self-closing and positive-latching hardware and smoke seals; townhouse garage-to-house doors require a fire-rated, self-closing assembly; and stairwells, shafts, and high-hazard service and industrial rooms escalate to 90-minute, 1-hour, and 2-hour assemblies. The ratings are straightforward — what fails inspection is the field condition of the assembly.

A fire door is a tested assembly, not just a leaf. The label on the door, the label on the frame, the hinges, the closer, and the latching hardware all have to match a listed configuration, and NFPA 80 governs the field conditions: the perimeter gap, the maximum undercut, positive latching on closing, and the prohibition on field modifications outside the manufacturer's listing. Burnaby Fire Department checks these. A closer that drifts instead of latching, an undercut trimmed too far, or a residential hinge on a rated leaf fails the opening and forces a re-inspection that holds up occupancy. Just Doors supplies fire assemblies as coordinated, labelled packages — leaf, frame, and hardware listed together — with the documentation Burnaby inspectors look for.

Acoustic doors for Burnaby's tower density

Burnaby's town-centre towers stack hundreds of suites, and acoustic performance is an expectation, not a nicety — and doors are the weak point in an otherwise isolated suite. A developer can build a party wall to a strong Sound Transmission Class rating and still field complaints if the suite entry leaks corridor noise: footfall, elevator sound, and mechanical hum from shared spaces. Just Doors specifies acoustic suite entries as a system — a solid core selected for its STC contribution, full perimeter gasketing, and an automatic drop seal at the sill — so the assembled opening stays close to the surrounding wall's rating. In townhouse and low-rise work, the same discipline applies at demising-wall and shared-corridor doors.

The coastal climate and door performance in Burnaby

Burnaby shares the Lower Mainland's wet coastal climate, and buildings under construction — before HVAC is commissioned and the envelope is sealed — move through wide humidity swings. Wood doors hung into that environment can absorb moisture, swell, and bind, or later dry and shrink once the building is conditioned, opening gaps that fail acoustic and smoke seals. The discipline is to acclimatize doors to the building's eventual moisture content before hanging, and to select moisture-stable cores with properly sealed top and bottom edges — particularly on exterior-adjacent openings, mountain-top exposures at UniverCity, and any building without commissioned climate control. On a fast Burnaby schedule, this is the difference between doors that operate cleanly at handover and a callback list of binding leaves in the first wet season.

Door hardware and access control for Burnaby buildings

Hardware is where a door package either supports a building's operation or becomes a maintenance liability. Burnaby's towers increasingly run electronic access at amenity spaces, parkades, and sometimes suite doors, which changes the door and frame prep before hardware arrives. For code-governed openings, the hardware group has to satisfy the rating and the egress requirement simultaneously — rated suite entries need listed self-closing and positive-latching hardware; stairwell and exit doors frequently require single-motion panic devices with fire-rated strikes; and closers have to be sized to the door and the draft conditions, including the pressurized-shaft conditions common in tall towers. Just Doors builds the hardware group into the door schedule so the closer, hinge, lock, and seal are specified as a matched set for each opening type.

Door schedules and takeoffs for Burnaby developers and GCs

The highest-leverage service on a Burnaby project is a clean, coordinated door schedule — and across master-planned tower communities, the schedule is what turns a multi-building door scope into a controlled, repeatable one. Just Doors produces door schedules and takeoffs for Burnaby developers, general contractors, and project managers, working from architectural, RCP, and life-safety drawings to enumerate every opening, assign the correct rating and hardware group, and flag the rough-opening and backing requirements the framers need. On a master plan, that means a door package standardized once and repeated across every tower; on a single building, every rated opening resolved before procurement. An early takeoff surfaces the door budget and the long-lead items while there's still time to plan around them.

Logistics and site coordination in Burnaby

Burnaby's town-centre towers carry the familiar high-rise constraints — hoist scheduling, tight staging, parkade clearances, and noise windows in occupied or mixed-use developments — while townhouse and low-rise sites are about staging a high volume of consistent door packages across many buildings, and Big Bend industrial sites need coordination around active operations and large-opening conditions. Just Doors coordinates delivery to each site's realities rather than dropping a full package and leaving the GC to solve the logistics, which at Burnaby's tower volumes is what keeps the door scope moving with the schedule.

What Burnaby door work costs

Door package pricing in Burnaby spans a wide range because the openings do — a paint-grade townhouse interior door and a 2-hour rated hollow-metal industrial assembly with panic hardware are not the same line item. The major cost drivers are the fire rating, the core and face specification, the hardware group, and specialty conditions like fire-rated glazing, oversized leaves, electronic access, and acoustic sealing. Rather than publish placeholder unit rates, Just Doors prices from the actual door schedule: enumerate the openings, assign ratings and hardware groups, account for specialty conditions, and return an itemized takeoff. For Burnaby developers, that produces a number you can carry into a pro forma with confidence — and on repeating tower plans, a per-suite door cost you can multiply across the master plan.

Burnaby door FAQ

Does Burnaby follow the same door code as Vancouver? No. Burnaby follows the British Columbia Building Code, administered by the City of Burnaby's building department with fire review through Burnaby Fire Department, whereas the City of Vancouver uses its own standalone Vancouver Building By-law. Door fire ratings and assemblies should be verified against the BC Building Code and Burnaby's requirements for Burnaby projects.

Can Just Doors standardize a door package across a master-planned tower community? Yes — and it's where we add the most value in Burnaby's Brentwood, Lougheed, and Metrotown communities. We specify the suite-entry and common-area door package once against the tower plans, then repeat it consistently across every building in the master plan: the same hardware groups, ratings, and finishes, with rated openings handled correctly on every floor. That standardization compresses procurement and inspection risk across the whole development.

What fire rating do multi-family suite entries need in Burnaby? Suite entry doors typically require a certified 20- to 45-minute fire-protection rating with self-closing hardware, positive latching, and smoke seals; stairwells, shafts, and high-hazard rooms escalate higher. The exact rating depends on the separation and occupancy, and the full assembly — leaf, frame, and hardware — must match a listed configuration to pass Burnaby Fire Department review.

Do townhouse garage-to-house doors need to be fire-rated in Burnaby? Generally yes. The BC Building Code requires the door between an attached garage and the living space to be a fire-rated, self-closing, tightly sealed assembly — a common opening on Burnaby townhouse projects and a frequent inspection item.

Do you handle industrial and commercial doors in Big Bend? Yes. We supply hollow-metal exterior and rated man-doors, warehouse and overhead-adjacent openings, commercial storefront entrances, and the fire separations that divide industrial and commercial tenancies — with commercial-grade hardware sized for heavy use.

Get a Burnaby door quote

Whether it's a suite-entry package for a Brentwood or Metrotown tower, a standardized package across a Lougheed master-planned community, a townhouse development in East Burnaby, or a rated-door scope for a Big Bend industrial build, the starting point is the same: tell us what you're building. Send drawings, an existing door schedule, tower plans, or even a few photos and measurements, and Just Doors returns an itemized door package and quote — typically within one to two business days — with the fire ratings, security hardware, acoustic targets, and install coordination already resolved.

Send us your Burnaby door project. Residential, townhouse, multi-family towers, security, commercial, or industrial — from a single opening to a full master plan — Just Doors delivers a code-coordinated door package built for the way Burnaby actually builds.

Just Doors — Burnaby's dedicated door specialist. A division of Builderhaus; EyeSpyR-verified. Lower Mainland install and any wall or ceiling work behind the opening handled by our trade partner Rambo Wall & Ceiling (rambowalls.com).