Why So Many Toronto Homes Are Losing Heat at the Door
We hear a version of the same story on almost every consultation we run across Toronto: a homeowner in a character home near the Danforth, or a semi-detached in Etobicoke, mentions that one room by the front entrance never quite warms up in January. Have you noticed a cold draft settling around your ankles when you're standing near your own front door in the winter? Or maybe it's less about temperature and more about effort: does the door stick every spring when the humidity off Lake Ontario rolls in, or drag on its hinges no matter how many times it's been adjusted?
Neither of those is really a door problem. It's usually a sign the door itself, or the frame around it, was never built or installed to hold up against a real Toronto winter. Older homes across the city, from the Annex to Scarborough, were often fitted with doors that were never engineered for our climate swings in the first place.
We build our doors specifically to handle that swing, then install them with our own certified team, not a subcontractor, so the fit is exact and the seal holds. That's the difference between a door that looks fine in the showroom and one that still performs correctly five winters later.
