Aluminium Glass Doors Petrie
In The Mill, a door gets specified before the frame it will hang in exists. On the older streets, where separate houses make up 86.4% of occupied dwellings, the same door has to drop into an opening that has often been shifting for decades. Either way it is cut to the measurements we take at your place. Our factory is about 8 km away, roughly 12 minutes down Gympie Road and Dawson Parade, so a surprise in the reveal on install day gets sorted by the people who built the door.
Why Petrie chooses custom aluminium glass doors
A door job in Petrie splits on one thing: whether the opening already exists. On the established streets it usually does. Separate houses make up 86.4% of occupied dwellings, and many still run their original sliders. With 29.7% of homes rented and 43.4% mortgaged, plenty are rentals between tenants or houses mid-renovation. The old paper mill site is the other case. It is a 460 hectare Priority Development Area built around the UniSC campus, and there the opening is still a rectangle on a plan. Queensland adopted the NCC 2022 energy provisions on 1 May 2024, and that is what separates the two: a new build or major renovation has to reach a 7-star shell rating, with glazing among the most influential factors, while a like-for-like repair or same-size replacement generally sits outside.
Where the opening already exists, what that opening will take decides the answer. A slider that drags off the family room, a hinged back door that has dropped, a two-panel slider a renovation wants opened right up: keep the size and it stays a configuration choice, sliding, stacking, frameless, centre-opening, internal, or a custom build when nothing standard suits the reveal. Go wider and it becomes an engineering one, because AS 2047 sets the wind-load rating an external glazed door has to meet for the site.
New builds in The Mill work the other way round. The door carries a performance number: its glass and frame feed straight into the shell rating, so the panel gets chosen against the provisions at quote stage rather than swapped out later. That is also when a wide stacking door onto a compact new-build courtyard gets its wind rating confirmed and Grade A safety glass under AS 1288 is specced into it.
Both tracks come off the same bench. Doors are made to measure at our 1,700 sqm factory in Brendale. Our installers hold Cert III in Glass and Glazing alongside Cert III in Carpentry, which earns its keep on a settled Petrie opening that needs correcting before any glass goes in, and most residential installs finish in one to two days. Tell us the address and the job and we’ll tell you which track you’re on before anything is fabricated.
Architectural glass doors in Petrie
Front entries in Petrie split the same two ways. In The Mill the entrance is picked from scratch, before the house is finished. On the established streets, where the housing stock is mostly detached houses, it’s a replacement job: an existing entry that has dropped on its hinges, often sorted ahead of a sale or a new tenant. Our architectural range covers both, with hinged aluminium entrance doors, entry doors and custom entry panels for homes and commercial premises. Panels come in single, double or multi-panel configurations with a choice of handles, locks, hinges and privacy options. Commercial entries get commercial-grade hardware and hinges rated for high-traffic use. If heat through the entry is the concern, the range can integrate with the ComfortEdge system, which is designed to reduce heat transfer through door and window systems and steady indoor temperatures. Our door and window installations use Breezeway and Vantage systems. The full line-up of configurations and hardware sits on our architectural door range page.
Superior Glass has been manufacturing and installing glass since 1972 and is still Australian family-owned, with director Nathan Fox hands-on in daily operations. We make what we fit. Doors are built at our 1,700 sqm factory and showroom at 241 Leitchs Road, Brendale, then installed by our own crews. Those installers hold Cert III in Glass and Glazing and Cert III in Carpentry. We’re QBCC licensed and insured; in Queensland, the QBCC requires a glass, glazing and aluminium licence for paid glazing work. A typical residential door install runs one to two days. Our service fleet covers North Brisbane and the Pine Rivers and Moreton Bay corridor, and Petrie jobs are scheduled inside those regular local runs. And if the new door needs a security screen over it, we supply and fit those too, so one company handles the whole opening.