Aluminium Glass Doors Aspley
Aspley sits at the southern end of our regular run out of Brendale. The factory and showroom at 241 Leitchs Road is roughly 8 to 9 km away, a short drive via South Pine Road and Gympie Road. Our service fleet covers North Brisbane and the Pine Rivers corridor, so an Aspley measure or install slots into a regular local run.
Why Aspley chooses custom aluminium glass doors
A door opening cut in 1965 has had six decades to move. Timber frames shrink. Footings settle, and the brickwork above the opening moves with them. In postwar openings of this age, the width at the top corner and the width at the bottom corner often disagree. A stock door from a hardware chain assumes a square hole. These houses rarely have one.
Aspley is a settled suburb, and the numbers show it. Of its 5,463 private dwellings, 72.1% are stand-alone houses, 3,662 homes in all. Most date from the subdivision boom that started in 1952 near Gympie and Robinson Roads and filled the suburb with low-set brick homes through the 1960s and 70s. That puts the original doors and windows at 55 to 70 years old, and they tend to fail together: worn sills, stiff rollers, perished seals, and single glazing that does little for traffic noise near Gympie Road.
This is why we build doors to measure rather than selling from a catalogue. Every Aspley door we fit is fabricated at our own factory in Brendale. The frame is cut from the opening’s on-site dimensions, taken as it stands today, not to a nominal stock size. Because the same crew is trade-certified in both glazing and carpentry, they can correct a leaning jamb or pack a dropped sill before the new door goes in.
The rules matter too. Widen one of these openings into a larger sliding or stacking span and AS 2047, the standard for external glazed doors, brings a wind-load rating into the job, set by the pressure the site can see. AS 1288 sets the glass itself: any door has to be glazed in Grade A safety glass, toughened or laminated. Building the frame to the measured opening, not a stock size, leaves room to meet both the wind rating and the glass grade the job requires.
If your windows are going at the same time as your doors, and at this age most are, we handle both. The window half of the job is covered on our Aspley aluminium windows page.
Architectural glass doors in Aspley
Architectural glass doors are the front-of-house side of our range: hinged aluminium entrance doors, entry doors, and custom entry panels for homes and commercial properties. Panels come in single, double, or multi-panel configurations, with your choice of handles, locks, hinges, and privacy options. We build these installations on Breezeway and Vantage systems, and doors can integrate the ComfortEdge system, which is designed to cut heat transfer through the door and steady indoor temperatures. For shops and offices, commercial architectural doors carry commercial-grade hardware and hinges rated for high-traffic use. On a 1960s Aspley brick home, a hinged aluminium entrance door usually replaces a worn original front door, and the custom panel work means the new door fits the opening you actually have. See the full architectural door range for details.
Superior Glass has been making and fitting glass doors since 1972. We’re Australian family-owned, and director Nathan Fox still works in the business day to day. We manufacture and we install: doors are made at our own 1,700 sqm factory and showroom at 241 Leitchs Road, Brendale, then fitted by our own crews. Those installers hold Cert III in Glass and Glazing and Cert III in Carpentry, working to NSSA-compliant standards. We’re QBCC licensed and insured; the QBCC requires that licence for any paid glass and glazing work in Queensland, including fabricating and installing doors. Once a door is measured and made, fitting it usually takes a day or two on site. If you want a security screen door over the new glass, we supply and install Prowler Proof and Crimsafe screens, listed at /security-screens-brisbane/, on the same job, so one contractor handles both.