Aluminium Glass Doors Ferny Hills
Our factory and showroom are at 241 Leitchs Road, Brendale, a short run from Ferny Hills [C2, C37]. The service fleet covers North Brisbane and the Pine Rivers corridor on regular runs, so a Ferny Hills measure slots into an existing local route rather than a special trip. Call 07 3353 1588 or book through our contact page, and the door that comes back was built up the road at our own factory [C3, C26].
Why Ferny Hills chooses custom aluminium glass doors
A 1970s chamferboard house on a hilly Ferny Hills block usually still has its first set of glass doors. Subdivision here started in 1960, the suburb was gazetted in 1972, and sewerage was finished by 1974, with growth peaking through the 60s and 70s. Property guides describe Ferny Hills as a suburb of 1970s and 80s chamferboard and brick homes on blocks of roughly 600 to 800 square metres. Most of those homes got the standard sliding door of the day: a two-panel unit that only ever opens half its width.
Fifty years on, the rollers have flattened and the track is chewed. You shoulder the door open. The frustrating part is what sits on the other side of the glass. Much of the suburb’s western side falls within Samford Conservation Park, in the foothills of the D’Aguilar Range, with Bunyaville reserve nearby, so many streets here have a bushland fringe past the back fence. A dragging 40-year-old slider turns that outlook into a strip.
We measure the opening, then make the replacement at our 1,700 sqm factory in Brendale: sliding, stacker, bi-fold or hinged, sized to your wall rather than to a stock sheet [C26, C17, C28]. We’re the manufacturer and the installer, and we’ve worked that way since 1972, the same year Ferny Hills became a gazetted suburb [C1, C2, C38]. Our installers hold Cert III in Glass and Glazing and Cert III in Carpentry, which matters when a wider opening has to be cut into a chamferboard wall that’s been standing since the early 70s [C7, C39].
Most residential installs run 1 to 2 days. Wide openings are checked against the wind-load rating in AS 2047, and AS 1288 requires Grade A safety glass in doors, so the engineering is settled before anything gets built [C29, C30]. If you want security screens over the new door, we supply and install Prowler Proof and Crimsafe screens in the same job, one crew for the lot.
Architectural glass doors in Ferny Hills
The architectural range covers the front of the house: hinged aluminium entrance doors, entry doors and custom entry panels, for homes and commercial buildings. Panels come in single, double or multi-panel configurations, with your pick of handles, locks, hinges and privacy options. Installations use Breezeway and Vantage systems, and doors can integrate ComfortEdge, a system designed to reduce heat transfer and steady indoor temperatures, worth a look if your entry cops the afternoon sun. For shopfronts and offices, commercial architectural doors carry commercial-grade hardware and hinges rated for high-traffic use. On a 70s Ferny Hills home, that usually means swapping a swollen original front door for a hinged aluminium unit with a custom entry panel [C39, C20]. See the full architectural door range at /glass-doors-brisbane/architectural/.
Superior Glass has been making and fitting glass since 1972, and we’re still Australian family-owned, with director Nathan Fox involved day to day. We manufacture at our own 1,700 sqm factory and showroom at 241 Leitchs Road, Brendale, then install with our own crews. Our installers hold Cert III in Glass and Glazing and Cert III in Carpentry. That second trade earns its keep on older chamferboard homes, where the frame often needs work before the glass goes in [C7, C39]. In Queensland, paid glazing work legally requires a QBCC glass, glazing and aluminium licence, and we’re QBCC licensed and insured. The engineering rules for this work are set by the Australian Standards: AS 1288 requires Grade A safety glass in doors, and AS 2047 sets wind-load ratings for external glazed doors [C30, C29]. Most residential installs take 1 to 2 days. And because we supply and install Prowler Proof and Crimsafe security screens, the screen door gets specified with the glass door and fitted by the same crew.