“Fast forward to 2022, and we have a huge amount of products available,” he says. “Whether your dog or your cat walks through it or whether an airplane flies through it – we can handle it.” Today, Canadian Door Doctor’s offering includes: residential overhead doors and operators, commercial and industrial overhead doors and operators, rolling steel doors and operators, high-speed fabric doors, crash doors, automatic door controls, gates and operators, rolling grilles and shutters, loading dock levellers and seals and equipment, truck restraints, man doors, and hardware. That list is long, but “it’s by no means complete,” Chad says – as the company specializes in unique applications and customized work. Whatever the door-related challenge, they take pride in finding the solution. Chad credits the company’s ability to find those solutions to their experience. The company has been around for 43 years, so they have encountered virtually every challenge the industry has to offer, and they have always figured out ways to overcome them. They also have very longstanding and experienced employees. That includes Chad, who has been in the industry almost all his life, and has been with the company since the year 2000: “I could install a door before I had my driver’s license,” he says. “I grew up around doors.” Chad stepped away from the industry for a while after graduating high school – when JULY 2022
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