“the only thing I knew for sure was that there was no way I was going to work for my dad at a door company,” he recalls – but after working several years as a financial planner, he realized how much he missed what he was doing as a kid. After figuring that out, he returned to the family business around, and he’s never looked back. These days, Chad manages the company alongside his sister and partner Jennifer. The jobs they focus on have changed over the years, as manufacturing in the Niagara region has slowed down. In the 90s and early 2000s, Chad estimates that about 75 per cent of the company’s work was commercial-industrial and about 25 per cent was residential. In the 2020s, residential is a much bigger slice of the pie, maybe as big a slice as 40 per cent: “There’s a lot of development in this area,” Chad says. “There’s a lot of housing going up, and our goal is to be part of that.” According to Chad, Canadian Door Doctor has crews that specialize in that type of work, just like they have crews that specialize in commercial and industrial work. He says the two disciplines are similar – “they’re siblings, they go handin-hand” – but that residential clients and commercial clients have different priorities, and Canadian Door Doctor recognizes that. “When you’re in someone’s house, you need a different set of skills then when you’re 40feet in the air in a scissor lift welding a plate together,” he explains. “You’re in someone’s THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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