About Ritson Door Hardware Co.
Ritson Door Hardware Co. works on the part of the door most people never look at until it fails. Closers, exit devices, hold-opens and the pivots and strikes that decide whether a door latches: it is a narrow trade, and doing only that is what lets us walk into an Oshawa apartment block, look at forty fire doors in an afternoon, and know which ones need a valve turned and which ones need the unit off the wall.
Most of our work is commercial, industrial and institutional — property managers with fire doors that have to hold up to an inspection, landlords licensed under the City’s rental housing by-law around the Durham College and Ontario Tech campuses, plants and distribution buildings along Thornton Road and in Northwood Business Park, schools, campus buildings and recreation complexes with exit hardware and accessible operators to keep running. We are insured and WSIB-covered, we do not invent problems to sell hardware, and if a closer only needs adjusting we will say so and adjust it.
The other half of the job is telling people the truth about the season. Half the emergency calls we take in January are doors that had been drifting quietly out of adjustment since November. We would rather do one scheduled pass in the fall than three panic visits in the cold, and every job — planned or urgent — comes with a written, fixed-scope estimate before anyone touches a screwdriver.
Why Oshawa property owners trust us
- Door closers and exit hardware are all we do, all day
- Fire doors handled building-wide, with a written record of what was corrected
- Seasonal adjustment for Durham cold, wind exposure and humid summers
- Insured, WSIB-covered, and a written workmanship guarantee
Insured & WSIB-covered
We carry full liability insurance and WSIB coverage, and we service closers and exit hardware so fire doors close and latch on their own, the way Ontario’s Fire Code requires — serving property owners across Oshawa and the Greater Toronto Area.