
Choosing the right commercial door is essential for ensuring security, durability, and functionality in any business setting. With various options available, it’s important to consider key factors such as material strength, design features, safety standards, and maintenance requirements. We highlight the key considerations to evaluate when selecting a commercial door, so you can make an informed decision that balances performance, aesthetics, and long-term value for your business.
By investing in durable aluminium commercial doors, businesses can improve the appearance of their premises, enhance security, lower repair expenses, and enjoy reliable service for years to come.
Key Considerations When Selecting a Commercial Door
Whether you are looking for a storefront, office door or fire exit door, first you will need to answer questions like these:

Design & Aesthetics
Your commercial building’s doors, whether they’re internal or external, represent your brand and company, the design plays a vital role in representing a company’s brand and creating a positive first impression. With sleek, modern aesthetics and customisable designs, aluminium doors can be tailored to reflect a business’s unique identity. From elegant glass for a contemporary look to custom finishes and colours that match brand elements, these doors seamlessly combine style with function.
Durability
Durability is a key advantage of aluminium commercial doors, making them ideal for high-traffic environments such as retail stores, offices, leisure centres, schools, and medical facilities. These settings demand doors that can endure constant use without compromising performance. Aluminium’s natural resistance to corrosion and weathering ensures lasting durability, even in challenging conditions. Unlike other materials, it retains its structural integrity without warping, cracking, or rusting, helping to minimize long-term maintenance costs. Additionally, aluminium doors combine lightweight construction with impressive strength, offering superior impact resistance and dependable stability.
Security
Whether you are an office, retail store, bank, school or leisure premises all commercial doors need to be secure to protect your assets, staff and clientele. Security is a critical consideration for any commercial doors, our aluminium doors offer a range of options including, integral external beading, a 22mm glazing height enhances the door’s resistance to forced entry, providing robust protection for glass panels. Multi-point locking systems with anti-snap security cylinders.
Functionality and Accessibility
As well as the aesthetics, security and thermal efficiency, the functionality of the door and its accessibility is a key consideration. What type of threshold will be required, will the doors be opened manually or automatically, does the door require remote access, keypad entry or motorised multipoint locking. Are features such as anti-finger trap required. Consider how easily people with a disability can gain access.
Fire Exit Doors
A fire exit door is a final exit door from a building that is used in an emergency and leads to the outside. Fire exit doors are designed to allow quick and easy exit and escape to a place of safety. The operation of these doors must be as straightforward as possible. These doors usually prevent unauthorised access from outside. In public areas / buildings fire exit doors should be fitted with panic bars.
The best commercial doors for a building balance design, durability, functionality, safety and security. They should create a good first impression, which will in turn make your premises more visually appealing key for retail businesses. Investing in aluminium doors can, in the long run, save your business money in terms of maintenance costs, durability and energy efficiency.
At DRS we design, manufacture and supply durable aluminium commercial doors, get in touch today to tell us about your requirements and get your project started.