West Oshawa · Stevenson
Window and storefront glass around Stevenson and the Oshawa Centre
West Oshawa around Stevenson Road is shops and homes side by side. A shopkeeper with a cracked entrance door and a homeowner with a fogged picture window need different pros, so tell us which you are. We connect you with an independent local professional who does that kind of work, and they quote it and do it.
At a glance
- Retail
- The Oshawa Centre, at King Street and Stevenson Road, and nearby plazas
- Heritage
- Oshawa's only heritage district, at the airport
- Common jobs
- Storefront glass, plaza doors, picture windows
- Permits
- Shops: check with the City
Retail, the airport and residential streets
The Oshawa Centre opened in the 1950s, was enclosed in the late 1960s, and is the largest mall in Ontario east of Toronto. The plazas and standalone stores around it hold most of this area's storefront glass. Up Stevenson Road North is Oshawa Executive Airport, with houses on the streets around both.
If your shop is inside the mall, glass and doors go through mall management, so start there. This page is for the plazas, standalone shops and homes.
Shops and plazas: storefront glass and doors
The morning after, it's usually one of these:
- Storefront glass: the broken pane covered, then measured for a replacement made to order, sometimes tempered or laminated.
- Plaza entrance doors: a closer, pivot or lock adjusted or replaced, not a new door.
- Door glass: a cracked pane in an aluminium door replaced in its frame.
- Security film: added to a ground-floor window once the repair is done.
Read your lease; the plaza landlord may own the storefront. Oshawa's same-size permit exemption covers houses only, so check with the City first. After vandalism, see vandalism glass repair for the City fund, subject to availability.
Homes: windows, patio doors and screens
We can't date these houses street by street, so we go by the window. A picture window fogged between the panes usually needs a new sealed unit in the same frame. A patio door that sticks or won't lock is usually rollers, track or latch. Screens are expected on every window that opens, which matters if you rent the house out. When frames are worn out across the house, new windows are worth pricing, and a same-size swap on a house usually needs no permit.
The airport heritage district
Oshawa's only heritage conservation district is the South Field at Oshawa Executive Airport, 1000 Stevenson Road North. It covers a few airfield buildings and Airmen's Park, not the shops and homes on this page. The City's heritage properties page has details.
Getting a quote
Say whether it's a home or a business, and send a photo of the damage plus one of the whole window or door. For a shop, tell us if the landlord must approve the work. We pass it to a pro who handles that kind of job and check back so it doesn't stall. West Oshawa houses are matched the same way as shops.
West Oshawa questions
Is a City permit needed for storefront work in a west Oshawa plaza?
Ask the City before the work, not after. Oshawa's exemption for same-size window and door replacement is written for houses only, so a plaza storefront doesn't get the same automatic pass. The building department decides, and the plaza landlord may need to sign off too. Ask the pro what they've needed on similar jobs; our commercial glass page has more.
Can a glass pro fix a plaza entrance door?
Yes, often without replacing the door. Commercial entrance doors usually fail at the hardware: a closer that slams or won't latch, a worn pivot, a sticking lock. Each part can be replaced, and a cracked pane can be replaced in the frame. Photograph the closer and the lock when you ask for a quote.
My shop is inside the Oshawa Centre. Can I book my own glass repair?
Start with mall management, not a glass pro. Inside an enclosed mall, storefronts and entrance doors are generally arranged through the landlord, and your lease says who pays. If management tells you in writing that a repair is yours to arrange, send that with a photo and we'll pass it on. Plaza and standalone shops nearby usually deal with their own landlord instead.
Does the airport heritage district affect window work?
Only on the airport's South Field, Oshawa's one heritage conservation district. Homes and shops in the streets around it aren't part of it, though a building elsewhere can be designated on its own. The City's heritage register lists every designated property if you want to check yours.
Is west Oshawa housing covered, or just the shops?
Homes too. We match west Oshawa houses as well as businesses: fogged sealed units, broken panes, patio doors, screens and new windows. Put your street on the request, say it's a house, and we pass it to a pro who does residential work. The service areas page shows the rest of Oshawa and Durham.