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    Radcliff Construction Group
    Doors, Frames & Hardware

    Commercial Door Installation

    Doors going into a commercial building? We install them — hollow metal, wood, fire-rated, storefront, glass and automatic — with the frames, the hardware and the wall work around them. One opening or a whole building, while your building stays open.

    We Install Doors. Any Commercial Door.

    If you have doors to install, that is the job we want. We set the frame, hang the door, install and adjust the hardware, and finish the wall around it. And because RCG is a licensed general contractor, the parts a door installer normally hands off — cutting and framing the opening, power for an operator or a card reader, drywall, paint and base — stay under the same contract.

    • Doors & Frames: Hollow metal, wood, storefront and glass doors, welded and knock-down frames — in new openings we cut and frame, or in place of doors that are coming out.
    • Door Hardware: Closers, exit devices, locksets, hinges, thresholds and seals — installed to the hardware schedule and adjusted so the door closes and latches on its own, every time.
    • Fire-Rated & Accessible Openings: Labeled fire door assemblies installed so they keep their rating, and ADA clearances laid out before the frame goes in.

    Your Building Stays Open

    One opening at a time, loud work after hours, and no opening left unsecured overnight.

    The Whole Opening

    Framing, electrical, drywall, paint and flooring transitions under the same contract as the door.

    ICRA in Medical Buildings

    Cutting a wall in a clinic or hospital makes dust. Our supervisors are ICRA certified: containment at the opening, and negative air where the risk class calls for it.

    Door Types We Install

    If it swings, slides or opens on a sensor and it belongs in a commercial building, we install it:

    • Hollow metal (steel) doors and frames, welded and knock-down
    • Solid-core wood and plastic-laminate doors
    • Fire-rated door and frame assemblies
    • Aluminum storefront and all-glass entrance doors
    • Automatic sliding and swing doors, and push-button operators
    • Pairs, double-egress and cross-corridor doors
    • Frames with sidelights, transoms and borrowed lights
    • Interior sliding and barn-style doors
    • Lead-lined, sound-rated, stainless steel and FRP doors
    • Card-reader and keypad openings with electrified hardware
    • Closers, exit devices, locksets, hinges, thresholds and seals
    • New openings cut and framed in existing walls

    Two things we do not do: garage doors, and repair or maintenance work on doors that are already in place. This is an installation service — new doors in new openings, and new doors where old ones are coming out.

    Proof

    Openings we have already cut, framed and hung

    At Walton-Verona Middle School, RCG installed new full-height partitions, doors and hardware throughout the nurse's suite, main office and administration area — inside summer break, handed back before the first day of school. At a UC Health physician practice in West Chester, we re-planned the suite in place, cutting new door openings where the practice needed them while the practice on the other side of the building never closed. At UC Health Facial Plastics in Midtown, an old charting niche became a storage room with a relocated keypad-entry door.

    Walton-Verona Middle School →UC Health West Chester suite re-plan →UC Health Facial Plastics, Midtown →

    Install Only, or Supply and Install

    There are two ways to hire us, and both end with every door closing and latching on its own:

    How you hire usWhat we doWhat we need
    Install onlyYou or your supplier bought the doors, frames and hardware. We receive them, check them against the schedule and install them.The door and hardware schedule, and the approved shop drawings if there are any
    Supply and installWe measure every opening, order the doors, frames and hardware, and install them — priced by the opening.A walk through the building and the hours we can work

    The people who call us are building owners and property managers fitting out a suite or replacing an entrance, facility teams at hospitals, clinics and schools adding or changing openings, and contractors and door suppliers with material on order and no crew to hang it.

    The Numbers an Accessible Door Has to Hit

    Most failed accessibility reviews at a door come down to a handful of measurements — all of them decided when the door is installed. These are set by Section 404 of the 2010 ADA Standards:

    ElementADA requirement
    Clear opening width32 inches minimum, measured from the face of the door to the stop with the door open 90 degrees
    Opening force, interior hinged doors5 pounds maximum (fire doors follow the minimum the local authority allows)
    HardwareWorks with one hand, no tight grasping, pinching or twisting; 34 to 48 inches above the floor
    Closing speedAt least 5 seconds to swing from 90 degrees to 12 degrees from the latch
    Threshold1/2 inch high maximum
    Space beside the latch18 inches minimum on the pull side for a front approach

    A closer set too heavy, a knob where a lever belongs, or a frame set a few inches too close to a side wall can each fail an opening that looks fine. We measure against these before the frame is ordered, because the fix afterward is usually a new frame. And if your renovation alters a primary function area, the ADA's path-of-travel rule can pull the entrance and the doors along the route into the budget — the full breakdown is in our Commercial ADA Compliance Guide.

    Fire-Rated Doors: Installed So the Label Stays Valid

    A fire door is a tested assembly — door, frame, hinges, closer and latch — and it carries its rating only when every part matches the label and the installation follows NFPA 80, the standard that building and fire codes point to. Most of what makes a fire door pass or fail is decided on installation day:

    • The frame is set plumb and square and anchored the way its listing requires. A twisted frame is where oversized gaps come from.
    • Clearances are held to NFPA 80: for a steel door, 1/8 inch, give or take 1/16, at the head and jambs and no more than 3/4 inch under the door.
    • Only labeled components go on the opening — hinges, closer, latch, glass and seals that belong to the assembly — and the labels stay readable, never painted over.
    • No field cuts or drilling beyond what the door's listing allows. If the opening needs a different size or hardware prep, the door is ordered that way.
    • Every door is checked from full open: it closes and latches by itself.

    NFPA 80 also calls for a new fire door assembly to be inspected and tested once it is installed, so we install every rated opening to pass that check the first time. In hospitals and clinics the work runs behind ICRA containment and around your unit's schedule.

    Installing Doors While the Building Stays Open

    Most of the doors we install are in buildings people are using that day. That changes how the job is run:

    • One opening at a time, so a floor never loses more than one door.
    • No opening left unsecured overnight. The door is hung and locking, or the opening is closed off, before the crew leaves.
    • Cutting and demolition after hours, with dust controlled at the opening.
    • Exits and rated corridors stay usable. When a rated opening has to come out of service, the interim plan is agreed with your facility team first.
    • Keys, access cards and tenant notices coordinated through property management.

    RCG is based in Crescent Springs and installs commercial doors across Greater Cincinnati, Dayton and Northern Kentucky, including Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties. Door packages are often part of a larger tenant improvement or healthcare renovation, and storefront entrances often go in alongside commercial window replacement.

    How a Door Installation Runs

    1. Site walk & opening survey (free). Every opening measured, swing and hand recorded, wall type and fire rating noted, so the order is right the first time.
    2. Itemized bid with lead times. Priced by the opening, with two dates: when the doors, frames and hardware arrive, and how many days we are on site.
    3. Installation, one opening at a time. Frames set plumb and square, doors hung and adjusted, hardware installed, walls patched and painted — each opening secured before the crew leaves.
    4. Closeout. Every door closes and latches on its own. Keys, hardware schedule, punch list and warranty documents handed over.

    Commercial Door Installation FAQs

    Any door that belongs in a commercial building: hollow metal and wood doors, fire-rated assemblies, aluminum storefront and glass entrance doors, automatic sliding and swing doors, pairs and cross-corridor doors, interior sliding doors, and specialty doors such as lead-lined doors for imaging rooms. We install the frames and the hardware with them, and as a licensed general contractor we also do the wall, power and finish work around the opening. The one type we do not install is garage doors.

    Yes. If you or your supplier have already purchased the doors, frames and hardware, we install them from your door and hardware schedule. If you have not ordered yet, we can measure the openings, supply the full package and install it under one price.

    Yes. Most of the doors we install go into buildings that are open for business. We work one opening at a time, schedule cutting and other loud work after hours, control dust at the opening, and never leave an opening unsecured overnight — the door is hung and locking, or the opening is closed off, before the crew leaves.

    Yes. A fire door is a tested assembly — door, frame, hinges, closer and latch — and it keeps its rating only when every part matches the label. We install labeled assemblies to the manufacturer's listing, hold the clearances NFPA 80 sets (for a steel door, 1/8 inch, give or take 1/16, at the head and jambs and no more than 3/4 inch under the door), and avoid the field cuts and add-on hardware that void a label.

    Under Section 404 of the 2010 ADA Standards, the main numbers are a clear opening at least 32 inches wide with the door open 90 degrees, no more than 5 pounds of force to open an interior hinged door, hardware that works with one hand and no tight grasping or twisting, mounted 34 to 48 inches above the floor, a closer that takes at least 5 seconds to swing the door from 90 degrees to 12 degrees, and a threshold no higher than 1/2 inch. The approach matters too: a front approach needs 18 inches of clear wall beside the latch on the pull side.

    Installation is the short part. Most of the calendar is lead time: fire-rated and custom-sized doors and frames are made to the opening, while common sizes are often in stock. Our bid gives you both dates — when the material arrives and how many days we are on site — so you can plan around real dates.

    The opening locations or drawings, and whatever you already have: a door schedule, a hardware schedule, fire ratings, a keying plan and the hours we can work. If none of that exists yet, we build it on the site walk — every opening measured, swing and hand recorded, wall type and existing conditions noted.

    Often, yes. A new door in an existing opening is sometimes treated as a minor repair, but cutting a new opening, changing an exit, adding an exterior door or storefront, or working in a fire-rated wall usually calls for a permit and plan review — and Cincinnati, Hamilton County and the Northern Kentucky counties each run their own process. We confirm the requirement with the building department before we price the work.

    Both. One new door is a real project — especially when the wall has to be cut and framed for it — and so is a full building of openings. What matters is that a door is being installed.

    No. We install doors. We do not take repair calls, service contracts or maintenance work on doors that are already in place, and we do not install garage doors — overhead and roll-up doors included. Taking out old doors and installing new ones is installation, and that we do. RCG is a commercial general contractor serving offices, medical buildings, schools, retail and other commercial properties across Greater Cincinnati, Dayton and Northern Kentucky.

    Related Resources

    Tenant ImprovementsHealthcare RenovationsWindow ReplacementADA Compliance GuideBuilding Permits GuideCincinnatiNorthern KentuckyDayton

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