Glass Canopies & Awnings for Rainy Entries

Rain cover without losing the light

This is the real reason to choose glass over a solid awning: Metro Vancouver is grey enough already. A glass canopy stops the rain but lets the sky through, so the entry stays bright and you see the shape of the building rather than a fabric box.

It also ages better in our climate. Fabric fades, sags and mildews; metal solid roofs darken the doorway. Glass needs a rinse a couple of times a year and otherwise looks the same in year ten as it did in year one.

Residential entry canopies

The everyday luxury: standing at your front door out of the rain while you find your keys. A canopy over the entry protects the door and its hardware from weather, keeps the porch dry, and gives the front of the house a clean, modern line that photographs well when it's time to sell.

We build to the house — slim stainless or powder-coated supports, cantilevered where possible so there are no posts in the walkway, and a slight slope so water sheds to one side instead of dripping off the front edge onto your guests. See how these turn out in our project gallery.

Commercial storefront canopies

For a shop or office, a canopy is hospitality: customers shake off umbrellas under cover instead of inside your doorway, window-shoppers can linger out of the rain, and the entrance reads as finished and deliberate. It also protects the threshold, door hardware and mats from constant wet.

Canopy work pairs naturally with our commercial storefront glass — if you're refitting the front anyway, doing both at once saves a second mobilization. We coordinate with your sign contractor on clearances and line the canopy up with the transom so the whole front reads as one design.

Safe glass overhead

Overhead glass has one non-negotiable: it must be laminated. Laminated panels are two sheets of glass bonded to a tough interlayer, so even if a panel breaks — a fallen branch, a ladder gone sideways — the glass stays in one piece and in its frame. That is the only glass we put over people's heads.

Hardware matters just as much. We spec supports and fasteners for wind uplift and the weight of a wet snowfall, and we seal every penetration so water goes where we intend it to. Every canopy starts with a free estimate — tell us about your entry and we'll measure and price it exactly. We install across the region; see our service areas.