01Measure
The measure
Which door and hardware fit comes down to five measurements, and headroom picks the springs and tracks.
- Opening width and height
- Headroom to the ceiling
- Side room for the tracks
- Backroom to the rear wall
Garage door installation inAurora
Garage door installation in Aurora, measured at your opening and hung from the bottom up: a Canadian-made door, a free estimate from two pictures, and a standard replacement usually done in a day.
- every replacement door
- Made in Canada
- warranty on replacement doors
- Lifetime
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
What’s included
The door, the hardwareand the measure.
A Aurora door is measured first and ordered to the opening, 20 minutes from the shop in Richmond Hill; a like-for-like door in the same opening is the kind the Town of Aurora exempts from a building permit, and a wider or taller opening is a structural change that Town of Aurora Building Division (Planning and Development Services) reviews.
02Door
The door itself
Wood-look, aluminium or steel, with or without insulation, single or double. Pick style and colour.
- Single or double door
- Steel, wood-look, aluminium
- Insulated or single skin
- Lites in the top section
03Hardware
Tracks, springs and seals
Tracks are cut for this opening and sections have rollers. The frame has seals; the spring suits.
- Tracks for headroom
- Rollers per section
- Seals round the opening
- Soft jambs dealt with
04Opener
The opener, kept or replaced
Whether kept or not, the opener is reconnected and tested, and the quote says if it can stay.
- Existing opener reconnected
- Limits and force set
- Sensors and remotes set
- A new opener if wanted
Reviews
Rated on Google,quoted as written.
From the reviews homeowners left on our Google listing: cut for length, never reworded.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 from 70 reviews on Google (opens Google Maps)After years of dents and damage from hockey pucks, our new garage door looks amazing!!
I’m very happy with the work done on my front door and garage door. … Both doors look amazing …
Everyone else told me I’d be waiting anywhere from 6 weeks to 4 months just to get a door delivered and installed.
My garage spring and cables snapped on a Sunday afternoon, Moe was able to swing by the next morning …
Great Service by Moe, very clean job, on time and no surprises.
It completely changed the look of my home and has already received so many compliments.
The work was done in 5 hours and they cleaned up after themselves leaving no trace of my old garage door and front door.
I called Moe he was here in the same hour and we got our new doors in two days
He didn’t just fix the immediate problem … made sure the door was running smoother and quieter than before.
We were presented with multiple options and given the pros and cons of each.
… replacing my destroyed garage door for a beautiful modern style door.
Replaced my front door and garage door with a remote. … the finished work looks amazing.
I had a quote within a day … and the new door installed by that weekend.
Garage door spring was broken. Moe was able to come out the next day and fit it.
Moe takes the time to get to know what your needs are and has affordable recommendations.
Moe did an excellent job replacing our old, worn down garage door with a beautiful, heavy duty white one.
… he was here the next day and we had our garage doors and front doors done within one week.
The whole process was seamless and I couldn’t believe how fast the job was completed without any hiccups.
… came on short notice to take a look. He quickly diagnosed the problem and had it fixed in no time.
They were super on time, super efficient, and the price was dead on.
Projects
Same house,new door.
Real jobs on our customers’ houses, recreated from the photos we took: the door we took down, and the one we hung in its place.
Both doors on one house.
The garage door and the front doors were both brown: raised panels with square lites, and double doors with grid lites in a white frame. We replaced them together in one grey, so the two now match across the front of the house.
Gallery
The styleswe install.
Eighteen garage and front door styles, each one modelled on a door we’ve hung.
Service area
From our shopto your door.
Every town we serve, by the drive from our shop in Richmond Hill. The nearest are on top.
Towns we serve, by the drive
FAQ
Garage door installation questionsin Aurora.
What Aurora homeowners ask about installation & replacement, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
The door you choose decides most of it: single or double, material, insulation and windows. After that comes whatever the crew finds behind the old door, in the framing, the tracks and the opener. The estimate is free and gives one figure, built from two pictures and your opening size, before any work begins.
On site, a normal single or double replacement is finished in one day, and in Aurora that day sits inside the Noise By-law's hours. The longer wait comes earlier, while the door is made to your measurements, and its date is given when you order. Jamb repair, a new opener or a custom size adds time.
A new door in the opening you already have normally needs no building permit. Widening or heightening the opening alters the header, so a permit usually follows, and sometimes an engineer. In a condo or townhouse complex, ask the corporation about style and colour before choosing. Send us your address and your plan, and we will say which case it is.
Planned installs are booked on weekdays and Saturdays, inside the hours the Town's Noise By-law allows. It bars construction noise on Sundays and statutory holidays, and from 5 p.m. Saturday until 7 a.m. Monday, so a Saturday job has to finish by late afternoon. Start and finish times follow the by-law, not only the crew's own day.
One crew handles both jobs, so they can be ordered and booked together. In Northeast Old Aurora an entry door is an exterior alteration that needs the Town's approval first, so when both are ordered together, that approval sets the date for the pair. A made-to-order door also has a lead time of its own.
A door that won't work5 questions
Check three things before you call anyone. Is the opener getting power, or has the plug come out or the breaker tripped? Is the door locked, or has the red release cord been pulled? And look at the springs above the opening: a gap of a couple of inches in a coil means one has snapped, often with a loud bang beforehand. If a spring is broken, do not force the door or keep pressing the button. Stop there and call (647) 323-1826, at any hour.
Yes. Modern Empire Doors is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, holidays included, and the phone is answered at night. A door stuck open is a security problem, and a door stuck shut with the car inside is a lost day, so neither waits for Monday. Some things can wait for a weekday: a noisy door, a remote that stopped while the wall button still works, a torn seal. If you are not sure which yours is, call and ask.
Usually, yes. The parts that fail most often are carried on the van, so most repairs are finished on the first visit. If you text a photo from inside the garage before we come, we can often see what has failed and make sure the right part is with us. The exceptions are parts made for one door, such as a replacement section in a matching design and colour, which may have to be ordered in. In the meantime the door can usually be secured so the garage still locks.
It depends on the part, and most repairs come down to a handful: springs, cables, rollers, the opener or the safety sensors. We would rather tell you the real price for your door than quote a range that does not apply to it, so text a photo from inside the garage to (647) 323-1826 and we can usually tell which part it is before we arrive. Most repairs are finished in one visit, and you hear the price before any work starts.
Often, if the same section is still made. What people call a panel is usually a full-width section, and the new one has to match the make, size, design and colour of the rest. On a newer door from a current series that is usually possible. On an older or discontinued door it may not be, and a mismatched section can look worse than the dent. Sun-faded finishes are the other catch. Send a photo, plus any label on the door's inside edge, and we will tell you honestly.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door installation in Aurora.
The garage door questions people type into Google, answered in a few lines each. Search for yours, or pick a part of the door.
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A visit starts after 7 a.m. and finishes before the evening limit. Aurora's Noise By-law bars construction noise from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. on weekdays, and residential renovation noise from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. A standard replacement fits inside a working day.
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Someone has to be home to let the crew in. Before the day, cars come out of the garage and about three feet of floor just inside the door is cleared. There should also be a working outlet near the opener motor.
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Pictures are enough for the estimate, but the measuring is done at the opening before the order goes in, because the door is built to those numbers. They are width, height, headroom, side room and backroom. The shop is 20 minutes away by Yonge Street.
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The guide
Garage door installation in Aurora: good to know.
What is different about installation & replacement in Aurora: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Installing a garage door in Aurora: one day, inside the quiet hours
Aurora's Noise By-law, No. 6381-21, bans construction noise on Sundays and statutory holidays, from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monday to Friday, and from 5 p.m. Saturday to 7 a.m. Monday. Residential renovation noise is also barred from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monday to Friday.
The visit is planned around that. A standard replacement is normally finished the same day, so it can start after 7 a.m. and end, balanced and tested, before the evening limit. When the old door comes out and the bottom of the jambs turns out soft from water and road salt, that is dealt with while the opening is bare, and it is the usual reason a day runs longer.
Garage door installation permits in Aurora
In Aurora the permit question concerns the opening, not the door. The same size of door in the same opening normally goes ahead without a building permit, and the job can be booked as soon as the door has been chosen.
A wider or taller opening means altering the header, so the Town is asked first and review time is added before the door is ordered. The permit comes first and the measuring after, so the door is built to the finished opening. Condo and townhouse corporations can have rules of their own on style and colour.
Ordering from the shop to Bayview Wellington and Aurora Highlands
Yonge Street takes the crew from the shop to Bayview Wellington, Aurora Highlands or anywhere else in Aurora in 20 minutes (12.7 km). Take one picture of the door from the driveway and one from inside with it shut, so the tracks, the springs above the opening and the opener show, and say whether it is single or double.
The estimate is built on those pictures and your opening size, so the figure holds on install day. You choose the style and window layout, the door is ordered to size, and its date comes with the order. Headroom is one of the five measurements because it fixes the spring and track system that suits the opening.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Send a photoof your door.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside the garage, with your Aurora address, is enough for a free estimate on a new door. Book below, and the form says where to send them.