01Springs
Springs and cables
Bangs and uneven lifts suggest a spring or cable fault, and that repair belongs on the spring page.
- Torsion or extension springs
- Cables and drums
- Failure named by symptom
- Spring condition checked
Garage door repair inAurora
Garage door repair in Aurora, whatever the make: springs, cables, rollers, sensors and openers. The truck is stocked with the parts that fail most, so most jobs end in one visit, and the phone is answered around the clock.
- for most repairs
- One visit
- open, weekends and holidays
- 24/7
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
What’s included
Every part that fails,and the sign it gives.
A Aurora repair is 20 minutes from the van's parts shelf in Richmond Hill, so the diagnosis and the part usually arrive together, and a repair to an existing door needs nothing from the Town of Aurora.
02Track
Tracks, rollers and hinges
A door that binds, runs crooked or grows louder over the months is usually the rollers or the track.
- Doors off their track
- Bent or loose track
- Worn rollers and bearings
- Hinges and brackets
03Opener
Reversing, stalling
A door that reverses or stops short is traced to the door first: seal, section, track or roller. The opener side is checked too.
- Worn bottom seal
- Dented section
- Track binding
- Roller binding
04Panels
Panels, seals and tune-ups
A dented section can be replaced alone. Tired seals and loose hardware go in a tune-up.
- Single section replaced
- Bottom and edge seals
- Tune-up and lubrication
- Safety check
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.
A two-car door, dented end to end.
Every section of the old door was dented, and the middle had torn open. We hung a flush steel door in the same opening, charcoal to sit with the dark siding, under the same basketball hoop.
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 repair questionsin Aurora.
What Aurora homeowners ask about garage door repair, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
There is no honest single number, and anyone who gives you one over the phone is guessing. The price depends on the size of the opening, single or double, the material and insulation, the windows and hardware, and whether the existing tracks, springs and opener can stay. Modern Empire Doors gives you a real number quickly instead: text a photo of the door from outside and one from inside the garage to (647) 323-1826. The inside shot shows the tracks, springs and opener, which is where most of the difference in price lives. Estimates are free.
Two photos and your address. Take one of the door from outside, and one from inside the garage with the door closed, so we can see the tracks, the springs above the opening and the opener. Text both to (647) 323-1826. For most doors that is enough to price the job without anyone coming out first, and the estimate is free.
Most standard replacements are done in a single visit. The old door comes down, the new one goes up on its tracks and springs, and it is balanced and tested before we leave. Doors with more complicated framing, a change of size, or a new opener at the same time take longer. We tell you what to expect for your door when we quote it, not after we arrive, so you can plan the day around it.
Not always. Whether the opener can stay is part of the quote. The springs are sized to the new door, so a working opener is not asked to lift more weight; what matters is its age and condition. An opener from before about 1993 may use a fixed code that cheap equipment can copy, and a new door is a good moment to change it. A loud chain drive under a bedroom is the other reason people switch, usually to a quieter belt drive. We tell you which applies before you decide.
Our replacement doors are made in Canada and carry a lifetime warranty. Built for Canadian winters is not a slogan here: a door that seals properly in February is a different product from one that does not, and the difference shows up as cold air, noise and a bottom seal frozen to the floor. If you want the details for a particular door, ask when we quote it and we will go through them with you.
A door that won't work5 questions
The bill follows the failure. A spring brings in its size, whether the door has one or two, and the weight and height of the door. A frayed cable can take a drum with it, and a strained opener adds a line of its own. A worn roller is a small bill by comparison, and your pictures usually show which you have. The figure comes before the work.
Most repairs are finished on the first visit, since what usually fails rides on the truck. A section that has to be ordered in is the main delay, and it can run to weeks; so can damage the pictures did not show. From the shop, the drive up Yonge Street is 20 minutes.
Not in the usual case. A repair replaces parts and leaves the opening as it was, so the building permit question does not come up. It would only if the work became a wider or taller opening, which is a different job.
Only when the factory still makes your section. A new one has to match the old in model, size, thickness, design, colour and insulation, and one that is out of production usually means a new door, as do two or more damaged sections. Send the whole door in one picture and the maker's label in another, and we can tell before anyone makes the trip.
Mostly for a household whose garage is the main way in, since springs and openers age by use and not by the calendar. The tune-up covers the garage door and the front door. In between, once a year, watch the door through a full cycle, check its balance and reversal, and oil the moving hardware.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door repair 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.
Search 3 answers from Modern Empire Doors
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No. The rollers are meant to roll along the tracks, so lubricant belongs on the hinges and other moving hardware, in a purpose-made garage door lubricant and not a general spray.
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Yes. Nylon costs more than steel and runs much more quietly. With regular lubrication and a belt-drive opener, it does the most for a door that has grown loud.
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A little off, sometimes. A new section in the original factory colour can look brighter next to a faded door, and the gap shows most on dark colours and woodgrain.
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The guide
Garage door repair in Aurora: good to know.
What is different about garage door repair in Aurora: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door repair in Aurora: from the sound to the part
Grinding points to the rollers or the opener's gear, squealing to dry hardware, and rattling to loose fixings. One loud bang is most often a torsion spring giving way, sometimes with a gap showing in the coil. The sound narrows the search before anyone opens a toolbox.
When a door has got louder with age, the cause is typically rollers and hinges, a far smaller job than replacing it. A door that reverses on its way down is usually blaming a sensor: sun on the lens, a bracket nudged out of line or dirt, then the force setting, then a door that binds.
When a repair in Aurora means waiting for a part
The truck carries what fails most: springs, cables, rollers and sensors. A door section is the exception. If we do not stock it, it is ordered in, and whether one section can be had depends on the door's model, which the label and a picture of the whole door show.
Once the section arrives the fitting is quick. The door is secured, the damaged section unbolted and lifted out, and the new one hinged in, with the cables off for a bottom section and the opener arm off for a top one. Balance, rollers, hinges and the opener's force and travel are checked after.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Tell us whatthe door is doing.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your Aurora address, is all we need to quote the repair. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.