The old door and hardware leave with the crew, and you are shown the release, remotes and keypad.
- Single and double doors
- Steel and wood-look
- Tracks, springs and seals
- Free estimate
- Warranty
- Lifetime, made in Canada
Garage doors inMarkham
Garage doors in Markham: new doors made in Canada under a lifetime warranty, repairs at any hour of any day, and front doors and windows hung by the same crew, from a Richmond Hill shop about 25 minutes away.
- from the shop, by Hwy 404
- 25 min
- City of Markham
- York Region
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
About · Modern Empire Doors
Both doors,one crew.
We're a garage door company that replaces front doors too, so the two doors on the front of your house are chosen together and finished to match. If a door can be repaired we repair it, and if it's past repairing we'll tell you.
- Since
- 2018
- Shop
- 138 Yorkland St, Richmond Hill
- New doors
- Made in Canada
Services
A new facefor the front of the house.
For a new build or a renovation, with the front door to match.
- Flush or long-panel
- Frosted or clear glass
- Full-view glass doors
- Lites in a row or column
- Warranty
- Lifetime
Foam, not bare steel: quieter, stiffer, and it dents less.
- Foam core, steel skins
- A new bottom seal
- Springs for the heavier door
- Style and colour
- Made in
- Canada
Glass, frame and lock chosen together, since decorative glass is the weakest point of a door.
- Fibreglass, steel or wood
- Sidelights and transoms
- Frame, plate and deadbolt
- Free estimate
- Estimate
- Starts with two photos
A bedroom window has to open from inside without tools, so the opening size is checked before the order.
- Replacement windows
- New or larger openings
- Bedroom and basement windows
- Rated, sealed, trimmed
- Estimate
- Free, started by phone
Springs are chosen by how often the door opens, and a busy door is looked at more often.
- Sectional and rolling doors
- High-cycle springs
- Overhead door repair
- Operators and safety reversal
- Also
- Tune-ups for working doors
Repair and service
Garage door repair,at any hour.
Open 24 hours, every day, weekends and holidays included.
Planning a new door? See the doors
Stuck open at night? The red release cord, and what to leave alone until we arrive.
- Door stuck open or shut
- Off its track
- Spring or cable gone
- Night and weekend calls
- Most repairs
- Finished in one visit
Off its track, or won’t close? A door that grinds, drops or lifts crooked usually needs one part, not replacing.
- Tracks, rollers, hinges
- Cables and springs
- Panels and sensors
- Seals and tune-ups
- Repairs
- Every make of door
A loud bang, then it won’t lift? On a two-spring door, both are replaced when one breaks.
- Torsion springs
- Extension springs
- Cables, drums
- Balanced, tested
- Single door
- Most take about an hour
The remote does nothing? A new opener comes with the remotes and keypad programmed before the crew leaves.
- Opener repair
- Chain, belt and screw drives
- Remotes and keypads
- Safety sensors
- New opener
- One visit, a few hours
York Region
Doors in Markham.
The City of Markham's permit page, its four heritage districts, and the one neighbourhood whose garage doors face a lane instead of the street.
Municipality
- City of Markham
City of Markham Building Standards Departmentsource, markham.ca, opens in a new tab
- City of Markham
Permits
Markham needs a building permit for a new garage or carport and for 'Adding, removing or altering a structural wall or column'. Its permit page lists 'Replacing windows or doors with no changes to the size of the rough opening' among the projects that need no permit.source, markham.ca, opens in a new tab
By-laws
- Noise hours
Under Markham's noise by-law, construction equipment may run on Saturdays only from 9 am to 5 pm, loud noise is not permitted after 7 pm, and Sundays and statutory holidays are off limits. Work outside those hours needs a noise exemption.source, markham.ca, opens in a new tab
- Driveway curb cuts
'If you want to change the curb by widening or creating a new curb cut, you need a permit' from the City, through a Curb Modification Application.source, markham.ca, opens in a new tab
- Coach houses over garages
In Markham a coach house is a unit mostly above a detached garage in the rear yard of a lot with a lane, and a garden home is a rear-yard unit on a lot without one. 'You must obtain a building permit before building a coach house or garden home on your property.'source, trreb.ca, opens in a new tab
- Extra units on a lot
Ontario's Planning Act allows up to two additional units on a lot, three in all, wherever detached, semi-detached and townhouses are permitted.source, yourvoicemarkham.ca, opens in a new tab
and 1 more on the municipality's page
- Noise hours
Heritage
- Unionville Heritage Conservation District
- Markham Village Heritage Conservation District
- Thornhill Heritage Conservation District (Markham side)
- Buttonville Heritage Conservation District
In these districts, 'Owners of all properties in a heritage conservation district must obtain approval for exterior alterations to property' through a Minor or Major Heritage Permit, and the City asks owners to keep original windows and cladding. Unionville's district has been in force since 1998 and covers 210 properties.source, markham.ca, opens in a new tab
The houses
Most of Markham's houses are detached two-storey homes from the 1970s to the 1990s, around village cores with houses from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. The town had about 56,000 people in 1976 and grew fast through new subdivisions in Milliken Mills, around Unionville and in Buttonville, with planned communities such as Cornell added from the late 1990s. The old cores are Unionville, Markham Village and Thornhill.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
Milliken's 1980s two-storey houses have garages, which in that era usually means attached at the front. Cornell is the exception: 'Garages are always at the rear off laneways', so the garage door faces a lane, not the street.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
- suburban
- new build
- postwar
- prewar
From the shop
25 minutes and 15 km from Richmond Hill, by Hwy 404.
From Richmond Hill the van takes Highway 404 south or Highway 407 east, or runs east along Highway 7, 16th Avenue or Major Mackenzie Drive. Yonge Street is Markham's western boundary with Vaughan, and Steeles Avenue its southern boundary with Toronto.
Neighbourhoods
- Unionville: A village founded in 1794, centred on Highway 7 and Kennedy Road, with a heritage district of mid 1800s houses and subdivisions of 1970s and 1980s detached homes around it.
- Milliken (Milliken Mills): South-central Markham on Kennedy Road at Steeles; the Markham half of a hamlet split from Scarborough in 1954, built out as subdivisions from the 1970s to the late 1980s.
- Cornell
- Markham Village
- Thornhill (Markham side)
- Buttonville
- Berczy Village
- German Mills
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.
Sixteen 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 doors in Markham:common questions.
What Markham homeowners ask about the drive, the permits and the houses, with the questions every door raises beside them.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door11 questions
The quote is one number, given before any work starts, and the free estimate begins with two photos. The door moves it (size, material, insulation, glass), and so does the opening it goes into. Two things are particular to Markham: Cornell's garages sit at the rear of the house, so a new door is delivered from behind, and a house inside a heritage district may need approval sorted before the door is ordered.
Springs wear with every opening, so a busy household uses a door up sooner than a quiet one. Cold speeds it along, and Markham's winters are cold and snowy, which is when breakages cluster. The city grew in subdivision waves, so neighbouring doors tend to reach the same age and fail the same parts together. When yours does, we say whether it needs a repair or a new door.
A new door in the opening the garage already has usually does not. Altering a structural wall does, so a wider or taller opening is a permit question before it is an order. In the heritage districts of Unionville, Markham Village, Buttonville and Thornhill, owners also need approval for exterior alterations, and the door is ordered after that approval, not before it.
Everything on the garage door, and the doors beside it: new and replacement doors for homes and commercial buildings, repairs to whatever fails on a door of any make (springs, cables, tracks, sensors, panels, openers), openers in chain, belt and screw drive, tune-ups, and front doors and windows. The work covers the whole city, Unionville and Milliken through Cornell and Berczy Village, from a shop 25 minutes and 15.2 km away.
The price is for the door, its fitting and the removal of the old one, written as one number before work starts. Three things can change what a Markham quote covers, and each is raised at the estimate: an opener, which is added only if you ask, heritage approval in Unionville, Markham Village, Buttonville or Thornhill, and a wider or taller opening, which the City treats as altering a structural wall. A Cornell rear garage is quoted for the way the door comes in.
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.
Yes. Modern Empire Doors installs front and entry doors as well as garage doors and openers, and you can do both at once, so the two doors on the front of the house are chosen together rather than months apart. One crew measures and hangs both, which keeps the colour, the hardware and the style in step. Send a photo of the front of the house and we will talk you through what suits 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 work7 questions
You say what the door did, and two photos follow by text. From those the technician can tell a spring from a cable, a track or a sensor, and loads the van to suit. At the house the balance is checked first. If the door is past repair, we say so and give the price for a replacement before any work begins. The shop is 25 minutes away, 15.2 km by road, and calls are answered at any hour.
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.
Richmond Hill first: our shop is at 138 Yorkland St. From there we cover Vaughan, Markham, Thornhill, Aurora, Newmarket, Whitchurch-Stouffville, King City, Toronto, North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke and Durham Region, for new doors and for repairs, at any hour. If you are close by and not sure whether you are in the area, call (647) 323-1826 and ask; we would rather tell you straight than have you wait.
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Most often it is the safety sensors. If anything breaks the invisible beam between the two photo eyes, about six inches off the floor, the door starts down and reverses. Clear the path, wipe both lenses and check that both sensor lights are steady. If the door touches the floor and then goes back up, the close limit on the opener has drifted.
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A standard torsion spring is often rated for about 10,000 cycles, one cycle being one open and close. At four a day that is roughly seven years; a family that uses the garage as its front door can get there in three or four. Cold winters and poor lubrication shorten it. If a door has two springs, both are replaced together.
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Most often it is frozen to the floor. Meltwater pools under the bottom seal and freezes overnight, and the opener stops as if it had hit something. Break the bond with warm water or a plastic scraper, never a flame or a metal blade, and do not hold the button down. Thickened grease and cold steel can also make a tired door bind.
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The sound tells you the part. Grinding is usually worn rollers, squealing means the hinges, rollers and bearings need a proper garage door lubricant, and rattling is loose hardware. A single loud bang is different: that is usually a spring snapping, so stop using the door. Nylon rollers, regular lubrication and a belt drive opener make the quietest door.
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Try the wall button first. If it opens the door, the opener is fine and the fault is the remote: fit a new battery, even if its light still comes on. Then check that the antenna wire hangs straight down from the motor, that the lock button on the wall console is off, and that a cheap LED bulb in the opener is not jamming the signal.
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Usually a loud bang from the garage, then a door that will not open or feels extremely heavy by hand. Look at the springs above the door: a broken one has a gap of a couple of inches in the coil, as if it had been cut. Do not force the door. Springs hold hundreds of pounds of stored energy and are not a DIY repair.
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The guide
Worth knowing in Markham.
The City's permit page, four heritage districts, a lane-fed neighbourhood and the roads in: what is particular to garage doors in Markham.
Garage doors in Markham: what we do
Markham gets the whole trade from the Richmond Hill shop: new and replacement doors for homes and commercial buildings, repairs on every make of door, and front doors and windows from the same crew. The drive is 25 minutes and 15.2 km, and the shop never closes, so a broken door at night is a call and not a wait for Monday.
Openers are repaired or replaced in chain, belt and screw drive, and tune-ups are part of the work. A front door or new windows can go in on the visit for the garage door, so one crew does the whole front of the house.
New garage doors for a subdivision house in Markham
Most of Markham arrived in subdivision waves, across Berczy Village, Cornell, Markham Village, Milliken, Thornhill and Unionville, so the door next to yours is probably the same age as yours and tends to fail the same parts. A replacement is measured at your opening, not picked from a catalogue size.
Replacement doors are made in Canada, and the lifetime warranty goes with them. Size, material, insulation, glass and the condition of the opening set the price, which comes before the work. The estimate is free and starts with two photos, one taken outside the garage and one inside it.
Cornell's rear garages and Markham's cold, snowy winters
Cornell's garages, whether on townhomes, semis or detached houses, are at the rear, which puts the door on the back of the lot. Access, the opener position and the delivery of a new door are planned for that side, and a photo taken from the rear is the one that helps most.
Winter is the other local factor. Markham averages 146.4 cm of snow a year and has recorded -35.2 C. Cold weakens springs and stiffens openers, so breakages cluster in winter, and winter is also when an insulated door earns its place.
Repair or replace: how a Markham door is judged
A door that struggles is checked for balance before the opener is blamed, because a spent spring makes a good opener look weak. Springs, cables, rollers, tracks and sensors are looked at in turn, on every make of door, and the symptom usually points at the part: a heavy door at a spring, a crooked one at a cable, one that reverses for no reason at a sensor.
After that comes the choice between repair and replacement, which is put to you plainly. In German Mills, where many houses date from the 1970s and 1980s, original hardware makes that a real decision, and the repair and a new door are priced side by side, with the price before the work.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Start withthe door you have.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your Markham address, is all we need to quote. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.