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 inMarkham
Garage door installation in Markham: a door made in Canada to the size of your opening, hung and balanced by a crew that takes the old door away. Most standard replacements are finished in a day, under a lifetime warranty.
- 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 Markham door is measured first and ordered to the opening, 25 minutes from the shop in Richmond Hill; a like-for-like door in the same opening is the kind the City of Markham exempts from a building permit, and a wider or taller opening is a structural change that City of Markham Building Standards Department reviews.
02Door
The door itself
Single or double, steel, wood-look or aluminium, insulated or not, in the style and colour you choose.
- Single or double door
- Steel, wood-look, aluminium
- Insulated or single skin
- Lites in the top section
03Hardware
Tracks, springs and seals
Sections get rollers, the frame gets seals, tracks are cut to this opening, the spring is matched.
- 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 Markham.
What Markham homeowners ask about installation & replacement, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
You are given one price before any work starts, and in Markham the opening moves it as much as the door does. Widening or raising the opening means altering the wall around it, which the City treats as permit work. In Cornell the garage is at the rear of the house, so the door is brought in from behind. Size, material, insulation and glass settle the rest, and the estimate is free.
A standard door goes in within the day. The wait is the lead time of a door made to your measurements, and the date comes with the order. Markham can add two steps before that: heritage approval on a street in Unionville, Markham Village, Buttonville or Thornhill, and a permit when the opening itself changes.
No, if the new door fills the opening the old one had. Markham asks for a building permit when a structural wall is altered, so the question starts with whether the opening is widening, rising or staying put. A garage converted to living space is a separate project, not a door replacement.
Only if you want one. A door can go in with the opener you have, which is reconnected and tested before we leave, or with a new one, which takes one visit of a few hours. Any of the three drives, chain, belt or screw, can be fitted, and the choice is yours.
Two photos by text: the garage from outside, and the inside showing the ceiling and the old springs. From a Cornell address, send the rear view, since that is where the door is. The five measurements are taken on site before anything is ordered.
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 Markham.
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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Clear the space inside the door and tell the crew which way in: through the house, a side gate or from the back. The door faces the rear of the lot, so the old door comes out there, the opening is looked at bare and the new door goes up from the same side.
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Yes, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., the hours the City allows construction equipment on Saturdays. Sundays and statutory holidays are out without an exemption. A standard door goes in within the day, so a Saturday visit is booked to finish inside that window.
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Yes. Markham requires a building permit to build a detached or attached garage, so the garage is permitted first and the door is ordered once the opening is settled. A replacement door in an opening that already exists skips that step and is a straight swap.
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The guide
Garage door installation in Markham: good to know.
What is different about installation & replacement in Markham: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door installation in Markham: the opening first
In Markham, altering a structural wall needs a building permit, and widening or raising a garage opening alters the wall around it. So measuring comes with a question: is the opening you want the opening you have? If it is, the five measurements go straight to the order. If not, the permit comes before it.
Install day is short by comparison. The old door and springs come out, the opening is looked at bare and any soft jamb is dealt with, then the new door is hung from the bottom. Cutting and drilling are booked inside the City's construction-noise hours.
Garage door installation permits in Markham
The City of Markham asks for a building permit to build a garage and to add, remove or alter a structural wall. A door in the existing opening is neither, so it is a replacement. Anything that changes the opening goes to the City first and the door is ordered after the answer.
Two cases sit outside a plain swap. In the heritage districts, owners must get approval for exterior alterations, and a street-facing garage door is one. And a garage turned into a unit stops being a door job: the province allows up to two additional residential units on a lot, Markham describes one as attached to the house, in the basement or the garage, and the old opening becomes wall and windows under permit.
Delivery to the back of a Cornell garage
In Cornell, the garage on a townhome, semi or detached house is at the rear, so the door is on the rear elevation. Delivery, access for the crew and the position of the opener are all planned from the back before an order goes in.
The five measurements are taken at the rear opening itself, and the door arrives made to that size, with the old door leaving the way the new one came in.
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 Markham address, is enough for a free estimate on a new door. Book below, and the form says where to send them.