01Torsion
Torsion springs
It sits on a shaft over the opening and rotates with the door. Newer doors usually have this setup.
- Sized to the door's weight
- Wound to tension
- Both springs on two-spring doors
- Shaft bearings checked
Garage door spring repair inMarkham
Garage door spring repair in Markham: a broken spring replaced and the door balanced and tested, usually in about an hour for a single door, with a free estimate from two photos.
- for most repairs
- One visit
- open, weekends and holidays
- 24/7
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
What’s included
Two kinds of spring,and the cables beside them.
A broken spring in Markham is 25 minutes from the van's spring rack in Richmond Hill, so the door is weighed, measured and fitted with the right spring on the first visit; a spring is a part of the existing door and needs no permit from the City of Markham.
02Extension
Extension springs
Both horizontal tracks have one, which stretches while the door closes. A safety cable should go with each.
- Replaced as a pair
- Safety cables through them
- Pulleys checked
- Matched to the door
03Cables
Lift cables and drums
Both cables get replaced in nearly every job, and the drums get checked. A spring that fails often damages a cable.
- Frayed or snapped cables
- Drums, brackets and pulleys
- Rust from winter salt
- Unwound with winding bars
04Balance
Balanced and tested
With the opener disconnected, the right spring holds the door halfway up. That test is how every job finishes.
- Balance set by hand
- Full travel run through
- Opener limits and force
- Rollers and hinges looked over
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 spring repair questionsin Markham.
What Markham homeowners ask about spring replacement, 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
You get the price before the work. Cycle rating and spring size, one spring or two, and how heavy and tall the door is set it, and a damaged cable or drum adds to it. When one spring breaks both are replaced, so the quote is for the pair. In Markham the cold has a say in when springs fail, not in what they cost.
A spring is built for a number of openings, so a door used all day goes through springs faster than one used twice a day. Markham winters narrow the margin, because cold weakens a spring and one near the end of its rating tends to give out in a hard freeze. Replacing the pair together restarts the count for both.
No. Springs live inside the garage over the door, and swapping them leaves the opening untouched, so no permit comes into it. The question would arise only if the opening itself were changing, which is a different job from a spring.
A broken spring on its own does not mean the door is finished. In German Mills, where many houses date from the 1970s and 1980s, a door can still hang on its original rollers, hinges and tracks, and those are looked at during the spring visit. When several are tired, we say so and set a replacement door beside the repair, with the price before the work.
If the door has started to feel heavy by hand, it is worth a look before it fails. Cold weakens springs, and a Markham winter brings snow and a record low of -35.2 C, so a door heading into it on springs of unknown age is the likeliest to give out. A tune-up covers the balance and the springs, and a replacement then happens on your day, not on the night one snaps.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door spring repair 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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Not safely. A spring holds a great deal of stored energy, so it is unwound under control and wound to tension for that door's weight and height. For one door the visit usually takes about an hour, so the saving from doing it yourself is small against the risk.
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A door that hangs crooked or drops on one side usually points at a cable that has slipped or snapped, not at the spring. Do not run the opener against it. Cables, drums and bearings are checked when the spring is replaced, and the door is rebalanced before anyone uses it.
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Yes. A cable run through the spring holds it in place if it breaks, and an old extension door may have none, so that is the first thing looked for. One is run through when the springs are replaced.
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The guide
Garage door spring repair in Markham: good to know.
What is different about spring replacement in Markham: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door spring repair in Markham: what a visit covers
A spring job is measured to the door: its weight, its height and whether it hangs on torsion or extension springs decide what goes in. The old spring comes off under control, the new one is wound to tension, and the door is held at halfway to prove the balance, which is a better test than the remote.
Cables, drums and bearings are checked in the same visit. Springs go in as a pair, with a safety cable through them on an extension door. It is not a job to try at home, because a spring holds a great deal of stored energy.
Springs in German Mills houses and a Markham cold snap
German Mills houses are mostly single-family, many built in the 1970s and 1980s, so the springs on a door there may be the originals. A broken spring can mean the rest of that hardware is the same age, so the cables, drums and bearings are checked while the new springs go in.
Cold is the other variable. A spring that has used most of its openings is the one that goes in a freeze, and replacing both means a fresh start for the pair and not only for the one that broke.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Photograph thesprings above the door.
A photo of the springs above the door from inside the garage and one of the door from outside, with your Markham address, is enough for a free estimate. Book below at any hour.