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 inNewmarket
Garage doors in Newmarket: new doors made in Canada under a lifetime warranty, repairs at any hour with the usual failure parts carried on the van, and front doors and windows to match. Free estimates from two photos.
- from the shop, by Hwy 404
- 30 min
- Town of Newmarket
- 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
Newmarket, decade by decade.
The Town's building page, the Lower Main Street South district, the driveway width cap, and the streets from the 1960s semis of Huron Heights to the triple garages of Copper Hills.
Municipality
- Town of Newmarket
Town of Newmarket Building Division (Planning and Building Services)source, newmarket.ca, opens in a new tab
- Town of Newmarket
Permits
Newmarket needs a building permit for 'Creating new openings for, or increasing the size of, doors and windows', and for a new garage or carport. Its building page lists 'Replacing doors and/or windows that are the same size as existing' among the projects that typically need no permit.source, newmarket.ca, opens in a new tab
By-laws
- Noise hours
Newmarket's noise by-law bars construction equipment and 'any alteration or repair of any building' from 8 pm to 7 am on weekdays, and from 5 pm to 9 am on Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays. The limits start earlier, at 7 pm on weekdays, within 100 metres of a hospital, retirement home or nursing home.source, newmarket.ca, opens in a new tab
- Driveway width
'A building permit is not required to widen your driveway', but zoning caps its width, typically 6.0 m for a detached house, 5.2 m for a semi and 3.0 m for a townhouse. The rest of the front yard must stay landscaped, and only the Town or its contractors may modify a Town curb.source, newmarket.ca, opens in a new tab
- Heritage and building permits
'In addition to a heritage permit, you may need a building permit, planning approvals and/or sign permit', and the Town asks owners to speak to its Cultural Heritage Planner first, as a pre-consultation meeting may be required.source, newmarket.ca, opens in a new tab
- Sheds and detached garages
A detached building over 15 square metres (161 square feet) needs a building permit, and smaller ones must still meet the zoning setbacks from lot lines.source, newmarket.ca, opens in a new tab
- Noise hours
Heritage
- Lower Main Street South Heritage Conservation District
In the district, designated in 2013, the Town says 'You need a heritage permit' for alterations to or demolition of a property. Its permit form lists 'alteration of doors and windows, their heads and their surrounds, or cutting of new door and window openings in walls' and 'a new garage' among the work that needs one, while repairing broken window panes to original specifications does not.source, newmarket.ca, opens in a new tab
The houses
Most of Newmarket is subdivision housing built since the 1970s, detached houses and semis around an old core on Main Street South. Newmarket grew from about 5,400 people in 1951 to 19,000 in 1971 and about 88,000 in 2021, pulled west by the Upper Canada Mall from 1974 and later east by Highway 404.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
Huron Heights' brick 1960s and 1970s houses near Leslie Valley Drive have front-facing garages, most Gorham-College Manor houses have attached garages, and some Bristol-London houses have two car garages. The 2010s houses of Copper Hills, on 40 to 50 foot lots, have triple garages.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
- suburban
- new build
- postwar
- prewar
From the shop
30 minutes and 29 km from Richmond Hill, by Hwy 404 and Stouffville Rd.
From Richmond Hill the van takes Highway 404 north to Mulock Drive or Davis Drive, or runs up Yonge Street or Bayview Avenue through Aurora. Davis Drive is the town's east-west axis, and Bathurst Street its western limit.
Neighbourhoods
- Stonehaven: Southeast Newmarket between Bayview Avenue and Highway 404, Mulock Drive to St John's Sideroad, built in the 1990s with 3,000 to 3,500 square foot homes in Tudor, Colonial, Georgian and Victorian Revival styles. Wyndham followed in the 2000s.
- Copper Hills: The 2010s part of the Stonehaven-Wyndham area near Bayview and Highway 404: French Provincial houses of 3,000 square feet and up on 40 to 50 foot lots, many with triple garages.
- Summerhill
- Glenway
- Woodland Hill
- Armitage
- Bristol-London
- Huron Heights
- Central Newmarket
- Gorham-College Manor
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 Newmarket:common questions.
What Newmarket 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 door9 questions
Start with the opening. A door that drops into the frame you already have is the plain case, while a wider or taller opening brings a permit and its lead time, and a wider door also has to sit within the Town's driveway-width limits. After that it is size, material, insulation and glazing. No price is posted: two photos get you one figure, quoted before any work is booked.
Usually not, when the new door goes into the opening you already have. The Town of Newmarket lists new openings, and bigger ones for doors and windows, as work that needs a building permit, so a wider or taller garage opening is the one to raise before anything is ordered. Where a permit applies, the application goes through the Town's online Development Portal and the install is booked after approval.
Say what is staying and what is changing. An opening that keeps its width is the plain case, while one that grows brings the Town's permit step ahead of the order. Then the number of doors, the style, the glass, and whether the opener is being replaced as well. The estimate is free and built from real information instead of averages, so it comes as a figure, not a range, and it is restated with what changed if the door on the day turns out different.
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 work9 questions
A garage door lasts as long as its moving parts do, and those wear by the opening, not by the year. Springs, rollers and cables give out well before the panels, and in Newmarket the seal and the opener take extra punishment from snow, which averages 122.2 cm a year. Doors that reach 15 to 25 years usually need springs, rollers and a bottom seal, and a tune-up then brings back a straight, sound door. Bent or rusting sections are what point to a new one.
Only on the paperwork. A property inside the Heritage Conservation District needs a heritage permit for alterations, and a new front door or window counts as one, so those jobs wait on it. A garage door there is worth asking the Town about before anything is made. Outside the district the question is the size of the opening. From Richmond Hill it is a 30-minute drive, 29.1 km, and calls come from every neighbourhood, Stonehaven to Gorham-College Manor.
Look at the bottom of the door before touching the button. Meltwater that froze under a hardened seal holds a door to the slab, and snow or frost on a sensor lens can stop it closing. If the door is clear and still will not move, leave it, because pressing harder can strain the opener or a spring. The shop is open 24/7, weekends and holidays included, and the usual failing parts ride on the van, so most repairs end in a single visit.
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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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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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.
Asked next
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
Read first in Newmarket.
The Town of Newmarket's building, heritage and by-law pages, and what its decades of housing mean for a garage door, before you call.
Garage doors in Newmarket: one crew, one shop in Richmond Hill
A Newmarket call can be a new door, a repair, an opener, a front door or a window, and it goes to the same crew. Garage doors for houses and commercial properties are supplied and fitted, repairs cover every make of door, and openers come in chain, belt or screw drive. A failure at midnight in Stonehaven or Woodland Hill reaches a person, because the phone is answered around the clock.
The shop is in Richmond Hill, 30 minutes and 29.1 km from Newmarket, so a repair seldom needs a second trip: the usual failure parts ride on the van and most jobs end in one visit. For a repair the estimate is free and is usually settled from photos before anyone sets out, and a new door is measured on site before it is made.
New garage doors in Newmarket: driveways and heritage
Width is where Newmarket's driveway guidance bites: 6.0 m for a single-detached house, 5.2 m for a semi, 3.0 m for a townhouse. The Town calls those figures no guarantee and tells owners to confirm with its Planning staff. For a door job that matters when the garage opening is getting wider, because a wider door can mean a wider driveway to meet it. The driveway is checked before the door is sized, and the Town's own curb is touched only by Town staff or contractors it authorizes.
A second check in Newmarket is the address. Lower Main Street South is a Heritage Conservation District, and a property inside it needs a heritage permit before it is altered. A front door or window there is an alteration, so the permit comes before the order. A new garage door on such a property is worth raising with the Town first. Elsewhere in town, the permit question turns on whether an opening grows.
Snow and ice on a Newmarket garage door
Newmarket has a humid continental climate, with cold, somewhat snowy winters and warm, humid summers. The cold months are the hard ones for a door: steel shrinks, lubricant stiffens, and a spring near the end of its rated cycles is the likeliest to let go on a freezing morning. Insulation, spring tension and the opener matter most when a failure is worst to live with.
Environment Canada's 1981 to 2010 normals put Newmarket's average snowfall at 122.2 cm a year. Snow and meltwater work on the bottom seal, the tracks and the opener, and a hardened or torn seal lets in water that freezes the door to the slab. Check the seal before the cold arrives, and treat a stiff door as a reason to call, not to push harder.
Why a Newmarket order can wait: openings and the Town's portal
A new door is measured first and ordered to size afterwards. The lead time varies with the maker, the model and the time of year, and a date is given when the order is placed, so the wait is known before it starts. In Newmarket the one thing that can stretch it is a larger opening: the Town's building permit comes before the order, and the application goes in through its Development Portal.
A standard replacement is normally a single day. The old door, tracks and hardware go with the crew, and before they leave you are walked through the manual release, the remotes and the keypad, and what the lifetime warranty on a replacement door covers. Repairs rarely wait on an order: the common failure parts are already on the van.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Start withthe door you have.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your Newmarket address, is all we need to quote. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.