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 inNorth York
Garage doors in North York, supplied, installed and repaired by one crew based in Richmond Hill. They also fit openers in chain, belt and screw drive, mend most doors in a single trip, and replace front doors and windows.
- from the shop, by Yonge St
- 30 min
- City of Toronto
- Toronto
- 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
City of Toronto
A generation older, south of Steeles.
Toronto Building's own list, the City's noise and boulevard chapters, and the postwar streets from Bathurst Manor to Don Mills, with the rebuilds along Yonge.
Municipality
- City of Toronto
Toronto Buildingsource, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
- City of Toronto
Permits
The City of Toronto requires a building permit for 'new windows or doors where there were none before' and for 'enlarging or relocating existing windows or doors'. Its list says no permit is needed for 'replacing a window or door in an existing opening' of a one-unit detached, semi-detached or row house, or of 'an accessory building serving that house', if the opening keeps its size, location and structural support.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
By-laws
- Construction noise hours
Toronto's noise by-law bars construction noise that is 'clearly audible' from 7 pm to 7 am, until 9 am on Saturdays, and all day on Sundays and statutory holidays.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
- Noise exemptions
The City's noise page counts 'building, changing or fixing structures' as construction, and work outside the hours needs a Noise Exemption Permit.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
- Boulevard parking
The City does not accept new licences 'to park on any portion of a boulevard' in most wards outside the former City of Toronto, which covers most of North York. Call 311 to check an address before planning a boulevard parking pad.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
- Laneway suites
Since July 2019 the City has allowed laneway suites across Toronto on 'residential properties that share a property line with a public lane'. Most postwar streets in North York have no public lane, so the garden suite rule usually applies instead.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
and 3 more on the municipality's page
- Construction noise hours
Heritage
No heritage conservation district in the town.
The houses
Most of North York's houses are bungalows and split-levels built between the late 1940s and the 1960s, on farmland subdivided after the Second World War. Bayview Village went up from 1954 to 1964 and Don Mills from 1953 to 1965. Since the 1990s many of those houses along Yonge, in Willowdale, Newtonbrook and York Mills, have been torn down for large custom homes, and condo towers line Yonge and Sheppard.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
The postwar houses were built with 'either integrated garages or car ports', and a bungalow often sits to one side of its lot so the driveway can run past it to a detached garage at the back.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
- postwar
- new build
- suburban
- prewar
From the shop
30 minutes and 16 km from Richmond Hill, by Yonge St.
From Richmond Hill, Yonge Street runs straight south across Steeles into Newtonbrook, Willowdale and York Mills. Highway 404 has exits at Steeles, Finch and Sheppard for Hillcrest Village and Bayview Village and ends beside Don Mills at Highway 401, which runs west to Allen Road for Downsview.
Neighbourhoods
- Newtonbrook: Yonge and Finch between the two branches of the Don River, the first North York neighbourhood south of Steeles from Richmond Hill. Subdivided in the 1950s, it has seen many of those houses replaced by custom homes and townhouses along Yonge and Finch.
- Willowdale: Bathurst Street to Bayview Avenue with Yonge as its spine, with houses from about 1910 to the 1950s. In the 1990s very large replacement homes went up on lots that held small houses, and Torontonians first called them 'monster homes' here.
- Hillcrest Village
- Bayview Village
- Don Mills
- York Mills
- Bathurst Manor
- Downsview
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 North York:common questions.
What North York 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
Mostly four things: how big the opening is, whether you want one door or two, what the door is made of and how much insulation it carries. Windows in the top section come next. In North York there is often a fifth line, the tracks, jambs and opener already in the garage, since an older opening may need work before a new door can hang. You see one figure before anything starts, and a free estimate needs only a few pictures.
Not for a swap into the opening that exists, at the size it already is. Making the opening wider or taller means a new header, which is structural, so that version goes through the City of Toronto for a building permit first. Two other things can apply: a condo board's own rules on style and colour, and a heritage district's plan if the house falls inside one, covered further down this page.
Take one picture of the door from the street side and another from inside with the door closed, framed so the tracks, the springs above the opening and the opener all appear, then text them with your address. In most cases that is enough to price the work without a site visit, and the estimate costs nothing. The quote is a single number. If the crew finds a surprise, they explain it and you decide whether to go ahead.
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
Years are a poor measure, because springs and openers wear by the number of times the door cycles. A builder-grade door tends to need springs, rollers and a seal somewhere between 15 and 25 years in, and if its sections are still straight those parts put it right. Bayview Village and Downsview are mostly postwar to 1960s houses, so there the state of the sections tells you more than the date on the house.
Yes. The shop in Richmond Hill never closes: calls are taken day and night, on weekends and on holidays. A door that will not close or a spring that has let go can trap a car or leave the house unable to lock, so those calls are treated as urgent. Driving to North York takes about 30 minutes (15.7 km).
A door with straight sections and a single failed part is a repair job: spring, cable, roller, hinge or opener. Rust or bent sections, panels no longer made, a bare steel door on a heated house, or the same fault returning all lean toward replacing it. Pictures from both sides of the door are enough for us to tell you which you have, and when it is a repair we say so.
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.
People also ask
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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
The North York notes.
What Toronto Building, the Municipal Code and the postwar subdivisions mean for garage doors in North York, read before you call.
Garage doors in North York, and where the crew comes from
Everything goes out from the Richmond Hill shop, which is 15.7 km and about 30 minutes from North York. The crew supplies and hangs new garage doors, mends springs, cables, tracks, panels and openers, and takes on houses and commercial overhead doors alike, whatever the make. Front doors and windows are in the same line of work, so one visit can cover both the garage door and the front door.
On openers, the choice is between chain, belt and screw drive. A chain unit is strong but noisy, which is fine for a detached garage. Belt drive is far quieter, which makes it the natural pick when a bedroom sits over or beside the garage. Screw drive has a threaded rod and few moving parts, though it reacts more to swings in temperature. Servicing is offered too: a tune-up and inspection of the garage door and the front door.
New garage doors in North York: choosing, and what the quote reflects
Start with how much insulation you want and how the door is built, then move on to panel style, colour and any glass across the top. Colour and style should agree with the front door and trim. On the cost side, a quote reflects the opening's size, one door or two, the window style and the condition of the framing, tracks and opener, and it arrives before any work does.
Toronto has Heritage Conservation Districts, and a house inside one has a step the others do not. Exterior alterations there call for a heritage permit and must follow the district plan, so a garage door, window or front door that faces the street is compared with that plan before anything is ordered. Alterations out of sight of the street, interior-only work and routine maintenance are excused from the permit.
Garage doors in Bayview Village and Downsview, two older housing areas
Bayview Village is mostly houses from 1954 to 1964, so its garages have had decades of daily opening. Original tracks, springs and openers are what wears out there, and the question at a visit is whether to repair or start fresh once sections have bent, rusted or keep needing the same part.
In Downsview the houses mostly date from the war's aftermath through the 1960s, which puts the same wear on the same parts: the most cycles sit on springs, cables and openers. At either address the technician sorts what failed from what is still good, and says plainly if the door is finished.
Calls at any hour, and the noise rules that shape install days
North York follows Toronto's noise rules for building work: nothing clearly audible from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. on weekdays, on Saturday before 9 a.m. or after 7 p.m., and nothing at all on Sundays or statutory holidays. Planned jobs such as a new door are scheduled inside the allowed hours, which governs when the crew can start and how long one day's work may run.
A repair call is not planned work and is not held to a calendar. The shop answers at every hour, weekends and holidays included, and the common failure parts ride on the van, so most repairs end in one visit.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Start withthe door you have.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your North York address, is all we need to quote. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.