01Measure
The measure
Springs and tracks depend on headroom, while the right door and hardware come from five measurements.
- Opening width and height
- Headroom to the ceiling
- Side room for the tracks
- Backroom to the rear wall
Garage door installation inNorth York
Garage door installation in North York, from five measurements at your opening to a door ordered to size and built up from its bottom section. The estimate costs nothing, starts from pictures, and the old door goes away with the crew.
- 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 North York door is measured first and ordered to the opening, 30 minutes from the shop in Richmond Hill; a like-for-like door in the same opening is the kind the City of Toronto exempts from a building permit, and a wider or taller opening is a structural change that Toronto Building reviews.
02Door
The door itself
Insulated or not, steel, aluminium or wood-look, single or double, in a colour and style you choose.
- Single or double door
- Steel, wood-look, aluminium
- Insulated or single skin
- Lites in the top section
03Hardware
Tracks, springs and seals
Tracks are cut for this opening and sections have rollers. The frame has seals; the spring suits.
- Tracks for headroom
- Rollers per section
- Seals round the opening
- Soft jambs dealt with
04Opener
The opener, kept or replaced
Whether the opener can be reused is part of the quote. Either way it is reconnected and tested.
- 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 North York.
What North York homeowners ask about installation & replacement, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
A single figure, stated up front. It follows the door (width, one or two, material, insulation, glass) and what has to happen at the opening. A North York garage from the 1950s or 1960s often brings extra questions: tired tracks, soft spots at the foot of the jambs, an opener of unknown age. The quote deals with those rather than leaving them for install day. A few pictures start the free estimate.
Often one. The crew can usually put in a standard single or double door and finish it the same day. What takes longer is the door itself: it is built to your measurements once chosen, so the wait depends on the maker, the model and the time of year, and you are given a date when you order. Jamb repairs, an opener to fit or an oversize door add hours. The drive from Richmond Hill is 30 minutes.
For most North York garages, no. Bayview Village and Downsview houses were built from the mid 1950s into the 1960s, and a new door fitted into the opening such a garage already has is a swap the City does not review. A permit comes into it with a wider opening or a garage that is new or being enlarged, and a house inside a Heritage Conservation District has its street-facing door checked first. The permits section below goes through each case.
New tracks go in with the door, set to the headroom measured at the start, and the old set leaves with the old door. Older detached garages with extension springs get one more check first: a safety cable should run through each spring, because without it a broken spring can lash across the garage.
Leave the cars outside the night before and keep about three feet of floor free just inside the door. Move anything hung near the opener, check that there is a live outlet nearby, and plan for someone to open the house for the crew.
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 North York.
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 necessarily. If the existing opener works and the door is correctly balanced, it can stay. Springs do the lifting, and tired ones make the opener labour. An opener from before about 1993 (fixed code), with parts no longer made or a dead motor, is the one worth swapping.
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It leaves with the crew. They take it down piece by piece along with the old tracks and hardware, and carry it all off that day. Before leaving they show the owner the manual release, the remotes and keypad, and what the warranty covers.
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Only when they suit it. Each spring is sized to one door's weight, and a spring from a door that has run for decades has a long history of cycles. They are looked over before the new door is ordered; the ones that go in with it are chosen for its weight.
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The guide
Garage door installation in North York: good to know.
What is different about installation & replacement in North York: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door installation in North York: how the job runs
It starts with five measurements: width, height, headroom, room at each side and distance to the back wall. Headroom decides the spring and track layout. On the day the crew lays down protection for driveway and floor, unhooks the opener, unwinds the old springs with winding bars, takes the door apart section by section and then pulls the tracks and hardware, looking over the jambs and header once the opening is bare.
The new door is built up from its bottom panel, which carries a fresh floor seal. The other sections are stacked and hinged, the tracks fitted, and the shaft, drums, cables and torsion springs set up for that door's weight. Lifted to halfway by hand, it should hold its place. Then come opener limits and force, a reversal test against an object, sensors and remotes. Every replacement door is made in Canada, and the warranty on it is for life.
Garage door installation permits in North York
A replacement in North York is usually a swap, and a swap has no permit to apply for. Check one thing before choosing a style: whether your street lies inside a Heritage Conservation District. There the street-facing garage door is held against the district plan, and that comes before the order, not after it.
What changes the picture is the structure around the door. A garage that is rebuilt, enlarged or converted from a carport needs the City's approval as a structure first, so its door is measured from the finished frame and ordered once that clears. Widening a single door into a double belongs in this group too, because the header over the opening has to change.
Garage door installation in Bayview Village and Downsview garages
Bayview Village's houses mostly date from 1954 to 1964, so the door and track in a garage there are decades old. The quote compares new parts with a new door, and the measuring begins at the opening already there, as older openings are often non-standard in size and the door has to be ordered to fit.
Downsview's houses date from just after the war into the 1960s. A door that has run that long is normally replaced whole, with the old springs, cables and opener inspected for reuse before anything is ordered. Water and road salt often leave the foot of the jambs soft on older GTA houses, and that gets fixed while the opening is empty.
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 North York address, is enough for a free estimate on a new door. Book below, and the form says where to send them.