01Springs
Springs and cables
Bangs and uneven lifts suggest a spring or cable fault, and that repair belongs on the spring page.
- Torsion or extension springs
- Cables and drums
- Failure named by symptom
- Spring condition checked
Garage door repair inNorth York
Garage door repair in North York covers springs, cables, rollers, sensors and openers, on any make of door. The usual repair is done in a single trip, and someone picks up the phone at any hour, holidays and weekends included.
- for most repairs
- One visit
- open, weekends and holidays
- 24/7
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
What’s included
Every part that fails,and the sign it gives.
A North York repair is 30 minutes from the van's parts shelf in Richmond Hill, so the diagnosis and the part usually arrive together, and a repair to an existing door needs nothing from the City of Toronto.
02Track
Tracks, rollers and hinges
Usually it is the track or the rollers when a door binds, runs crooked or gets louder over time.
- Doors off their track
- Bent or loose track
- Worn rollers and bearings
- Hinges and brackets
03Opener
Reversing, stalling
We start with the door when it reverses or stops short: seal, section, then track and rollers. The opener comes after.
- Worn bottom seal
- Dented section
- Track binding
- Roller binding
04Panels
Panels, seals and tune-ups
One dented section can come out alone. A tune-up covers worn seals and slack hardware.
- Single section replaced
- Bottom and edge seals
- Tune-up and lubrication
- Safety check
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 repair questionsin North York.
What North York homeowners ask about garage door repair, 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 are quoted before work begins, and the figure follows the fault. What moves it: the size of the spring, whether one spring or a pair, how heavy and tall the door is, whether a cable or drum was damaged, and whether the opener took the strain. If the technician finds something other than you described, the new price is explained and you choose. Garages from the 1950s and 1960s, as in Bayview Village and Downsview, often show wear beyond the failed part, and extra work waits for your say.
Usually one trip. The van carries the parts that fail most, which is why a couple of photos sent ahead matter: they let the crew bring the right one. A part that is not on board, or sections that are not stocked and take a few weeks to order, stretch it. The shop is 30 minutes from North York by road.
No. A repair changes parts and the opening itself is untouched, so no permit question arises. That changes only if the opening is made wider or taller, which alters the header and turns it into a replacement job needing a City of Toronto permit first.
Some jobs, yes: watching a full cycle, listening for trouble, the balance and reversal tests, and oiling rollers and hinges are safe for an owner. Springs are not. A double door's torsion spring holds several hundred pounds of stored energy, and changing spring tension, replacing cables, straightening tracks under load or taking off bottom brackets belongs to a technician. Leave the tracks dry, as the rollers need to roll on them.
Leave the door alone. The opener cannot lift the full weight and may burn out trying, and the door itself may drop. A loud bang and a visible gap in the coil are the usual signs. Text photos from both sides of the door, with the springs showing from inside, so the van carries the right one.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door repair 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.
Search 3 answers from Modern Empire Doors
Often searched
3 answers
Look for fraying or slack. Broken strands or a loose cable mean it is on its way out. Rust at the bottom bracket, from water, snowmelt and road salt, is the usual cause, along with rubbing on a worn drum, a bent bracket or a track edge.
Asked next
The sound names the part. Grinding is usually the rollers or opener gear, squealing is lubrication, rattling is loose hardware and a single bang is generally a torsion spring. A door that has grown louder over time most often has worn rollers and hinges, a much smaller job than replacement.
Asked next
Only if the springs are sound. Pull the red release cord and lower the door slowly. A broken spring means the whole weight of the door drops, so stop there and leave it, then lock the interior door to the house.
Asked next
The guide
Garage door repair in North York: good to know.
What is different about garage door repair in North York: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door repair in North York: what a visit covers, part by part
Springs, cables, rollers, hinges, bearings, tracks, safety sensors, panels hit by a vehicle, weather seals and the opener make up the usual list. A handful of parts causes most failures, and the symptom usually names the part: a door that hums, strains, reverses or ignores the remote, a cable that frays or goes slack, a door that has left its track. Every make is repaired.
Straight sections plus one failed part add up to a repair. Bent or rusting sections, discontinued panels, a bare steel door on a heated house and faults that keep coming back point the other way. Pictures from both sides of the door are enough to sort out which, and when it is a repair we say so.
Garage door repair in Bayview Village and Downsview
Bayview Village's houses mostly go back to 1954 to 1964. A garage from then may still be running on its first tracks, springs and opener, so the visit separates the failed part from the parts worth keeping and says whether the door has had its life.
Downsview's houses date from just after the war through the 1960s, so those doors carry decades of cycles. A single failure is often accompanied by worn cables, drums or rollers, and the technician reports what else turned up before doing any extra work.
A loud door, an opener that reverses, a door off track
Noise from an old door is usually rollers and hinges, not a door past saving. Nylon rollers cost more than steel and run much quieter. An opener that reverses before the door shuts is most often a sensor problem (sunlight, a bumped bracket, a dirty lens); if the sensors are clear, the force setting or a binding door comes next.
Stop using a door that has left its track. Most can be put right with new rollers, cables or a straightened section of track, but forcing the door can crease the panels and change a hardware job into a panel replacement. If one section is damaged, a photo and a close-up of any label shows whether replacing only that section is possible before anyone visits.
What a garage door repair visit in North York looks like
It begins with two photos, one of the door from the driveway and one from inside that shows the springs, tracks and opener. From those the crew can usually tell a roller from a cable from a bent track and arrive with the part. That is why a repair so often ends in one trip. The Richmond Hill shop is 15.7 km and about 30 minutes away.
Before any extra work the technician reports what else was found. If the diagnosis differs from the description over the phone, the price is restated and the decision is yours. A tune-up is also available when nothing has failed yet, and the phone is answered at every hour of every day.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Tell us whatthe door is doing.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your North York address, is all we need to quote the repair. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.