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 inScarborough
Garage doors in Scarborough, new or repaired. Doors made in Canada under a lifetime warranty, repairs at any hour on any make, and the front door and windows from the same crew.
- from the shop, by Hwy 404
- 35 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
Scarborough, the Bluffs to the Rouge.
Toronto Building's list, the City's noise and boulevard chapters, and the streets from Birch Cliff's 1920s grid to the 1970s streets of Malvern.
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 takes in Scarborough, and the former borough's by-law 'To prohibit the parking or driving of vehicles on boulevards' is still in force. Call 311 to check an address.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 Scarborough 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
Scarborough's houses run from 1950s and 1960s bungalows and split-levels in the south and west to 1980s and 1990s subdivisions in the north and east. Agincourt is mostly 1960s and 1970s, Malvern took its first residents in 1972, Rouge and Highland Creek are 1980s to 2000s subdivisions, and Birch Cliff keeps 1920s streetcar suburb houses. Condo towers cluster at Scarborough City Centre and along Highway 401.source, rehousing.ca, opens in a new tab
A postwar bungalow in south Scarborough parks in a carport, an attached garage or a detached garage at the back, with the house set to one side of the lot so the driveway can reach the rear yard. On the 1970s to 1990s streets of Malvern, Rouge and Highland Creek, many houses have an attached garage.source, rehousing.ca, opens in a new tab
- postwar
- suburban
- new build
- prewar
From the shop
35 minutes and 30 km from Richmond Hill, by Hwy 404 and Hwy 401.
From Richmond Hill the van takes Highway 404 south to Highway 401 and runs east, with exits at McCowan, Meadowvale and Port Union/Sheppard, crossing Kingston Road before the Rouge Valley. For Agincourt and Malvern it can take Highway 407 east to Kennedy, McCowan or Markham Road and drop south across Steeles.
Neighbourhoods
- Agincourt: Along Sheppard between Kennedy and Markham Roads, from Highway 401 to Finch, the first Scarborough neighbourhood south of Steeles from Richmond Hill. A former postal village that became the suburban Chinatown of the 1980s, with most of its homes built between 1961 and 1980.
- Malvern: The northeast corner of Toronto, reached by Markham Road or McCowan from Steeles, planned by CMHC as a 'model community' of 'affordable homes'. Its first residents arrived in 1972, and row houses are as common there as detached houses.
- Rouge
- Highland Creek
- Guildwood
- Cliffside
- Birch Cliff
- Wexford
- Bendale
- Scarborough Village
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 Scarborough:common questions.
What Scarborough 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 door10 questions
You get a number before any work begins. In Scarborough the first thing to check is the opening behind the old door: Cliffside and Wexford are postwar neighbourhoods, and on houses that age the bottoms of the jambs are often soft from water and road salt, which gets fixed while the opening is bare. The rest of the price is size, one door or two, material, insulation, windows and design, and an opener if you add one.
The quote covers taking the old door, tracks and hardware away, a new floor seal, springs and cables sized to the new door, and the balance and reversal tests at the end. An opener goes in only if you ask for one. In Wexford's bungalows the door is built to the opening that is already there, so the order follows the measurement, and the delivery date is set when the order is placed.
A same-size door in the same opening needs none, and that covers most replacements. A wider or taller opening alters the header and normally brings a permit. A new garage is a separate question: Toronto requires a permit for an attached garage whatever its size and for a detached one above 10 square metres, and the door follows that approval.
Yes. One crew hangs both doors on the facade, and one estimate can cover both. A like-for-like swap in a house's existing opening needs no City permit, and Wexford's single-storey bungalow openings are measured against the frames already standing, so the two jobs can share a visit.
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 work8 questions
A builder-grade door reaches 15 to 25 years, and by then the springs and rollers are usually worn. Springs are rated in cycles, and a standard one gives roughly seven years at four openings a day. Cliffside was laid out in the early 1950s and Malvern's first residents moved in during 1972, so an original door on either street is well past that range. Straight sections justify repair. Rusted or bent ones justify a new door.
Usually, yes. Springs, cables and rollers are among the common failure parts carried on the van, and most single-door springs take about an hour. A part the van does not hold, or damage beyond what the first look showed, makes a second trip, and you are told before that happens. Two photos sent ahead, one from outside and one from inside, help the crew bring the right ones.
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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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
Scarborough, in particular.
The former borough's houses by decade, Toronto Building's list and the Municipal Code chapters that touch a driveway, read before you call about garage doors in Scarborough.
Garage doors in Scarborough: the work and the drive from Richmond Hill
Doors are new or replaced, and repairs cover springs, cables, tracks, rollers, panels, sensors and openers on every make, with openers in chain, belt or screw drive. House garages and commercial overhead doors are both served. The same crew replaces front doors and windows, and the phone is answered at any hour, weekends and holidays included.
The shop is in Richmond Hill. From there Scarborough is 35 minutes and 30 km away by road without traffic, and the crew works every neighbourhood listed further down.
New garage doors in Scarborough, from the order to install day
Choosing comes first: insulation, then construction, then looks, meaning panel style, colour and glass in the top section. Steel is the common material and aluminium with glass suits a modern house. Once you decide, the door is made to your opening in Canada and carries a lifetime warranty. Lead time follows the model and the season, and the date comes with the order, so the wait falls before install day and not on it.
On the day itself the old door comes out and the new one goes up. A standard replacement is normally finished the same day, while a new opener or jamb repairs add hours. You are walked through the remotes and the release cord before the crew leaves.
Cliffside, Malvern and Wexford: what the age of the house changes
Cliffside was laid out as a suburban subdivision in the early 1950s, and the first residents of Malvern moved into their homes in 1972. Houses from those years can still carry their first door, opener and windows, so a repair call there sometimes becomes a conversation about replacing. A straight set of sections with a failed spring, cable, roller, hinge or opener is a repair. A photo from inside and one from outside settles which it is.
Wexford, along Lawrence Avenue East, is mostly postwar bungalows. Their garage and entry openings are single storey, and older openings are often an odd size, so a new door is measured against the frame in place and ordered to fit.
Scarborough repairs at night and on weekends: the line and the van
A door that will not move is treated as urgent, because it tends to mean a car trapped or a house that cannot be locked. With the door stuck open, the red release cord frees it and you can ease it down by hand. A broken spring leaves the whole weight loose, so stop there and call, and keep your finger off the button while the door resists. On an opener call the balance is tested first, since a door out of balance shortens a new opener's life.
The same crew covers Agincourt, Malvern, Rouge, Highland Creek, Guildwood, Cliffside, Birch Cliff, Wexford, Bendale and Scarborough Village.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Start withthe door you have.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your Scarborough address, is all we need to quote. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.