01Door
Fibreglass, steel or wood
Fibreglass is usual, steel the strongest and wood the one to refinish. Plain slabs are out, as energy rules want an insulated core.
- Fibreglass entry doors
- Steel entry doors
- Solid wood doors
- Single and double doors
Front door replacement inScarborough
Front door replacement in Scarborough with the frame checked before the new door goes on. The doors are made in Canada and carry a lifetime warranty, and the estimate is free from two photos.
- every replacement door
- Made in Canada
- warranty on replacement doors
- Lifetime
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
What’s included
What a new front doorincludes.
A front door for a Scarborough house is made to the opening and the swing, 35 minutes from the shop; a door in the same opening needs no building permit from the City of Toronto, a wider opening or a new sidelight is a structural change that Toronto Building reviews, and whether an older house is designated is asked before anything is ordered.
02Glass
Glass, sidelights and transoms
Most people pick doors for glass, the weakest point too. Laminated glass helps, as do two or three panes.
- Sidelights and transoms
- Two or three panes
- Laminated glass near the lock
- Safety-glass sidelights
03Frame
The frame and the lock
Frame security is long screws reaching the framing, a deadbolt with one full inch of throw, plus a reinforced strike plate.
- Frame kept or new
- Reinforced strike plate
- Deadbolt with a full throw
- Pulls, handles and locks
04Fit
Fitted square and sealed
Square, plumb and shimmed, or the door binds and wears its weatherstripping unevenly. A shifted opening is corrected.
- Shimmed plumb and square
- Weatherstripping all round
- Hung and latched
- Old door removed
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
Front door replacement questionsin Scarborough.
What Scarborough homeowners ask about front & entry doors, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
The opening comes first. Wexford's postwar bungalows have single-storey entries measured against the frame already there, and Birch Cliff's 1920s houses can have older frames and odd-sized openings that make a replacement a custom fit. After that, price follows whether you want the slab alone or the door with its frame, then material, glass and sidelights, and hardware. You get the figure before work starts.
Normally the same day for a standard door. A special-order door brings a lead time with it, and if the existing frame needs replacing, that adds to the visit. In a Birch Cliff house with an unusual opening, the door is ordered to fit, so the order is placed ahead of install day.
Not in a detached, semi-detached or row house when the door goes into its existing opening and the size and location stay the same. The City of Toronto does want a permit for a door where there was none, for a wider or relocated one, and for doors in buildings other than a single-dwelling house.
The opening is bare only while the old door is out and the new one goes in. A standard door is normally finished the same day, so the doorway is closed up and sealed before the crew goes. A frame that needs replacing makes the visit longer, and a photo outside and one inside beforehand shows whether the frame is sound.
Replacement doors are made in Canada and come with a lifetime warranty. Before the crew leaves on install day you are shown what the warranty covers, so that is the time to ask about it. The estimate is free and comes before any work, and you can ask there too.
A door that won't work5 questions
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.
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.
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.
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.
People also ask
What people ask aboutfront door replacement in Scarborough.
The questions people type into Google about front doors and doors in general, answered in a few lines each. Search for yours, or pick a topic.
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The opening is measured and the frame checked for square and plumb. Older openings are often an odd size, so the door is ordered to fit.
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From the frame, not the slab. The strike plate should be reinforced and fixed with long screws into the structural framing behind the jamb, and the deadbolt should throw a full inch into a frame that is square.
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Fibreglass is the most common choice. It insulates and resists warping and rot in freeze-thaw. Steel is strongest for security, though a dent stays. Solid wood needs refinishing and shifts with humidity.
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The guide
Front door replacement in Scarborough: good to know.
What is different about front & entry doors in Scarborough: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Front door replacement in Scarborough: what the job covers, opening by opening
Either the slab alone or the door with its frame is replaced, along with sidelights and a transom where the opening has them. The frame must be square, plumb and well shimmed before the hardware goes on and the weather sealing is done. Signs of a poor fit are light showing round the edges, a door you must shove to latch, drafts by the hinges, and condensation on the inside face in winter.
Of all the parts of a door, decorative glass costs the most in warmth and security. Glazing in two or three insulated panes improves comfort. Laminated glass stays in one piece if struck, and that counts most in sidelights close enough to the lock to be reached.
Front door replacement permits in Scarborough
Toronto asks for a heritage permit for exterior alterations inside a heritage conservation district. None of the districts the City lists as designated is in Scarborough, so a typical Scarborough entry door has no heritage review to wait for.
What can change the answer is the opening. A wider entry, a new door where there was none or a door in a building that is not a single-dwelling house needs a permit before the work. A same-size swap in an existing opening, such as a single-storey Wexford bungalow entry, does not.
Wexford's bungalows and Birch Cliff's 1920s houses
Wexford sits along Lawrence Avenue East and is mostly postwar bungalow housing. The entry is a single-storey opening, and the new door is measured against the frame that is already there.
Birch Cliff was the first part of Scarborough developed as a suburb of Toronto, in the 1920s. Houses from then can have older frames and openings of non-standard size, so stock sizes may not fit and the door is ordered to the opening.
How a front door replacement goes in Scarborough
Photos from outside and inside show the frame. The door is measured, the old one removed, the new one installed and sealed, and the garage door can be done in the same visit.
The crew comes from the Richmond Hill shop, about 35 minutes by road (30 km), and the estimate is free.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Two photosof the door and the frame.
Book below with a photo of the front of the house, door and garage together, and your Scarborough address, and we will say what suits it. The estimate is free.