01Measure
The measure
Headroom determines the type of spring and track. Five measurements pick the door and hardware that fit.
- Opening width and height
- Headroom to the ceiling
- Side room for the tracks
- Backroom to the rear wall
Garage door installation inScarborough
Garage door installation in Scarborough with a door made in Canada to your measurements, the old one hauled away and a standard replacement normally done the same day. Lifetime warranty on the door.
- 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 Scarborough door is measured first and ordered to the opening, 35 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
Choose colour and style; single or double, insulated or not, in aluminium, steel or wood-look.
- Single or double door
- Steel, wood-look, aluminium
- Insulated or single skin
- Lites in the top section
03Hardware
Tracks, springs and seals
Seals line the frame, sections have rollers. Tracks are cut to the opening with a spring to suit.
- 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 Scarborough.
What Scarborough homeowners ask about installation & replacement, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
The quote is a figure, and it comes before the work. In Scarborough the first variable is what sits behind the old door: Wexford's postwar bungalows have single-storey openings, so the new door is measured to the frame in place, and a jamb bottom that has gone soft gets repaired while the opening is bare. Beyond that the price tracks size, one door or two, material, insulation, glass and hardware.
Normally one day for a standard single or double door. The wait is the order, since the door is built to your opening after you choose it, and its date is set with the order. A new opener, jamb repairs or an oversize custom door add time. Toronto's noise bylaw bars clearly audible construction between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. on weekdays, for part of Saturday, and all day on Sundays and statutory holidays, so a noisy step such as pulling down the old door is planned inside the allowed hours.
On a Wexford bungalow or a Rouge single-family house, usually not. The new door goes into the opening the old one leaves, and nothing structural moves. What changes the answer is the opening itself, such as a double where a single stands, and that is raised with the City of Toronto before the door is ordered. A garage that is not built yet comes first.
No. Doors go in through the whole Ontario year, and the opening is only bare for part of the visit, with final adjustments made for that day's conditions. The night before, park outside, leave about three feet of clear floor inside the door, move things hanging near the opener and make sure a nearby outlet works.
Yes. Both doors are hung by one crew. Add a photo of the front door when you send the garage door photos and ask for both in the estimate. Matching the style and colour of the two does more for the front of a house than almost any other single change. The front door page covers that work.
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 Scarborough.
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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None in particular. The door is made to the opening that is there, which on a Wexford bungalow means measuring against the single frame already standing. Older openings are often an odd size, and the headroom above decides which spring and track system fits.
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Yes, but the opening has to widen, and that is structural work to settle with the City before the door is made. The door is ordered once the new width is final.
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The wait follows which door you order and the time of year, and the date is given when the order is placed. Once the door is delivered, a standard replacement is normally installed the same day.
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The guide
Garage door installation in Scarborough: good to know.
What is different about installation & replacement in Scarborough: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door installation in Scarborough: what the visit settles
Most of the job is decided at the opening before the door is chosen. In a Wexford bungalow the garage is a single-storey opening with its original frame, so the door is made to that frame and not to a catalogue size. Once the old door is out, the jambs and the beam above are looked over, and a jamb that has gone soft at the bottom is repaired before anything new goes up.
The quote covers the new door, springs sized to its weight, a fresh floor seal and the removal of the old door and its hardware. An opener is added only if you ask for one. Before the crew leaves, the door is balanced, the reversal is tested and the remotes and manual release are shown to you.
Garage door installation permits in Scarborough
For a Rouge house or a Wexford bungalow the usual answer is that a replacement needs nothing from the City. North of Sheppard Avenue in Rouge, seventy-four percent of households are single-family, so most jobs there are a same-size swap with no application behind them.
Two things send you to the City first: a wider opening and a garage that does not exist yet. Either one holds the door order until the paperwork is settled. In a townhouse complex the condominium corporation may also have its own say about colour and style, which is a separate question from the City's.
Wexford's bungalows and Rouge's single-family streets
Along Lawrence Avenue East, Wexford is mostly postwar bungalows with single-storey garage and entry openings. A replacement there is measured to the frame in place and ordered to that size, not drawn from stock.
Rouge is the other case: single-family streets where the opening usually keeps its size. That is why the quote for a standard door there can be firm from two photos, with the day set when the order is placed.
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 Scarborough address, is enough for a free estimate on a new door. Book below, and the form says where to send them.