01Repair
Opener repair
A dead wall button, a reversing door, a hum with nothing moving: any make, belt, chain or screw drive.
- Stripped drive gears
- Worn limit switches
- Failed capacitors
- Dead logic boards
Garage door opener repair inScarborough
Garage door opener repair in Scarborough on any make, in chain, belt and screw drive, and a replacement opener that is normally in within one visit of a few hours. Free estimates.
- for most repairs
- One visit
- estimates, from two photos
- Free
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
What’s included
Faults we repair,openers we fit.
An opener call in Scarborough is 35 minutes from the shop, and the visit starts with the door, not the motor: the opener is released and the door lifted by hand, because an opener guides a balanced door rather than lifting a heavy one. An opener is a part of the existing door and needs no permit from the City of Toronto.
02New
New and replacement openers
Chain, belt, screw or wall-mount, chosen for what sits above and beside the garage.
- Chain and belt drives
- Screw drive and wall-mount
- Battery backup
- A first opener, newly added
03Remotes
Remotes, keypads and phones
Car buttons, a keypad and remotes get programmed before we go. Where a phone app exists, we set that up too.
- Handheld remotes
- Wall keypads
- Built-in car buttons
- Phone app over Wi-Fi
04Sensors
Safety sensors
Roughly six inches above the floor, two photo eyes warn the door of a blockage. Cleaned, aligned or replaced.
- Lenses cleaned, brackets aligned
- Sensor wiring checked
- Reverse tested on an object
- Lens frost cleared
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.
Foam board out, steel in.
Seen from inside, the old door had been patched over with pink foam board. The new one is white insulated steel in four sections, photographed from the same spot in the garage.
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 opener repair questionsin Scarborough.
What Scarborough homeowners ask about garage door openers, 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
The drive type (chain, belt or screw), repair against replacement, and features like Wi-Fi or a battery backup all move it. Springs that are worn out strain the opener and can change the number too. The price comes before the work.
Typically a single visit of a few hours. Spring work that has to come first, a first-ever opener, a wall-mount unit or an eight-foot door will each stretch that. The drive from the Richmond Hill shop is about 35 minutes.
No. An opener is bolted up on the garage ceiling and does not alter the opening, so nothing the City of Toronto regulates about openings is touched. It needs a live outlet close by.
Two causes turn up most. If the door shuts, touches the floor and then goes back up, the opener's close limit has probably drifted. If it turns round before reaching the floor, suspect the photo eyes: frost or condensation on a lens, or eyes knocked out of line so that both lights are not steady.
Start at the wall button. When it fails as well, look at the power supply. When only the remote is dead, go through these in order: a new battery, reprogramming with the LEARN button, the antenna, then interference from LED bulbs and the lock button. A motor that hums while the door stays put, reversals with nothing in the way, or grinding from the housing means the opener itself.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door opener repair 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.
Search 3 answers from Modern Empire Doors
Often searched
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Because it sits beside the door and drives the spring shaft directly, it needs torsion springs and clear room at the side. Some garages cannot take one.
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A pair of photo eyes mounted around six inches above the floor stops the door closing on anything in its way, and neither may ever be disabled or bypassed. The last test shuts the door on a solid object, and it has to reverse.
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A belt is far quieter, which suits a garage with a bedroom over it or next to it. Chain is strong but the loudest, and is fine on a detached garage.
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The guide
Garage door opener repair in Scarborough: good to know.
What is different about garage door openers in Scarborough: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door opener repair in Scarborough: the parts a visit covers
An opener guides the door; it does not lift it, so balance is tested first (release the cord and lift by hand), and if the door needs spring or hardware work, that is told to you before the opener goes up. Then comes the fault: remote, sensors, limits, gear or board.
A new unit means checking balance, fixing the rail and motor, wiring and aligning the sensors, setting travel limits and closing force, proving the auto-reverse, and programming remotes, keypad and any phone app. Remotes from the old opener usually will not pair with a new one. A car's built-in buttons can normally be reprogrammed, and a few cars need an adapter.
Which drive suits the garage, and when the opener is repaired instead of replaced
Chain, belt and screw drive suit different garages. Screw drive uses a threaded steel rod, so it has fewer parts but is more sensitive to temperature swings. Wi-Fi comes built into a lot of newer openers, and links to a car or a smart-home app may bring a subscription, so ask before choosing. With battery backup the door keeps working through an outage. Without it the red release cord opens the door by hand, which the crew demonstrates.
Repairable faults include a stripped gear, a failed capacitor, a worn limit switch and a dead logic board, and on an opener under about ten years old repair usually makes sense. Replace it when the unit is older than rolling code, parts are discontinued or the motor has died.
Cliffside's early-1950s houses and Malvern's 1970s houses
Cliffside was laid out as a suburban subdivision in the early 1950s, and the first residents of the modern Malvern community moved into their homes in 1972. Original doors and openers on houses from those years are at or past replacement age, so an opener call there can come with a talk about replacing.
Builder-grade doors at 15 to 25 years often carry loud openers with no battery backup, along with worn rollers and hardened seals. New springs, rollers and seals plus a tune-up bring a straight door back, and the opener is chosen once the door's balance is known.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Does the wallbutton still work?
A photo of the door from outside and one of the opener and ceiling from inside, with your Scarborough address, is enough for a free estimate. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.