01Springs
Springs and cables
Suspect a cable or a spring if the door bangs or comes up crooked. The spring page covers that repair.
- Torsion or extension springs
- Cables and drums
- Failure named by symptom
- Spring condition checked
Garage door repair inScarborough
Garage door repair in Scarborough on any make of door, with the parts that fail most carried on the van so most repairs are done in one visit. Weekends and holidays 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 Scarborough repair is 35 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
A door that reverses or stops short is traced to the door first: seal, section, track or roller. The opener side is checked too.
- Worn bottom seal
- Dented section
- Track binding
- Roller binding
04Panels
Panels, seals and tune-ups
A dented section can be replaced alone. Tired seals and loose hardware go in a tune-up.
- 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 Scarborough.
What Scarborough 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
The price follows spring size and count, door weight and height, cable or drum damage and strain on the opener, and it is stated before work, then restated with the reason if the diagnosis changes. In a Scarborough condominium, settle who pays first: responsibility for a unit's repairs turns on the Condominium Act and the corporation's own governing documents.
Most are done in a single visit because the van carries the parts that fail most often. A part it does not carry, or sections that must be ordered, stretches that. The shop is 35 minutes from Scarborough, and photos sent beforehand help the right part come along.
No. A repair swaps parts and leaves the opening as it is. Only a wider or taller opening, or a new garage, brings in a permit, and in Scarborough that comes from the City of Toronto.
Press the wall button. If that does nothing either, check the power first. If the motor hums but the door stays put, a spring has probably gone, and the opener is now hauling the whole door and can burn out, so stop using it. Do not keep the button pressed against a door that resists, and never loosen or adjust a spring under tension.
Yes, whatever the make, and openers in chain, belt or screw drive too. A photo from outside and one from inside is enough to tell repair from replacement, and when it is repair that is what you are told.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door 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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When sections are bent or rusting, panels are discontinued or repairs keep recurring. An uninsulated door on a heated house is a further reason to replace.
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Not always. Frost or condensation on a lens can interrupt the beam, so wipe both lenses and look for two steady lights. A door that shuts, touches the floor and goes back up points to a close limit that has drifted.
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Hold there with the opener disengaged. If it drops or rises, the spring tension is wrong.
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The guide
Garage door repair in Scarborough: good to know.
What is different about garage door repair in Scarborough: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door repair in Scarborough: the parts a visit covers
Typical repairs are springs, cables that fray or snap, off-track doors and bent tracks, worn rollers, hinges and bearings, safety sensors, panels hit by a vehicle, and seals that have hardened or torn. Openers that hum, strain, reverse or ignore the remote are repaired as well.
A handful of parts account for most failures, and the symptom usually points at one. Two photos by text let the van bring that part, and the technician reports anything else found before any extra work begins.
Wexford's bungalows, Cliffside's subdivision and Malvern's 1970s houses
Along Lawrence Avenue East, Wexford is mostly postwar bungalows whose garage and entry openings are single storey, so when a repair turns into a replacement the new door is measured to the frame already there. Cliffside began in the early 1950s as a suburban subdivision, and houses from that era can still hold their first door and opener.
The first Malvern residents moved in during 1972. A builder-grade door lasts 15 to 25 years, so on streets that old a repair call can come with a talk about replacing. New springs, rollers and seals plus a tune-up can bring a straight, sound door back, and when that is the answer it is the one you are given.
Garage door repair in a Scarborough condominium: who authorizes the call
Under Ontario's Condominium Act, a corporation's governing documents say who looks after a unit's repairs, and the corporation may amend those obligations. For a garage door, that settles who authorizes the visit and who pays.
So the call opens with one question: is this door yours or the corporation's? Have the answer ready when you call.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Tell us whatthe door is doing.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your Scarborough address, is all we need to quote the repair. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.