01Torsion
Torsion springs
Mounted on a shaft above the opening and turning as the door moves. The usual setup on a newer door.
- Sized to the door's weight
- Wound to tension
- Both springs on two-spring doors
- Shaft bearings checked
Garage door spring repair inScarborough
Garage door spring repair in Scarborough, with the replacement spring sized to your door and the balance tested before the crew leaves. Most single-door jobs take about an hour, and the estimate is free.
- for most repairs
- One visit
- open, weekends and holidays
- 24/7
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
What’s included
Two kinds of spring,and the cables beside them.
A broken spring in Scarborough is 35 minutes from the van's spring rack in Richmond Hill, so the door is weighed, measured and fitted with the right spring on the first visit; a spring is a part of the existing door and needs no permit from the City of Toronto.
02Extension
Extension springs
One lies along each horizontal track and lengthens as the door comes down. Each should have a safety cable.
- Replaced as a pair
- Safety cables through them
- Pulleys checked
- Matched to the door
03Cables
Lift cables and drums
When a spring lets go, a cable frequently goes with it. Nearly every job replaces both cables and checks the drums.
- Frayed or snapped cables
- Drums, brackets and pulleys
- Rust from winter salt
- Unwound with winding bars
04Balance
Balanced and tested
Each job closes with a test: release the opener, lift the door halfway, let go. If it holds, the spring is right.
- Balance set by hand
- Full travel run through
- Opener limits and force
- Rollers and hinges looked over
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 spring repair questionsin Scarborough.
What Scarborough homeowners ask about spring replacement, 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
Spring size and cycle rating set it, along with the door's height and weight and any cable or drum damage. Springs normally go in as a pair, since the second has run as many cycles as the first. The price is stated before any work. Two photos, one outside and one inside that shows the springs above the opening, are enough to produce it.
Springs are built for a count of openings, not a count of years. Most standard ones last about 10,000 openings, which comes to near seven years at four a day, and a household that runs the door more often reaches that sooner. Cold weather and dry hardware wear them faster, and a door used heavily is the case for a higher-cycle spring.
No. The spring lives inside the garage, above the door, and the opening is untouched. Only a change to the opening itself would raise a permit question, and the City of Toronto would be the one to ask.
It can be. Once a spring breaks the opener hauls the whole door and may burn out, and the door can drop, so stop using it. After the new spring is on, the door is balanced by hand first and only then is the opener asked to move it.
Most single-door jobs run about an hour. If a drum or bracket is damaged, or the door has jumped its track, expect longer. The Richmond Hill shop is 35 minutes from Scarborough by road.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door spring 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.
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The corporation's governing documents decide, read with the Condominium Act, and a corporation can amend them. They settle whether the door is the owner's to keep up or the corporation's, which in turn decides who authorizes and pays.
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Worn rollers and hinges and bent or rusting sections. Cables, rollers and shaft bearings are checked on the same visit, but a spring corrects only the lift. Bent or rusting sections start to favour a new door.
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The shop is in Richmond Hill, 30 km from Scarborough by road. Springs for common doors are carried on the van, so most calls need one trip.
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The guide
Garage door spring repair in Scarborough: good to know.
What is different about spring replacement in Scarborough: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door spring repair in Scarborough: the parts a visit covers
A proper replacement starts by measuring the door for its spring: wire size, length and wind direction, matched to this door's weight. The old spring is then let down under control, and the new one is fitted and wound to the right tension before the door is balanced. On a wide double door the coiled torsion spring stores several hundred pounds of force, which is why it is not a homeowner's job.
Cables, rollers and shaft bearings get a look in the same visit, because a spring that fails often takes them along. On a torsion setup the cables are changed only after the springs have been unwound with winding bars. A door on extension springs needs a different first check, which is whether a safety cable runs through each spring.
Cliffside's early-1950s subdivision and what it changes for a spring call
Cliffside was laid out as a large suburban housing subdivision in the early 1950s. Houses from that period can still hold their original door, so a spring call there may open a talk about the door as a whole.
A door with straight sections and a failed spring, cable, roller or hinge is a repair. Bent or rusting sections, or a door that keeps coming back, lean toward replacing it, and two photos, one from outside and one from inside, show which.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Photograph thesprings above the door.
A photo of the springs above the door from inside the garage and one of the door from outside, with your Scarborough address, is enough for a free estimate. Book below at any hour.