The old door and hardware leave with the crew, and you are shown the release, remotes and keypad.
- Single and double doors
- Steel and wood-look
- Tracks, springs and seals
- Free estimate
- Warranty
- Lifetime, made in Canada
Garage doors inToronto
Garage doors in Toronto, new and repaired, with front doors and windows from the same crew. The shop is open 24/7, weekends and holidays included, and the estimate is free from two photos.
- from the shop, by Hwy 404
- 40 min
- City of Toronto
- Toronto
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
About · Modern Empire Doors
Both doors,one crew.
We're a garage door company that replaces front doors too, so the two doors on the front of your house are chosen together and finished to match. If a door can be repaired we repair it, and if it's past repairing we'll tell you.
- Since
- 2018
- Shop
- 138 Yorkland St, Richmond Hill
- New doors
- Made in Canada
Services
A new facefor the front of the house.
For a new build or a renovation, with the front door to match.
- Flush or long-panel
- Frosted or clear glass
- Full-view glass doors
- Lites in a row or column
- Warranty
- Lifetime
Foam, not bare steel: quieter, stiffer, and it dents less.
- Foam core, steel skins
- A new bottom seal
- Springs for the heavier door
- Style and colour
- Made in
- Canada
Glass, frame and lock chosen together, since decorative glass is the weakest point of a door.
- Fibreglass, steel or wood
- Sidelights and transoms
- Frame, plate and deadbolt
- Free estimate
- Estimate
- Starts with two photos
A bedroom window has to open from inside without tools, so the opening size is checked before the order.
- Replacement windows
- New or larger openings
- Bedroom and basement windows
- Rated, sealed, trimmed
- Estimate
- Free, started by phone
Springs are chosen by how often the door opens, and a busy door is looked at more often.
- Sectional and rolling doors
- High-cycle springs
- Overhead door repair
- Operators and safety reversal
- Also
- Tune-ups for working doors
Repair and service
Garage door repair,at any hour.
Open 24 hours, every day, weekends and holidays included.
Planning a new door? See the doors
Stuck open at night? The red release cord, and what to leave alone until we arrive.
- Door stuck open or shut
- Off its track
- Spring or cable gone
- Night and weekend calls
- Most repairs
- Finished in one visit
Off its track, or won’t close? A door that grinds, drops or lifts crooked usually needs one part, not replacing.
- Tracks, rollers, hinges
- Cables and springs
- Panels and sensors
- Seals and tune-ups
- Repairs
- Every make of door
A loud bang, then it won’t lift? On a two-spring door, both are replaced when one breaks.
- Torsion springs
- Extension springs
- Cables, drums
- Balanced, tested
- Single door
- Most take about an hour
The remote does nothing? A new opener comes with the remotes and keypad programmed before the crew leaves.
- Opener repair
- Chain, belt and screw drives
- Remotes and keypads
- Safety sensors
- New opener
- One visit, a few hours
City of Toronto
The lane behind, the porch in front.
Toronto Building's own list, the City's heritage districts from Rosedale to Balmy Beach, Chapter 918 on front yards, and the prewar streets of the old city and East York, where most of Toronto's lanes are.
Municipality
- City of Toronto
Toronto Buildingsource, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
- City of Toronto
Permits
The City requires a building permit to enlarge or move a door or window opening, and to replace doors or windows in a house with more than one dwelling unit. No permit is needed for 'Replacing a window or door in an existing opening' of a one-unit detached, semi-detached or row house, or of 'an accessory building serving that house', if the opening keeps its size, location and structural support.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
By-laws
- Construction noise hours
Toronto's noise by-law bars construction noise that is 'clearly audible' from 7 pm to 7 am, until 9 am on Saturdays, and all day on Sundays and statutory holidays.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
- What counts as noise
The City's noise page defines construction noise as 'Noise from building, changing or fixing structures'.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
- Front yard parking
Front yard parking needs a City licence, and in several wards of the former City of Toronto the City 'shall not accept a front yard parking application', so check an address with 311.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
- Laneway suites
Since July 2019 the City has allowed laneway suites across Toronto on 'residential properties that share a property line with a public lane'. The lot must border the lane 'for at least 3.5 metres', and only one laneway or garden suite building is allowed on a lot.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
and 5 more on the municipality's page
- Construction noise hours
Heritage
- Rosedale Heritage Conservation District
- Riverdale Heritage Conservation District
- East Annex Heritage Conservation District
- West Annex Phase 1: Madison Avenue Heritage Conservation District
- Kingswood Road South Heritage Conservation District
- Lyall Avenue Heritage Conservation District
- Blythwood Road Heritage Conservation District
- Cabbagetown Heritage Conservation Districts
- Harbord Village Heritage Conservation District
- Wychwood Park Heritage Conservation District
- Yorkville-Hazelton Heritage Conservation District
- Teiaiagon-Baby Point Heritage Conservation District
- Draper Street Heritage Conservation District
- Queen Street West Heritage Conservation District
- Parkdale Main Street Heritage Conservation District
- Garden District Heritage Conservation District
- St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Heritage Conservation District
- King-Spadina Heritage Conservation District
- Historic Yonge Street Heritage Conservation District
- Kensington Market Heritage Conservation District
- Union Station Heritage Conservation District
- Fort York Heritage Conservation District
- Weston Phase 1 Heritage Conservation District
- and 20 more districts
Inside a Heritage Conservation District, 'exterior alterations' need a heritage permit, and the City says 'If you choose to replace your existing windows and doors that are visible from the sidewalk, you will need a heritage permit to do so'. Interior work, changes not visible from the street and routine maintenance like painting need none. Every district but Weston is in the old City of Toronto, and none is in East York or Leaside.source, toronto.ca, opens in a new tab
The houses
Most homes in Leaside, Lawrence Park, East York, Riverdale, the Beaches and Bloor West Village were built by 1960, as brick detached houses, semis and bungalows. Riverdale and the Annex are Victorian and Edwardian brick from the 1880s to the 1920s, Leaside and Lawrence Park mostly 1910s to 1940s, and East York's bungalows 1946 to 1961. Rosedale, the Annex and High Park North mix older houses with apartment towers.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
Rear lanes run behind much of the old city and East York, Riverdale and the Beaches among them, and in Riverdale the garage is often detached at the back, off the lane.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
- prewar
- postwar
- new build
- suburban
From the shop
40 minutes and 41 km from Richmond Hill, by Hwy 404.
Highway 404 becomes the Don Valley Parkway at Highway 401, with exits for Leaside, East York, Rosedale, Riverdale and the Beaches. Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue run straight south to Lawrence Park and the Annex, and Highway 401 and Bloor Street to the west end.
Neighbourhoods
- Leaside: Planned in 1913 and built up in a boom between 1929 and 1939: two-storey brick detached houses, many Tudor Revival, with private drives and garages. It is reached from the Don Valley Parkway at Eglinton or Bayview.
- Lawrence Park: An early garden suburb between Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue, built mostly between 1910 and the late 1940s in English Cottage, Tudor Revival and Georgian styles on narrow, deep lots. It is straight down Yonge from Richmond Hill, with the Blythwood Road Heritage Conservation District on its south edge.
- Rosedale
- Riverdale
- The Beaches
- The Annex
- Bloor West Village
- High Park
- East York
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.
Sixteen 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 doors in Toronto:common questions.
What Toronto homeowners ask about the drive, the permits and the houses, with the questions every door raises beside them.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door10 questions
Start with the house. A Toronto street inside a Heritage Conservation District adds a heritage permit ahead of any order, and a garage that is being built or joined to the house needs a building permit first, so a door for either is priced once those are settled. The rest of the quote is the door itself: size, one or two, material, insulation, glass, and the shape the opening is in. You get a single number before work begins, not a range.
The part with a lifespan is the spring, and it is counted in openings rather than years: a standard one is often rated for about 10,000 cycles, roughly seven years if the door goes up and down four times a day. A Toronto winter shortens that, and so does poor lubrication. A twenty-minute look each autumn, watching one full cycle and trying the balance and the reversal, is the upkeep a door needs.
Swapping a door into the opening it already fills usually needs no building permit. Making the opening wider or taller changes the header, which is structural, and that is a different answer. In Toronto the question to ask first is whether the street is a Heritage Conservation District: if it is, a garage door facing the street is an exterior alteration and needs a heritage permit, so the district plan is read before the door is ordered.
Repair is the smaller bill while the door is straight and the failing part is a spring, a cable, a roller or the opener. The point at which replacing deserves a look is when sections bend or rust, or the same door keeps coming back. We say repair when it is repair, and two snapshots are enough to tell.
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.
Yes. Modern Empire Doors installs front and entry doors as well as garage doors and openers, and you can do both at once, so the two doors on the front of the house are chosen together rather than months apart. One crew measures and hangs both, which keeps the colour, the hardware and the style in step. Send a photo of the front of the house and we will talk you through what suits 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 work8 questions
Yes, from Rosedale to The Beaches and out to High Park. The crew leaves the Richmond Hill shop, about 40 minutes and 40.9 km from the city centre, mostly on Highway 404. North York and Scarborough have pages of their own.
Yes. The shop is open 24 hours a day, weekends and holidays included, and the van is stocked with the parts that fail most, so a visit usually ends with the door working. A snapshot of the door from the driveway and another from inside the garage, sent by text, tell us what to load. If the problem turns out different from your description, we say what changed and what it now costs before going on.
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.
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.
People also ask
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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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Most often it is the safety sensors. If anything breaks the invisible beam between the two photo eyes, about six inches off the floor, the door starts down and reverses. Clear the path, wipe both lenses and check that both sensor lights are steady. If the door touches the floor and then goes back up, the close limit on the opener has drifted.
Asked next
A standard torsion spring is often rated for about 10,000 cycles, one cycle being one open and close. At four a day that is roughly seven years; a family that uses the garage as its front door can get there in three or four. Cold winters and poor lubrication shorten it. If a door has two springs, both are replaced together.
Asked next
Most often it is frozen to the floor. Meltwater pools under the bottom seal and freezes overnight, and the opener stops as if it had hit something. Break the bond with warm water or a plastic scraper, never a flame or a metal blade, and do not hold the button down. Thickened grease and cold steel can also make a tired door bind.
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The sound tells you the part. Grinding is usually worn rollers, squealing means the hinges, rollers and bearings need a proper garage door lubricant, and rattling is loose hardware. A single loud bang is different: that is usually a spring snapping, so stop using the door. Nylon rollers, regular lubrication and a belt drive opener make the quietest door.
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Try the wall button first. If it opens the door, the opener is fine and the fault is the remote: fit a new battery, even if its light still comes on. Then check that the antenna wire hangs straight down from the motor, that the lock button on the wall console is off, and that a cheap LED bulb in the opener is not jamming the signal.
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Usually a loud bang from the garage, then a door that will not open or feels extremely heavy by hand. Look at the springs above the door: a broken one has a gap of a couple of inches in the coil, as if it had been cut. Do not force the door. Springs hold hundreds of pounds of stored energy and are not a DIY repair.
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The guide
Notes from the old city.
The houses, the heritage districts, Toronto Building's list and the lanes, front yards and noise hours that bear on garage doors in Toronto, read before you call.
Garage doors in Toronto: what we do and where it starts
The work comes in two halves. New and replacement doors, residential and commercial, in insulated, modern and commercial builds, and repairs to springs, cables, tracks, rollers, sensors and openers on every make. The same crew can replace the front door and the windows, so the front of a house can be finished in one go.
Every job begins with a photograph of the door from the street side and one from inside the garage with the door shut, so the tracks, the springs over the opening and the opener are all in view. From those we can usually name the price without anyone driving out first. The estimate is free, and the price is a number given before the work.
New garage doors in Toronto: what moves the choice and the quote
Heritage comes first on older streets. Inside a Heritage Conservation District a heritage permit covers exterior alterations, and a garage door facing the street is one, so the permit and the district plan are settled before the order goes in.
Two more Toronto rules change the scope. A new garage has to be permitted before its door is ordered: Toronto asks for a building permit once an accessory structure passes 10 square metres, and for one attached to a building at any size. And since garden suites are allowed in most residential zones, an existing garage can be converted into one depending on its size. A garage that becomes a suite stops needing a door, so repair, replace or convert is decided before anything is ordered.
Reaching Rosedale and Riverdale from the Richmond Hill shop
From the Richmond Hill shop it is about 40 minutes, 40.9 km, to the centre of Toronto, most of it down Highway 404. The crew covers Rosedale, Riverdale, The Beaches, The Annex, Leaside, Lawrence Park, Bloor West Village, High Park and East York, and North York and Scarborough are on their own pages.
At the door the technician tells you what else turned up before touching anything extra. On a new door the crew walks you through the manual release, the remotes and what the warranty covers, then takes the old door away with it. Replacement doors are made in Canada, and the warranty is for life.
Repairs, openers and calls at any hour in Toronto
Springs do the lifting, not the opener. When an opener strains, the springs are often spent, so the balance of the door is checked before a new motor is quoted. A door that has grown louder over time usually needs rollers and hinges, which is a far smaller repair than a new door.
Openers come in chain, belt and screw drive, and most new ones go in during a single visit of a few hours. Remotes, keypads and the buttons built into a car are programmed before the crew leaves. Which drive suits a garage depends on where it sits against the bedrooms; the Toronto opener page goes through it.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Start withthe door you have.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your Toronto address, is all we need to quote. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.