01Door
Fibreglass, steel or wood
Energy rules require an insulated core, so plain slabs are out. Fibreglass is common, steel strongest, and wood needs refinishing.
- Fibreglass entry doors
- Steel entry doors
- Solid wood doors
- Single and double doors
Front door replacement inToronto
Front door replacement in Toronto: fibreglass, steel or wood, made in Canada under a lifetime warranty, hung by the crew that can match your garage door. A free estimate needs only two photos.
- every replacement door
- Made in Canada
- warranty on replacement doors
- Lifetime
- 70 Google reviews
- 4.9★
- in Richmond Hill
- Since 2018
What’s included
What a new front doorincludes.
A front door for a Toronto house is made to the opening and the swing, 40 minutes from the shop; a door in the same opening needs no building permit from the City of Toronto, a wider opening or a new sidelight is a structural change that Toronto Building reviews, and on a designated house in one of its heritage districts the heritage permit comes first.
02Glass
Glass, sidelights and transoms
Glass sells most doors, and is the weakest point. Laminated glass helps. Two or three panes do the same.
- Sidelights and transoms
- Two or three panes
- Laminated glass near the lock
- Safety-glass sidelights
03Frame
The frame and the lock
Security lives in the frame: a reinforced strike plate, long screws into the framing, and a deadbolt with a full one-inch throw.
- Frame kept or new
- Reinforced strike plate
- Deadbolt with a full throw
- Pulls, handles and locks
04Fit
Fitted square and sealed
Shims set the door square and plumb, or it binds and weatherstripping wears unevenly. Shifted openings are fixed.
- Shimmed plumb and square
- Weatherstripping all round
- Hung and latched
- Old door removed
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
Front door replacement questionsin Toronto.
What Toronto homeowners ask about front & entry doors, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
Old openings drive the first decision in Toronto: where an opening is non-standard, the door is made to the measured size, and on a street inside a Heritage Conservation District a heritage permit comes before the order. Either can change the job and its price. After that the price follows slab only or door and frame, the material, glass and sidelights, and hardware, and arrives as a single number before the work.
Replacing a standard front door is normally a same-day job. A special-order door adds the wait for it to be made, and an old frame that has to come out lengthens the visit. The garage door can be hung on the same visit, so the front of the house is finished in one call.
For a one-unit detached, semi-detached or row house, Toronto does not ask for a building permit when a door goes into its existing opening and nothing else changes: same size, same location, same structure, no new exit. Inside a Heritage Conservation District a heritage permit is a separate step.
Front door and entry door describe the same job, the main door of the house, while exterior door is the wider term that also covers side and back doors. Measuring, framing and sealing are the same for all of them. Front and entry doors are hung alongside garage doors, and a photo of the existing door from outside and another from inside shows the frame.
Look for daylight at the edges first. A door you have to shove to latch, a draft by the hinges, or water and frost on the room side of the door in winter all say the door or frame no longer fits. A sound frame may take a new door alone; an unsound one means both go.
A door that won't work5 questions
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.
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.
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.
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.
People also ask
What people ask aboutfront door replacement in Toronto.
The questions people type into Google about front doors and doors in general, answered in a few lines each. Search for yours, or pick a topic.
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Yes, when the existing frame is sound. A slab-only swap works if the frame is square, plumb and properly shimmed. If it has shifted, the frame goes too.
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A door is only as secure as the frame around it. The strike plate should be reinforced, with long screws that reach the structural framing behind the jamb, and the deadbolt should have a full one-inch throw in a square frame. Of everything in a door, decorative glass is the weakest point for heat loss and for break-ins, and laminated glass holds together when struck.
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Of the three common materials, fibreglass copes best: it insulates and neither warps nor rots through freeze-thaw, and it is the one fitted most. Steel is strongest against forced entry, though a dent stays. Solid wood needs refinishing and moves with humidity.
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The guide
Front door replacement in Toronto: good to know.
What is different about front & entry doors in Toronto: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Front door replacement in Toronto: what the job includes, opening by opening
The job is a slab alone or a door with its frame, in fibreglass, steel or wood, with sidelights and a transom where the opening can take them. The frame must be square, plumb and properly shimmed, the hardware is fitted and the door is sealed against the weather. Before choosing, settle the swing direction, the sun and weather exposure, and whether the existing frame is sound.
Each opening is measured and the door is ordered to fit. The sequence is measure, remove, install, seal, and the garage door can be done on the same visit, which is the point of one crew for both.
Front door replacement permits in Toronto
A Heritage Conservation District adds its own layer: new construction, additions and exterior alterations there call for a heritage permit. A front door facing the street is one of those alterations, so it is checked against the district plan before it is ordered, and the permit comes first.
Anything that changes the opening's size, its position or its structure, or adds a new exit, needs a permit first, so a wider entry or a moved door is planned with the City before a door is made. A like-for-like swap can start without permit paperwork.
Rosedale's century-old houses and what they change for a front door
Many Rosedale houses are at least 100 years old, mostly detached, and openings of that age are often non-standard in size, so each one is measured on site before a door is made.
A door made to a measured opening comes with a lead time, and the date arrives with the order. The frame is the part to judge first. An old one can have shifted, and it is brought back to square and plumb, then shimmed, before the new door is hung.
Front doors in Toronto: from two photos to the door hung and sealed
A call begins with two photos sent to the shop. A front door and a garage door can go in on the same visit, so one crew can match the garage door to the new front door, and the match of style and colour to the door and trim changes the front of a house more than almost any single choice.
The shop in Richmond Hill is about 40 minutes from the centre of Toronto, 40.9 km by road. Sidelights and transoms bring more glass, and glass is where a door gives up the most on security and warmth, so it is chosen with that in mind.
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Two photosof the door and the frame.
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