01Measure
The measure
Five measurements decide which door and which hardware fit. Headroom decides the spring and track system.
- Opening width and height
- Headroom to the ceiling
- Side room for the tracks
- Backroom to the rear wall
Garage door installation inToronto
Garage door installation in Toronto: a door made in Canada, measured to your opening and normally hung the same day, with a lifetime warranty. Estimates are free and start from 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
The door, the hardwareand the measure.
A Toronto door is measured first and ordered to the opening, 40 minutes from the shop in Richmond Hill; a like-for-like door in the same opening is the kind the City of Toronto exempts from a building permit, and a wider or taller opening is a structural change that Toronto Building reviews.
02Door
The door itself
Single or double, steel, wood-look or aluminium, insulated or not, in the style and colour you choose.
- Single or double door
- Steel, wood-look, aluminium
- Insulated or single skin
- Lites in the top section
03Hardware
Tracks, springs and seals
Tracks cut to this opening, rollers for each section, seals round the frame, and a spring to suit.
- Tracks for headroom
- Rollers per section
- Seals round the opening
- Soft jambs dealt with
04Opener
The opener, kept or replaced
The quote states if the opener can be kept. Either way it gets reconnected and tested.
- Existing opener reconnected
- Limits and force set
- Sensors and remotes set
- A new opener if wanted
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
Garage door installation questionsin Toronto.
What Toronto homeowners ask about installation & replacement, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
Toronto can change the order of the work before it changes the price. On a street inside a Heritage Conservation District a new garage door needs a heritage permit, and a garage being turned into a suite needs no door at all. After that the number is built from the size, one door or two, the material, insulation, glass and styling, and the state of the framing, tracks and opener. It is given before the work, as one figure.
A standard single or double replacement is normally done the same day. The wait is the making: the door is built to size once you choose it, and the date comes with the order. Jamb repairs, a new opener or an oversized custom door add to the day. Install day also has to fit the City of Toronto's permitted hours for construction noise.
Two Toronto checks have nothing to do with the door itself: a heritage permit on a Heritage Conservation District street, and a building permit for a garage over 10 square metres or attached to the house. For a straight swap in the same opening a building permit is usually not needed. Cut the opening wider or taller and the header changes, which is structural work that normally needs a permit and sometimes an engineer.
The crew lays down protection for the driveway and floor, unwinds the old springs with winding bars, and takes the old door out a section at a time, followed by the tracks and hardware. The jambs and the header are inspected, then the new door goes up and is balanced and tested. An opener is set up if you want one, and the old door leaves with the crew.
A photograph of the door from outside, another from inside with the door closed so the tracks, the springs above the opening and the opener show, and the address. Send them by text, with the rough opening size, one door or two, and the style and glass you have in mind. A quote built on that does not move on install day.
A door that won't work5 questions
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.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door installation in Toronto.
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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Headroom, side room on each side, backroom to the rear wall, and the opening's width and height: five measurements before anything is ordered. Headroom decides the spring and track system. Older openings are often non-standard, so the door is measured and ordered to fit.
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Yes. Garage doors are installed in every season in Ontario. The opening is exposed for only part of the visit, and the final adjustments are made for the conditions that day.
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From the bottom up. A new floor seal goes on the bottom section, the remaining sections are stacked and hinged, and the tracks follow. Then come the shaft, drums, cables and torsion springs, matched to this door's weight, and lifting the door halfway by hand shows whether it holds.
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The guide
Garage door installation in Toronto: good to know.
What is different about installation & replacement in Toronto: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door installation in Toronto: what the job includes
The door is measured to the opening, ordered to size and hung by the crew that removes the old one. In older houses the bottom of the jambs is often soft from water and road salt, and the crew deals with that while the opening is bare, before the new door goes up. Residential and commercial properties are both done.
Getting ready takes little. Cars go outside the night before, the floor just inside the door is cleared, whatever hangs from the ceiling around the opener comes down, and an outlet near it has to work. Someone also needs to be home to let the crew in. The manual release, the remotes and the keypad are shown to you before the crew leaves.
Garage door installation permits in Toronto
A street in a Heritage Conservation District carries a heritage permit requirement for new construction and exterior alterations, and a garage door facing the street counts as an alteration. The permit and the district plan therefore come before the order. Outside a district, the question that matters is whether the opening changes.
Two other Toronto rules change the scope. A garage still to be built needs its building permit before its door is ordered, since anything over 10 square metres, or joined to the house at any size, is permitted by the City. And because Toronto allows garden suites in most residential zones, a garage converted to one stops needing a garage door and gains windows and an entry door, so that scope is settled first.
Reaching The Beaches and The Annex from the Richmond Hill shop
From the Richmond Hill shop, downtown Toronto is 40.9 km by road, about 40 minutes down Highway 404. The crew drives out to The Beaches, The Annex, Bloor West Village, East York and the rest of the city for the installation itself.
On handover the crew explains what the warranty covers. The old door and its hardware leave with them. The replacement door is made in Canada, and its warranty lasts for life.
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Send a photoof your door.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside the garage, with your Toronto address, is enough for a free estimate on a new door. Book below, and the form says where to send them.