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 inToronto
Garage door repair in Toronto for any make of door, from a broken spring to a door off its track. Most jobs end in one visit, the shop is open round the clock, and the estimate is free from two photos.
- 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 Toronto repair is 40 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
Binding, a crooked run and growing noise over the months most often trace to the track or rollers.
- Doors off their track
- Bent or loose track
- Worn rollers and bearings
- Hinges and brackets
03Opener
Reversing, stalling
Stopping short or reversing sends us to the door first: track, rollers, a section or the seal. We check the opener too.
- Worn bottom seal
- Dented section
- Track binding
- Roller binding
04Panels
Panels, seals and tune-ups
Loose hardware and tired seals suit a tune-up. A dented section alone can be replaced.
- 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 Toronto.
What Toronto 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 is settled before the work starts, and settled again if the diagnosis turns out different from what was described on the phone, so you decide with the new figure in hand. What drives the bill is the size of the spring, whether one or both need replacing, how heavy and tall the door is, cable or drum damage, and any strain on the opener. A snapshot from outside and one from inside lets us price most jobs before anyone drives out.
Often it is a single visit: the van is stocked with the springs, cables, rollers and sensors that fail most. A part we do not carry stretches it, and sections that have to be ordered in can take a few weeks. The shop is about 40 minutes from the centre of Toronto, and photos sent ahead mean the right part is already aboard.
A repair works on the parts of a door and leaves the opening alone, and the opening is where permit questions begin. Cutting it wider or taller alters the header, a structural member, and that is a different job from a repair, one that goes to the City of Toronto for a permit. Springs, cables, rollers, tracks and sensors do not touch the header.
Leave the spring to us. Adjusting one under tension is not safe for an owner, and once a spring has broken the opener hauls the whole door's weight and can burn out. The door can also fall, so stop using it and call. Watching, listening, the balance test, the reversal test and lubricating are the jobs an owner can do safely.
Start with power: a wall button that is dead along with the remote points away from the remote. Next look for a broken spring, which often comes with a bang and a visible gap in the coil, and if there is one, stop using the door. Never hold the button against a door that resists, and stop the opener once it has reversed twice.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door repair 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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A worn roller, a bad cable or a bent track section is behind most of them, and those are what get replaced or straightened. Stop using the door at once, since forcing it can crease the sections and turn a hardware repair into a panel replacement.
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Not usually. If the opener strains only because the springs are spent, it does not need replacing; the springs do the lifting, so we check the balance before blaming the motor. A noisy door more often needs rollers than a new door.
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A handful of parts account for most failures: springs, cables, rollers, tracks, sensors and the opener, and the symptom usually points to which. A single bang is usually a torsion spring; grinding is the rollers or the opener gear.
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The guide
Garage door repair in Toronto: good to know.
What is different about garage door repair in Toronto: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
What a garage door repair visit covers in Toronto, part by part
A repair visit can take in springs, cables, rollers, hinges, tracks, sensors, panels, seals and the opener, on every make of door. The sound narrows it down: a bang is a spring, a grind is the rollers or the opener gear, a squeal wants lubricant and a rattle is loose hardware.
Winter fills the diary. Cables often give out at the bottom bracket, where meltwater and road salt sit and rust the metal, and a door that will not lift on a cold morning is most often frozen to the ground. A hardened or torn bottom seal is how the water gets in to freeze it there.
When a repair is enough and when the door has had its life
A repair is the answer while the sections are straight and the failed part is a spring, cable, roller, hinge or the opener. Replacing is worth pricing when sections are bent or rusting, panels are discontinued, the door has no insulation and the garage is warm, or the same repairs keep returning.
Doors from a builder that have reached 15 to 25 years commonly have springs gone or going, worn rollers, a loud opener with no battery backup and a hardened bottom seal. New springs, rollers and seals plus a tune-up bring a straight, sound door back.
A repair call in Toronto, from two photos to a tested door
A pair of photos by text, the outside of the door and the inside with springs, tracks and opener in view, means the van leaves loaded with the right part. The inside photo usually shows whether the trouble is a roller, a cable or a bent track.
Before any extra work the technician tells you what else was found, and the door's balance is checked before the crew goes. The shop is open around the clock, 40.9 km from the centre of Toronto by road.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Tell us whatthe door is doing.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your Toronto address, is all we need to quote the repair. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.