01Torsion
Torsion springs
This spring turns on its shaft above the opening as the door moves. It is usual on newer doors.
- Sized to the door's weight
- Wound to tension
- Both springs on two-spring doors
- Shaft bearings checked
Garage door spring repair inToronto
Garage door spring repair in Toronto: the spring is matched to your door's weight, a single-door job usually takes about an hour, and the cables and rollers are checked in the same visit. Open 24/7, with free estimates 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
Two kinds of spring,and the cables beside them.
A broken spring in Toronto is 40 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
Both horizontal tracks have one, which stretches while the door closes. A safety cable should go with each.
- Replaced as a pair
- Safety cables through them
- Pulleys checked
- Matched to the door
03Cables
Lift cables and drums
A spring that lets go often takes a cable with it. Both cables are replaced in almost every case, and the drums are checked.
- Frayed or snapped cables
- Drums, brackets and pulleys
- Rust from winter salt
- Unwound with winding bars
04Balance
Balanced and tested
A spring is right when the door stays put halfway up with the opener disconnected. Every job ends with that test.
- 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 Toronto.
What Toronto 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
The price follows the spring: its size and cycle rating, one or two, and the weight and height of the door. A damaged cable or drum adds to it. Paying more at the start for a higher-cycle spring usually pays back on a door that moves several times a day, because it lasts markedly longer. The price is given before the work.
A spring is rated in cycles, one per opening, and a standard one is often rated for around 10,000. At four openings a day that is about seven years. Cold winters shorten it and so does poor lubrication. A household that uses the garage as its main entrance, or a rental or commercial door, burns through cycles faster and is worth checking more often.
The spring sits inside the garage above the opening and the opening stays as it is, which is what permit rules look at. The question arises only if the opening itself is widened or heightened, and in Toronto that goes to the City.
On a two-spring door, yes. When one breaks both are replaced, because the second has done the same number of cycles and is just as close to the end of its life. A door with a single torsion spring needs only that one, matched to the door's weight.
Cables, rollers and shaft bearings get checked during the visit, since a failed spring often damages them. Cables are normally changed as a pair, and while the door is apart the drums, the brackets at the bottom and the pulleys get a look too. On a torsion system the cables can only be changed safely after the springs are unwound with winding bars.
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What people ask aboutgarage door spring 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.
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Cold shortens a spring's life, though the cycle count still decides most of it. Lubricant stiffens and steel contracts, so a cold-rated lubricant is the one that stays workable, and a spring that goes on a freezing morning was probably close to its last cycle anyway.
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Because the spring is chosen for one door: wire size, length and wind direction all follow its weight. A wrong spring leaves the door unbalanced and wears out the opener, cables and rollers.
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Torsion springs ride on a shaft above the opening and are the usual setup on newer doors. Extension springs stretch along the horizontal tracks each time the door comes down.
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The guide
Garage door spring repair in Toronto: good to know.
What is different about spring replacement in Toronto: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door spring repair in Toronto: what happens on the visit
The visit begins with measuring the door so the spring fits it. The old spring is released safely, the new one goes on and is wound to the right tension, and the balance is checked last: lift the door halfway by hand with the opener disengaged, and it should stay put. A door that slides down or pops up is wound wrong.
Sending a photo from outside and one from inside that shows the springs over the opening shortens the visit, since the van then carries the right spring. An hour covers most single-door spring jobs. A damaged drum or bracket, or a door that has come off its track, stretches it.
Why a garage door spring is not a job for the owner in Toronto
On a double door the wound torsion spring is storing several hundred pounds' worth of force. For that reason an owner can safely watch, listen, run the balance test and lubricate, and should not adjust spring tension, change cables, straighten tracks under load or take off bottom brackets.
Doors with extension springs call for a different first check: is there a safety cable through each spring? If not, a broken spring can whip across the garage. On these doors cables usually fail from rust at the bottom bracket or from rubbing on a worn drum or a bent track edge.
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 Toronto address, is enough for a free estimate. Book below at any hour.