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 inVaughan
Garage doors in Vaughan, new and repaired: replacement doors built in Canada, repairs day or night, and front doors and windows to go with them. Send two photos for a free estimate.
- from the shop, by 407
- 25 min
- City of Vaughan
- York Region
- 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
York Region
Four villages, one young city.
The City of Vaughan's pages on permits, heritage districts, driveways and accessory buildings, and the streets from Woodbridge's 1980s houses to the 2000s subdivisions of Vellore Village.
Municipality
- City of Vaughan
City of Vaughan Building Standards departmentsource, vaughan.ca, opens in a new tab
- City of Vaughan
Permits
In Ontario, enlarging or altering a door opening is a building permit job. The City's building permit page lists 'Replacing existing windows and doors' among the projects that in general 'do not require a building permit'.source, vaughan.ca, opens in a new tab
By-laws
- Noise hours
'Construction noise is permitted from 7am to 7pm', Monday to Saturday, and not on Sundays or statutory holidays. Work outside those hours needs an exemption applied for at least 90 days ahead.source, vaughan.ca, opens in a new tab
- Driveway widening and curb cuts
'Any plans to widen driveways or cut existing curbs requires approval from the City of Vaughan', and the width allowed is set by the Zoning By-law.source, vaughan.ca, opens in a new tab
- Front yard parking
Where a driveway is already as wide as zoning allows, parking may be allowed beside it on hard landscaping, but 'only on properties with lot frontages that measure six metres (about 19.6 feet) or greater'. Parking on the grass is not allowed, and neither are boats or trailers in the front yard.source, vaughan.ca, opens in a new tab
- Paving the front lawn
A front lawn cannot be paved over: zoning requires 'a percentage of the front exterior yard, not including the driveway' to 'remain soft or contain horticultural elements'.source, vaughan.ca, opens in a new tab
and 3 more on the municipality's page
- Noise hours
Heritage
- Kleinburg-Nashville Heritage Conservation District
- Woodbridge Heritage Conservation District
- Maple Heritage Conservation District
- Thornhill-Vaughan Heritage Conservation District
In these districts, property owners 'are required to receive a heritage permit for additions, alterations or demolition on their property'. Changes to the interior, minor exterior changes out of sight of the street and routine maintenance like painting 'will likely not require a heritage permit or any involvement from the City'. The City asks owners to raise any change to a designated property 'as early as possible'.source, vaughan.ca, opens in a new tab
The houses
Vaughan was villages and farmland until the 1970s, so most of its houses are detached subdivision houses built since then around Woodbridge, Maple, Kleinburg and Thornhill. East Woodbridge is about half 1980s, Maple and Sonoma Heights grew most in the 1990s, Vellore Village is mostly after 2000, and Concord's homes date mostly from the 1960s to the 1980s. The city grew from about 16,000 people in 1971 to over 320,000 in 2021, and was Ontario's fastest-growing municipality from 1996 to 2006.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
In Vellore Village the houses have single or double garages, many of them double, with interlocking driveways, and West Woodbridge's large two-storey houses have double driveways.source, en.wikipedia.org, opens in a new tab
- suburban
- new build
- postwar
- prewar
- rural
From the shop
25 minutes and 19 km from Richmond Hill, by 407 and Yonge St.
Vaughan is Richmond Hill's western neighbour across Bathurst Street, so the van crosses on Highway 7, Rutherford Road or Major Mackenzie Drive for Thornhill, Concord and Maple. For Woodbridge and Kleinburg it takes Highway 407 west, past the Highway 400 interchange, to Weston Road or Pine Valley Drive.
Neighbourhoods
- Woodbridge (East Woodbridge): A large suburban community west of Highway 400 and north of Steeles Avenue, farmland until the 1970s and built out toward Rutherford Road through the 1980s. In East Woodbridge most homes are detached, about half from the 1980s, many with four or more bedrooms on generous lots.
- West Woodbridge: Between the Humber River and the Claireville Conservation Area, with the old downtown on Woodbridge Avenue, where Market Lane is the commercial hub. Most homes date from the 1960s to the 1980s, many of them large two-storey detached houses with stone and brick fronts and a double driveway.
- Maple
- Kleinburg
- Concord
- Vellore Village
- Sonoma Heights
- Islington Woods
- Thornhill (Vaughan side)
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 Vaughan:common questions.
What Vaughan 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 door11 questions
The door is only part of the number. Parts of Maple and Woodbridge went up in the 1980s, and a house that old may still have its first door, so what sits behind it (tracks, springs, jambs) decides if the job is a straight swap or something bigger. Then come your own choices: one door or two, plain steel or insulated, and how much glass goes in the top section. You get a single figure, not a range, before work begins, and two photos and an address are normally enough to produce it. Estimates cost nothing.
A swap into the same opening normally needs no building permit. A wider or taller opening is different: the header above it is structural, so that job normally needs one, and sometimes an engineer's input. Permits come from the City of Vaughan. Kleinburg's Islington Avenue strip sits within the Kleinburg-Nashville Heritage Conservation District, so for work there the City gets asked whether a permit applies before anything is booked.
Yes, and it is based in Richmond Hill: the shop is about 25 minutes (18.9 km) from Vaughan, so the crew is local instead of travelling in from across the GTA. We supply and fit new doors for houses and businesses, and repair springs, cables, tracks, panels and openers on any make. Front doors and windows can be done alongside, and the shop never closes: nights, weekends and holidays included.
Because the doors being quoted are rarely the same door. Foam or polystyrene between two steel skins makes an insulated door that costs more than a single skin, glass in the top section and carriage-house styling push the figure up again, and a double needs heavier springs and more hours than a single. A quote built on averages drifts to the middle. Ours comes from the opening in front of us, which is why you get one number.
Yes, both. Concord is the main industrial district of Vaughan, so an overhead door there is as likely to hang on a warehouse as on a house. For a business we install, repair and maintain overhead doors, and a bay that is down gets an answer at any hour.
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 work7 questions
It lasts as long as its springs allow, and those are rated in cycles: around 10,000 is typical for a standard one, about seven years at four trips a day, less through hard winters. Vaughan grew faster than any other municipality in Ontario from 1996 to 2006, so a door installed then is now 20 to 30 years old, at or past the 15 to 25 years when a builder-grade door's springs, rollers and seals tend to need attention. If the sections are still straight, repair it. Rust, bent panels, a style that is no longer made, or a run of repeat repairs say it is time for a new one.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Vaughan, village by village.
Vaughan's growth by decade, its four heritage districts, the City's rules for front yards and accessory buildings, and the drive across Bathurst Street, for garage doors in Vaughan.
Garage doors in Vaughan: what we do
New garage doors for houses and businesses, and repairs to the ones already hanging: springs, cables, tracks, panels and openers, whatever the make, chain, belt or screw drive. The crew also hangs front doors and windows, so one visit can cover the whole facade. A door that still runs can be tuned up before it turns into an emergency.
Estimates begin with two photos of the door, one from outside and one from inside with it shut, framed so the tracks, the springs above the opening and the opener are visible. Usually that is enough to price the work without a site visit, and if a repair will do, that is what we say. A door that has simply got noisy often needs new rollers, not a new door.
New garage doors in Vaughan
A choice of door comes down to insulation, construction and appearance, then panel style, colour and windows. Steel is the usual material. Wood and wood composite cost more and need refinishing, and fibreglass or vinyl give up some looks in return for less upkeep. Matching the door to the front door and trim in style and colour is the simplest way to tie the front of the house together.
Replacement doors are built in Canada and backed by a lifetime warranty. A door is ordered to size once you have chosen it, and you are given a date when the order goes in. The swap itself, single or double, is normally done the same day, and the jambs and header get a look once the opening is empty.
Garage doors in Woodbridge and Maple
Development in Woodbridge pushed north to just short of Rutherford Road during the 1980s, and in Maple the larger subdivisions started the same decade, in the northwest near McNaughton. Houses from those years may still have the garage door and hardware they were built with, so the question on those streets is often whether to repair or replace. A photo from inside settles most of it: straight sections with a failed spring, cable, roller or opener point to repair.
At that age the usual list is springs, rollers and a hardened bottom seal, plus a tune-up. An opener that strains gets the door balanced first, because tired springs make the motor haul the full weight, and a new opener on an unbalanced door will not last.
Openers and night calls in Vaughan
Openers are repaired or replaced in chain, belt and screw drive. Belt runs far quieter, which suits a garage with a bedroom above or beside it, while chain is strong and loud, fine for a detached garage. A new one usually goes in during one visit of a few hours, with remotes, keypad and the car's own buttons programmed before we leave.
We answer around the clock, every day, and most repairs end in one visit because the parts that fail most often are already on the van. A door stuck open, or shut with a car inside, is worth a call at any hour. Texting the two photos first lets the crew arrive with the right part.
Free estimates · Repairs any hour
Start withthe door you have.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside, with your Vaughan address, is all we need to quote. Book below at any hour, and the form says where to send them.