Front door replacement in Vaughan: fibreglass, steel or wood, built in Canada with a lifetime warranty, hung square and sealed. The crew that hangs it can match your garage door, and the estimate is free.
What’s included
A front door for a Vaughan house is made to the opening and the swing, 25 minutes from the shop; a door in the same opening needs no building permit from the City of Vaughan, a wider opening or a new sidelight is a structural change that City of Vaughan Building Standards department reviews, and on a designated house in one of its heritage districts the heritage permit comes first.
01Door
Fibreglass is fitted most often, steel is strongest, wood needs refinishing. Energy rules ask for an insulated core, so a plain slab is out.
02Glass
Glass sells most doors, and is the weakest point. Laminated glass helps. Two or three panes do the same.
03Frame
A reinforced strike plate and long screws set into the framing secure the frame, and the deadbolt needs the full one-inch throw.
04Fit
Shifted openings are fixed; a door shimmed square and plumb neither binds nor wears its weatherstripping unevenly.
Reviews
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
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
Eighteen garage and front door styles, each one modelled on a door we’ve hung.
Service area
Every town we serve, by the drive from our shop in Richmond Hill. The nearest are on top.
FAQ
What Vaughan homeowners ask about front & entry doors, and the questions every door raises.
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The frame behind the door is the first question: in Concord's Glen Shields, built in the 1970s and 1980s, any original frame is as old as the street. If it is sound, you are paying for a slab swap; a frame that has shifted adds to the job. Material, glass, sidelights and hardware settle the rest. You hear the price before work starts, and the estimate is free.
A standard replacement is usually finished in a day. If the door is special-order, its lead time is the wait, since it is made to your opening, and a frame that needs replacing adds to the visit. When the garage door needs doing as well, one visit can cover both.
Not if it goes into the opening the old door filled: a like-for-like swap generally needs no building permit. Enlarging or moving the opening changes that, and so does a heritage property. The Islington Avenue strip in Kleinburg is part of the Kleinburg-Nashville Heritage Conservation District, so for a front door there the City is asked before work is booked.
Yes, but it is a bigger job than a swap. A wider opening means a new header over the door, which is structural, so the City of Vaughan is asked first and an engineer may be needed. The door is made to the finished opening, which is why that question is settled before anything is ordered.
Fibreglass goes in most often: it insulates, and freeze-thaw does not warp or rot it. Steel is strongest against forced entry and usually the cheapest, though a dent stays. Solid wood has to be refinished and swells and shrinks with the seasons. Decorative glass is where a door loses the most warmth, so insulated glazing, two or three panes, is worth asking about.
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.
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Settle these first: swing direction, how much sun and weather the doorway gets, sidelights or a transom, whether the frame is sound, and a hardware finish that suits the house.
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The opening is measured before anything is ordered, since older openings are often non-standard and the door is made to fit. The frame has to end up square, plumb and well shimmed.
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Yes, at least at the start and the finish. Someone agrees the swing and the hardware finish before the old door comes off, and is shown how the lock works and what the warranty covers before the crew leaves.
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The guide
What is different about front & entry doors in Vaughan: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
The job is either the slab alone or the door and frame together, with sidelights and a transom if the opening has them. Squaring and shimming the frame, fitting the hardware and sealing against weather finish it. Daylight around the edges, a latch that only catches with a push, or damp on the inside face of the door in winter point to a bad fit.
One photo outside and one inside shows the frame, then comes the measuring, removal, install and sealing in that order. In older houses the opening can shift over the years, and a good install allows for it rather than hiding it.
A door replaced in its existing opening is a swap, and a swap usually needs no building permit. A larger or moved opening is a different job and normally does, sometimes with an engineer. The City of Vaughan is the office that decides.
In the Kleinburg-Nashville Heritage Conservation District, which takes in the historic strip along Islington Avenue, the question goes to the City before the door is ordered, so a style that is turned down has not already been made.
An entry with sidelights or a transom in Woodbridge or Maple is a bigger job than a slab swap, since the glass and the frame around it are fitted as one unit and the opening is measured for all of it. A front door on the Vaughan side of Thornhill, west of Yonge Street, is handled the same way, with the City of Vaughan as the office asked about a changed opening.
Send the address with the first photos. It tells the crew which office applies and roughly what era the frame comes from. If the garage door is done in the same visit, the new entry and the garage door can be matched in colour and trim.
Glass changes a front door more than any other choice. Insulated glazing, in two or three panes, helps comfort. Laminated glass stays together when struck, which counts most where sidelights are within reach of the lock.
Replacement front doors are built in Canada with a lifetime warranty, and before the crew leaves they show you what it covers. The old door leaves with them, and the hardware is set in the finish you chose for the house.
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