01Measure
The measure
Headroom determines the type of spring and track. Five measurements pick the door and hardware that fit.
- Opening width and height
- Headroom to the ceiling
- Side room for the tracks
- Backroom to the rear wall
Garage door installation inVaughan
Garage door installation in Vaughan: a Canadian-made door hung from the bottom up, balanced and tested, with a lifetime warranty. A standard replacement is normally done in a day, and the estimate is free.
- 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 Vaughan door is measured first and ordered to the opening, 25 minutes from the shop in Richmond Hill; a like-for-like door in the same opening is the kind the City of Vaughan exempts from a building permit, and a wider or taller opening is a structural change that City of Vaughan Building Standards department reviews.
02Door
The door itself
Choose colour and style; single or double, insulated or not, in aluminium, steel or wood-look.
- 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
Reused or replaced, the opener is connected again and tested. The quote settles if it stays.
- 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 Vaughan.
What Vaughan homeowners ask about installation & replacement, and the questions every door raises.
Not here? Ask us for a free estimate.
Planning a new door5 questions
In north Kleinburg the houses are mostly estate-style, bigger builds where the door's width and style are picked to suit the house, so those two choices drive most of the price there. Elsewhere in Vaughan it is the usual list: one door or two, steel or insulated, glass, and what the old door leaves behind in the framing, tracks and opener. The figure arrives before the work, starting from two photos and an address, and it costs nothing to ask.
The install is quick; the order is the wait. A standard single or double replacement is normally done the same day, but the door is made to your measurements, so its lead time depends on the model and the season, and you are told the date when you place the order. Soft jambs, a new opener or an oversized custom door lengthen the visit. The crew drives from the Richmond Hill shop, about 25 minutes, and works through winter.
The City of Vaughan issues any permit, so the first thing to settle is what kind of job this is. A door that fills the opening the old one filled is a replacement. A single becoming a double, or a header raised for a taller door, is building work with its own paperwork. On Kleinburg's Islington Avenue strip the heritage district means the City is asked about the door before it is ordered, whatever its size.
Yes: a lifetime warranty comes with every replacement door, and the doors are built in Canada. Before the crew leaves, they walk you through what the warranty covers, the manual release, the remotes and the keypad.
Taking it out has an order. The opener comes off, the old springs are unwound with winding bars, then the door leaves section by section, with the tracks and hardware after it. With the opening bare, the jambs and header are inspected. Door and hardware go off with the crew.
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 Vaughan.
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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Often, if it still runs and its force and limits can be set to the new door, which is balanced and tested for reversal before the crew leaves. An opener from the 1996 to 2006 growth years is now 20 to 30 years old, so it is worth a look before the door goes up.
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Yes, a little. Headroom, the gap between the top of the opening and the ceiling, decides which spring and track system fits. It is one of five measurements taken before ordering, alongside width, height, side room on each side and backroom.
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Close to it. The bottom seal rides on the slab, so a floor that slopes or has heaved leaves a gap the seal must make up. The floor is checked once the old door is out.
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The guide
Garage door installation in Vaughan: good to know.
What is different about installation & replacement in Vaughan: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door installation in Vaughan
Many of the doors coming out in Vaughan went up in the 1980s, when Woodbridge's development extended north to just south of Rutherford Road and Maple's larger subdivisions began, or in the growth years after 1996. The first hour on site is often about what the old door leaves behind: tracks, springs and jambs that are as old as the house. We judge on the spot whether they can carry a new door, or whether the swap turns into a larger job, and say so before anything is hung.
The door is ordered to the opening once you have chosen, so the install date is fixed when the order goes in. A standard single or double swap is normally done in a day. A new opener can be added to the same visit, and the door, its balance and the reversal are tested before the crew goes.
Garage door installation permits in Vaughan
Vaughan permits come from the City, and the useful question is whether the opening stays where it is. If it does, the door replaces what hangs there. If a single is becoming a double, the wall above is rebuilt, which is structural work the City reviews, sometimes with an engineer's drawing. Ask before ordering a wider door, since the door is made to the finished opening.
In Kleinburg, the historic strip along Islington Avenue belongs to the Kleinburg-Nashville Heritage Conservation District, so the City is asked whether a permit applies before work there is booked. Condominium corporations may add their own style and colour rules; read them before choosing.
Maple's estates and Concord's three decades
Northeast of Maple's original village, near Dufferin Street, estate housing began going up in the late 1990s. It is not the 1980s subdivision build, so opening sizes and the style that suits the house differ, and measuring happens at the door rather than from the street.
Concord mixes eras: Glen Shields dates from the 1970s and 1980s, Dufferin Hill from the 2000s. A Glen Shields house may need more than the door, since original tracks, springs and jambs are as old as the street, while a Dufferin Hill house is less likely to.
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Send a photoof your door.
A photo of the door from outside and one from inside the garage, with your Vaughan address, is enough for a free estimate on a new door. Book below, and the form says where to send them.