01Torsion
Torsion springs
It sits on a shaft over the opening and rotates with the door. Newer doors usually have this setup.
- Sized to the door's weight
- Wound to tension
- Both springs on two-spring doors
- Shaft bearings checked
Garage door spring repair inVaughan
Garage door spring repair in Vaughan, with springs sized to your door's weight and most single-door jobs finished in about an hour. Cables and rollers are checked in the same visit. Free estimate 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 Vaughan is 25 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 Vaughan.
02Extension
Extension springs
Springs run beside both horizontal tracks and lengthen as the door shuts. A safety cable should be on each.
- Replaced as a pair
- Safety cables through them
- Pulleys checked
- Matched to the door
03Cables
Lift cables and drums
When a spring lets go, a cable frequently goes with it. Nearly every job replaces both cables and checks the drums.
- Frayed or snapped cables
- Drums, brackets and pulleys
- Rust from winter salt
- Unwound with winding bars
04Balance
Balanced and tested
Disconnect the opener and lift the door halfway: if it stays put, the spring is right. Every job ends this way.
- 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 Vaughan.
What Vaughan 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
A door from the 1980s build-out of Maple or Woodbridge may still be on its original pair of springs, and when one breaks the other is due as well, having done the same number of cycles, so expect two. Spring size, cycle rating, the door's weight and height and any cable or drum damage decide the rest. Springs with a higher cycle rating cost more at the start and last a good deal longer, which usually pays on a door opened several times a day. The price is stated before work.
A standard spring is rated for about 10,000 cycles. Counted at a family's four daily openings, that is around seven years, and a hard winter or dry hardware shortens it. With four distinct seasons, Vaughan's winters are not kind to springs. They wear by openings counted, not by calendar, so a family using the garage as its main door, or a rental or commercial door, gets there sooner.
A spring sits inside the garage and leaves the opening as it is, so a permit seldom comes up. It would only if the opening changed, and the City of Vaughan decides that.
Yes. Most single-door spring jobs take about an hour, and the van carries the usual springs, so one visit normally covers it. Text two photos, one from outside and one from inside that shows the springs over the opening, and the right spring comes with the crew.
Often the springs are worth it, when the sections are still straight, the door sits square and the tracks run true. The visit shows quickly which side a door falls on. Bent or rusted sections, or a style that can no longer be matched, tip the balance toward a new door, and we say so plainly before anything is fitted.
People also ask
What people ask aboutgarage door spring repair 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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The springs do the lifting, so as they weaken the door feels heavier and the opener strains to make up the difference.
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No. The springs sit above the opening or beside the tracks, so the door stays hung. The old spring is unwound, the new one fitted and wound, and the balance tested, which is why most single-door jobs run about an hour.
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It is looked at. The balance is tested after a new spring, and the opener's limits and force are checked at the same time, since they were set to a door that was working against a weak spring.
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The guide
Garage door spring repair in Vaughan: good to know.
What is different about spring replacement in Vaughan: the houses, the rules and the drive from the shop.
Garage door spring repair in Vaughan
The work starts with measuring the door to pick the right spring, then releasing the old one safely, fitting the new one, winding it to tension and balancing the door. Which job it is depends on the type: a torsion spring turns on a shaft over the opening, while an extension spring stretches alongside each horizontal track and needs a safety cable.
Cables, rollers and shaft bearings get checked on the same visit, since a broken spring often damages them. Cables on a torsion system can only be changed safely once the springs are unwound with winding bars. A wound torsion spring on a big double door stores several hundred pounds of lifting force, which is why this is not a driveway repair.
Springs in Maple and Woodbridge houses
In the 1980s, larger subdivisions began in the northwest of Maple near McNaughton, and Woodbridge's development extended north to just short of Rutherford Road. A door from either build-out may still have its original spring and hardware, so the first questions are torsion or extension, and one spring or two.
Older extension-spring doors tend to be on detached garages, and the first check there is for a safety cable through each spring: without one a broken spring can whip across the garage. Every spring must match its own door in wire size, length and wind direction, or the door ends up out of balance.
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 Vaughan address, is enough for a free estimate. Book below at any hour.