Commercial garage doors in Richmond Hill and across the GTA, and overhead door repair at any hour, for shops, warehouses, service bays and workshops.
What’s included
A commercial garage door is built for far more openings than a house door. A shipping bay can run forty cycles a day, a house door about four.
01Doors
Heavier-gauge sectional doors for shops and service bays, and rolling steel where the ceiling is tight. Fire-rated doors are a separate category.
02Hardware
A door that runs all day is sized from how often it opens. Rollers, hinges, drums and track are chosen for that count.
03Repairs
Forklift and vehicle strikes are the usual cause. A damaged panel is replaced on its own where the tracks and framing are still true.
04Operators
Limits, controls and wiring set right, then the safety reversal and photo eyes tested, a staff safety matter.
How it runs
Most repairs are finished in one visit because the common parts ride on the van. A new door needs a measure and an order time first.
On the phone
Tell us the building, what comes through the opening and how often the door cycles.
On arrival
We note door type, operator and what the tracks have taken, not just the one part.
Before any work
The price comes before work starts, with a note on whether the hardware suits the duty.
Before we leave
Door balanced, then the operator, safety reversal and photo eyes tested.
Reasons
We start from how the bay is used and what the building needs from the door, before a spring or a price is named.
What the bay is used for, the building around it and whether it needs insulation or windows are asked first. The answers set the door.
We repair every make of door and opener, so a bay with an older door and a newer operator, or the reverse, is one call and not two.
A damaged panel can often be replaced alone, which keeps the rest of a working door in service. Running on a bent track wears everything else.
Detached workshops and equipment buildings often need taller or wider doors than a house garage. We supply and install those, cut to the opening.
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.
A two-car door, worn through.
The old two-car door had raised panels and a row of lites, and its paint was peeling along the bottom. It came down for long-panel steel in a warm taupe, plainer and cleaner under the house number.
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 homeowners ask us about commercial garage doors, and about the door in general.
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The door type and gauge move the price most, then the spring rating, insulation, windows, the size of the opening and the operator. Photos from inside and out are enough to give a number, not a range, and the price comes before any work starts.
A new door is measured, ordered to size and then hung, so the wait before the install is the order time, and you get that date when the order is placed. The install itself depends on how many openings there are, the operator, and whether the tracks and framing are true.
In Toronto, yes: replacing doors in a building other than a single-dwelling house is listed as work that needs a building permit. Elsewhere in York Region the municipality decides, so ask its building department before you order.
Often because it was fitted with residential-grade parts. The original install was usually priced rather than specified, so a spring, roller or hinge made for a house is doing a bay's work. If the same part keeps failing, ask what it is rated for before it is replaced like for like.
It follows how often the door opens, not the calendar. A door in constant use needs looking at several times a year, and a rarely used one may be fine annually. Tell us the daily count and we set the interval from it.
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.
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.
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.
People also ask
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 duty and the building. A commercial door is heavier gauge, with springs and an operator chosen for the bay, and the range includes high-speed and fire-rated doors a house never needs. A house door is mostly a choice of style.
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A high-speed door opens and closes quickly to shorten the time an opening stands open, which suits a bay used all day. A fire-rated door has its own testing and inspection requirements, so it is ordered as that, not converted from a standard door.
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Springs rated for 25,000, 50,000 or 100,000 cycles, against about 10,000 for a standard one. They cost more up front and less per year on a busy loading bay. When you ask a supplier, ask for the rating as a number, not as heavy-duty.
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The tracks and framing first, since they decide whether a damaged panel can be replaced alone. Then the cables, rollers and hinges on the struck side, and the safety reversal and photo eyes before staff use the bay again.
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Yes, windows are an option on a sectional door, which suits retail and service bays where appearance counts. Insulated sections are another. Both change the price, so tell us what the bay is used for and the quote names them.
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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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The guide
Door types by building, what a tune-up covers, and what to do after an impact.
The building decides the door. A retail or service bay where appearance counts suits a sectional door, which runs back on ceiling tracks and insulates better than rolling steel. A tight industrial bay suits rolling steel, which coils above the opening. A high-speed door shortens the time an opening stands open, and a fire-rated door has its own testing and inspection.
Say what the building is and what comes through the opening: a vehicle, a pallet, a customer. That decides the type before gauge, size or finish is discussed, and a door chosen the other way round is the one replaced early.
At a dock or a service bay the door is struck by a forklift or a vehicle, and what decides the repair is what the strike bent. On a sectional door, individual panels can often be replaced rather than the whole door, if the tracks and framing are still true.
A bay door that keeps running on a bent track carries every later cycle on that damage, and a door that opens many times a day adds wear quickly. If the bay is down, call at any hour: we are open weekends and holidays too.
A commercial tune-up starts from the cycle count. How many times the door opens in a day tells us how much life is left in the springs, cables and rollers, and drum seating, track alignment, operator limits, the safety reversal, seals and bottom astragal are checked against it.
Tune-ups are booked for a day that suits the building. A spring near the end of its cycle life is changed then, not mid-shift, and the price comes before the work starts.
Toronto's permit list separates a house with a single dwelling from every other building. Replacing windows or doors in the others is listed as work that needs a building permit, so a commercial replacement there is planned around the permit, not treated as a like-for-like swap.
Other municipalities set their own rules, so ask the building department where the unit is before you order. A condo corporation may also have style and colour rules, and if you lease the unit, check with the landlord first.
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The estimate is free. One photo from outside and one from inside, with the operator, tracks and springs in view, prices it.
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