London grew by 10.0 per cent between the 2016 and 2021 censuses, and it built 11,640 homes in those five years, more than in the five before. Plenty of those houses came with a plain door the builder hung to get the house finished, and an owner who wants the front to look like a choice usually starts with the garage. The London branch supplies and installs Garaga, Amarr and Stanley residential doors from 1003 Farnham Rd in Westmount, where customers are received by arrangement; call (226) 270-9715 before coming over. The four styles, and what windows and hardware do, are on the residential doors page.
The 2021 census counts 85,275 single-detached houses among London's 174,655 occupied homes, close to half. On most of them the garage door answers to nobody but the owner: no shared wall with a neighbour's door, and no corporation with a colour chart. That freedom is also the risk. On a new subdivision street where every house came with the same raised-panel door, a carriage face or a flush contemporary door changes the house more than anything else on the front short of new siding.
Two things keep that change looking deliberate. Take the colour from the window frames or the trim rather than from the brick or the siding, so the door belongs to the house. And put the windows in the top section, where they light the garage without showing what is in it. Garaga's Build Your Door designer shows a model and colour on a photo of your own front before anything is ordered.
The same census counts 73,100 London households renting their home. For an owner choosing a door for a rental, the look matters less than what the door will take. A three-layer insulated steel door is the stiffest and the hardest to dent, which is the right door on a house where several drivers and their bikes share one garage. Plain panel profiles hide dents better than flush ones, and a factory colour outlasts the paint a tenant might otherwise be asked to touch up.
Many houses in the towns around London sit on bigger lots than the city's, with a detached garage or a shop behind the house as well as the attached one, and a two-door choice rather than one. The branch supplies residential doors across its area: garage doors in Stratford, garage doors in St. Marys, garage doors in Chatham and garage doors in Sarnia each have a page with their own detail. Where two doors face the same drive, choose them together, even if only one is being replaced this year, so the second one can match.
Snow is the other London test of a style. The airport averages 52.0 cm of snowfall in January alone, and a door with deep raised panels holds wet snow in its recesses, while a flush or shallow-ribbed face sheds it. On a door facing west into the prevailing wind, that is worth weighing alongside the look.
Behind the pre-war houses the garage is often detached and the opening narrow, so the style is usually chosen from what physically fits, and London's garage doors page works through the door that suits each decade of house. In a heritage conservation district the City can have a say on a change of style; installation in London sets out when.
Send a photo of the front of the house, the width and height of the opening, and a saved design if you have one, through the contact form, or call (226) 270-9715.
Everything we do in London · Residential garage doors: what the job involves
The same range from every branch. What changes between them is who drives out, and on which number.
Princeton P-11 · Traditional
Overlays over a flat steel base, laid out symmetrically, with strap hinges and handles to match. Glazing sits in the top section only, and the divided lites are what stop a wide double door reading as a wall.
Eastman E-22 · Carriage House
Two-tone: a dark body under light overlays laid out as a crossbuck, with strap hinges and handles. The contrast is the whole effect, so it sits best on a house whose trim is already a different colour from its siding.
Standard+ North Hatley LP · Carriage house
A long-panel face in a woodgrain finish instead of a raised-panel grid. It reads as timber from the street and needs none of the refinishing real timber needs. It comes in two insulation levels, which is the decision to make before the colour.
Standard+ Shaker-Modern XL · Contemporary
Wide horizontal sections with the glass set to one side rather than across a full top row. The offset window is what stops a large dark door reading as a blank slab, and it suits a flat-roofed or dark-brick front.
Standard+ Vog · Contemporary
The face is flat and unbroken from jamb to jamb. It is the least forgiving door here: nothing on it hides a dent, and a track that is even slightly out of true shows along the top edge.
California · Contemporary
An aluminium frame carrying glass, clear or sandblasted or tinted. It is the one door here that lights the garage from outside. Garaga says the trade plainly on its own page: a full vision door should not be chosen for its insulation.
Photographs are Garaga’s, the manufacturer whose doors we install. They show the models, not jobs we have completed. Colours shift on a screen, and headroom, backroom and the track decide which of these will physically fit an opening, so everything here is where a measurement starts.
Every one below has a page of its own, written the same way this one was.
Broken garage door springs? We replace torsion and extension springs safely and professionally to get your garage door working properly again.
Garage door sensor repair: the door starts down and reverses, or the opener light blinks. What the photo eyes are telling you, and when it is only alignment.
Garage door off track or not moving properly? Protech can safely realign the door, repair damaged tracks, replace rollers and get it running smoothly again.
Springs, cables, drums, rollers, hinges, brackets, seals and opener parts. What is on the truck, what is matched to the door, and what is not a DIY part.
A door that will not move, or stops halfway. The check order that tells you whether it is the opener, the springs, the track or ice, before anyone touches it.
Steel, aluminium and glass, wood and composite garage doors from Garaga, Amarr and Stanley. What the material, the layers and the insulation actually change.
Headroom, backroom and track type decide which doors will fit an opening. What an installation involves, and why the springs are sized to the new door.
Panel damage, rust at the bottom section, repeated failures and an uninsulated door on a heated garage. The four cases where replacing beats another repair.
Sectional and rolling steel overhead doors for shops, warehouses and loading bays. Duty cycle, spring life and the tracking that decides which one fits.
Answered for London, on the number this branch answers.
Not in Wortley Village-Old South. Its district plan lists painting and paint colour among the work that needs no Heritage Alteration Permit. Other London districts have their own plans, so check the one for your street. On a steel door, a factory finish on a new door usually outlasts a brushed or rolled coat on the old one, which is worth weighing if the door is near the end of its life anyway.
Not if the door is changing what the house looks like. The cost to plan for is behind the door: the springs are sized to its weight, so a heavier insulated door gets new springs, and the opener is checked against the new weight and kept if it is up to it. Ask for the quote to list what stays and what goes, so the price of the new look is clear.
Call (226) 270-9715, or email info@protechgarage.ca for a new-door quote with no rush.
