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The Scarborough Bluffs put a regulated slope behind every yard in Cliffside, Guildwood and Fallingbrook, so properties along the bluff top carry a stability setback that sits well inside the lot line. No deck footing or fence post goes behind it.
The Scarborough Bluffs put a regulated slope behind every yard in Cliffside, Guildwood and Fallingbrook, so properties along the bluff top carry a stability setback that sits well inside the lot line. No deck footing or fence post goes behind it.
Scarborough holds 629,941 people, more than most Canadian cities, and Scarborough Health Network and Centennial College are among its biggest employers. It is administratively part of Toronto, but its ground is its own problem.
The lake holds Scarborough at roughly -3.7°C through winter, which sounds gentle until you count the thaws. Snow totals reach 115 cm a year and much of it melts and refreezes repeatedly, so a fence and deck installation built here needs drainage and fastening that tolerate movement rather than one hard freeze.
Ontario Building Code puts the frost line at 120 cm here, and every post on a fence and deck installation goes below it. The workable window is April–November, which is why Scarborough bookings for spring fill through February.
Scarborough yards run heavily to pressure-treated pine. Chain link, cedar and composite decking make up most of the rest of what we quote here, and the mix is stable enough that we stock for it.
Anything structural on a fence and deck installation in Scarborough is reviewed by Toronto Building (City of Toronto, Scarborough District). We know what they ask for, we submit it, and we schedule around their inspection windows so the build does not stall waiting on a sign-off.
Employers in Scarborough including Scarborough Health Network, Centennial College and University of Toronto Scarborough account for a large share of the local commute. Enough of our work here comes from one street referring to the next that we plan routes around clusters rather than single jobs.
Scarborough sits at 58 on walkability. We work regularly through Agincourt, Guildwood, Highland Creek and West Hill, and the first thing we confirm on a site visit is whether a machine can reach the post line or whether it is a shovel job.
Lots here are narrow and most have no side drive, so posts, rails and concrete come down a walkway by hand and the spoil goes back out the same way. That crew time is real, and it puts Scarborough work in the upper part of the range shown above rather than the middle. Snowfall runs about 115 cm a year here, and that is what sets the railing and substructure spec rather than the fence rate. Footings go below the 120 cm frost line either way.
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Old material hauled away
Six or eight foot board-on-board or tongue-and-groove privacy fencing, built to the 2.0 m rear-yard limit that applies at your address.
Western red or eastern white cedar fencing that resists rot through its own heartwood oils, with 4x4 posts standard and a 6x6 upgrade.
Colour-through composite boards on an aluminum or steel frame, so the top line stays straight and nothing ever needs staining.
Privacy, semi-privacy and picket vinyl panels in white and almond that lock into routed posts and rinse clean with a garden hose.
Powder-coated aluminum picket fencing that racks to follow sloped grade and takes self-closing pool-enclosure gate hardware.
Galvanised or black vinyl-coated mesh in 4, 5 and 6 foot heights, with walk and double drive gates and effectively zero maintenance.
Walk and double drive gates with a diagonal brace from the bottom hinge to the top latch corner, so the frame cannot rack into a sag.
A straight answer on whether your fence is worth keeping, with the posts probed at grade — and a line-item price for the replacement when it is not.
Decks framed from footings below the 1.2 m frost line, in pressure-treated, cedar, composite or PVC, with permit drawings handled.
Capped composite deck boards from entry to premium tier, laid on hidden fasteners with an optional mitred picture-frame border.
PVC deck boards with no wood content at all, the coolest surface in their class underfoot and the answer for shaded damp decks.
Western red or eastern white cedar decking, cooler underfoot than composite, fastened with stainless or coated screws and sealed at the cuts.
Wood, aluminum or glass guards built to OBC 9.8.8 heights, priced per linear foot as their own line and retrofittable to an existing deck.
Stringers cut to your measured deck height so every riser is equal, with a graspable handrail on every flight and a proper landing pad.
An inspection that starts at the ledger and the footings, with a straight answer on repair versus rebuild before any money is spent.
Yes. Scarborough is part of the City of Toronto, so permits and height rules come from Toronto Building through the Scarborough District office, not a separate municipality. Practically that means the same exemption for a repair at the existing height, and the same pool enclosure requirements. It also means the same tree protection rules apply to a post hole near a large-caliper tree, which catches people who assume the suburbs are treated differently.
Because of when the neighbourhoods were built. Chain link went up across Guildwood, Birch Cliff and Agincourt as the standard property-line fence and a lot of it is still structurally fine. The usual repair is a bent terminal post, a stretched top rail or a gate that has dropped, and re-tensioning an existing run costs far less than replacing it. Where the bottom selvage has rusted through, that section is finished.
To 120 cm, with the old concrete broken out rather than drilled through. Scarborough's winter is lake-moderated, a mean near -3.7C on about 115 cm of snow, so frost is less punishing than it is in Vaughan. The depth does not change for that. A shallower post survives a mild winter and then moves in the first hard one, and the second visit costs more than the first one saved. Bluffs-side lots with slope get a stepped post line as well, set on the level rather than following the grade.
