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Toronto's oldest residential blocks were surveyed before setbacks were standardised, so a Leslieville or Riverdale lot line often runs at an angle no stock fence panel will follow — every run gets scribed on site rather than dropped in pre-built.
Toronto's oldest residential blocks were surveyed before setbacks were standardised, so a Leslieville or Riverdale lot line often runs at an angle no stock fence panel will follow — every run gets scribed on site rather than dropped in pre-built.
Toronto is home to 2,794,356 people, and the biggest names on the payroll list, University Health Network and TD Bank Group among them, sit downtown rather than in an industrial park. That keeps the old residential blocks occupied and renovated instead of redeveloped, which is most of our work here.
Being this close to Lake Ontario keeps Toronto winters around -3.5°C, so most of the 108 cm of snow that falls each year arrives wet. Wet snow is heavier than powder and it sits, which is what actually tests a fence and deck installation here: the load stays on horizontal surfaces for days and soaks into any board left unsealed.
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, with winter installs possible on screw piles, which is why Toronto bookings for spring fill through February.
Toronto Building (City of Toronto) is the authority having jurisdiction for Toronto, so that is where the drawings and the deck permit application land. We handle the submission and meet the inspector on site.
Toronto scores 61 for walkability, which in practice means narrow frontages and tight side yards across High Park, Riverdale, Forest Hill and Parkdale. Hand-carrying lumber and bagged concrete is the normal method on most of those streets.
Toronto yards run heavily to pressure-treated pine. Western red cedar, composite decking and black aluminum picket make up most of the rest of what we quote here, and the mix is stable enough that we stock for it.
Toronto generates enough volume that we run crews here every week of the season instead of batching trips. City of Toronto, University Health Network and TD Bank Group anchor the local payroll, and the schedules that go with those jobs are why most of our site visits here are booked for evenings and Saturdays.
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 Toronto work in the upper part of the range shown above rather than the middle. Snowfall runs about 108 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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Changes priced in writing, never after the fact
We file the locate before we dig
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.
Often yes, but not by augering. A large-caliper tree on or near the line puts the root zone under municipal tree protection, and a 120 cm hole inside that zone is a stop-work risk. Where the run passes a mature maple we switch that bay to a surface-mounted or offset post and carry the load on the neighbouring footings instead. If the only workable option is a hole inside the root zone, that becomes a permit conversation with Toronto Building before anyone digs.
Access, not length. Through Leslieville, Riverdale and Parkdale the lot is often 15 to 20 feet wide with no driveway, so posts, rails and concrete come down a walkway by hand and the spoil goes back out the same way. That is real crew time and it lands in the quote separately from the material. On a Scarborough or Brampton lot with a side drive the same repair carries less of it.
Panel work, rail replacement and gate hardware, yes. Toronto's winter mean sits near -3.5C and it takes about 108 cm of snow a year, which is the mildest winter in our service area, so the ground is workable more often than people expect. A post that has to go to 120 cm in frozen clay is the exception: we either wait for a thaw window or set it on a screw pile, which is what our April to November season note means by winter installs on piles.
