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01 / 09Powder-coated aluminum picket fencing that racks to follow sloped grade and takes self-closing pool-enclosure gate hardware.
Powder-coated aluminum is the fence you choose when you want the yard defined but not enclosed. A front garden, a pool surround, a side line where blocking the view would make a small lot feel smaller. The pickets are narrow and vertical, so the eye reads the fence as a line rather than a surface, and air and light pass straight through it.
Aluminum has no iron in it to oxidise. The powder-coat finish is baked on rather than brushed on, so it does not chip and bleed the way painted steel or wrought iron does after a few Ontario winters. The practical consequence is that the bottom rail, which sits in snow and road salt from December to March, is the part that would have failed first on a steel fence and does not fail here.
Two details. Aluminum fence panels rack, meaning the pickets pivot in the rails so the fence follows a sloping grade in a continuous line instead of stepping down in increments that leave triangular gaps at the bottom. And the system takes self-closing, self-latching gate hardware, which GTA municipal pool enclosure by-laws require. In Toronto a pool is any structure holding water deeper than 600 mm and it needs a Pool Fence Enclosure Permit from the Executive Director before excavation, so the fence design is part of the pool approval, not a follow-up job.
Aluminum fence posts are 2x2 in-ground and set in concrete below the 1.2 m frost line. Styles run from single bar with spears through double bar and circle-and-spear patterns, and each style changes both the supply cost and the visual weight of the line. Picket spacing is configured to the enclosure rule that applies to your property. Powder-coat colour is typically black, which disappears against planting better than any other finish.
Ontario One Call locates go in first and clear in a minimum of five business days for a single property. We set terminal, corner and gate posts before any panel goes up, because those three carry the geometry of the whole run. Panels rack to grade as they are hung. Front yard fences are held near the 1.0 m municipal cap, and an open picket style keeps sightlines legal at a driveway.
Against chain link, aluminum costs more and looks like a designed boundary rather than a utility enclosure. Against a wood or composite privacy fence, it gives up screening entirely, which is the point. If you need a pool enclosure and privacy in the same run, the usual answer is aluminum on the view side and a solid fence on the neighbour side.
| Post size | 2x2 in-ground, set in concrete below the 1.2 m frost line |
|---|---|
| Styles | Single bar with spears, double bar, circle-and-spear |
| Picket spacing | Configured to the enclosure rule that applies to your property |
| Finish | Powder-coat, typically black, baked on rather than brushed on |
| Slope handling | Pickets rack in the rails, so the line follows grade without stepped gaps |
| Pool compliance | Takes self-closing, self-latching gate hardware required by GTA pool bylaws |
We are an installation contractor, not a manufacturer or a materials retailer. We build decks and fences on your property across the Greater Toronto Area: layout, footings below the frost line, framing, boards, railings, stairs and gates, finished and inspected. Composite boards are a surface option we install, alongside pressure-treated lumber and western red cedar, and the boards themselves are made by manufacturers we do not represent and whose brands we do not resell. If you already have material on site we can build with it; if you do not, we specify and source what suits the deck and include it in the written fixed price. What you are buying from us is the build and the crew that stands behind it, not a product off a shelf.
