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01 / 09Toronto, Ontario
Colour-through composite boards on an aluminum or steel frame, so the top line stays straight and nothing ever needs staining.
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 composite fence 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 composite fence 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.
