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01 / 09Aurora, Ontario
Decks framed from footings below the 1.2 m frost line, in pressure-treated, cedar, composite or PVC, with permit drawings handled.
Aurora's Regency Acres and Aurora Highlands streets were laid out among existing woodlots, so a large number of backyards here still contain mature hardwoods inside the fence line — tree protection, not soil, is what most often dictates where a post can go.
Aurora has 62,057 residents and is the smallest municipality we serve. Magna International keeps its head office here, and the town was built around its woodlots rather than over them.
Inland siting gives Aurora the colder end of the GTA range, near -5.7°C, with 145 cm of snow annually. The soil freezes deeper and holds it longer than at the lake, and a deck building set above that frost depth will heave no matter how good the boards are.
Ontario Building Code puts the frost line at 120 cm here, and every post on a deck building goes below it. The workable window is Mid-April–early November, which is why Aurora bookings for spring fill through February.
Anything structural on a deck building in Aurora is reviewed by Town of Aurora Building Division. 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.
A walk score of 39 reflects a suburb built around the car, which is good news for a build: most lots in Bayview Wellington, Aurora Highlands, Stonehaven and Hills of St Andrew have driveway access and side-yard clearance wide enough for an auger.
Aurora yards run heavily to western red cedar. Composite decking, aluminum picket and pressure-treated pine make up most of the rest of what we quote here, and the mix is stable enough that we stock for it.
Aurora is a small market, with Magna International, Town of Aurora and Southlake Regional Health Centre among the main employers. Larger lots are the norm, so the constraint is usually material volume rather than getting a machine into the yard.
Most Aurora properties have a side drive or a rear gate wide enough to wheel material in, so a job here usually lands in the lower part of the range above. Snowfall runs about 145 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.
