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01 / 09Six 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.
A privacy fence only works if there is no gap to look through once the wood has dried out and shrunk. That is why we build in board-on-board, where the boards overlap so a seasonal gap opens onto the board behind it rather than onto your neighbour's kitchen window. Where you want a flat, furniture-like face instead, we build tongue-and-groove and accept the tighter tolerance that comes with it.
Three situations account for most of our privacy fence work:
In all three the customer is not buying a boundary marker. They are buying the removal of a specific sightline, and that is the thing we measure on site.
Heights are six or eight feet. Across most of the GTA the rear and side yard maximum is 2.0 m, roughly 6 ft 7 in, measured from the higher of the two grades, and front yard fences are capped near 1.0 m. An eight foot line usually means either a grade difference in your favour or a lattice or slat topper that the local by-law counts differently. Toronto adds a rule worth knowing before you design anything: on an attached deck with no roof, height is measured from the deck surface, not from grade. We read the by-law for your municipality before quoting, because the remedy for an over-height fence is tearing it down.
We file the Ontario One Call locate first. Provincial law requires it before any post hole, and a single property takes a minimum of five business days to clear, which is the main reason a start date follows the site visit rather than the deposit. Posts then go below the 1.2 m frost line, set in concrete, with the grain oriented against the prevailing wind on your lot. Rails and infill follow the same day on a typical residential run. Season is April to November for concrete footings.
Most privacy fences here are pressure-treated or cedar. Cedar costs more and resists rot through its own oils. Composite gives the same solid face with no staining at all, at a higher price per foot. If you want the sightline cut without the wind load of a solid wall, semi-privacy vinyl or a shadowbox layout moves air through the line. Privacy fence toppers are the cheap middle answer when an existing fence is sound but a foot too short.
| Build patterns | Board-on-board, or tongue-and-groove for a flat face |
|---|---|
| Heights | Six or eight foot |
| Bylaw maximum | 2.0 m rear and side yard, measured from the higher of the two grades; about 1.0 m in front yards |
| Toronto exception | On an attached deck with no roof, height is measured from the deck surface, not grade |
| Posts | Below the 1.2 m frost line, set in concrete, grain oriented against the prevailing wind |
| Season | April to November for concrete footings |
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.
