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01 / 09Ground-level and raised backyard decks for GTA homes, in pressure-treated wood, cedar, composite or PVC, including railings, stairs and privacy screening. Permit drawings and guard-height compliance handled as part of the build.
Most GTA backyard decks start with one fixed constraint: the height of the rear door. That single measurement decides whether you get a ground-level platform you step down onto, or a raised deck level with the kitchen that needs guards and stairs. Everything else, meaning size, shape, material and how many levels, is genuinely open.
We build in pressure-treated, cedar, composite and PVC, and the material conversation is really a maintenance conversation. PT costs least and wants cleaning and staining. Cedar is the nicest surface underfoot. Composite deck boards and PVC cost more up front and ask for nothing but a hose afterward.
Two code items shape every raised build and we handle both rather than leaving them with you. Any surface more than 600 mm above grade needs a guard, at 900 mm up to 1,800 mm and 1,070 mm above that. Past a certain height your municipality requires a building permit, which means stamped drawings and an inspection, so we prepare the drawings and manage the submission.
Deck permits are where most of a deck builder's actual work sits, and the threshold is stated per municipality. Whitby requires a permit on any deck over 600 mm and applies Zoning By-law 1784 regardless of height. Pickering publishes its own Deck Construction Guide listing the drawings it expects. Toronto Building, Mississauga's Building Division, Markham Building Standards and Vaughan Building Standards each have their own intake and their own queue. We submit to yours, and we build the guard, the stair and the handrail to what the inspector will actually measure: openings that will not pass a 100 mm sphere, and a handrail set 865 to 965 mm above the stair nosing.
Footings reach the 1.2 m frost line, which is the same across every GTA municipality and the single reason a deck stays level after its third winter. A deck that heaves has a footing that stopped short. Locates through Ontario One Call come first, with a five business day minimum, and the building season here runs April to November, with winter work possible on screw piles when the schedule will not wait.
Privacy screening, built-in benches, skirting to close off the underside and lighting are specified at design, not bolted on later. If you are searching deck builder and comparing quotes, the useful question is not price per square foot. It is whether the quote names the footing depth, the guard height and the permit.
Typical jobs our deck builders take on: a new raised deck off a rear walkout, a ground-level platform over old patio stones, a multi-level deck with stairs to grade, and a composite rebuild on an existing sound frame.
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.
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.
