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01 / 09Replacement fencing and porch-adjacent decks for older central-GTA homes: matched board profiles, period-appropriate pickets, and posts set around mature roots, retaining walls and out-of-square historic property lines.
A fence installation on a hundred-year-old house in Leslieville, the Annex, Leaside or old Oakville presents problems a subdivision lot never does, and a crew that only builds new gets them wrong. Three in particular.
The property line is not where you think. Older surveys, additions and decades of informal fence placement mean the existing fence frequently sits a foot off the legal line. On a narrow downtown lot a foot is meaningful, and rebuilding on the wrong line creates a dispute. We work from the survey, not from where the old posts are. Ontario's Line Fences Act makes a boundary fence a shared asset, which is a much easier conversation to have with a survey on the table.
Nothing is square. Houses have settled, laneways are not parallel to anything, and a fence run scribed to an out-of-square yard has to be laid out on site rather than cut to a drawing.
The trees were there first. Mature trees on these streets are often protected by a municipal tree by-law, and their structural roots run exactly where you want post holes. We hand-dig, shift post spacing, and use surface-supported solutions near root zones instead of trenching through them.
On a designated property the municipality reviews before a permit is issued. Oakville states this plainly: a heritage-designated property needs additional approval ahead of the building permit. That is a sequencing fact rather than an obstacle, and it is the reason a heritage job is quoted with the approval time in the schedule instead of discovered halfway through. Toronto's Municipal Code Chapter 447 governs the fence itself, and on these central lots its restriction on front-yard chain link is usually already what the owner wants.
Old central lots hide abandoned services, old foundations and root plates, so the locate through Ontario One Call is filed first, with its five business day minimum, and the post layout is set after the marks are down rather than before. Posts still reach the 1.2 m frost line in concrete, hand-dug where a root zone or a laneway wall makes an auger the wrong tool. If a rear deck is part of the work, guards follow the same code as anywhere: mandatory above 600 mm, 900 mm high up to 1,800 mm, and openings that will not pass a 100 mm sphere. The detailing is what makes it read as belonging, so a heritage deck gets a squared newel and a painted guard rather than a stock baluster kit.
Fence board profiles matter too: a modern flat picket looks wrong on a heritage street, so we match the existing picket and post profile.
Typical fence installation jobs: matching an existing picket profile on a heritage street, a fence set around mature tree roots without damage, out-of-square survey work handled before build, and a rear deck detailed to suit an older house.
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.
