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01 / 09Owners of newly built or custom homes finishing the yard after closing. Builder-grade or absent fencing replaced with a proper cedar or composite line, coordinated around fresh grading, sod and utility locates.
A new-build or custom home closes with the house done and the yard barely started. Sometimes there is no fence at all. More often there is a builder-supplied line of thin fence panels, the cheapest acceptable pressure-treated spruce set by whoever was cheapest, that the owner wants replaced with cedar or composite before it starts leaning in year three.
New-build lots come with three real scheduling constraints that an established property does not have, and getting them wrong is expensive. Grading has to be released by the municipality before posts go in, because a fence set across a lot whose drainage has not been signed off can be ordered out. Fresh sod and new topsoil mean the ground is soft and uncompacted, so post holes need proper depth and concrete rather than a driven post. And utility locates are non-negotiable on a subdivision lot where gas, hydro and communications were all trenched in within the last eighteen months.
Ontario One Call is a legal requirement before digging, not a courtesy, and the regulator names building a fence or a deck explicitly. The minimum is five business days on a single property and ten where the project spans more than one property or sits in an area with no civic address yet, which describes a lot of new phases. On a street where every service was installed inside the last two years and the as-built drawings are still fresh, the locate is also the thing that keeps a post auger out of a gas lateral. We file it first and we plan the post layout around what comes back marked.
Uncompacted fill is the reason new-build fences lean faster than fences on established lots. The answer is not a longer post, it is a properly dug hole to the 1.2 m frost line with concrete, on the same spacing across the run, so that the line has no weak bay to start the lean. Rear and side yard heights run to the usual 2.0 m GTA maximum with the front yard held near 1.0 m, checked against your municipality's by-law before we quote, since Brampton runs fences through its Zoning By-law while Toronto works from Municipal Code Chapter 447 and Markham from Fence By-law 2017-30.
Because the deck is usually wanted too, we package fence installation and the deck into one post-closing visit rather than two mobilisations, which on a new lot also means one set of locates and one pass of heavy material across your new sod.
Typical fence installation jobs: fencing a new subdivision lot once grading is released, upgrading a builder-supplied fence to cedar, fence and deck packaged in one visit, and gate and side-yard access on a narrow new lot.
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.
