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01 / 09Secure, gap-free fencing for households with dogs: solid privacy boards or tight-picket lines, dig-resistant bottom detailing, self-closing gate latches, and heights chosen for the breed rather than the bylaw minimum.
Dog owners are the one group who can tell within a week whether a fence was built properly, because the dog finds every flaw. A fence that satisfies the by-law can still fail completely at the only job the owner cared about.
Dogs escape three ways and each has a different answer. Over is solved by height matched to the breed, which for an athletic dog means six feet rather than the four a picket line would give you, and by avoiding horizontal rails on the inside face that work as a ladder. Under is solved at the bottom rail with a dig guard: buried wire mesh, an L-footer turned into the yard, or a concrete curb under the boards. Through is solved by picket and fence panel spacing set for the actual dog, since a determined small dog goes through a gap a by-law considers fine.
Then there is the gate, which is how most dogs actually get out. Gates get self-closing hinges and a self-latching catch mounted high, so a gate left swinging shuts itself. Toronto already requires self-closing and self-latching gates on a pool enclosure, and the same hardware is the right answer for a dog whether or not a by-law asks for it.
The GTA baseline allows roughly 2.0 m in the rear and side yard without a permit, which covers a six-foot privacy fence in most of the region. Front yards are held near 1.0 m, so the side-yard gate is normally where a dog-proof line has to be tightest. Where you want to go taller, some municipalities have a route: Markham issues fence exemption permits under Fence By-law 2017-30. Others have hard restrictions worth knowing before you plan, since Toronto's Municipal Code Chapter 447 restricts front-yard chain link along with barbed and electrified wire, and Mississauga's Fence By-law 0397-1978 bans electric and barbed wire too. That rules out the cheap fixes people try after a dog has already learned to escape.
A dog leans on a fence, and a leaning fence opens gaps at the bottom rail. Posts go into concrete below the 1.2 m frost line on consistent spacing so no bay becomes the weak one, because the gap a dog exploits usually appears where a shallow post has lifted rather than where a board was cut short. If you have a pool as well, note that Toronto treats any structure holding water deeper than 600 mm as a pool and requires a Pool Fence Enclosure Permit before excavation, which is a separate approval from the yard fence.
Solid wooden privacy fence panels also address fence-line reactivity: a dog that cannot see the sidewalk largely stops barking at it, which quietly solves a neighbour problem too.
Typical jobs: a gap-free privacy fence for an escape-prone dog, a dig guard along the bottom rail, a self-closing self-latching gate, and sightline blocking to stop fence-line barking.
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.
