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01 / 09Fast, listing-deadline work for agents and stagers: refreshing a tired deck, straightening a sagging fence line and replacing broken boards so the backyard photographs well and survives the home inspection.
Listing work is defined by its date. An agent or stager calling us has a photography booking and an open house already in the calendar, and a deck that currently looks like a liability in the listing photos. The job is not a renovation. It is the highest visible improvement achievable before the deadline, and knowing which items those are is most of the value.
Backyards sell houses in this market, and they photograph badly in specific, fixable ways: grey splintered deck boards, a sagging fence line that draws the eye off the yard, a broken stair tread, a gate hanging open. Replacing a handful of face boards and straightening a fence run changes a photograph far more than it costs.
The second kind of call comes later in the deal: deck deficiencies on a home inspection report that need clearing before closing. Those are narrow and specific, usually a guard height, a loose post or a rotted joist the inspector flagged, and we scope directly against the report language and sign off in writing, so the condition can be waived without argument.
Inspectors work from the same figures we do. A guard is required once the deck surface is more than 600 mm above grade, at 900 mm up to 1,800 mm and 1,070 mm above that, with openings that will not pass a 100 mm sphere and a stair handrail 865 to 965 mm above the nosing. Most flagged items are one of those four, plus a guard that is not through-bolted to the rim and flexes when pushed. Each is a same-visit fix on a sound structure. What we will not do is call a structural item cosmetic to make a closing date, because that note comes back on the next inspection with your name beside it.
Board replacement, re-securing a guard, a stair tread, a gate rehang, a fence run straightened and re-fastened: all achievable inside a listing schedule. Sanding and a penetrating decking oil will take years off a sound cedar or pressure-treated surface and photographs beautifully. Anything needing a new footing does not fit, because footings go to the 1.2 m frost line and any digging requires an Ontario One Call locate with a five business day minimum by law. When a deck needs that, we say so on the first visit and scope the visible work around it so the listing still photographs well. Fence repair on the street-facing line is usually the highest-return item on a curb-appeal budget, since it is in every exterior frame.
Typical jobs: deck board and railing refresh before listing photos, a fence straightened ahead of an open house, inspection-report deficiencies cleared before closing, and curb-appeal front fence and gate repair.
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.
