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01 / 09Landlords of single-family and duplex rentals who need a deck or fence brought back to a safe, code-compliant state between tenants, with durable low-maintenance specifications chosen to reduce repeat call-outs.
A landlord's calculation on a deck or fence is different from a homeowner's, and pretending otherwise wastes your money. You are not choosing a material you will personally enjoy for fifteen years. You are choosing the option with the lowest total cost over the hold period, including the trips you will make back.
That usually pushes two ways. Toward composite or PVC on a deck surface, because a tenant will not stain a deck and an unstained PT deck becomes a splinter complaint in four years. And toward doing the structural item properly once, meaning the failed footing, the rotted ledger or the guard that is 80 mm too low, rather than the cheapest patch that gets you through one tenancy.
The urgent version of this work is compliance. A guard below code height, a missing handrail on a stair flight, or a deck cited in an insurer's inspection report or a municipal property-standards notice is a legal exposure with a deadline attached, not a maintenance preference. Those get scoped to the specific clause cited and documented in writing so you can close the file.
Guards are mandatory once the walking surface is more than 600 mm above grade. The height is 900 mm from 600 to 1,800 mm, and 1,070 mm above 1,800 mm. Openings must not pass a 100 mm sphere, which is the clause that catches older wide-spaced balusters, and a stair handrail sits 865 to 965 mm above the nosing. Those are the figures an inspector measures, so they are the figures we quote to. The other one worth knowing is the 1.2 m frost line: a deck that has gone out of level almost always has a footing that never reached it, and re-levelling without correcting the footing buys a single season.
We look at the ledger board where the deck meets the house, and its flashing, before anything else. Water tracking behind a poorly flashed ledger rots framing out of sight, and ledger failure is how decks actually come down. If the ledger and the footings are sound, deck repair wins on price even with several joists to replace. If either has failed, the honest answer is a rebuild, and you get a new service life instead of an old deck with new parts. You get that answer with the evidence before money is committed.
Access on a tenanted unit is booked around Ontario's Residential Tenancies Act notice requirement, and any work involving new footings starts with an Ontario One Call locate, five business days minimum. Between-tenancy work is the easiest window and we will hold a date for it.
Typical jobs: rotted deck boards and stair treads replaced between tenants, guard height brought up to code after an inspection, low-maintenance composite to cut annual upkeep, and fence repair required by an insurer or a by-law notice.
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.
