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01 / 09The core segment: GTA homeowners replacing a failed or storm-damaged fence, or fencing a yard for the first time. Cedar, pressure-treated, vinyl, composite, aluminum and chain-link, built to the local fence bylaw with the neighbour-share conversation handled up front.
This is the largest part of what we do: a GTA homeowner whose back fence has started leaning, lost boards in a windstorm, or simply run out of posts after twenty years. It is rarely a planned purchase. Something falls over and suddenly the yard is not enclosed.
Two things make a residential fence installation go smoothly, and both are conversations rather than carpentry. The first is the by-law: rear-yard height limits sit around 2.0 m across most of the GTA, with front-yard fences held near 1.0 m, and the height is measured from the higher of the two grades, which on a sloped lot is not the side you expect.
The second is the neighbour. A fence on the shared property line is, under Ontario's Line Fences Act, a shared asset, and the cost conversation goes very differently before the fence is built than after. We raise it up front and give you a quote you can actually show next door. Hamilton goes further than most and has a by-law for exactly this, the Apportioning of Costs of Division Fences (Urban), which sets out how a boundary fence gets split.
Materials run the full range: cedar, pressure-treated, vinyl, composite, aluminum and chain link, chosen against how long you plan to stay and how much maintenance you are honestly willing to do. Whether that becomes a solid privacy fence or an open picket line is a separate decision from the material, and both get quoted the same way, by the linear foot with the gate priced separately.
The 2.0 m baseline holds in most of the region, and then each municipality adds its own wrinkle:
We check yours before we quote, not after a complaint.
Posts go below the 1.2 m frost line in concrete, which is the same depth everywhere in the GTA and the reason a fence built in frozen ground on shallow posts lifts by the second spring. And a locate request through Ontario One Call is a legal requirement before any digging, with a five business day minimum on a single property and ten where the work spans more than one. That is why a deposit books an assessment rather than a truck, and it is a date you can verify yourself.
Typical fence installation jobs: replacing a leaning or rotted backyard line, a first fence on a newly closed property, a shared property-line fence split with a neighbour, and raising height to the by-law maximum for privacy.
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.
