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01 / 09Small-footprint decks, privacy screens and dividing fences for freehold townhouses and condo-townhome yards, sized for tight rear lots and built to satisfy condo-corporation appearance rules.
A freehold townhouse or condo-townhome yard is a different engineering problem from a detached backyard. The lot might be fifteen feet wide. There may be no rear laneway, which means every board, bag of concrete and tool comes through the house or down a side path barely wide enough for a wheelbarrow. We plan access before we plan the deck, because on these lots access is what drives the schedule.
The design consequence of a small lot is that the deck cannot be generous in footprint, so it has to be efficient. Built-in perimeter benches instead of furniture, and composite deck boards where the surface has to survive without a yearly stain. A privacy divider on the shared side, because in a townhouse row your neighbour's deck is three feet away and that is the single thing owners most want solved. Stairs placed to preserve usable yard rather than to take the shortest line.
The other constraint is paperwork. Condo corporations and townhome associations frequently maintain approved material and colour palettes, and some require submission before work begins. We build to a condo-approved palette and give you a spec sheet you can hand to the board.
A board approval is not a building permit and neither replaces the other. The municipality still governs the structure, and on a townhouse the deck is very often raised off a rear walkout, which puts it straight into the guard rules: a guard becomes mandatory once the walking surface is more than 600 mm above grade, at 900 mm high up to 1,800 mm and 1,070 mm above that, with openings that will not pass a 100 mm sphere. Toronto adds a detail that matters specifically on these lots, because on an attached deck with no roof it measures maximum fence height from the deck surface rather than from grade, which changes how tall a privacy divider can legally be. We work that out before the divider is built rather than after a neighbour asks.
On a lot with no rear laneway, excavation equipment does not fit, so footings are dug by hand or driven as screw piles, still reaching the 1.2 m frost line. Screw piles also make a winter build possible on a site where a concrete pour would not be, which matters when the building season here is April to November. Locates through Ontario One Call come first either way, five business days minimum, and on a narrow side yard the marked services usually decide where the stairs can land. A privacy screen for decking on the shared side is detailed at the same time, because retrofitting one to a finished rim joist is always the more expensive way to get there.
Typical jobs our deck builders take on: a compact rear deck on a narrow townhouse lot, a privacy divider between adjoining yards, a deck matching a condo-approved material palette, and an access-restricted build with no rear laneway.
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.
