Burlington, ON · August 2025
Backyard deck tear-down and rebuild
A 15-year-old pressure-treated deck that had reached end-of-life. We pulled it down, re-poured footings, framed in PT, decked in composite, and ran a glass railing along the perimeter. New seating wall and side garden tied it back into the yard.
A backyard deck in Burlington that had reached end-of-life — fifteen years of GTA winters had taken the original pressure-treated frame past the point of patching. Joists were spongy in two corners, railings were loose, and the homeowner was done with band-aid fixes. Two-week scope: pull everything down, re-pour footings to frost depth, frame in fresh pressure-treated lumber with hidden fasteners, deck in composite for the view from the back of the house, and run a glass railing along the perimeter so the sightline stayed open.
The piece they hadn’t originally asked for — a low seating wall along the back edge — tied the new composite deck into the garden and gave them four extra feet of usable space without a railing in the way.
What we worked through
- Existing footings were undersized and had to be replaced
- Grade had shifted, requiring new framing layout
- Stair landing redesigned for a wider step pattern
Materials
- Concrete sonotube footings to frost depth
- Pressure-treated frame, joist hangers, hidden fasteners
- Composite decking and aluminum rail
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