High Park hardwood deck

What the job actually involved

The old cedar had cooked the ledger. We rebuilt the envelope first, then the deck. Pretty boards on a wet rim joist is how you buy the job twice.

Specification

• Hidden fasteners
• Ledger rebuild
• Cable rail

The job type behind this

Each entry carries the published 2026 band, the sequence, and the failure modes that produce a second invoice.

• Ipe-class hardwood deck

  Exterior deck in a dense tropical hardwood, detailed for Ontario's freeze-thaw cycle and fastened so the boards can move without splitting.

  3 ways it goes wrong

What goes wrong on a job like this

• Fastening ipe without pre-drilling

  Split boards at the ends, immediately and permanently, in the most expensive material on the job.

  Avoided by: Pre-drilling every hole. There is no exception to this.

• Cut ends left unsealed

  Checking and splitting at the end grain through the first freeze-thaw cycle.

  Avoided by: Sealing each cut as it is made.

All 3 failure modes for ipe-class hardwood deck

Taking this on in Toronto

Free on-site measure for any qualified hardwood, stair, or railing job.

Toronto is 5 km from the Sterling Road workshop, and 12 of the twelve job types in the catalogue are taken here. Solid white oak on wood joists, engineered over concrete condos, stair retreads in 3-storey semis, and porch restorations on Parkdale and High Park Victorians.

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