Oshawa's Top-Rated Fence Installation & Repair Service

A fence built on the shared boundary between two Oshawa properties is treated as a division fence, and under Ontario's Line Fences Act the cost is generally shared equally between the two adjoining owners. The City of Oshawa also has a local fence by-law that governs how boundary fences are handled.

In practice, the simplest path is to agree on the fence style and a shared cost with your neighbour before work begins. If you build the fence entirely on your own side of the property line, it is your fence and your cost. Where neighbours cannot agree, the Line Fences Act provides a fence-viewer process through the municipality to resolve cost-sharing.

Oshawa Pool Enclosure By-law 79-2006 requires a permit for any pool whose water depth can exceed 0.6 metres (24 inches) at any point, and the enclosure must be inspected and approved before the pool can be filled.

The enclosure must extend from the ground to a height of not less than 1.5 metres, measured from grade on the outside. That is higher than most GTA municipalities require, and it is the single figure most often got wrong on an Oshawa pool job. The gap between the bottom of the fence and grade may not exceed 100 millimetres.

Gates must be self-closing, with a lockable self-latching device on the interior face near the top of the gate. Metal, wrought iron and chain link gates and fences also need a covering plate of at least 300 mm by 300 mm over the latch, so it cannot be reached from outside the enclosure. Permitted spacing between verticals depends on the material and rail spacing, so we set it from the by-law tables rather than a rule of thumb.

In Oshawa, a fence is required to be built entirely on your own property and not encroach onto the City road allowance, which often extends a short distance behind the sidewalk. The visible sidewalk is not always the property line, so the fence may need to sit back from it.

Front-yard fences are held to 0.9 metres under Fence and Sight Triangle By-law 23-2014 so they do not block sightlines for drivers and pedestrians, and inside a corner sight triangle (6.0 metres back from the intersection of the two street lines) or a driveway sight triangle (3.0 metres) nothing may exceed 0.9 metres. The safest approach is to confirm your front property line with a survey before setting front-yard posts.

Yes. Oshawa's institutional sites — including its colleges and university — along with its manufacturing and commercial properties, often need commercial-grade fencing, gates, and access control. We install perimeter, security, and industrial fencing and provide site visits and written proposals for businesses and property managers.