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Deck Floor Plan Requirements
Use the Residential Deck Form for simple, one-level decks. For more complex decks, you must provide working drawings prepared by a registered designer.
Use the following checklist to ensure your drawings are complete and provide enough information to verify Building Code requirements and Zoning By-law requirements. A sample drawing is shown below.
Your floor plans must show:
- Project location
- Designer’s name and Building Code Identification Number (BCIN), if applicable
- Scale of drawings
- Deck width and length (shown as A on the drawing below)
- Post and beam location (B)
- Stair location (C)
- Railing location (D)
- Beam size and type (E)
- Post size and type (F)
- Joist size, spacing and direction (G)
- Existing building wall (H)
- Adjacent room(s) and their use (I)
- New door location and size in existing wall, including lintel size (J)
