Folks here commute like suburbanites and keep equipment like ranchers. We build the storage that covers both lives, from backyard sheds in town to working barns on the county land.
Boyd runs on a split schedule. Mornings, a good share of town pours down FM 730 and SH 114 toward Fort Worth and the Alliance corridor. Evenings, the same people come home to acreage, a tractor, a burn pile and animals that do not care what time the meeting ran to.
The town has been a commuter's landing spot since the late 1950s, and lately it is growing again, from about fourteen hundred people at the 2020 census toward eighteen hundred by recent estimates. New rooftops in town, new tracts carved off old pasture outside it.
Both halves of that life generate equipment, and equipment left outside in this county does not stay equipment long. A building sized to the machines you own, and the ones you are about to own, is the fix. That is the whole trade we are in.
Our shop sits in Paradise, in the same western stretch of Wise County as Boyd. The crew runs these county roads year-round, and our own place sits on the same sandy Cross Timbers ground yours does. Three generations of the family have built for this county's kind of weather.
That shows up in the details before it shows up in the invoice. We know what a wet spring does to a caliche drive, which is why we confirm ground conditions before delivery day. We know the wind out here is not a rumor, which is why anchoring is standard, not an upsell.
And scheduling stays simple. Site visits, builds and service calls in Boyd slot into our normal working week, confirmed in advance, done when we said.
Boyd's rules and the county's rules are entirely different documents.
A standard accessory building goes through the city's miscellaneous permit with a site plan showing property lines, setbacks and easements. Anything that cannot meet setbacks, and every carport, requires a variance application with its own fees. Plan review runs about ten business days. Confirm current requirements with city hall on Rock Island Avenue.
The county issues no general building permits and runs no residential inspection program, which is a real freedom worth using well. Septic permits still apply through county Public Works, and floodplain rules govern anything near mapped creek bottoms. Deed restrictions, where they exist, still bind.
Site plan drawings, permit filings, variance paperwork when a placement genuinely needs one, and honest advice about which side of the rules your project sits on. You sign things; we prepare them.
Same materials and framing either way. The property picks the route.
We frame where the building will stand. The route for custom sizes, sloped ground, and sites tucked behind the house where no trailer belongs.
Open acreage takes delivery beautifully: wide gates, straight approaches, a building set and leveled the same day. Most county properties around Boyd qualify.
The two questions that decide it: what does the narrowest gate measure, and will the drive carry a loaded trailer after rain. Answer those and we will call the route honestly.
Family owned across three generations. The framing spec does not change between a backyard 8x8 and a 16x32 equipment barn.
Every style builds to your size, siding and color.
Gambrel roof, real loft. Feed and seasonal gear ride upstairs, machines live below. The workhorse on acreage.
The straightforward gable, most storage per dollar. Starts at $2,384 and scales to a serious footprint.
Double doors, a ramp and a clear floor plan built around rolling equipment in and out daily without a fight.
Insulated, wired, benched and lit. Describe the work and we frame the building around it.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x8 | $2,384 |
| 10x12 | $3,900 |
| 12x16 | $5,376 |
| 12x24 | $7,200 |
| 12x32 | $9,200 |
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x8 | $2,860 |
| 10x12 | $4,622 |
| 12x16 | $6,380 |
| 12x24 | $8,136 |
| 16x32 | $14,776 |
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 8x10 | $3,393 |
| 10x12 | $4,722 |
| 12x16 | $6,496 |
| 12x20 | $7,370 |
| 12x24 | $8,951 |
Boyd sits in the Western Cross Timbers, where sandy loam rides over clay subsoil and post oaks mark the old fence lines. Sandy ground drains fast but shifts under weight, so runners go on a leveled, prepared base, never bare dirt, and sloped sites get piers instead of shims.
The county averages about twenty-nine inches of rain a year, most of it arriving in tempers rather than drizzles, with a growing season running two hundred forty-some days. In between come the hailstorms this whole region is notorious for and the wind that open pasture does nothing to slow.
So the spec is fixed: rated shingles or metal over solid decking, walls framed on sixteen-inch centers, ground anchors on open sites, and ventilation that dumps August heat before it cooks what you stored. Built once, built for here.
Boyd proper, Garvin out SH 114 to the west, Cottondale, and the working properties strung along the FM 730 corridor between the creek bottoms. If your address says 76023, you are in our regular build area.
The towns around Boyd each have their own page, because their ground and their rules differ. East on 114, see our Rhome page. Up toward the county seat, Decatur sheds covers that stretch, and the northwest corner of the county lives on our Chico page. South toward the lake country, Azle has its own.
Zero-turn, tractor, tiller, and the implements that rust first. Rolled in nightly down a ramp instead of tarped in the yard.
Sacked feed, mineral tubs and salt blocks, dry and sealed against raccoons, rain and the neighbor's dog.
The town-lot version: bikes, bins, tools and a lawn mower, so the garage can hold the truck that makes the morning drive.
Locked, covered, out of sight from the road. Cheaper than replacing what walks off.
A wired workshop bay with light over the vise, for repairs that should not happen kneeling in gravel.
Dry wood, a generator that starts when the lines ice over, and fuel stored away from the house.
Call, or price one in the 3D builder. We ask which side of the city limit you are on and what has to fit inside.
A real number with options itemized. Nothing shows up on the invoice that was not on the quote.
City permit or county freedom, we sort it either way, then level and prepare the base. You approve placement first.
Framed on your land or delivered and set, anchored, cleaned up, walked through with you before we go.
Depends which side of the city limit you sit on. Unincorporated Wise County issues no general building permits, so a shed on county land needs none. Inside Boyd, a standard accessory building that meets setbacks goes through the city's miscellaneous permit with a site plan, and anything that cannot meet setbacks, carports included, requires a variance application. Plan review runs about ten business days. Confirm your address with city hall, and we will handle whichever paperwork applies.
It changes everything about placement. A building should never sit over the septic drain field, where its weight compacts the lines and blocks future repairs, and Wise County does require septic permits even though it skips building permits. Bring your septic layout to the site visit, or we will help you locate the field before we stake corners. Wellheads need working clearance too. Ten minutes of checking up front saves an expensive move later.
With engineered ground anchors, not gravity and good intentions. Open Wise County ground gives a spring storm a running start, and an unanchored building acts like a kite the one afternoon it matters. We auger anchors into the soil and tie the floor frame to them as standard practice on open sites, and the framing itself runs sixteen-inch centers so the structure moves as one piece instead of peeling apart.
A 12x24 does it with room to actually work. Give the zero-turn the double doors and a ramp on the gable end, park the four-wheeler beside it, and run the bench down the long wall with a window over it. A 12x16 technically fits all three, but you will be backing one machine out to use the other within a month. Machines multiply out here; buy the length now.
Bring us a photo and a paint code if you have one. Matching an existing barn's color, trim and roofline is a regular request on Boyd properties where a new storage building is joining a structure that has stood for decades. We match siding tone, trim color and metal roof profile so the pair reads as planned rather than accumulated. Weathered colors get matched to what is on the wall now, not the original chip.
Boyd has grown fast, and the new streets in town come with regular backyard lots, not pasture. Same crew, smaller canvas: an 8x8 or 10x12 garden or A-frame shed, sited to the fence line with code clearances kept and siding matched to the house. The starting price for an 8x8 is $2,384, and it goes up honestly from there. No job here is too small to send the same builders.
Tell us what side of the city limit you are on, what the building has to hold and how the gate measures. You get a written price with nothing invented afterward. Financing runs with no payments for the first 90 days, subject to credit approval.
Mon–Fri 7:30am–5:30pm
Sat 9am–1pm
Fort Worth Shed-Design Center
14135 US-287, Fort Worth TX 76179