The northwest corner of the county runs on cattle, hay and long caliche driveways. We build the sheds and barns that life needs, and we build them from right here in the county.
Chico holds down the quiet corner of Wise County, up SH 101 where the pastures widen out and the traffic thins to trucks with a reason to be there. Around nine hundred fifty people live in town; a good many more live on the county land around it, on places measured in acres and animals rather than lots.
The town has reinvented itself more than once since the Rock Island rails came through in 1892: cotton first, then oil, then rock, then peanuts and cantaloupes. What never changed is that this end of the county works for a living, and working land generates equipment, feed, hay and tools that all need a dry roof.
Tarps are not a plan and the old lean-to is full. A purpose-built shed or barn, sized to what you actually keep, is the fix, and you can get one built without dealing with anybody from outside the county.
The shop is in Paradise, down the other end of the same county. Three generations of one family, building sheds and barns for Wise County weather, Wise County ground and Wise County customers the whole time.
That matters more out here than it does in a subdivision. Your builder should already know what wet caliche does to a loaded trailer, why hay wants a vented roof, and what a spring hailstorm will try to do to cheap decking. Ours does, because our own buildings stand under the same sky.
It also means the relationship outlives the invoice. The crew that sets your building is still in the county next year and the year after, on the same phone number, if you ever need a door adjusted or a second building quoted.
The town limit is the line that decides your paperwork.
Chico has adopted the International Building Code, so an accessory building in town comes with plans and a permit conversation. City hall sits on South Hovey Street, (940) 644-2435, and can confirm what your project needs. We prepare drawings that answer their questions the first time.
Most of the land around Chico answers to the county, which issues no general building permits and runs no residential inspections. Septic permits still go through county Public Works, floodplain rules cover the creek bottoms, and deed restrictions apply where they exist.
Site plans, permit filings where they apply, and a straight answer about which side of the line your project sits on. The paperwork is ours to prepare; the signature is all you supply.
Long driveways decide more sales here than price does.
Lumber arrives in a pickup, and gates, branches and soft ground stop mattering. The route for custom sizes and any site the trailer cannot honestly reach.
Where the drive is firm and the gates are wide, a completed building rolls in and gets set and leveled the same day.
Gate widths, turn clearances, overhead limbs, and how the caliche holds after rain. Send photos or we walk it with you, before delivery day instead of during it.
Quote, build, set and follow-up, all the same family operation. Nothing subbed out to strangers.
Every style builds to your size, siding and color.
Gambrel roof and a working loft, the natural fit alongside the barns this country already has. Hay up top, gear below.
The plain gable that does everything. Most storage per dollar, starting at $2,384.
For the in-town yards: windows, trim and a footprint that fits behind the house without eating the garden.
Insulated, wired and benched. Tell us the work, from tack repair to engine teardown, and we frame 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 |
Wise County averages somewhere near twenty-nine inches of rain a year, delivered mostly in bursts that test a roof rather than water a garden. Between the bursts come the hailstorms North Texas is famous for, summer stretches parked in the high nineties, and winters that occasionally arrive all at once.
The ground has habits too. This is Western Cross Timbers country, sandy loam over clay with sandstone close underneath, ground that drains quick and shifts under weight. Runners go on a leveled, prepared base, and open sites get anchored against wind that has had a mile of pasture to organize itself.
Ventilation is the quiet hero. Ridge vents, gable vents or a cupola keep August from cooking the contents and keep stored hay and feed from sweating. It is cheap to build in and expensive to wish for.
Chico proper, Park Springs up the highway toward the Montague County line, Crafton out west, and the farms and ranches strung along SH 101 and FM 1810. If your mail says 76431, this is your page and we are your crew.
The rest of the county is covered town by town. Down the highway, our Bridgeport page handles the lake country. The county seat has its own Decatur sheds page, the southeast corner lives on our Boyd page, and west into Jack County, Jacksboro is covered too.
Square bales up top, sacked feed sealed below, everything on runners and vented so nothing sweats or molds.
Panels, medicine, ear tags, ropes and the fencing bucket, organized where you can find them at dawn.
The shredder, the blade and the post-hole auger, under a roof instead of growing into the fence line.
Deer season, dove season, fishing rigs and the camp trailer's contents, locked and dry between trips.
In-town Chico lots take a garden shed or A-frame like anywhere else: mower, bins, bikes, done.
Generator, de-icers, stock-tank gear and firewood, staged for the week the county ices over.
Call, or start in the 3D builder. We ask about the land, the gates and what the building has to hold.
One number, options itemized, metal and shingle roofs both priced so you choose with real figures.
We confirm the route in, sort any town paperwork, and prepare the base. You approve placement before anything sets.
Framed on your place or hauled in and set, anchored, cleaned up and walked through before we leave.
Inside town, yes, plan on paperwork: Chico has adopted the International Building Code, and city hall on South Hovey Street at (940) 644-2435 can tell you what your project triggers. Outside the town limit you are in unincorporated Wise County, which issues no general building permits at all, though septic permits and floodplain rules still apply. Tell us the address and we will sort out which rulebook you are under and carry the paperwork.
Usually, and we would rather walk it first than guess. A finished building rides in on a trailer, so the questions are gate widths, the tightness of the turns, overhead branches, and whether the drive will carry the load after rain, since wet caliche turns greasy fast. Where the route will not work, we build on-site instead: the lumber arrives in a pickup and the driveway stops mattering entirely.
Comfortably, if it is set up for hay and not just storage. Figure a couple hundred squares stacked sensibly in that footprint, on pallets or runners so the bottom course never wicks ground moisture. The part people skip is airflow: hay put up with any moisture in it needs the building venting constantly, so we add ridge or gable vents, and a loft door makes loading the top rows far less miserable.
Born and raised. The shop sits in Paradise, here in the county, and three generations of the same family have run the business since it started. Chico jobs go on the same calendar as everything else, scheduled and confirmed, and the crew that quotes your building is the crew that builds it. When something needs a follow-up visit years later, we are still in the county, still answering the same phone number.
Both survive if they are rated for hail country, so it comes down to the property. Metal sheds hail and sun for decades and matches the barns most places out here already have, but it is louder under rain and dents cosmetically. Rated composition shingles over solid decking look like the house and repair panel by panel. We price both on every quote, so pick with numbers in front of you.
Yes, and decide before we frame. We rough in conduit, boxes, switches and outlet placement during the build, which beats opening finished walls later. A licensed electrician makes the final tie-in to your panel. For a feed building, one good overhead light, a switch by the door you actually use at five in the morning, and an outlet for the tank de-icer covers most of what winter asks.
Tell us what the building has to hold, how the gates measure and whether you are in town or on county land. You get a written price from a crew in your own county. 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