Handyman in Frisco, from Original Town to Phillips Creek Ranch
Frisco wants a building permit for every backyard structure, even a small shed. Indoors it's simpler. Send the list and you'll get one price within 24 hours.
A handyman visit in Frisco usually starts inside. Most of the city is less than 25 years old, so the list is more about putting things up than fixing them: blinds, the TV, closet shelves, the gym in the garage. Repairs come up too, and we do those as well.
What's Frisco housing like?
New, mostly. Frisco grew from about 117,000 people in 2010 to about 200,500 in 2020, and most of its houses are from after 2000. Original Town, the old railroad-stop core from the early 1900s, is the exception. Starwood's 900-odd custom homes sit behind three controlled gates. Frisco Lakes by Del Webb is a 55-plus community of more than 3,000 single-story homes by Lewisville Lake. Phillips Creek Ranch fills 957 acres of the old Phillips ranch in the west.
Why does Frisco want a permit for every shed?
Because its code says so. Every accessory structure, storage sheds, gazebos, arbors and patio covers included, needs a building permit before it goes up, whatever the size. Nothing sits forward of the front of the house or in the side setback. At the back it's 10 feet from the rear line, or 3 feet on an alley lot if the building is 8 feet tall or less and screened by a solid fence of the same height.
Materials matter here too. An accessory building has to match the house's exterior, and wood or metal is allowed only up to 120 square feet, so a big wooden or metal kit won't pass. The city also wants whoever pulls the permit registered as a Frisco contractor, and its forms remind you that some subdivisions need HOA approval as well.
We cover all of Frisco, and nearby Plano, McKinney, Lewisville and Argyle.
Before you book
Send the list with photos. In a gated community, add us to the access list for the day and tell us which gate to use.
Call (469) 577-1791Once you've added us through the community's access system. The main gate is staffed around the clock, and nobody waits there if it's done the day before.
Barely. Review covers demolishing three landmark buildings on Oak Street, and nothing else.
Most of the time it's the easiest kind of mount: drywall on wood studs, 16 inches apart, with room behind for the cables. Stone fireplace surrounds are the usual exception. They take masonry anchors, and the cables run down the face in a painted cover.
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