Professional Proof · Not Anonymous Reviews
Thirty-Five Years of Commercial Accountability. Now Applied to Your Backyard.
Ed’s Backyard Builds is a newer residential brand. Ed Shackelford is not a newer builder. The professional standards, direct owner communication, and budget discipline that defined his commercial career are the same ones he brings to every backyard structure he builds in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
Ed’s Backyard Builds carries no long residential review history because it is a newer company. What it carries instead is a verified roster of professional references: architects, project owners, and site managers who worked directly alongside Ed on major commercial projects and can speak to how he communicates, manages work, and follows through when it matters.
What Homeowners Want to Know
The Questions You’re Asking Are Exactly the Right Ones.
Will he show up? Will the price hold? Can I trust someone I found online with work happening on my own property? These are the right questions — and the same ones Ed has been answering to architects, project owners, and site managers for over three decades. Ask them here.
Homeowner Concern
Will I know what is happening on my own project?
Ed communicates directly — no project managers, no message relay, no assistant relaying what you said. When you call or text, you reach the person planning and building your structure. That is not a customer service promise. It is how the business is structured, by design.
Homeowner Concern
Will the price change after I have already agreed?
Your quote is built before work begins — materials, labor, and selected options itemized line by line. Budget surprises happen when builders estimate loosely and settle up later. Ed’s background in commercial construction, where cost overruns carry real consequences, means pricing discipline is built into the process from the first conversation.
Homeowner Concern
Can I really trust a company without years of reviews?
Ed’s Backyard Builds is newer. Ed Shackelford is not. The same person who carried professional accountability on large commercial projects for 35+ years is the one building your structure, on your property, with his own hands alongside his sons. His professional references exist precisely because the residential review history is still being written.
Call or text (513) 379-2421 · Email edwin@edsbackyardbuilds.com