Building & Remodeling

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Contracting, Building, Remodeling & design

Be it finishing out a basement, insulate and drywall a garage, remodel a room, remodel the whole house, repairs, put up an addition or new construction designed and built to suit.

We excel at specialty rooms, like a north woods bar, Packer room, Spa, workout room, game room...

We sometimes offer special winter rates for inside remodeling and finish work (see the Rates & How we bill page)

This project was an addition and a bit of a remodel for the master suit that used the old living room space. We of designed and built from the ground up with just Elite's crew, save for the Plumbing & electrical.

The size, pitch and complexity of this roof made it the most difficult and demanding re-roofing project that elite has done . 50 year architectural shingles were used.

In this project we took a late50's early60's home and turned it into a modern ranch. With Wisconsin pride stone instead of brick and a new garage. Instead of the old overhang & deck we made a large deck in the rear with a three season screen room below. Windows were replaced and a large 4 panel French door provides light and access from the dinning room to the new rear deck. The old garage will be turned into a large entertainment/family room in the coming year. We also designed a remodel plan for the kitchen modernizing & giving it a more open concept. Also in the remodel drawings a Master suit addition to give the master bed room a full suit with toilet closet, double sink base, walk in shower and garden tub along with walk in closet and dressing area. Since the master is on the second floor the addition will also afford a small shoehorned bath below to expand over time and also expand and open up more full windows into the lower office space.

This project was remodeling of a 95 year old home that had not been updated much at all. A new electrical service and replacing the 1915 knob and tube wiring as much as possible along with the rewiring of the remodeled rooms. Those were two baths one was made into a master style bath with a steam shower that was finished in marble. The other was a bath enlarged for a 3/4 with shower and a vessel sink on an antique base. The water heater and all the piping was redone as the lead piping still existed along with cast steel drains. The kitchen was also completely gutted, several walls were moved or taken out. A second floor balcony off the home office was put in place of a window, the stairwell was opened up and a art class window was installed in the landing. The old Maple floors were redone, and venting for each room and a finally a new heater.

Family / Home theater finishing off one section of a basement area. Also added a few closets in the up stairs bath to separate the laundry and provide more storage for $25.00 per sq ft complete from foundation walls & cement floor.

Remodeling rooms into a true master suit with toilet closet, open sinks, and a steam shower, walk in closet and adjoining master den in this project . Many more pictures of this project can be found on page Photos V of this site.

New construction project to add on a 4 season room. Using form fold insulated foundation forms we created a crawl space storage room. An addition of this type affords an excellent opportunity to provide a huge amount of storage space. Ample windows to bring in the sun and a vaulted ceiling were the main wants in designing this addition. A great French door separates the rest of the home from the 4 season room. The home owner is going to be finishing the interior.

The design parameters for this project was to give the home a front entrance that was highly modern. The vaulting height and stucco does this nicely. The awning windows above the door operate remotely and at the touch of a button will open one by one until open. And in the event of rain they will close themselves. The project has so many levels of height in a small area that we used cement block for the foundation. The main framing of the outside is green treated post and beam, with a hand framed roof. The entire thing was then wrapped in Dens glass before the application of stucco. A few other fetchers are the limestone caps on top of the walls of the porch, and Wausau Tile Tera-Stone for the Path, Landing and porch floor. It was also given low voltage lighting accents outside and can lighting inside.

We started with a clean slate in this basement drawing up a plan that opened up the stairway at the top and bottom. Framed in a large family and TV room with a service area and sink. Wired for sound system and ready for a dig screen. Also a small closet under steps, a large bath with tiled shower, bed room with a Code required large escapable window and large walk in closet, and lastly a spare room with a futon to be used for guests, the rest of the time the spare room will house a tread mill with wall mounted TV and PC desk. This room was insulated for sound as was the bedroom.

Installing a pre-finished hardwood floor. If you want hardwood without all the dust, a good quality full 3/4" pre-finished floor is a good alternative to the traditional finish in place hardwood flooring.

We moved the laundry in this Lake Wausau home basement walk out to make room for a large custom sauna, changing room, bathroom combo with a built in double shower. Also redid the family room and bar area, hall way and stairs. All in all its a whole new basement that turned out just wonderfully.

A kitchen and bath complete remodel project. Starting with a new front door, rear door, and two sliding patio door, some new siding in the rear.

The color of the New Brazilian Cherry flooring, is brought out by the very detailed cabinets with a touch of antiquing. Corian counters and a cool nook for a plasma TV helps blend the high tech of the Stainless appliances to the details of the cabinetry. Notice the bump out of the sink and the krypton Kitchler under cabinet lighting.

A very custom wet bar made to fit in the mission style, with a wonderful hammered sink and faucet the home owner found on line, is perfect with the rest of the furniture of the formal living room. We also had to re-fabricate the new cabinet in the bathroom to accommodate an angled wall. Neu-Heat electric in floor heating, the Corian, Sink, Kohler bath tub, water closet, new faucets and tile completes this room.

Note the Runtal Hydronic Radiators, a giant step above the old technology of the std hydronic base board systems. Shown in this project in white it is available in a hand full of designer colors. All new Satin Nichol knobs and hinges along with a few other perks finish out the project.

Complete basement remodel, moving & resizing the bathroom, installing a gas stove, adding some storage and setting up areas for big screen and surround sound, and a bar. The old basment is in this web sight someplace showing the inside of a dog door.

This set of pics if from a job Elite did in the early spring of 2000. We were asked to divide a large office bay to provide a small office for closings and a file room. Elite did the entire job from design, permits, material, frame, drywall, paint, wallpaper, trim, lighting, to cleaning the carpets the last day.

The first in this series is a before pic and the rest are when we were on the way out the last day.

This is a basement that was block walls which were first sealed then studded out and insulated. We then finished it out as a packer room with custom drywall, paint and accents.

While we were building a deck at this job site we repaired one of the front columns that had rotted due to SPF wood being in ground contact. The rest will have to be done over the next five years also.

This roof and the home in general had major construction errors. Missing tar paper and flashing, missing ventilation, missing insulation, major framing errors ... We at this time replaced a patio door, all the skylights and refinished the interior drywall and put on the new roof. I think you will be just amazed at what we found in this 9 year old remodeled and roofed home.

This was a roofing job and we built a new steps up to the porch also.

A very difficult and demanding project to remove an old hot tub suspended over an abandoned in ground pool. This in ground pool was used for the crawl space of an addition and was lacking proper support and footing. We built real support walls and added proper footings. We also ran a cold air duct to the fireplaces for combustion air from an abandoned spa heater stack while we were at it. Final step to the room was the installation of a floating wood floor.

This bathroom was in sad need of repair when we started, the built in shower was rotting, the floor and the tile on it was cracked. Demolition was extensive, right down to the studs and in some parts of the floor down to the dirt below. An all new interior with a new built in shower, cabinets, tile and all the little things. Such as new mirrors, a mirror door to the sauna, pewter facets, pewter knobs and hinges throughout, pewter and crystal lights, in floor heat, a knee wall to hide the water closet and more make this a bathroom of outstanding quality.

Elites office floor used to be carpet so we gutted it and put in tile making it so much easer to zoom the chair around.

This next project was quite an extensive interior remodeling, involving the electrical, heat, new walls, texture, flooring and a new fire place....

The fireplace, in addition to being dated, had a chimney fire when burning wood. It had cracked the flue and burned through. Some point after that, it must have been thought to be safe for gas. Converted to a gas fireplace with a burning grate stuffed in. However, still using the old chase and flue it was not the safest fireplace in the neighborhood.

We also built in an old fashioned Murphy Bed not seen much outside Lucy and Three Stooges reruns. A fantastic addition to this room giving the flexibility to be used as a guest room without the bad nights sleep for the guest that comes from the traditional sofa bed.

Another feature is the dry bar with wine storage and mini fridge stowed in an Elite built cabinet base.

The closet at the base of the stairs is a pantry and the extended closet space under the stairs is for some much needed storage.

A smaller home from the 60"s or so with a one car wide garage that ran the length of the home. We were gutted the old rock lath and plaster that was used in the garage install a floor, insulate and drywall, with new windows and doors to make a family room/dinning addition. Then build onto the old structure a new two care garage. Also a new concrete drive.

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Installing a new hardwood 3/4" strip floor and new tile in the kitchen is the next series.

This next project was to reface a kitchen that had irremovable wall paper. The hard board panels were used to tied this kitchen over until in needs all new everything. Plus a coat of paint on the ceiling and hallway walls to finish it up.

In this project had re/engineer and repair the previous remodeling to make the structure sound for a corner addition. An entry way had been added at some point with a roof that did not have a proper slope, support or valley. We opened that up and added a angle wall to make room for the Master bath. The old bath and walk-in closet were incorporated with a new angled hall of the master bed room to make it a master suite. Featuring glass block windows and lighted glass block toe kick used as a highlight under the Jacuzzi tub and custom cabinets.

Redoing a basement room that was poorly done in 1060's style. The room turned out great with three large closets and a built in drawer unit.

The usable room left is about 14x 22 a large room.

Opened up roof and installed skylights to come out between the exposed beams on the ceiling of this house. Having this set space for width made the shaft very segmented as you can see in the pic from inside. We also found the attic space had far less insulation then it would today so we took it up to code before we closed it back in.

I've seen some incompetence in my day but this ....... We were asked to take a look and fix a leek in a roof that had been re-roofed just a year previous, that the "gentleman" that had done the work had tried to fix with a stop gap.

As soon as we started to tare back the shingles we could see problems. When the old shingles were taken off the roofer did not bother to reinstall new tar paper, never mind the ice and water shielding for the eaves, valleys and flashings.

He had re stapled back the tar paper that was torn during demolition. Problem being around the chimney in the old days they used allot of tar and the paper just must of come up with it, because as you see there was virtually no tar paper around the chimney.

Then to make maters worse the old flashing was put back down over the top of what remained of the tar paper and then just the shingle from above was over the top of the flashing.

The fix was easy, we cleaned up the flashing, put down ice and water shielding, and roofed the area using the proper methods to have several layers of safe guarding the water on top of each successive layer of roofing.

In this project we took out the stairs in the middle of the home along with a division wall. The wall was replaced with an arch, and the stairway was moved to the front of the home. We then took out a wall by the front door to provide flow to the home. Also a downstairs wall was removed and a large LVL and post was put in to make the basement open concept also. We finished up by installing oak stair railing.

The home owners are to be finishing up the basement the next winter, and a flooring contractor is to be redoing the upstairs flooring.

A roofing project, tearing off cover with tri-flex, eave guard (ice & water), new flashings, vents, and new simulated shake shingles.

A hip roof roofing project otherwise done the same as above.

More To Come Soon!