Home Additions & Second-Story Additions in Connecticut

Add space to the house you already have

Moving costs more than most people expect, and the house you have is often in the town and on the street you want. An addition gives you the bedroom, mudroom, kitchen bump-out or extra floor you need without leaving. Elite Framing and Roofing builds additions across Connecticut, from small mudrooms to full second stories.

Additions we build

• Second-story additions: a new upper floor, or a third floor, framed on top of an existing house.
• Rear and side additions: new rooms off the back or side of the house.
• Mudrooms and entries: smaller additions that change how you use the house every day.
• Bump-outs: a few extra feet for a kitchen, bathroom or bedroom.
• Dormers and attic conversions: more headroom under the roof you have. See roof framing.

Going up: second-story additions

A second-story addition puts new weight on walls and a foundation that were not built for it. Before framing starts, the existing structure has to be checked, usually by an engineer, and the plans show what needs to be reinforced. Then the old roof comes off, the new floor and walls go up, and the house is dried in again as fast as possible. That speed is where a framing company earns its money: we frame, sheath and roof in a tight sequence so the house is open to the weather for as little time as we can manage.

From framing to a finished exterior

We do the parts of an addition that make it a building: exterior framing and sheathing, the roof structure, shingles, windows and doors, and siding matched to the house. Inside, our Interiors side handles drywall, trim, painting and tile. You work with one company and talk to Menachem directly.

Additions across Connecticut

We are based in Waterbury and build additions in towns like Naugatuck, Cheshire, Middlebury, Southbury, Wolcott, Prospect, Watertown, West Hartford and Danbury. See all areas we serve.