Basement Finishing
in Loudoun County.

Real Elite Contracting finishes Loudoun County lower levels — family rooms, a bath, or an in-law suite when the floor plan and egress allow it. We work the western corridor first (Purcellville, Round Hill, Lovettsville, western Leesburg, selected Middleburg) because that is the practical truck path from Martinsburg.

Every finished basement needs a Loudoun County building and zoning application, plus trade permits when electrical, plumbing, mechanical, or gas is in the job. Typical Finished Basement Details can stand in for custom drawings unless the job alters a load-bearing wall, an exterior wall, a beam, or a column. Published Typical fees are 1% of construction cost excluding those trades, with a $65 minimum. Full plans add a published $130 plan review fee. A kitchen in the basement adds a published $165 zoning fee. Leesburg, Purcellville, and Middleburg issue town zoning first — the county will not release the building permit without it. A bedroom needs an emergency egress window.

A county permit is not HOA approval. An egress cut is exterior work: HOA review in master-planned communities, and a Certificate of Appropriateness in Old Town Leesburg or the Middleburg Historic District. Moisture comes first. We do not publish invented basement price bands or treat wine cellars and media rooms as the typical Loudoun brief.

What you get is the paperwork product: Typical vs full plans, town vs unincorporated county, and whether HOA or COA review is in play. County inspections: trade rough-ins before building framing, insulation before cover, then finals. We install to the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code and the approved Typical Detail or stamped plans, and document each inspection.