Thank you for the opportunity to share with you who we are and what we do at Skibba Builders.

Whether you choose to custom build a home, build an addition, or renovate your present home, the building process has become much more complex over the years. There are numerous decisions to make from the initial planning stage through construction. The choices can seem overwhelming.

Another asset to Skibba Builders is Michele, who is available in the office. She offers support, researches availability of products, finds the answers to questions in a timely manner, and helps keep things on track, which results in making the process much less stressful.

In business as in life, what you put out comes back to you. When a company cares about people and keeps their best interests in mind - business comes back. Word of mouth is by far our best advertising.

We would welcome the challenge of taking your ideas and dreams and making them into a reality so you can also be proud to say "This is the house that Jack built."

Skibbas combine physical, computer
skills in family's construction trade
By NANCY QUICK

  When you think of generations working together in the building trade, the first thought is father and son.
  For Jack Skibba, 55, owner of Skibba Builders, it is father and daughter. Jack's daughter, Michele Haas, 29, joined the firm in February of 1994. Rather than wield a hammer, she works with a computer.
  Regardless of what tools she uses, she has made life a lot easier for her mother and father, Elaine and Jack, because of her organizational skills and ability to get the job done.
  Michele has a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. After graduation, she went to work at Golden Eagle Building Center for a while - a job that helped acquaint her with what was on the building market. She already was familiar with building terms, having grown up in a construction family.
  She was ready to move on to a different job about the same time her dad was thinking of hiring someone. It was a perfect fit. Neither father nor daughter has a regret.
  "Michele brought computer knowledge to the company. She expedites

materials and orders everything for the job. She often meets with the homeowner so she knows what is going on at the jobs," Jack said. "She took away a lot of the pressure."
  "Michele has become the detail person," he said. She also takes care of the book-keeping on the computer. That's a job her mother used to do by hand.

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   "We tackle jobs that
   many companies won't
   ...People knew I would
   do anything, no job is
  too small."
                 Jack Skibba
         Skibba Builders owner
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  Jack is a native of the area and graduate of Lincoln High School. He learned many trades such as masonry, carpentry and plastering by working with his grandfather. "I worked with him during high school," he said.
  He also took all wood-working classes he could while in high school.
  Following graduation, he began a four-year apprentice-ship while he attended classes at Mid-State Technical College. He worked for Yeske Home Builders during his apprentice-ship and for several years after. He later worked for another contractor for five years before going into business for himself.