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Track and Athletic Surfaces in Chetek

Track and Athletic Surfaces in Chetek, Wisconsin.

Track and court resurfacing for schools in and around Chetek, scheduled into the summer window.

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About 45 minutes north of Eau Claire on Highway 53. Free estimates, and a straight read on whether it needs doing yet.

A resurfaced asphalt running track with crisp white lane lines, painted lane numbers and colored exchange markings, playing field beyond.
2,169 People in Chetek
4.7 Google ratingFrom 18 reviews
2-3 yrs Reseal cycleIn Chetek
400°F Crack fillerDirect-fire rubber

What a Track and Athletic Surfaces Job Looks Like in Chetek

The downtown runs along Second Street on the water, tight lots with shared access, and it carries a summer trade far larger than the winter population. The highway corridor west of town is where the newer commercial surface is.

Seasonality is the thing to plan around here in a way it's not elsewhere. A resort, a bar or a marina lot can't be closed in July, and doesn't need to be open in February. That points work at May or September rather than at the middle of the season, and it means booking early rather than calling when it's already busy.

Track and Athletic Surfaces specifically in Chetek

School courts and track. In Chetek the summer window is also the busiest season in town, so athletic work gets scheduled around it rather than into it. Being the northern edge of the area shortens the shoulder seasons at both ends too, which means a district here has genuinely less room to move a date than one down the valley does.

The Lots and Surfaces in Chetek

Chetek is the far northern edge of what we cover, in Barron County, built on the chain of six lakes that runs through the middle of town. Open water covers most of a square mile inside the city limits, which is why a city of 2,172 has the property profile it does.

Chetek

We work the whole village rather than a named handful of neighborhoods.

Around Chetek: Chetek chain of lakes, Second Street, Highway 53 corridor.

The furthest north we work, so the season is genuinely shorter at both ends. Surface work here books earlier in the fall than it does down the valley.

From our jobs

Job Photos

A resurfaced running track with fresh white lane lines, painted lane numbers and yellow exchange marks
Lane lines and numbers, back on after resurfacing
A resurfaced running track curve with white lane lines and colored relay exchange zone markers
Relay exchange zones, measured and marked

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What makes track work different

The surface work is the same trade. Clean it, fill what has opened up, seal it, and it lasts. What's different is everything downstream of the paint gun. Lane lines are set from a measured stagger so that every lane runs the same distance. Exchange zones and acceleration zones have defined lengths and have to be marked in the right colors to be read at speed. Get the layout wrong and you have a facility that looks finished and can't host a meet, which is a problem nobody notices until the day it matters.

What Decides the Price in Chetek

These are ranges. Anything at this scale is walked and measured before it is quoted, because condition and layout move the number far more than square footage does.

Restripe only

Existing layout, surface sound

Measured on site

  • Lanes, exchange and acceleration zones, numbers
  • Layout taken from the existing measured stagger

Crack repair, seal and restripe

The usual maintenance cycle

Measured on site

  • Hot crack filling, surface seal, full relay of lines
  • The cycle most asphalt tracks want every few years

Courts

Tennis, basketball, pickleball

Measured on site

  • Per court, depending on condition and color coating
  • Multiple courts on one visit come down per court

Public bodies usually need a bid they can put against a budget line, often a season ahead. Ask in the fall for work the following summer and you'll get a better number and a better slot.

How the Work Goes in Chetek

Track work happens in the summer window between seasons.

Walk it, measure it, write it

Condition survey and a measured check of the existing layout before anything is quoted. If the stagger has drifted from an earlier restripe, that gets found now rather than after the paint is down.

Crack repair

Hot rubber at 400 degrees into anything that has opened up. On a track this matters more than on a lot, because a crack across a running lane is a trip hazard as well as a leak.

Clean and seal

The whole surface, edge to edge. This is the step that buys the years and it is the one that gets deferred, because a faded track still works.

Lay out the lines

Chalked from measurements, checked, then painted. Lanes, exchange and acceleration zones, start lines, and lane numbers.

Hand it back clean

Cured, swept, and ready for the season.

Booking sealcoating and striping through October · Call (715) 450-9897

Questions We Get in Chetek

What Chetek calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
When can you do our resort lot without shutting us down in the season?
May or September, and booked ahead. Sealing needs the surface clear and dry, with 24 hours before traffic goes back on, so the calendar is the first thing to settle. What doesn't work is calling in July and needing it done that week.
How long is a lake driveway compared to one in town, and does that change the price?
Often several times longer, which is the main reason a Chetek quote and an Eau Claire quote for the same house look different. A rural or shoreline drive gets measured rather than estimated by eye, so you're getting a number for your drive rather than an average one. The estimate is free, and the number you approve is the number you pay.
When can track work be done?
Summer, between seasons. Sealer needs warm dry weather and a proper cure, and a track needs to be closed while that happens, so the window is roughly June through August in Chetek and the surrounding area. Book in the winter for the following summer.
How often does an asphalt track need resealing?
Every three to five years for the seal, and crack filling as often as it needs it, which in Chetek and the surrounding area is usually annually on an older track. Lines get relaid with the seal, because sealing over them removes them.
Can you restripe a track without resurfacing it?
Yes, and it is often the right call when the surface is sound and only the lines have faded. It buys a few years before the surface work is genuinely due. What it costs depends on the layout: lane count, whether the exchange zones and the field events are being reinstated, and whether the existing lines can be followed or have to be set out again.
Do you do tennis, basketball and pickleball courts?
Yes. Same trade, smaller and simpler layout. Multiple courts done on one visit cost less per court because the trip is already paid for.
Can you put track and court work out as a formal bid?
Yes. Written scope, measured quantities and a firm number, in whatever format your district needs it, and early enough to sit in next year's budget.

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Tell us what it looks like and we'll come measure it. You get a written price before anything starts.

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  • A photo of the problem helps, and it can go in the message
  • Surfaces that are not ready yet get told so at the estimate

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