Framing contractors. Timber frame specialists.
Residential, commercial, and multi-family framing out of Columbia Falls, across the Flathead Valley — from straightforward stick-frame packages to custom timber work most crews won't touch. Twelve years, and every job we've started has been finished.
(406) 270-8642Send us your plans
or email Glacierbasinbuilders@gmail.com
- 12yr
- Framing the Flathead
- $2M
- Largest timber package
- 8d
- To frame InterBel
- 22ft
- Tallest walls set
Why people call us
- Integrity
- We've never gone backwards on a project and we've never walked away from one. Every job we've started has been finished.
- Quality
- We've never hired and kept a man just because we needed a body on site. We hire for skill and we keep for skill — that's the whole policy.
- Speed
- Just over seven thousand square feet of commercial building in Eureka, framed in eight days. Preparation is what makes that possible, not hurrying.
- Reliability
- Twelve years in, we have the crew and the infrastructure to take on work at any scale — from a single custom home to a nineteen-thousand-square-foot build.
The part nobody sees
On a house with a two-million-dollar timber package, nothing is a stock part. The beams are so large because they're spanning distances that no off-the-shelf material covers, and every one of them is cut for one specific place in one specific building.
The hard part of this work isn't any single cut. It's making the whole thing happen — keeping the timber framers, the general contractor, the lumber yards and the truss suppliers all moving to the same schedule, when every piece is custom and none of it can simply be reordered on Thursday. That coordination is the job. We've spent twelve years getting good at it.
Selected work
Flathead Valley, MT
The Shire
A 12,000 square foot, three-story residence carrying a timber package of close to two million dollars — one of the largest we've framed. The build includes reclaimed timber throughout, vaulted ceilings, a basement bowling alley, and a roughly 1,000 square foot elevated theater room.
.BBlQSYaW_1vxmiA.webp)
Big Mountain, Whitefish, MT
Big Mountain Remodel
A large remodel of a pre-existing 7,500 square foot house on Big Mountain, with a 4,500 square foot addition off the back and a 2,000 square foot addition wrapping the sides, carried on a cantilevered steel floor system.
Eureka, MT
InterBel
A commercial building just over 7,000 square feet, framed for H&C Construction from a complex, hardware-heavy set of prints.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you're building. Whether it's a standard framing package or a timber frame that needs a mill involved, it's the kind of work we do.