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Welcome to Craft & Timber
Additions, basements, flooring and whole-house remodels across the Gallatin Valley. We draw the load path before anyone swings a hammer.
Figures are samples for this demo site.
What we do
Every room, every system, one schedule and one contract.
Bump-outs, second storeys, garage conversions and new footprint.
Egress, moisture control, insulation and headroom, in that order.
Get to know us
We are a general contractor for the whole house. We are not a single-room specialist, and we say so before anyone books a site walk.
Wendell SaitoFounder, lead timber framer
We work on houses, not on rooms. A whole-home renovation, an addition, a basement, a floor plan that needs a beam through it. The work that touches structure, systems and finishes in one schedule is the work we are built for.
Kitchens and bathrooms appear in our work constantly, but always as rooms inside a wider scope. If your project is a cabinet and countertop replacement in an unchanged footprint, a dedicated kitchen firm will give you a better schedule and a better price, and we will tell you so on the first call.
Minimum project: around $60,000, or five weeks on site. Kitchens are built where walls, services or structure change, bathrooms alongside a layout or plumbing change, and referrals are given freely when we are the wrong firm.
Our services
The work that changes how the house carries load, or how much of it there is.
The layers that go on last and are looked at every day.
Built as part of a wider scope, never as a standalone single-room job.
Latest projects
Whole-home renovationA 1908 foursquare brought back to one plan
Home additionA second storey on a 1978 ranch
Basement finishingA basement that had to stop being wet first
Structural renovationOpening a main floor without losing the houseFlooring and electricalFlooring, service and a floor that finally sits flat
Structural renovation and additionA timber-frame great room inside an existing shellPlanning tool
Snow load travels from the roof to the soil through seven links. Change the site, the span or the soil and watch the footing change with it.
Pad sized so 2,640 lb spreads across soil rated at 1,500 psf. Bottom of footing at 36 in below finished grade.
The link that breaks most often is not the footing. It is a post that lands on a floor joist instead of continuing down to something that can take a point load. Trace all seven rows before you price anything.
Why choose us
Every project where structure changes gets a marked-up section showing roof to footing: rafter, header, beam, post, footing, soil. If any link is missing we find it on paper, not with a shoring wall and a phone call to an engineer on a Friday afternoon.
Framing, wiring, plumbing and insulation, photographed in sequence and filed by room. Ten years from now, when someone wants to hang a cabinet or find a stud, the answer is in a folder rather than in a stud finder.
Thresholds, reducers and nosings come out of our shop in the same stock as the floor. There has not been an off-the-shelf metal transition strip in a house we finished since 2019.
When something behind a wall changes the plan, you get a photograph, an explanation and a priced change order with a schedule impact before any work proceeds. Nothing gets built and billed afterwards.
Sample figures for this demo site.
Working process
2 to 3 hours, no charge
We come with a moisture meter, a straightedge, a laser and a torch. We open a small inspection area where we need to, read the panel, check floor deflection and trace the load path. You get a verbal read the same day and a written summary within a week.
2 to 4 weeks
We write the scope line by line: what is included, what is excluded, and an allowance figure for every selection you have not made. This is the document that makes a fixed price meaningful, and it is the one worth reading twice.
6 to 12 weeks
Construction drawings, structural engineering where load paths change, and permit submittal. In the conservation overlay or at Big Sky, design review runs in parallel. We also lock long-lead selections here: windows, cabinetry and tile.
1 to 3 weeks
Dust walls up, negative air running, path protected. Selective demolition exposes what the site walk could only infer. Anything we find is photographed, priced and brought to you as a change order before it is built.
4 to 10 weeks
Framing and structure first, then mechanical, electrical and plumbing rough-in, then inspections. Nothing gets covered until it has passed. Every wall is photographed open and the photographs go in your folder.
4 to 10 weeks
Insulation, drywall, flooring, trim, paint and fixtures, then two punch walks. The first one is ours and we do not invite you to it. The second is yours, and we fix what you find before final payment.
Testimonials
“They found the missing beam on the first visit and told us what it would cost before we signed anything. Every surprise after that had a photograph and a price attached.”
“Two other builders said our foundation would not take a second floor. Craft and Timber dug test pits and came back with numbers instead of an opinion.”
“Two quotes told us the floor was fine. Craft and Timber put a straightedge on it and let us look underneath ourselves. We would have tiled over a real problem.”
“We lived in the house for fourteen of the eighteen weeks. Every Friday we got a plan for the following week and they never once missed it.”
“They saved the 1911 staircase when I had accepted losing it. The newel post alone took their shop three days.”
Contact us
Two to three hours on site with a moisture meter, a straightedge and a panel reader, plus a written feasibility summary. We do this before any contract exists.
Sample figures for this demo site.
Planning tool
Run the NEC 220.82 optional calculation against the appliances you are planning to buy, not the ones you already own. It is the figure that decides a service upgrade.
Indicative only. Nameplate ratings vary by model and a licensed electrician runs the real calculation against your actual equipment. An upgrade also means reconnected circuits have to meet current AFCI and GFCI requirements.
Two more tools sit on the planning tools page: a basement egress and moisture check, and a floor height and transition planner.
Current offers
Every figure below is a sample for this demo site. Real terms are confirmed in writing before anything is signed.
Two to three hours on site with a moisture meter, a straightedge and a panel reader, plus a written feasibility summary. We do this before any contract exists.
Projects with interior-only scope that start on site between 6 January and 28 February. Our crews are steadier in winter and we pass some of that back.
If we carry out the structural engineering for your feasibility study and you go on to sign a construction contract with us, the engineering fee is credited against the first draw.
Two households on the same block contracting in the same season share mobilisation, dust control set-up and container costs, and both see the saving.
Field journal
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