A Bonner County general contractor with twenty years of Pacific Northwest building behind the license — new construction, remodels, and additions run by one accountable builder.
When you hire a general contractor, you're really hiring their judgment and their network. Dihedral Builders is led by Chad Gailey, who spent about twenty years running builds across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska — most of them on the kind of steep, wet, hard-access sites around Anacortes, Washington that force a contractor to plan well or fail publicly. We build where other contractors pass.
We moved that operation to North Idaho deliberately. We've been putting down roots in Sandpoint since 2020, our office at 213 Hard Pack Lane is permanent, and we carry Idaho contractor registration 4181115. Our completed project record is in Washington — we won't pretend otherwise — and our first Idaho build is underway near Sandpoint right now. What carries over is the way we run a job: one contract, one schedule, one person who answers the phone.
That single point of contact matters more in Bonner County than most places, because the trades here are stretched across a big county. We bring personally vetted subcontractors, honest scheduling, and a 5.0-star record of finishing on time and on budget.
Ground-up homes, shops, and outbuildings on city lots and rural acreage alike. We manage the full sequence — site work, utilities, foundation, framing, finish — under one contract with one builder responsible for all of it.
Whole-home renovations and structural remodels where the existing building has to keep standing while it changes. Twenty years of opening up old walls has taught us to plan for what we'll find, not just what the drawings show.
Room additions, second stories, garages, and the structural work that ties new construction into an existing home cleanly. We engineer for Bonner County snow loads and match the new work to the old so it reads as one house.
A general contractor here has to be fluent in two permitting worlds. Projects on unincorporated county land — Sagle, the Selle Valley, Careywood, Clark Fork — run through Bonner County Planning, while work inside Sandpoint, Dover, Kootenai, or Ponderay follows that city's process instead. Knowing which rules apply to your parcel, and what each office wants to see, is the difference between a clean approval and a stalled one.
The county's geography works against a loosely run job. Subcontractors are spread thin between Sandpoint and the outlying valleys, and a plumber who gets bumped twice by a disorganized schedule may not come back for weeks. We keep a vetted bench of trades, sequence the work honestly, and protect their time — which is exactly why they protect our schedule.
Rural jobs also carry logistics that town jobs don't: long driveways that have to handle delivery trucks in mud season, power runs from a distant pole, wells and septic systems that have to be coordinated before finish dates mean anything, and roof framing engineered for the snow this county actually gets. We price and plan those realities up front instead of discovering them as change orders.
I highly recommend Chad and Dihedral Builders. Their quality of work and attention to detail is far above any contractor I have ever worked with. Chad is easy to work with and communicates well. I give them an A+.
RR · Google review
If you are looking for top quality workmanship at affordable prices, Dihedral Builders fits the bill...
Lynn Newcomb · Google review
Yes. Dihedral Builders carries Idaho contractor registration 4181115 and operates from a permanent office at 213 Hard Pack Lane in Sandpoint. We take on general contracting work throughout Bonner County, from in-town projects to rural parcels out toward Sagle, the Selle Valley, and Clark Fork.
Yes — that's the core of how Dihedral Builders operates. You get a single point of contact who owns the schedule, the budget, and the subcontractors from the first meeting to the final walkthrough. In a county where trades are spread thin, having one builder accountable for coordination is what keeps a project moving.
We do, and much of our interest in Bonner County is exactly that kind of work. Rural parcels bring driveway access, well and septic coordination, long power runs, and county permitting into the same project as the building itself. We manage all of it under one contract so you aren't refereeing between separate site and construction crews.
Call (208) 714-0250 or send us the basics of your project. We'll tell you plainly whether it's a fit and what it will take to do well.
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