How Lodgewick ADU Sacramento Was Born in Sacramento
Russ Delmar didn’t wake up one morning in 2010 dreaming about accessory dwelling units. He woke up frustrated. A friend in Midtown had spent months trying to get a backyard cottage permitted, and every contractor he called either ghosted him after the first visit or came back with a number that had nothing to do with the number he’d heard a week earlier. The final straw was a bid that arrived handwritten on a napkin, with a note that said “plus whatever the inspector makes us fix.” That’s not how you treat someone’s home. That’s not how you treat someone’s savings. Russ looked at that napkin and made a decision: he would bring the Lodgewick ADU Builders standard to Sacramento, where a written price comes before any work starts, and where the guarantee isn’t a handshake joke but a piece of paper you can hold someone to. This branch exists because Sacramento homeowners kept telling the same story: they were ready to build, they just couldn’t find anyone who would say the price and stand by it. We do both.
Russ Delmar’s Personal Connection to the ADU Trade
Russ got into this work through the side door. His background was in residential construction management, but what pulled him toward ADUs specifically was watching his own neighborhood change. He’d lived in Sacramento for years, and he kept noticing the same thing over and over: grown kids moving back home after college, aging parents who needed to be close but not too close, homeowners watching property values climb and wondering how to make the lot work harder. People had reasons to build. What they didn’t have was a builder who treated a 600-square-foot backyard unit with the same care as a full custom home. That imbalance bothered him more than it should have, and that’s how he knew it was the work he was supposed to be doing.
There’s a physical memory that sticks with him from those early days. He was standing in a backyard in Carmichael, looking at a site where another crew had walked off mid-project. The foundation forms were still up, warping in the weather. There was a wheelbarrow full of dried concrete sitting exactly where it had been abandoned. He remembers the smell of that concrete, the dust still hanging in the air, the feeling of looking at someone’s half-finished dream and knowing what it would take to make it right. That’s the work. Not the framing and the roofing, though he loves that too. The work is showing up after someone else gave up, saying what it will cost in clear numbers, and then doing it. What gets him out of bed is the moment a homeowner walks into their finished ADU for the first time and realizes they don’t have to hold their breath anymore.
He’s been doing this work for years now, long enough that the job has become part of how he sees the city. If he weren’t building ADUs, he’d probably be teaching someone else how to, or restoring old houses in Land Park, or loading his truck at 5 a.m. to get ahead of the heat on a Gold River pour. This was never a fallback career. It was the thing that found him, and he had the sense to say yes.
Meet Russ Delmar – The Person Behind Every Job
Russ Delmar is the Owner & Founder of Lodgewick ADU Sacramento. His background is in residential construction management, with years spent on jobsites before he ever sat behind a desk. He’s built his reputation on knowing what a foundation needs in Sacramento’s clay soil, what the city’s planning department will flag on a setback variance, and what a realistic timeline looks like in a region where summer heat slows exterior work to a crawl. What separates him from a corporate franchise technician is simple: he lives here. When you call about a property in Woodland or North Highlands, you’re talking to someone who has driven those streets and knows what permits those neighborhoods expect. Russ is the kind of person who checks a finished project twice before he calls it done, not because anyone is watching, but because he can’t stand the thought of leaving a loose end. His commitment to homeowners is this: if we put our name on it, it stays done, and if it doesn’t, we come back. That’s not a slogan. That’s the only way he knows how to work.
Our Promise to Sacramento Homeowners
Our promise comes from the Lodgewick ADU Builders standard, and it’s built on the Kingswell family of values, what we call The Kingswell Way. Five things, none of them complicated:
- Say the price before the work. Every job gets a written price before any work starts. No napkin bids. No “plus whatever the inspector says.”
- Show up in the window we gave. We give you an arrival window and we hit it. Homeowners have been no-showed enough in this city.
- Leave the place cleaner than we found it. A construction site is never spotless during the build, but it should never stay a wreck after we’re done for the day.
- Put the guarantee in writing. Every job is covered by The Kingswell Guarantee, and you’ll have a copy in your hand before we break ground.
- Come back if it fails. If a repair or component fails inside the guarantee period, we come back and fix it at no charge. That’s the whole point of a guarantee.
We hold to those values on every job, whether it’s a compact studio over a garage in Folsom or a two-bedroom unit with a full kitchen in Rancho Murieta. The zip code doesn’t change the standard.
Our Credentials
Every pro working under the Lodgewick ADU Sacramento name is required to hold the license and insurance their state requires. That’s not a badge of pride; it’s the baseline for touching someone’s property. We carry insured and bonded coverage on our work, and we’ll show you the paperwork before you sign anything.
- State-licensed: Required for every pro on every job. Never waived, never borrowed, never “pending.”
- Insured & bonded: Protection for your property and your project from the first day of work.
- Trusted local reputation: Built over years of completed ADU projects across Sacramento County and into the surrounding foothills.
Here’s why that matters when you’re hiring someone to work on your home: a license means the person has passed the state’s bar to do this work at all. Insurance means that if something goes wrong on your property, you’re not the one left holding the cost. And a local reputation means your neighbors have already vetted us in the way that counts, by living with the work we do.
Rooted in Sacramento
We work in Sacramento because we live in Sacramento. Our service area stretches from Roseville and Folsom out to Dixon, Galt, and Winters, and up through Carmichael, Gold River, North Highlands, and La Riviera. These aren’t just dispatch zones to us. They’re where we buy our lumber, where the planning counter staff know us by name, and where we’ll run into you on a Saturday. Room to grow, right on your lot. That’s what we do, and it’s a whole lot easier to deliver when the lot is down the road from your own house.
Written by Russ Delmar, Owner & Founder at Lodgewick ADU Sacramento, serving the Sacramento region since 2010.