Meet the Orange County Team Behind Lodgewick ADU Orange County
The crew that shows up to your Orange County property is the same crew you’ll see from the first site walk to the final inspection. We hire people who understand that building an ADU in someone’s backyard means working next to where their kids play, where their dog sleeps, and where their neighbors watch. That level of access demands more than carpentry skill. It demands the kind of judgment you can’t fake. Every person on this page is a real part of Lodgewick ADU Orange County, and every one of them works under the same written standard: The Kingswell Guarantee.
Our People
Russ Delmar, Owner
Russ runs Lodgewick ADU Orange County the way he’d want a crew to work on his own property: steady, priced in writing before anyone swings a hammer, and finished to a standard that doesn’t need a callback. He’s been in residential construction since before prefab ADUs became a normal conversation at Orange County dinner tables, and he’s spent the last several years focused on accessory dwelling units specifically because they solve a real problem for real families. Aging parents. Adult kids priced out of the rental market. A home office that doesn’t eat the spare bedroom.
Russ is the one who walks every site before a price is written. He believes a vague estimate is how trust gets lost before the project even starts, so you’ll get a number you can plan around, not a range with a shrug attached. When he’s not on a build site, he’s usually reading plans for a detached ADU in Fullerton or checking on a garage conversion in Tustin. He’s got a soft spot for single-story layouts with good natural light, and he will absolutely notice if the framer cuts a corner.
Marcus T., Lead Technician
Marcus has eleven years in residential construction, with the last five spent almost entirely on accessory dwelling units and garage conversions around Orange County. He’s the person who turns an approved plan into a framed structure, which is a polite way of saying he’s the reason the roofline comes out straight and the subfloor doesn’t bounce.
Marcus is a certified operator for several of the prefab systems we work with, including Abodu and Mighty Buildings, and he’s been through factory training for panelized assembly more times than he cares to count. He grew up in Anaheim and still lives within twenty minutes of most job sites, which means he knows our local building inspectors by first name. That’s not a shortcut. It means he knows exactly what they’ll flag, and he builds to pass inspection the first time. Off the clock, he restores vintage motorcycles and complains about the price of OEM parts.
Danielle R., Senior Installer
Danielle came to Lodgewick from a background in finish carpentry, which is why the interior of a completed ADU looks like someone cared. Trim, door hangs, cabinet placement, the gap between the drywall and the window frame. Small things that homeowners notice every day but can’t always name. Danielle notices them first and fixes them before you ever see them.
She’s also the crew lead on most of our James Hardie siding work, which matters in Orange County because our coastal moisture and inland heat don’t treat cheap materials kindly. Danielle lives in Garden Grove and has a reputation on the crew for being the one who makes everyone sweep twice before we wrap a site. She’s serious about the leave-it-cleaner-than-found rule, and she’ll tell you a clean job site is the difference between a contractor and a guest in your home. Weekends, she’s usually hiking in Santiago Oaks with her two rescue dogs.
Elias V., Service Coordinator
Elias is the person you’ll talk to when you call Lodgewick ADU Orange County, and he’s the reason we can honestly say a live person answers every call. Not a voicemail. Not a chatbot. Elias answers. He’s been coordinating construction schedules in Orange County for seven years, and he knows the difference between a question about a permit timeline and a question about where the crew parked the truck.
His job is to make sure the written price you got is the same scope that shows up on the work order, that the crew arrives inside the window you were given, and that anyone who steps onto your property has been background-checked and is wearing a uniform. Elias grew up in Santa Ana and speaks fluent permit-department patience. If you call with a question about your project and Russ is on a ladder, Elias will either answer it himself or make sure Russ calls you back before the end of the day. He keeps a written log of every call, which is exactly the kind of detail we don’t advertise but our clients absolutely feel.
One Standard, Every Job
There’s a name for how this crew operates, and it isn’t a slogan. It’s The Kingswell Way, and it shows up in four things every homeowner can hold us to. First, the price gets said out loud and put in writing before any work starts. No change orders that weren’t discussed. No door-knock surprise. Second, if we give you an arrival window, the crew shows up inside it. Third, the job site gets left cleaner than we found it, every day, not just on the final walkthrough. Fourth, every project carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing: if the work isn’t right, Lodgewick comes back and makes it right, free, within the guarantee period. That promise applies to a garage conversion in Huntington Beach, a detached ADU in Irvine, and a home addition in Mission Viejo all the same. This Orange County team is independently owned and operated, but the standard is never up for interpretation.
Written by Russ Delmar, Owner at Lodgewick ADU Orange County, serving Orange County since 2010.
