Training & Ongoing Support
You don’t need a background in construction to run a Lodgewick ADU Builders location. We’ve built our training around the reality that most of our strongest owners came from management, sales, or operations roles in other fields, not from swinging hammers. What you need is the willingness to learn the trade’s real words, hire the right people, and stand behind The Kingswell Guarantee. We’ll teach you the rest, from your first week through your hundredth job.
Initial Training
Your onboarding runs four weeks before you ever take a homeowner call. Week one is operations and the Kingswell Way: how to give a written price before any work starts, how to set an arrival window you can actually keep, and how to put the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing on every contract. You’ll learn the trade’s real words too – setback, encroachment, utility lateral, Title 24 – then practice explaining them in plain language a homeowner understands.
Week two covers the build itself. We walk through each ADU type we offer: prefab units from Abodu, Cover, Dvele, Mighty Buildings, Boxabl, and Plant Prefab; site-built structures with James Hardie siding; garage conversions using Tuff Shed systems; and custom stick-built additions. You’ll spend time at our training facility working through real permitting packages, so when a city planner in your market asks for a site plan revision, you’ve seen it before.
Week three is software and systems: our CRM, scheduling platform, pricing calculator, and the national vendor portal that gets you pre-negotiated rates on materials. Week four is hiring and marketing – how to recruit background-checked, uniformed technicians, how to run a clean job site, and how to launch your local lead engine. By the end, you’ll have a written operations playbook specific to your territory and a direct line to our field support team.
Launch Support
Opening your doors isn’t a figure-it-out moment. We assign you a launch coach who stays with you through your first ten jobs. They help you set up local marketing: Google Business Profile, neighborhood-targeted digital campaigns, and community partnerships with real estate agents and mortgage brokers who already refer ADU work. Your lead engine starts running before your first truck rolls.
Your coach listens in on your first five estimate calls, then reviews your first three written quotes to make sure you’re giving real price ranges, not vague ballparks. They’ll ride along on your first site visit if you want. The goal is simple: your first job should feel as steady as your fiftieth. We don’t throw you the keys and hope. We stay until you’re answering calls with confidence and homeowners are signing because they trust the price on the page.
Ongoing Support
- Field coaching: Regional operations managers visit your market quarterly, ride job sites, and review your closing rates, average ticket, and callback percentage. They spot what’s working and what’s slipping before it costs you a customer.
- Marketing: Our national team produces brand campaigns, video content, and seasonal promotions you can deploy locally. You also get a dedicated marketing coordinator who helps you spend your local budget where it actually produces leads, not where it looks impressive.
- Vendor relationships: We maintain national accounts with Abodu, Cover, Dvele, Mighty Buildings, Boxabl, Plant Prefab, Tuff Shed, and James Hardie. You get pricing and priority scheduling that an independent operator can’t negotiate alone.
- Technology: Platform updates, new tools, and integration support are handled by our in-house team. You don’t troubleshoot software on a Saturday night.
- National brand campaigns: When Kingswell runs television, radio, or digital campaigns at the national level, your territory benefits. Homeowners search, they find the Lodgewick name, and they call the local number that rings in your office.
- Peer network: Monthly owner calls, an annual conference, and a private forum where owners share what’s actually working in their markets. No corporate filter, just real numbers and real talk.
You’re Never Alone
The Kingswell Guarantee isn’t just for homeowners. It’s how we treat our owners too: clear expectations, written commitments, and someone who answers when you call. A live person picks up, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not a voicemail loop. Not a chatbot. If you’ve got a question about a bid, a crew issue at 10 PM, or a homeowner who needs to hear the guarantee from a second voice, we’re there.
Every Lodgewick location is independently owned and operated. You’re building something in your community, not managing a satellite office for someone else’s empire. A lodge is a small house on a larger property. That’s what an ADU is. And that’s what we help you build – room to grow, right on your lot, for homeowners who’ve been let down before and are ready for a company that answers, shows up when it said it would, and stands behind the work.
Call us at (254) 602-5618 to talk through the training schedule, the investment, and what your territory looks like. Or request more information below and we’ll call you, usually within the hour.
Written by Russ Delmar, Owner at Lodgewick ADU Builders, serving homeowners since 2010.