DeKalb County, GA
Avondale Estates’s general contractor
Avondale Estates is a small, deliberately designed city with a distinctive older housing stock.
The houses in Avondale Estates
Tudor-influenced and period houses where matching existing detail matters a great deal. Work here is usually about updating systems and function without disturbing the character.
Inside the perimeter the houses are older and smaller, and the work is usually about making an existing footprint function better rather than adding to it.
We are based in Roswell, which puts Avondale Estates comfortably inside our working radius. Avondale Estates sits in DeKalb County, and the rest of that county is on the county page.
What we do in Avondale Estates
Eight categories, forty-six services, all of it available here.
How we work
SSRGA started in 2021, but Igor Dubovoy had already put twenty years into the trade by then. His last job before the company was at an outfit doing roughly five hundred remodels a month, and he watched the quality drop as the numbers rose. He built SSRGA to work the opposite way, with fewer jobs and more care on each one.
The company is deliberately small. That is not a limitation we are apologizing for, it is the reason the work holds up.
How a job actually runs
First visit
Igor walks the space, asks what you actually use the room for, and gives you a straight answer about scope. Some jobs are smaller than people fear. Some are bigger. You get the real version either way.
Opening it up
The moment demo starts, the house tells you what it has been hiding. We document what we find, explain what it means for the job, and fix it properly rather than working around it.
Finishing it right
The last ten percent is where most remodels fall apart. Trim that does not quite meet, caulk lines that wander, a door that never closes square. That part gets the same attention as the framing.
Also in DeKalb County
Every city we cover is on the service areas page.
Where the money actually goes
You should know where your money is going, and we will show you in detail once we have walked the job. Until then, any figure we gave you would be made up.
The largest variable is almost always whether things move. Keeping the layout keeps the mechanical work small. Changing it means drains, vents, circuits and often framing.
Hidden conditions come next. Rot, old repairs and outdated wiring do not show up on a phone call, which is why we inspect what we can at the walkthrough and price the job afterward.
Seeing more of it
For a closer look at what we build, the gallery sorts our photos by category, and it includes the half-finished stages, because what goes in before the finish is what you are really paying for.
What gets inspected
Anything structural, most mechanical work, and every addition. We pull the permits, schedule the inspections and are on site for them.
Contractors who work around permitting are avoiding scrutiny, and the scrutiny is the point. The details inspectors look hardest at are the ones that cause real failures.
It also protects you later. Unpermitted work surfaces at the worst possible moment, which is usually when you are selling or making a claim.
Timeline and disruption
Remodeling is disruptive, and pretending otherwise helps nobody. What we can control is whether it is predictable.
You get a schedule with real dates, the same crew throughout, and a heads up when anything shifts. Materials are ordered ahead of demolition so waiting happens before your house is open rather than during.
The site gets swept at the end of each day and dust control goes up before the work starts, not after somebody complains.
How we think about materials
There is a version of every product at three price points and the differences are not always where the marketing says. Some of it is genuine performance and some of it is finish options.
If it gets covered, we specify it carefully. A cheap membrane under a shower floor is a problem that waits years to show itself, then costs a full tear-out. A towel bar is a choice you can change whenever you want.
That means we sometimes talk clients out of upgrades. If a mid-range fixture performs the same as the expensive one, we would rather that money went into the part of the job nobody sees.
After we finish
The end of the job includes a walkthrough where we go over what was done and what it needs from you, which is usually not much.
The parts worth attention are the wet joints, the exterior drainage and anything that moves. Everything else is built to be left alone.
If something needs looking at later, call. Knowing what is behind the finish is worth something, and we do.
Where this is
Questions people ask
How do we get started?
Tell us a little about the project by phone at (678) 665-7771 or through the contact page, and we will schedule a walkthrough. It is free, and what you decide afterward is entirely up to you.
What happens if you find something unexpected?
Surprises come with opening up a house. Our job is to make sure you see what we see, with photos and a plan, on the day it turns up, before anything is covered again.
Do you handle permits?
We do. Anything that changes structure, adds space or moves most plumbing and electrical needs a permit, and we take care of the application and the inspections so you do not have to.
Will we be able to live in the house during the work?
It depends on how much of the house is torn open at once. One room at a time, yes in most cases. For full remodels and larger additions, we talk it through honestly at the walkthrough.
How long does a project like this take?
Longer than the TV shows suggest, and shorter than most people fear once it is planned properly. A bathroom generally runs a few weeks. A whole-house remodel runs months. After Igor sees the space you get an actual schedule, and you hear from us the moment anything pushes it.
Who is actually on site?
You will see the same faces from the first day to the last. Igor is there on the job himself, so the person who planned the work is the one checking it.
Let us come look at your Avondale Estates project
Reach Igor at (678) 665-7771 or through the contact page. He will see the space in person and give you a straight answer on scope. Keeping SSRGA small was a choice he made after watching an operation doing about five hundred remodels a month lose its grip on quality.