RepairBarn
№ 01 · Summer 2026 · Atlanta, GA

A registry of trades for the homes of Metro Atlanta.

Four vetted craftsmen — plumbing, decorative concrete, retaining walls, and French drainage — reachable by text, working the metro and outward for the right project.

From the Editor

The Repair Barn is a working directory — a short list of trades we've watched build well, and would put on our own house. No forms. No dispatch queue. Text the person who does the work.

№ 01 · Plumbing · Metro Atlanta

When water goes where it shouldn't.

Leaks that show up in a ceiling. A slab leak under the kitchen. A water heater that quits on a Saturday. The plumbing that runs a house is invisible until it isn't — and then it needs a technician who can locate the fault, price the fix honestly, and finish the job the same day when it can be done.

Andrew works on general plumbing, leak detection, slab leak repair, water heater installation, drain cleaning, and pipe repair — the daily reliability work as well as the excavation and trenchless sewer runs the bigger jobs require. North Metro Atlanta is the primary footprint.

№ 02 · Decorative Concrete · Metro Atlanta

The floor, the drive, the patio — done in stone.

A concrete slab is one of the few things on a house you'll never touch again. It's worth pouring it once, pouring it right, and giving it the finish you actually want to walk on.

Jairo has been finishing concrete in Georgia since 2014. Stamped patios and driveways, pavers and walkways, stained interior floors, epoxy for garages and commercial slabs, pool-deck resurfacing, and hardscape. Residential and commercial, licensed and insured, with a two-million-dollar liability policy carried on every job.

№ 03 · Retaining Walls · Metro Atlanta

Hold the slope. Reclaim the yard.

Old railroad tie walls rot. Cinder blocks lean. Once a wall starts to fail, it takes the grade above it with it — and every storm makes the repair more expensive than the rebuild.

Jimmy's crews replace failed walls with modular block, poured concrete, cinder block faced in flagstone, and stacked stone systems — including the grading, drainage, and re-planting the finished job needs to hold for decades. The same team handles the French drainage below, which is often what the wall's been waiting for.

№ 04 · French Drainage · GA · AL

Standing water — fixed once.

Georgia clay doesn't drain. Fifty inches of rain a year has to go somewhere, and if it isn't going away from the house on purpose, it's going toward it by default — into the yard, the crawl space, the foundation, or the neighbor's fence line.

Jimmy's crews are the exclusive certified installer of the French Drain Man™ system across Metro Atlanta, North Georgia, Huntsville, and Birmingham — genuine FDM high-flow pipe, clean stone envelope, non-woven fabric, sized for real storms. French drains, buried downspouts, yard drains, sump discharge lines, and slope drainage, built to outlast the mortgage.

The Barn

One place to keep the people you'd call back.

The Repair Barn started as a working list — the plumber we'd trust with a slab leak, the concrete crew that shows up on the day they said, the drainage specialist who can actually explain why your yard floods. Four names we don't lose when we change phones.

Every trade here works Metro Atlanta first, and outward — up to a hundred and fifty miles — when the right project makes the drive worth it. Drainage reaches further: North Alabama has been covered for years by the same crew.

If you found this through an email or a card in the mail, you're in the right place. Text the name that matches the job. That's the whole system.

A Notice to the Trades

Additional craftsmen welcome. The Repair Barn keeps its list short on purpose — trade owners serving Metro Atlanta who build to a standard are invited to inquire about a future issue.

Inquire — Text 404.246.8777 →