A Kerrville remodeling and handyman business built on a simple idea: the person who quotes your job should be the person standing in your house while it's being done.
Call 830-285-3509River Edge Remodeling is owned and run by Matt Conklin, here in Kerrville. When you call the number on this site, Matt is who answers. He's the one who comes out to look at the job, the one who writes the estimate, and the one accountable for how the work turns out.
That matters more than it might sound. A lot of frustration in this industry comes from the gap between the person who sells the job and the people who show up to do it — details get lost in the handoff, and when something goes wrong nobody quite owns it. Removing that gap removes most of the problem.
Itemized, so you can see what each part of the job costs and decide what stays in.
If we open a wall and find a problem, you hear about it that day — with options and costs — not on the final invoice.
If a project isn't worth the money, or needs a different trade entirely, we'll tell you rather than take the work.
Dust containment while we work and a clean space when we leave — every day, not just at the end.
Building here has its own character. The soil is shallow and rocky over limestone. The water is hard enough to shorten the life of fixtures. Humidity swings hard between seasons, so wood moves. Summers are punishing on anything exposed to the sun. A lot of the housing stock dates to the 1970s through the '90s, with the closed-off floor plans and small bathrooms of that era.
None of that is a problem — it's just context. It shapes what materials make sense, how things get fastened, and which upgrades are worth the money in a house here versus somewhere else. Knowing it is most of what separates a contractor who works in this area from one who happens to be driving through it.
Straight answers, including the unwelcome ones. Sometimes the honest response to "what would you do?" is that the project you're describing costs more than it's worth, or that the thing you think is a cosmetic problem is actually structural. We'd rather lose a job than talk someone into one. That's the whole reputation, and it's not worth trading for a single invoice.
Tell us roughly what you're thinking. There's no charge and no obligation for the conversation, and it's fine if you're still deciding whether to do anything at all.
Photos only tell you so much. We walk the space, take measurements, and look at the things you can't see from a picture — what's behind the wall, how the floor sits, where the water goes.
Broken into line items rather than a single number, so you can see the trade-offs and adjust the scope with real information.
You know what's happening each week. Dust stays contained, the site gets cleaned, and anything unexpected comes to you as it's found.
You point out everything that isn't right — that's the point of the walkthrough. It gets fixed before the job is called finished.
No sales pitch — just an honest read on what your project involves and what it costs.