Ken Independent Home Solutions is a handyman and home improvement business run by Kendrick Drysdale, working in Rialto and the neighboring cities. The work ranges from a leaking angle stop under a bathroom sink to a full bathroom remodel with new tile and a new floor — and it is the same person answering the questions and doing the work.
Nine trades, one crew in Rialto
Most homes need more than one skill at a time. A shower that drips through to the ceiling below is a plumbing job, a drywall job and a paint job before it is finished. Rather than lining up three separate contractors and hoping the schedules match, homeowners in Rialto use Ken Independent Home Solutions for the whole sequence. Here is the full list of what we take on:
- Plumbing — leaks, fixture swaps, valves, drain work
- Bathroom remodeling — tubs, showers, vanities, tile surrounds
- Tiling — floors, backsplashes, shower walls
- Hard wood flooring — installation and repair
- Flooring — laminate, vinyl plank, tile and carpet transitions
- Roofing — repairs and roof work
- Painting — interior and exterior
- Home renovation — kitchens, living spaces, whole-room updates
- Handyman services — doors, trim, fixtures, patching, hardware, the punch list
Small repairs done right the first time
A lot of the calls we get are the jobs a homeowner has been walking past for months. A closet door off its track. A toilet that rocks because the flange sits low and the wax ring has flattened out. Baseboard that never got put back after a floor was replaced. Grout that has gone dark and crumbly in a shower corner. A single interior door that swells and sticks. None of these are big projects on their own, but together they make a house feel unfinished — and several of them are cheap now and expensive later. That rocking toilet is a subfloor repair if it is left long enough.
When you call, tell us everything on the list. It is nearly always cheaper to have one person handle six small items in one visit than to bring someone out six times.
Older Rialto homes and the repairs they need
A good share of the housing here is single-story postwar and 1960s–70s tract construction, and those houses share a set of predictable problems. Original galvanized supply lines that have narrowed to a trickle at the shower head. Small 1950s and 60s bathrooms with an alcove tub and a tiled surround where the grout and the mortar bed behind it have finally given up. Slab foundations where a hairline crack telegraphs up through vinyl tile. Ceramic tile laid over a wood subfloor without proper backer board, so it cracks along a joint line. We have seen these enough times to tell you on the walkthrough whether a patch will hold or whether the surround needs to come out to the studs — and to say so before any money is spent.
We work in Rialto, San Bernardino, Bloomington, Fontana, Grand Terrace, Colton, Loma Linda, Riverside and Jurupa Valley.
How a job goes, start to finish
You describe the problem, we come look at it, and you get a written quote with the price broken out — labor, materials, and anything we think might turn up once a wall or a floor is opened. Estimates are free and there is no obligation to move forward. If the scope changes mid-job, you hear about it before we keep going, not on the invoice at the end.
On remodels we walk you through material choices before ordering — tile size and layout, plank versus hardwood, paint sheen for a bathroom versus a hallway — so nothing arrives as a surprise. At the end of a day's work, tools go back in the truck and the floors get swept.
Ken retiled our hall bathroom and replaced the vanity. He found rot behind the tub surround, showed us the framing, and told us the cost before touching it. The finished tile lines up perfectly. — Homeowner, Rialto
We had water staining on a bedroom ceiling after the last big rain. Ken traced it to the roof, made the repair, then patched and repainted the ceiling so you cannot tell where it was. — Homeowner, Colton
Tell us what needs fixing
Send over a description of the work — plumbing, tile, flooring, roofing, paint or a mixed list of odd jobs — and we will come out, look at it, and put a number on it. Call Kendrick at (909) 419-3158 or use the estimate request form.