San Antonio · Texas Hill Country
Custom homes, whole-home renovations and outdoor living — designed, framed and finished by the same family team that shakes your hand on day one.
Hill Country · Completed
A family builder
Jay Rod's Custom Homes was founded in 2020 by Juan and Maria Rodriguez. It's still their name over the door — which is why the same team that walks your land pours your slab, frames your walls and hands you the keys.
No handoffs between salespeople and subcontractors you never meet. Juan runs the jobsite. Maria runs the details. You always know exactly who to call.
What we build
Custom Home Building
From the first walk of the land to move-in day. We design around how your family actually lives, then build it with the framing system that fits your site — wood or steel.
Home Renovations
Whole-home remodels, additions and structural work — planned so your home keeps functioning while we transform it, and finished so it looks like it was always meant to be that way.
Outdoor Renovations
Covered patios, outdoor kitchens, pool builds and the retaining walls and site work that make them possible. Built to take Texas sun and still look sharp years in.
Project Management
Permits, schedules, inspections, trades — coordinated by the owner, not a rotating cast of managers. You get straight answers, a real schedule and a jobsite that stays moving.
The part nobody sees
In a Texas summer, concrete goes down early so it cures right. That's the standard under everything we build — the work you'll never see is done as carefully as the work you show off.
How a build runs
Every project follows the same disciplined path — so you always know where your build stands and what happens next.
We meet on your lot, talk through what you want to build, and flag the site realities — slope, drainage, access, utilities — before they become surprises.
Your home takes shape in 3D so you can walk the layout and adjust it while changes are still free — before a single yard of concrete is ordered.
Forms, steel and engineered slab work — the part of the build you never see again, done like it will be inspected forever.
Wood or steel framing goes vertical, then sheathing and roof deck close the structure to weather. This is when the drone photos start looking good.
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing rough-ins, then the finishes you picked in design — installed, punched and re-punched until they're right.
We walk every room together before you close. When you get the keys, the site is clean, the punch list is done and the sign comes out of the yard.
Recent work
Actual client design model
Design first
Every custom build starts as a full 3D model. You'll see your elevations, walk your floor plan and try your finishes on screen — so the home we pour in concrete is one you've already lived in.
Changing a wall in the model costs nothing. Changing it after framing costs plenty. We make sure you spend your decisions where they're cheap.
Where we build
Based in San Antonio, building across the metro, the Hill Country towns north of it, and select projects as far as the Corpus Christi coast.
Outside the list? If the project is right, we travel. Ask us.
Straight answers
Yes — that's most of our custom work. We'll walk the lot with you first and flag slope, drainage, access and utility realities before you commit to a design.
Absolutely. We'll review your plans, price the build honestly, and tell you if we see anything on the drawings that will cost you money in the field before we start.
Both. Whole-home renovations, additions and outdoor projects get the same crew and the same standard as our ground-up builds.
Juan Rodriguez — the owner. He's on site, he knows your build, and when you call, you're talking to the person making the decisions, not a call center.
We build with both, in-house. Which one fits depends on your design, your site and your budget — we'll walk you through the trade-offs, not push a default.
We listen. You talk through what you want to build, we look at the land or the house, and you leave knowing whether it's feasible, roughly what the path looks like and what to decide next. No pressure, no obligation.
Ready when you are
Tell us what you're picturing. Juan will call you back, we'll set a time to meet on site, and you'll get straight answers about what it takes to build it.
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