Keil Construction Inc

Jeff is very knowledgeable about renovations and had many creative ideas on how to control costs. He also pushed for some nice ideas that we incorporated in our renovation. His team of tradespeople are very good at finishes!

My wife and I first used Keil Construction 18 years ago to remodel our master bedroom and bath and to install an oak floor in the master bedroom, a few years later Keil Construction installed oak flooring in our guest room, ten tears ago Keil Construction built a family room on the back of our house and most recently, just last month, (August 2022) the company repaired and refinished our first floor oak flooring and removed cork flooring from the kitchen and Family room and installed new oak flooring. All has been made to look like an entirely new oak floor installation on the first floor of our Capitol Hill home. The quality of Keil Construction’s work is simply outstanding and their cost is reasonable—frequently the low bid. My wife and I have lived on Capitol Hill for 24 years. We have seen examples of Keil Construction’s work in other homes. It is always impressive.

We had an amazing experience with Jeff and team. From start to finish, the team was professional and proactive in managing and executing on our project. Jeff transformed our galley hill kitchen to a whole new open experience which included new everything and adding new flooring to our old flooring in a seamless fashion. Jeff knows these houses and gave us new ideas that enhanced the original design in so many ways. His team does amazing prep to ensure the project was minimally disruptive and were great at the back end on clean up. In addition, the team was very kind and professional.
With that great experience, on a whim, we converted our laundry room into a bathroom/laundry room and we were equally happy with that project.
We now have a truly functioning, beautiful and modern home on the hill.

Our Keil-built basement is gorgeous! Jeff Keil and his many teams were super-professional and communicative and detail-oriented as they transformed our rowhouse, making it totally doable to get one-third of our home gutted and rebuilt even as our family worked at home all year during the pandemic. Jeff has a strong, big-picture design vision which was super helpful when we weren’t sure what to do. He also cares about the details as if it was your own home and doesn’t hesitate to come redo something or tweak it until it’s right.

We have previously used Keil Construction to update both full bathrooms in our home with excellent results. Jeff and his team delivered results that met or exceeded our expectations in every way. In particular their craftsmanship and attention to details is as good as any contractor working on the Hill. Most recently we had Jeff and crew deliver two projects that transformed spaces in our home. On the lower level, he added a wall that created a private living space for our college aged son. On the main level, he totally remade a tired mantle and shelving with updated yet classic finishes. In typical fashion, Jeff was able to procure materials that made each project special. Over-sized 4 ft by 8 ft doors created a dramatic barn door wall downstairs. Upstairs, reclaimed over-sized trusses became floating shelves and a long abandoned fireplace surround has a new life. We highly and confidently recommend Keil Construction.

I hired Keil Construction to fully renovate my Capitol Hill row house, and they did an amazing job. Not only did the owner Jeff talk with me regularly about the vision I had for the place, but his team made my ideas become a reality. This is a company that cares about keeping the character of old DC homes but can mix in classic and modern designs. Most importantly, everything was done without cutting corners and with attention to detail. A year later, I'm still in love with the place.

Keil Construction completed a beautiful transformation of my basement which has allowed me to convert my basement into a legal ancillary apartment. Keil Construction is a basement transformation specialist. They dug out my existing basement which had a 6'6 floor-to-ceiling height and raised my finished ceiling height to 8'. The process from start to finish took two years (i.e. contract execution, architectural drawings, permitting, excavation, and build-out), but the Keil Construction team was a wonderful partner throughout the process.

Jeff Keil is an experienced builder and an expert when confronting the challenges of older, historic homes and correcting previous misguided renovations. My basement had its particular challenges in that my plumbing infrastructure, including the sewer line needed to be replaced and re-routed. Problems that cropped up during the construction phase were attended to quickly and mitigated.

Keil Construction is the construction/renovation partner you want in taking original wood and historic houses to a higher level and achieve beautiful results.