General Contractor reviews in Washington, Maryland

We are so pleased with the work Keil Construction did for us on our recent renovation, and we are thoroughly enjoying the results. Jeff Keil’s crew converted what had been a kitchen/half-bath/laundry space into a beautiful kitchen, renovated a bathroom, built stairs that reconnected our basement (that they renovated) to the main part of the house, moved our laundry, and more.

Keil’s crew was incredibly responsive to our needs and concerns, and worked with us to ensure the results aligned with our vision for the space. After demolition was completed, we met weekly with Jeff and our project manager to walk through the work area, discuss progress, and plan next steps. For example, when we were concerned about the placement of a window and how cabinets would obstruct its light in our renovated kitchen, Jeff had his crew shift it.

Jeff has years of experience working on old homes, and this was evident from our conversations and work with him. He also has an appreciation for the character of old homes, and salvages and re-purposes elements when he can. When there was a need for flooring to match our 100+ year-old wooden floorboards, Jeff had it. When we needed a new steam radiator that would match others in the house, Jeff had it.

When an exterior door needed replacement, Jeff suggested we remove the transom above it and install a taller door with a glass pane. He also suggested that we retain the look of old, patchy paint on a newly-exposed brick wall in our basement. Both of these suggestions were not something we would have considered on our own, but the taller door looks stunning, and the partially-painted exposed brick has so much character.

Having been in the business for many years, Jeff has connections with excellent appliance, cabinet, and other vendors. He helped connect us with them, and his crew worked directly with these vendors to coordinate and handle the deliveries. And at no point did we feel that Jeff was throwing our business to cronies in order to gouge us on costs.

We highly recommend working with Keil Construction. As one would expect on any major project, it took longer than we’d hoped, but overall we were happy with Jeff Keil’s desire to make sure we were satisfied, and the work his team did on this project. We plan to hire his team again for other projects.

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.

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.

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.

We have used Keil Construction for all of our renovations for over 15 years and have always been impressed with their fresh ideas, super high quality work, competitive pricing, and impressive outcomes. The company's project managers are responsive and knowledgable about every aspect of their projects and are both friendly, responsive, and honest to work with. The projects they complete on our house are both functional and appealing and receive many compliments from our house guests.

We’ve worked with Jeff and his team on a few projects; a substantial build of finishing off new space in the house as well as smaller projects both inside and out of the home. He and his crew are very responsive, do great work, are timely and have a strong eye for finishing details that really make the end result shine! Not to mention they really understand Capital Hill homes, their history and ways to preserve their charm. We have recommended Jeff to others and are very happy with their work!

We have worked with Keil on a complete remodeling of our kitchen followed by renovations of our two upstairs bathrooms and additional work. I suppose my strongest recommendation is that having gone through a major project with him one, we re-upped to do it again shortly thereafter.

We had some broad ideas of what we thought could be accomplished but were not very dialed in on exactly how it should be done nor on the specific design details. In this way, Jeff was the kind of partner we needed in that we could give him the freedom to sketch a lot of the ideas based upon his experience on the Hill. His main vision for the kitchen was in the same spirit of what we tried to convey, but his realization of it was more ambitious and exciting than we would have proposed left to our own devices. Similarly with the master bath, we gave him some design pieces to work with, but generally had to lean on him to figure out how to make it work. There were certainly ideas that did not resonate with us, and he was good about dropping them and moving on to new solutions when that happened. That said, we did lean heavily on his expertise and without it, I don't know if the projects would have been successful.

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.

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.

We hired Keil construction to help us get our recently purchased row home ready for our family. The job entailed gutting and replacing three bathrooms as well as a complete basement apartment renovation and whole house interior painting. The quality of the work was excellent. As is often the case when opening walls in old homes, unexpected problems arose. Keil's response was regularly, "We can take care of that." Their attention to detail and care for historic preservation is what sets them apart. They not only protected the historic character of our home, but enhanced it in many ways, including reinstalling a long-forgotten pocket door, refinishing radiators, and custom carpentry. We would 100% work with them again.

We had such a great experience with Keil Construction and especially with the owner Jeff Keil. We had a complete gut renovation of our 1925 Capitol Hill townhouse and set up a weekly meeting with Jeff and our architect. Those meetings helped us quickly move through any issues that came up and also spared us lots of headaches.

Our renovation took about a year from start to finish and we continue to appreciate the quality of the work, and also greatly valued the expertise provided by Jeff.

Every big renovation has challenges but we really felt as though Jeff and his team provided good efforts on getting to the finish.

Renovating an 1890 row house in a historic district requires an understanding of old homes that most contractors do not have. Keil Construction does. To the degree it was possible we wanted to keep historic features of our home intact. Jeff was the only contractor I interviewed who understood and fully supported our wishes. And he has an encyclopedic knowledge of techniques, materials and replacement materials needed to renovate this these old homes. The homes original wood doors were not trashed, the original chandeliers (in terrible shape) were repurposed because Keil Construction knows who can perform these specialized restorations. And when something was just too far gone to save (like the patterned tin ceiling in the kitchen) they knew that the pattern was still in use and where to buy it. The crew then proceeded to make it look even better than I could have imagined.

Real nice guy who works hard and has fair & honest prices. We needed some help on a leaky toilet and he was quick, professional and a great creative problem solver. Would totally hire again!

James and Alice did an amazing and thorough job with our emergency plumbing request. Fast and honest job! Will keep using their services in the future

James is an excellent handyman and contractor. We’ve asked to his assistance on a variety of issues and he’s always able to problem solve and complete the job in a timely and professional manner at a fair price. Honestly, couldn’t be happier with his service and would recommend with my highest compliments.

Saved the day! Pipes were frozen and no one else had been able to fix it. Had been without water for several days and was about to move into hotel. Will likely use in future to make some improvements to ensure the same issue doesn’t happen again.

Contacted James to help get my car out of the ice after the 1/26/26 snowstorm in the dmv! He was able to arrive at my residence within 30 mins to assist! Completed the job under an hour. I feel so blessed because no other company was willing to assist me! James is amazing! Thank you!!!

My car was stuck in ice due to the snow storm. I called the company and James came out to help he was very efficient and was able to get my car out! I will definitely use this business in the future.

Aaron came on time and was very meticulous. His work was excellent.

Great wood delivery and customer service!

Super responsive (even on a weekend!). The DC Contractor came out for an emergency repair on the exterior of my home. He was very professional and well priced. Will definitely work with DC contractor in the future. Thanks again!!