Basement Window Well Installation

February 1 2014 by smartgirl 20 comments.

Basement window well installation.

Models that allow sunlight through small or medium size windows usually mounted high at the top of the basement wall and oversize egress wells with windows large enough to use as an emergency escape. Carefully measure your window well. For starters you ll need to excavate outside the basement wall in the window location and create a deep window well that will provide full access to the window. Ensure that the top lip of the basement window well is well above the ground.

This projects falls under the category of i never planned on doing this when we bought the house oh well. Take notice of their installation in other buildings. After we got water pouring in through our basement window i decided it was a must do project. Window wells attach to your home s foundation around ground level windows to prevent water and soil from getting inside.

I show you how to install a. When you want to install a window well start by digging holes around the window for the well and a drain so it doesn t fill with water. Use the instructions below. The primary rules for designing a window well are the code requirements for an egress window the bottom of an egress window well must be at least 3 x 3 ft the well can t interfere with opening the window and you have to provide a permanent ladder if the walls are more than 44 in.

Also i searched high and low for the exact size of the window well we needed but i could not find them in our area and shipping cost where outrageous. This is how we installed window wells after expanding our basement windows. Then you ll need to cut through the foundation wall to create a rough opening that s the correct size to install the window. There are basically two kinds of below ground window wells.

A basement window was leaking because it was level with the ground and water seeped between the foundation and the window frame. Terracing our well eliminates the ladder requirement. So please note that we already had the dirt dug to the size we needed to fit the new window well.