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Evaluate The Risk of a Basement Break-In

Evaluate The Risk of a Basement Break-In

Do your lower-level windows put your home at risk for a break-in? While there has been a downward trend in home burglaries for well over a decade, those numbers are still higher than they should be.

7 Benefits of Having Metal Window Wells

7 Benefits of Having Metal Window Wells

Metal window wells are easily the most popular choice for basement windows, and it’s for a good reason. Here’s a look at homeowners’ choices for window wells and why metal offers the most benefits.

How to Fix a Flooding Window Well

How to Fix a Flooding Window Well

There’s nothing that can send a shock wave of panic through a homeowner like a flooding window well. Water leaking into your basement can quickly and seriously damage appliances, walls, finish work and even some of your home’s major systems like the HVAC or electrical. But what can be done? Is there a way to […]

Different Kinds of Window Well Covers

Different Kinds of Window Well Covers

Many factors go into selecting the right window well cover for your home’s window well. A window well cover is a material designed to go over the window well, which is a hole in the ground that keeps the earth away from the basement window, allowing light, ventilation, and egress.  Window wells are an essential […]

Rectangular Well Cover Ideas

Rectangular Well Cover Ideas

If you’re planning to cover your basement window wells, we’ve got some rectangular well cover ideas to help. Covering your window wells often isn’t on a homeowner’s mind until an accident happens. 

4 Tips to Prepare Your Family For A Home Evacuation

4 Tips to Prepare Your Family For A Home Evacuation

Hopefully, you won’t need to escape your home in an emergency, but you should know how to prepare your family for a home evacuation.  Most homeowners never experience the terror of living through a disaster, whether it be a fire, flood, or another natural disaster. We hope you’re not an exception, but your family must […]

Window Well Height: What’s the Rule?

Window Well Height: What's the Rule?

Habitable rooms within a basement also need to conform to the International Residential Code building code for windows. This requires a basement to contain no less than one operable emergency escape and rescue opening. In turn, these openings also need to follow minimum specifications.

Why Galvanized Window Wells Are Great for Your Home

What Are Galvanized Window Wells?

If you are new to owning a home and living in a lively neighborhood or have a family of your own, having galvanized window wells is great for you.  What Are Galvanized Window Wells? Galvanized window wells are the generic window well you can install on your home. Using a zinc sulfate solution, galvanized window […]

3 Signs I Need To Replace My Window Well?

3 Signs I Need To Replace My Window Well?

Your window wells and liners do a lot for you. But do you know just how much?  Your window well creates a barrier around the exterior of your home. This barrier pushes back the soil, leaving a hole in the ground. This hole is your window well, and the retaining wall is your window well […]