Window Well Maintenance: What Not To Do
Owning a home comes with a myriad of responsibilities and tasks that are required to keep your home in tiptop shape—including window well maintenance.
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.
Prevent Rodent Infestations in Your Lower Level
Here’s why you should be concerned about rodent infestations and some suggestions on what you can do to prevent these unwanted, unclean guests.
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 […]
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
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?
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
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?
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 […]
What Are Galvanized Window Wells?
Galvanized window wells are the most standard window well option on the market. They have everything you’d want in a window well; they’re durable, they last for up to 30 years, and they don’t rust. When it comes to window wells, these are the total package. But what else do you need to know about […]