Our skills and the expertise in our subcontractor pool don’t cover 2 significant components in these projects, nor do we have the equipment or labor-power for the physical work of those steps.įirst, any change to the envelope of your house, like enlarging a hole or making a new 1, requires structural drawings from a state-licensed engineer or architect. In our first house, we had to make 1 window opening bigger and force an egress window in another wall with no existing window to create 2 “legal” basement bedrooms. However, a typical egress window project is far more complicated than a window in any other part of the house because it involves adding a large window where there’s either an existing, smaller window or no window at all. Why didn’t we do the work ourselves? We only install windows when we are replacing them with ones of the same size. Plus, they got us on their schedule as quickly as possible and showed up to the jobsite ontime every morning. We were initially attracted to this company because of the superior engineering of their windows (more about these below), but we also saw an example of their great installation work at our friends’ house, so we knew we could trust them to do our project correctly. Their rate for labor and materials is very reasonable - less than it would cost us to rent the equipment and buy the windows to install them ourselves. We hired Denver Egress Window because they were able to meet the sweet spot of price, quality, and timing for our project. We marked the cost to add these windows as a priority in our renovation budget.
Our realtor, Laura Gray, explained that those were either “nonconforming bedrooms,” built before the codes required an egress, or were not technically “legal bedrooms.” Josh and I agreed that we wanted to make the 2 new bedrooms in our finished basement “legal” because we want to count them as bedrooms when we refinance and sell the house in the future. Even though basement bedrooms are now required to have a “legal egress” window or door, we saw many with smaller windows when we were shopping for a house, including the one we bought.
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