Installers
Most installers will not put a number on their website. These 9 do, and that alone tells you something. Every figure below links to the page it came from, and no one paid to appear here.
How to read the grouping
These are the markets where we found each company, not a claim about where it works. A contractor listed under one state may well serve the next one over, and several of them say so on their own pages. Check the source link for the service area before you call.
We read the pages installers publish and keep only what we can tie to an egress window. Companies that never answer us stay listed with whatever they publish publicly, and giving us prices does not move anyone up this page.
Before you sign anything
A published price is a starting point, not a quote. These six questions are where the difference between two quotes usually hides, and they are the ones that let you compare them on the same basis.
It is the single biggest driver of the price. If a contractor quotes without knowing, the quote will move.
Past 44 inches the code requires a permanently affixed ladder or steps. Ask whether that is in the quote.
This is the step do-it-yourself installs get wrong and the one that shows up later as a damp wall. It should be in writing.
Some quotes include it, some leave it to you. It changes both the price and your timeline.
Excavation, the window, the well, the cover, drainage, backfill, disposal, restoring the grade. Any of these can be excluded.
Rock, a buried line, an unexpected footing. Ask how a surprise is priced before it happens rather than after.
Or maybe it is not a contractor job
A window set into an opening that is already there, with a shallow well, is a different project at a different price. Four questions tell you which one you are looking at.
The window itself is a few hundred dollars. Every number on this page is what it costs to have someone else put it in.
