Egress Windows in Vienna, VA

Vienna's Brick Colonials Hide Dark Basements

Vienna's signature home is the brick colonial — handsome from the street, with a basement that has tiny steel-sash windows set high in the wall. Those windows were never meant for escape: the sills sit five feet up and the openings are a fraction of the 5.7 square feet the code requires. When Vienna families finish the basement for a teenager's bedroom or a guest suite, the egress window is the project that makes the room legal.

Cutting Brick and Block With Care

Vienna walls are often block with a brick veneer above grade — the cut happens below grade, in the block, and we take care to keep the work clean where the foundation meets the brick. Inside, these basements are usually finished to a high standard, so our dust containment and interior trim finish matter as much as the concrete work. We leave the room looking like the window was always there.

Light Changes Everything Downstairs

Vienna homeowners tell us the same thing after every install: the light. A code-sized casement where a steel slider used to be transforms the basement bedroom from a cave into the nicest-sleeping room in the house. Call (301) 679-9193 for a free written estimate in Vienna.