Raleigh Window Pros provides professional basement and bedroom egress windows in Raleigh, NC for residential and commercial properties across Wake County. Egress is the one place on this site where we tell you the code is the specification rather than a floor. Nothing about it is frozen, negotiable or exempt, and no insert we could sell you is worth failing it.
The Residential Code requires every sleeping room to have an operable emergency escape and rescue opening. The figures are a net clear opening of 5.7 square feet, a minimum clear height of 24 inches, a minimum clear width of 20 inches, and the sill itself set within 44 inches of the finished floor. All four figures apply at once, and missing any single one of them fails the opening.
Net clear opening is measured through the hole the sash actually leaves when it is fully open. Not the rough opening, not the frame size, and not the figure printed in a brochure beside a photograph. Openings at grade floor are permitted at 5.0 square feet, which is the exception people most often misapply to a second-storey bedroom where it does not belong.
This is the single place where we reverse the advice we give everywhere else on this site. An insert takes roughly an inch from each side and each end of the existing frame, and on a bedroom unit already sitting close to the minimum, that inch is precisely the difference between a legal escape opening and an illegal one nobody notices until it matters.
So bedrooms get measured before anybody talks about product, colour or price. The existing net clear opening and the proposed net clear opening go onto the quote as two numbers, room by room, in square feet. You are welcome to check our arithmetic with a tape measure before you sign anything, and some of our customers do exactly that.
Operating type is a genuine lever in a tight opening. A casement surrenders nearly its entire sash area to the clear opening, so it can meet egress in a hole where a double-hung simply cannot. A slider counts its full width toward the number. A double-hung gives you roughly half its height and no clever specification changes that.
Basements are their own project rather than a window order. A below-grade escape opening needs a window well sized to let an adult turn around inside it, a permanent ladder or steps where the well is deeper than 44 inches, and drainage at the bottom that connects to something real rather than to gravel and optimism.
We have walked away from basement egress work where the only route to a legal sill height ran through a structural wall the owner did not want opened. Saying that on day one, before any money changes hands, is cheaper for both of us than discovering it on day three with the siding already stacked in the driveway and a hole in the wall nobody can close.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — insert assemblies set into a retained existing frame, sash packs with new jamb liners and balance shoes, constant-force coil balances in a double-hung frame, soft-coat low-E on the second surface for solar rejection, stainless warm-edge spacer in a dual-seal sealed unit, poured and debridged polyurethane thermal breaks in aluminium — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Raleigh and nearby communities including Cary, Apex, Wake Forest, Holly Springs.
What We Handle
Everything our basement and bedroom egress windows in Raleigh covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of basement and bedroom egress windows work in Raleigh, NC. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Raleigh services.
Materials, equipment and how we do basement and bedroom egress windows
The difference between basement and bedroom egress windows that lasts and basement and bedroom egress windows that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with insert assemblies set into a retained existing frame, sash packs with new jamb liners and balance shoes, constant-force coil balances in a double-hung frame, soft-coat low-E on the second surface for solar rejection, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Raleigh job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in Wake County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do basement and bedroom egress windows outside Raleigh
Raleigh Window Pros covers Raleigh and the surrounding communities of Wake County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Basement and Bedroom Egress Windows in Cary, NC — Wake County, population 174,721 at the 2020 census
- Basement and Bedroom Egress Windows in Apex, NC — Wake County, population 58,780 at the 2020 census
- Basement and Bedroom Egress Windows in Wake Forest, NC — Wake County, population 47,601 at the 2020 census
- Basement and Bedroom Egress Windows in Holly Springs, NC — Wake County, population 41,239 at the 2020 census
- Basement and Bedroom Egress Windows in Fuquay-Varina, NC — Wake County, population 34,152 at the 2020 census
- Basement and Bedroom Egress Windows in Garner, NC — Wake County, population 31,159 at the 2020 census
Start on the Raleigh Window Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Raleigh Chooses Raleigh Window Pros
- ✓We name which of the four cases in North Carolina's window-replacement interpretation your opening falls into, and the quote says so in plain words
- ✓Climate Zone 4A numbers go on the proposal per opening, taken from the certified NFRC label rather than a brochure's centre-of-glass figure
- ✓We tell you where to spend the Section N1102.3.3 exemption, because twenty-four square feet of it exists once per dwelling and most people waste it
- ✓No residential aluminium in Wake County, and no impact-rated glazing sold as hurricane protection a hundred and twenty miles from the coast
The standards behind basement and bedroom egress windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The basement and bedroom egress windows work we do in Raleigh follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every basement and bedroom egress windows project in Raleigh gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free basement and bedroom egress windows free estimate in Raleigh, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.