James, from Jackson Egress Windows shows us from start to finish the installation process of an Egress Window. Call 614.260.5130 for an estimate on one of our Egress Window Installation packages.
Jackson Egress just finished up installing at my house and they were friendly, efficient, and the installation only took about 6 hours and everything looks great!
I wish I could contract you in Canada haha! Seriously, the contracting industry needs people like you to bring back the reputation. Too many people out there scamming or doing improper jobs. Good installation !
Karmeet Sethi that is soooo true, i am a contractor and those butchers try to teaching me my job, when i told'em it is wrong, they are saying they can not make money
Love the video! definitely great way of approaching things. yall should really wear some impact gloves swinging the hammers lol. To each his own, I've just seen people nearly lose fingers before and now I never take mine off.
What part of Michigan? I see this is a year old so you may not get it. I purchased a bungalow in Detroit and will be coming up tomorrow to put one of these in. Just wanted to get your input on it.
The first saw is a partner saw. The second saw is a ring saw. The partner saw better transmits force from engine to blade because it has a bolt tying them together. That bolt reduces how far you can cut by slightly over half. The ring saw uses spinning rollers to turn the blade. It loses a lot of power between the engine and the blade with that transmission system but the advantage is you can plunge cut 10 inches so completely through most foundations from the outside. For 12 inch foundations we use a cut and break saw. That's a very slow process but again allows all cutting to be done from the outside which keeps dust and carbon monoxide out of the house. The foundation in the video did not require the cut and break saw.
@@rogerhodges7656 I believe Partner saw is actually a brand name that became synonymous with the type of saw it is. Similar how Kleenex is used for tissues that are not Kleenex brand. A cut off saw would be the same thing. Ring saws are not very common because they are about four times the cost and require a lot more maintenance. We go through two to three per year not counting repairs to keep them in service during that time. A partner saw lasts multiple years.
Great video. We are up in Canada and here we need to dig down to connect a pipe with the weeping tile. Is it because of the lack of rainfall in where you are or because you used a cover?
We use a posthole digger to go down to the gravel that the exterior drain tile (weeping tile) is bedded in. We then fill that space with a column of #57 gravel. The gravel that the pipe is bedded in is designed to wick the moisture to the pipe. We extend that system into the bottom of the egress well. This offers two benefits. One, gravel is self filtering. Two, if a pipe goes dry it channels a nasty smell up into your window well. Gravel prevents that odor during dry spells.
Wish you all where from Illinois, I desperately need an egress window so I can get rid of the crack in our foundation wall. This winter killed us with it leaking. No one around me will do egress windows. Too scared I guess! Do you tie into the drain tile if water gets into the egress frame?
It should be, they didn't show if they had the pipe draining into the tile. You could also put a sump basin at the bottom and pump up and out of you wanted
I am loving what you had done and the look of the egress window, however, I am in Atlanta and would love to know the name of that model egress that you used. Many thanks
Hi, I had an egress window installed when my basement foundation was poured. It’s an aluminum frame with a vinyl window. In the winter the aluminum frame sweats water really bad. Is this normal? Thanks.
Joshua Mikolajski I would try sealing it on the outside and covering with trim on the inside. Aluminum is an excellent conductor. What's happening is it is becoming cold from the outside and then water is condensing on the inside where the air is warmer. We do not use aluminium frames. All of our framing is wood. I hope this helps.
Hello! What is the average cost to do the installation in this video? We have 2 that need done in Hoagland, Indiana. Also, would you guys come that far?
Go to www.jacksonegresswindows.com and hit the click for a free quote. I'll send you the exact pricing. If you don't see a response from me within an hour check your spam folder.
Yes, with an exterior paint. We use to trim it out with vinyl but the price kept going up to the point it was costing $300 - $500 per window depending on the size of the header. In order to not have a large price increase we switched our process since the vast majority of the time it is under the poly carbonate thermal hinge cover anyway, so it isn't even offering any visual appeal.
5:00 I think what you meant was that the window needs to be dropped down so that the bottom sill is no more than 44 inches from the finished floor, correct?
RickGuyver, PhD correct. No more than 44 inches from the floor to the bottom of the net clear opening, which is the window sill. If your floor is unfinished you can start a little higher since you will be building up but it will not pass inspection until the flooring is added in that case.
RickGuyver, PhD correct. No more than 44 inches from the floor to the bottom of the net clear opening, which is the window sill. If your floor is unfinished you can start a little higher since you will be building up but it will not pass inspection until the flooring is added in that case.
We use a 12 inch column of gravel down to the exterior drain tile. Over a thousand installations we have discovered that a column of gravel is much less prone to clog than a 4 inch perforated pipe. The well itself is engineered to withstand the hydrostatic pressure. Over ten years I have never seen a Monarch well fail and the only leak we have had was the result of a flash flood that had surface water reach a level several feet above the top of the window. The well area itself is not watertight where it contacts the foundation, nor does it need to be, as water could simply come up from underneath even if it was. The drain takes care of any water that does get into the well area.
We do our drain differently. Long ago we used a pipe but a pipe stinks up the well. We posthole dig down to the gravel the exterior drain tile is bedded in and then fill that space with #57 gravel. It basically extends the perimeter drain into the bottom of the well. We also slope the bottom of the well toward the gravel drain.
Jackson Egress Windows looks good to me but our inspectors here in northeast PA are pricks about expansive soils and drainage it’s crazy in my 38 years of building houses out here I’ve never seen a drainage tile used on homes before 2009 irc kicked in, there is so much shale here in the slate belt it’s pointless but they make us put in sump systems regardless of perc and they make us mix aggregate with our backfill to avoid expansion during the winter
How about a video showing the install of a window in a poured concrete foundation of a walk out basement? Why wasn't the house supported while the load bearing wall had a huge hole in it?
I do need to shoot a new video we just never seem to have the time. We installed around 150 egress windows this year.The process is very similar with a poured wall. It takes longer because we cut it into sections of about a square foot so that we can get it out without damaging the foundation and in order to be able to lift them out of the hole by hand. Not all basement walls are load bearing. They are only load bearing if the joists run perpendicular to where you are cutting. Most basements will have a section or two that also carries weight that will be borne by either a wood beam sitting upon the screw up jacks or an I beam. This basement had a finished ceiling so it is not evident in the video whether it is load bearing or not.
@@jonjackson6388 We have been toying with the idea of having one added in our basement. We have a walk-out, and the entire wall is above grade. We live 20 miles southeast of CIncinnati.
@@jkreviea if you go to our website www.jacksonegresswindows.com and click the free quote I can send you pricing information to just do the window since you won't need a well.
I had a neighbor who put a egress window in and the well filled with water during a storm and flooded his basement. What do you do in the install to prevent this from happening?
We dig down to the exterior drain tile with an old school posthole digger (wooden handles). We then fill that column with #57 gravel extending the drain into the bottom of the well.
I'm not sure what you are asking. The original window was close to grade. The egress window is 32 inches below grade and has an area wall, the Quarryview Well with thermal hinge cover. A drain is also installed. If this doesn't answer your question please let me know and rephrase it.
If you go to www.jacksonegresswindows.com and hit the click for a free quote I will send you over all of the pricing and options. This video shows a Quarryview well with horizontal slider window. I don't put prices on this because they go up over time.
They should be wearing safety goggles. I don't know if the camera went to the head of the guy trimming the well or what. James, the foreman was wearing them.
I would like to have the egress window cut to only 36 inches off the basement floor. Is there a limit to how low you can cut without affecting the basement wall structure?
JDK K no you can put the window as low as you want. It might require a taller window or a larger header plus a taller well depending on basement height and the outside grade.
We do sometimes. It depend on how far below grade it is and how busy we are. We are doing one in a few weeks after the door arrives and when the weather next allows.
@@JacksonEgressWindowsColumbus thanks for your reply. Would you have someone that you could recommend? A company that won't break the bank. I had a estimate from window nation and they quoted 3000$ for 2 medium windows and 8000$ for a door.
@@frogmanpipes9561 Can you send me a private message on our Facebook page? I'll send you a recommendation but I don't want to give out their phone number publicly and have them get a bunch of spam calls.
We dig down to the gravel that the exterior drain tile is bedded in with a post hole digger. We then fill that space with a column of #57 gravel extending the system into the bottom of the well. We also slope the bottom toward the drain. You can also use a pipe but sometimes a pipe will bring up a nasty smell from underneath so using the column of gravel is better. We switched from a pipe to a column of gravel around eight to ten years ago.
If you go to this link I can send you over all of the pricing and options: www.jacksonegresswindows.com/Contact_Us.html This video shows a Quarryview with Horizontal Slider window. Prices tend to go up over time and if I tell you the current pricing in the comments someone will be mad a year from now that it costs more.
I am not sure if you have looked around our website but we offer two types of prefabricated wells and can also build custom stone wells. The prefabricated wells are the Stoneview which is a steel well with a stamped stone pattern on it and the Quarry View well which is a fiberglass resin well made to appear like stone. A complete installed Stoneview system with ladder and your choice of either a crank-out casement window, single hung in-swing casement window, or horizontal slider window would be $3500. An installed Quarry View system would be $4200. Both of those systems include an installed Monarch Thermal Hinge Cover. The single hung in-swing and crank-out casement window are 32x48 and the horizontal slider is 48x48. We do all of the digging by hand in order to protect your lawn. The install takes one day. This video is a Quarry View with Horizontal Slider window. You can email me at john@jacksonegresswindows.com for any additional information you need.
Good question. There isn't a whole lot of exposed wall to apply insulation to and it would effect the appearance. This window is 48 inches wide and the well is 55 inches at the widest point so you have about 3.5 inches on either side.The R value of basement insulation is usually only 4 or 5. You are getting more than that with the polycarbonate thermal hinge cover. It is made from the same material as a greenhouse panel only much thicker.
Catherine Jackson you guys could at least have applied white silicone around the frame where the wood meets the blocks, and where the window meets the frame, I would do it.... that’s my opinion
We caulk between the framing and window and between the framing and concrete, both inside and out. This is a six and a half hour process condensed down to a 10 minute video. There are going to be small details not shown. The editing is done by the media company not us, so they are showing what they interpreted to be important.
Thanks for the question. We caulk the space between the window and frame. Making a larger opening just to add insulation would be counter productive. That requires removing more wall which means a bigger hole. The wall and earth around it is a better insulator than the insulation would be. We also install a poly carbonate thermal hinge cover on every one of these wells.
It depends on where you are at but $3500 is a good ball park. If you visit our website www.jacksonegresswindows.com and click for a free estimate I will send you the actual pricing.
totally understand but at least I have the ballpark price more or less what to expect.. thank I do apreciate for getting back..and by the way great job u guys did here everything right on point..
We show part of it being done with both the partner saw and ring saw toward the beginning of the video. The video company edited what is a six to eight hour job down to 10 minutes so a lot of the time consuming aspects of the job are only briefly shown. Watching us dig a hole by hand for two or three hours would get pretty boring and the same is true with cutting in a 48x48 window. If you want more of the cutting I can probably get you the unedited video.
I cut egress windows for a living just the concrete I'm wanting to do side jobs I tried one with the gas-powered saw and I got sick from the fumes what masks are you guys using I try to restorator and did not work I cut Windows all day long for my company at Hawley Coring I've been doing this for 6 years time to make some money on the side Hydraulics you're way too expensive I'm noticing people are using gas powered any advice so I don't get sick
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We run a twelve inch column of #57 gravel down to the exterior drain tile. The exterior drain tile is comprised of a slotted pipe bedded in #57 gravel to wick the moisture to it. We are extending that system into the bottom of the egress well. We have put in thousands of egress windows and they do not flood.
