Adding An Egress Window Adds Safety To A Basement In Orchard Park, NY

In the spring of 2020 Total Basement Finishing of WNY got a call from a couple in Orchard Park, NY who had seen a friend's basement that we had previously finished. They told us that they wanted their basement to look as good and be as functional in their lives as their friends were. They had been using their basement as a home gym and a rec room, and they wanted to update the look of the space to make it a place that they wanted to spend even more time in.

In May of 2020, New York State made a building mandate that any basement renovation needs to have an Egress Window installed with the rest of the work. Egress Windows are fantastic safety features that make sense to have if you are spending any real amount of time in your basement. They let you have a safe and easy way out in case of an emergency.

In this basement, we installed the egress window where an older basement window had been. Expanding the space in the basement wall was easy, and the window had a clean finish when the job was done.