Price Your Window Well Job

People call us about window wells for four different reasons, and each one has its own price. A rusted well needs replacing, a tired but solid well can take a liner, a well that fills with water needs drainage, and some just need a cover. Most homeowners are not sure yet which group they fall into, so we built this tool to price all four using the ranges on our pricing page.

The water question is the one that catches people off guard. When a well ponds every spring, the steel is rarely the cause. The real trouble is the gravel underneath, and redoing it is what decides whether your new well holds up for decades or floods again in a few years. Sioux Falls averages about 45 inches of snow a year, with 7 inches or more still falling in March, so every melt tests that gravel. We cannot judge it from a photo, and that is why our measure visit costs you nothing.

Four checks you can do before we come out

• Poke the steel at ground level with a screwdriver. If there is solid metal under the surface rust, a liner may be all you need. If the tip goes through, plan on a new well. Our rusted well page walks through the whole check.
• Measure the width and how far the well sticks out from the house. For egress, the well needs at least 9 square feet of floor area and has to reach out at least 36 inches.
• Measure top to bottom. A well deeper than 44 inches needs a ladder that stays in place.
• Look at it during the spring thaw. Water that hangs around for days points to drainage, and our page on a well that fills with water explains why it happens in this area.

When you are done, send your number over with the form and we will book the measure already knowing what the job looks like. If the basement window itself is too small for a bedroom, use our egress window cost calculator instead, since that is a bigger project.