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Egress window installation customers are KC homeowners who are finishing a basement and adding a bedroom or sleeping room that the Kansas City building code requires to have an egress window — a window that meets the IRC minimum opening requirements for emergency escape; homeowners who are selling a home with a finished basement bedroom that was listed as a bedroom on a previous appraisal but lacks a code-compliant egress opening and are now being required by the buyer's lender to bring it to code before closing; or homeowners who have a basement bedroom with an existing small window that does not meet the current IRC minimum opening dimensions and want to understand whether the existing window can be modified or whether a new cut through the foundation wall is required. The central education is the IRC egress window minimum opening specifications — the dimensions that determine whether an existing window is compliant or whether a new cut is required — the window well sizing requirement for below-grade installations, and the KC permit and inspection process for cutting a new egress opening through a poured concrete or concrete block foundation wall — three things that determine whether a homeowner understands the full scope of an egress window installation project before requesting a bid. IRC egress opening requirements: the International Residential Code requires sleeping rooms to have at least one emergency escape and rescue opening that meets all of the following: minimum net clear opening of five point seven square feet; minimum net clear opening height of twenty-four inches; minimum net clear opening width of twenty inches; and maximum sill height of forty-four inches above the floor; the five point seven square foot net clear opening is the most commonly failed dimension — a window that is twenty-four inches tall and twenty inches wide has a net clear area of three point three square feet, which fails; a typical compliant egress window for a below-grade KC basement bedroom is twenty-four inches tall by thirty-six inches wide — a net clear area of six square feet. Window well sizing: a below-grade egress window requires a window well that provides at least nine square feet of horizontal area and allows the window to open fully; the IRC requires a minimum projection of thirty-six inches from the exterior face of the foundation wall; a window well that is less than thirty-six inches deep does not allow the window to open fully and does not provide the clearance for a person to exit; a window well for a KC basement egress window that extends more than forty-four inches below grade must have a permanent ladder attached to the well wall; drainage at the base of the window well is required — typically a gravel bed connected to the foundation drain system or draining to daylight on a sloped site — because a well that fills with water submerges the window and creates a hydrostatic pressure problem at the window frame. Foundation cut and permit: cutting a new egress opening in a poured concrete or concrete block foundation wall requires a building permit in Kansas City and the surrounding municipalities; the permit requires a site plan showing the location of the cut, confirmation that the cut does not affect a load-bearing section of the foundation wall, and inspection at rough-in and at final; a concrete saw cut through a poured foundation wall requires a diamond saw and typically takes two to four hours per opening; the lintel above the new opening — a steel or precast concrete header — must be installed before the existing foundation section is removed. An egress window installation website that explains the IRC five-point-seven square foot net clear opening requirement, window well depth and drainage requirements, and the KC permit and foundation cut process earns the homeowner finishing a basement who wants to understand the full scope before calling for the rough-in inspection.