Savannah Window Co provides professional egress windows in Savannah, GA for residential and commercial properties across the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. Egress is the page where we say no most often, and it is worth understanding why before you call anybody. The rules themselves are simple. What is complicated in Savannah is where the room is, and how far off the ground it sits.
The requirement exists so somebody can get out of a bedroom, and a firefighter in equipment can get in, when the door is not an option. Every sleeping room needs one emergency escape opening. The clear opening has to reach roughly five and seven tenths square feet, with at least twenty-four inches of clear height and twenty inches of clear width, and the sill no more than forty-four inches above the floor.
Read those numbers together and you will see the trap. A unit can satisfy the height minimum and the width minimum and still fall short on total area, because the two minimums multiplied do not reach the required square footage. This is the most common failure we are called to fix, usually on a window somebody bought online believing it was rated.
In practice a casement is the efficient answer, because the whole opening clears when the sash swings. A double hung has to be considerably larger overall, since only half of it ever opens. A slider is worse again for the same reason. That is a rare case where the more expensive unit is also the smaller and cheaper hole in your wall.
Cutting a new opening is a permitted change in size, and on the newer stock it is simply a job. On older housing inside the mapped hazard areas we do the arithmetic first, because the permit's declared value joins a five-year total measured against half the appraised value of the structure, and that total governs whether the house has to be brought up to the current ordinance.
Then there is the case where the answer is a flat no. A great many Savannah houses have a ground-level room under the living floor: a garage, a workshop, a storeroom, a garden level. Where that space is inside a special flood hazard area and below the base flood elevation, it is an enclosure, and the owner has typically signed an agreement not to convert it into living space.
Adding an egress window to that room is the conversion. It is the physical act that turns storage into a bedroom, and doing it puts habitable space below the flood elevation, breaks the agreement on file, and can affect both the building's compliance and the insurance rating attached to it. We will not fit one, and we will explain the position rather than simply declining the work.
What we will do instead is look upward with you. Bedrooms on the floors above the flood elevation can be brought into compliance properly, and that is often where the actual need is anyway. If the goal is a rentable room downstairs, the honest answer involves elevation or a change of use, and that conversation belongs with the city before it belongs with us.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — pultruded fiberglass frames ordered to the measured opening, insert sash packs fitted inside an existing jamb, sill pans with end dams and a sloped back leg, flood-damage-resistant frame materials under FEMA Technical Bulletin 2, laminated impact glazing over a 0.090-inch interlayer, warm-edge spacers in argon-filled insulating glass units — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Savannah and nearby communities including Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Thunderbolt.
What We Handle
Everything our egress windows in Savannah covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of egress windows work in Savannah, GA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- emergency escape opening size
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- basement bedroom egress
- cutting new window opening permit
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- sill height 44 inches egress
- 5.7 square feet egress
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- ground floor enclosure flood zone
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- casement egress window
- habitable space below base flood elevation
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Savannah services.
Materials, equipment and how we do egress windows
The difference between egress windows that lasts and 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 pultruded fiberglass frames ordered to the measured opening, insert sash packs fitted inside an existing jamb, sill pans with end dams and a sloped back leg, flood-damage-resistant frame materials under FEMA Technical Bulletin 2, 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 Savannah 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 the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins 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 egress windows outside Savannah
Savannah Window Co covers Savannah and the surrounding communities of the lower Savannah and Ogeechee basins. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Egress Windows in Pooler, GA — Chatham County, population 25,711
- Egress Windows in Garden City, GA — Chatham County, population 10,289
- Egress Windows in Port Wentworth, GA — Chatham County, population 10,878
- Egress Windows in Thunderbolt, GA — Chatham County, population 2,556
- Egress Windows in Tybee Island, GA — Chatham County, population 3,114
- Egress Windows in Wilmington Island, GA — Chatham County, population 15,129
Start on the Savannah Window Co homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Savannah Chooses Savannah Window Co
- ✓We look up your flood zone, base flood elevation and pre-map status before a tape measure comes out, and put the answer in the quote
- ✓Openings that need a permit are priced in a separate column, with the valuation we would declare shown next to them
- ✓Every unit is ordered to the measured opening rather than trimmed or packed out to suit a stock size on a shelf
- ✓Sill pans with end dams on every installation, including the ones where nobody would ever see whether we fitted one
The standards behind egress windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The egress windows work we do in Savannah 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 egress windows project in Savannah 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 egress windows free estimate in Savannah, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.