Detroit Window Pros provides professional casement and awning windows for egress in Detroit, MI for residential and commercial properties across Detroit and the inner-ring suburbs. In this housing stock a casement is usually not an upgrade. It is the way to avoid cutting brick. That sounds like an odd thing for a window company to lead with, so here is the arithmetic sitting underneath it. It is also the cheapest good news we hand out.
The residential code wants an emergency escape and rescue opening in every sleeping room. It has to pass 5.7 square feet of net clear area. Its clear height must be 24 inches or better and its clear width 20 inches or better, and the sill cannot sit higher than 44 inches above the floor underneath it.
Net clear means what a person can actually pass through with the sash open, not the size of the hole in the wall. Run that on a typical thirty-inch double-hung and the open half gives you roughly two feet of height by a little over two feet of width. Multiply those and it lands short of the requirement. The arithmetic is not close, either.
A casement in that same masonry opening swings the entire leaf clear of the frame, so the net clear opening approaches the size of the sash itself rather than half of it. That is very often the whole difference between a bedroom that complies and a job that brings in a mason, a lintel, a permit and a fortnight.
The alternative is enlarging the hole, and it is worth understanding what that involves. In a brick wall it means shoring the wall above, setting a new steel angle lintel with proper bearing on both jambs, rebuilding the brick returns and rebuilding the sill. It is real work, we do it, and it should be a decision rather than a surprise on an invoice.
Awnings occupy the other half of this page, and they answer a different problem entirely. Being hinged along the top edge, an awning sash can stand open in rain without letting any of it in, which suits a kitchen sink you want cracked during a drizzle, or a basement opening under a well that collects everything the sky sends. The sash also pulls in against its frame rather than sliding past it.
The trade-offs are honest ones and we would rather list them here. Operators and hinge tracks are moving parts living out in the weather, the screen sits on the inside where you look straight at it, and a casement standing open on a windward wall catches wind. Multipoint locking and stainless hinge tracks are worth specifying rather than accepting. Pick a system whose replacement parts are still made.
We measure net clear opening in every bedroom in the house before quoting anything, including the rooms nobody asked us about. Where a room already complies we say so and leave it alone, and that happens often enough to be worth the ten minutes. Where it does not, you get both prices: the casement, and the masonry work. Ten minutes of measuring settles the whole question.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — glass area computed per opening and printed beside the unit price, visible transmittance read off the NFRC label alongside the U-factor, insert frames that add jamb depth inside the original wood box frame, full-frame units set back to the brick reveal, loose steel angle lintels bearing on both masonry jambs, cottage-style sash proportions that lift the check rail out of the sightline — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Detroit and nearby communities including Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, Highland Park.
What We Handle
Everything our casement and awning windows for egress in Detroit covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of casement and awning windows for egress work in Detroit, MI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- multipoint locking casement
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- steel lintel window enlargement
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Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Detroit services.
Materials, equipment and how we do casement and awning windows for egress
The difference between casement and awning windows for egress that lasts and casement and awning windows for egress that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with glass area computed per opening and printed beside the unit price, visible transmittance read off the NFRC label alongside the U-factor, insert frames that add jamb depth inside the original wood box frame, full-frame units set back to the brick reveal, 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 Detroit 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 Detroit and the inner-ring suburbs 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 casement and awning windows for egress outside Detroit
Detroit Window Pros covers Detroit and the surrounding communities of Detroit and the inner-ring suburbs. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Casement and Awning Windows for Egress in Dearborn, MI — Wayne County, population 109,976 at the 2020 census
- Casement and Awning Windows for Egress in Dearborn Heights, MI — Wayne County, population 63,292 at the 2020 census
- Casement and Awning Windows for Egress in Hamtramck, MI — Wayne County, population 28,433 at the 2020 census
- Casement and Awning Windows for Egress in Highland Park, MI — Wayne County, population 8,977 at the 2020 census
- Casement and Awning Windows for Egress in Grosse Pointe Park, MI — Wayne County, population 11,595 at the 2020 census
- Casement and Awning Windows for Egress in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI — Wayne County, population 10,148 at the 2020 census
Start on the Detroit Window Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Detroit Chooses Detroit Window Pros
- ✓We measure the daylight opening before and after, and both numbers go on the estimate. On a thirty-inch Detroit opening an insert costs you roughly a fifth of the glass; on a wide one it costs almost nothing, and only one of those is worth full-frame money.
- ✓Visible transmittance sits on the quote next to the U-factor. The code here caps how much heat a window may lose and sets no solar heat gain ceiling at all, so glass built for a cooling climate is a poor trade in a Detroit February.
- ✓Net clear opening is measured through the sash in every sleeping room in the house, including the ones nobody asked about. If a room already meets the requirement we write the number down, say so, and leave it alone.
- ✓Glass is specified by elevation rather than by package. South and east openings get higher transmittance and higher solar gain, the few west lites get something tighter, and alley-facing openings get laminated glass for security.
The standards behind casement and awning windows for egress
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The casement and awning windows for egress work we do in Detroit 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 casement and awning windows for egress project in Detroit 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 casement and awning windows for egress free estimate in Detroit, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.