Egress Window Installation in Goddard, Kansas

Egress window installation in Goddard runs our published $3,500 to $6,500 and is inspected to the same code as Wichita, because MABCD does Goddard’s plan review and inspections. The permit itself is pulled at Goddard City Hall, 118 N Main Street: the city processes every permit for work inside its limits, and once it is paid, the job moves to MABCD for review and inspection. The contractor has to hold an MABCD licence. That is the arrangement we work under.

A town that doubled

Goddard is a western suburb about ten miles out on U.S. Route 54. It had 2,037 people in 2000, 4,344 in 2010, a 113 percent jump, 5,084 in 2020, and an estimated 5,708 in 2023, with 1,757 housing units at the 2020 census. Most of that housing is under twenty-five years old: poured foundations, full basements, and one builder egress opening sized to an unfinished plan.

That is the Goddard job in a sentence. A family frames two bedrooms downstairs, and each sleeping room needs its own opening: under the Wichita/Sedgwick County amendment that MABCD enforces, 4.5 square feet net clear with a 5.7-square-foot break-out area (we size to clear 5.7 outright), a sill within 44 inches, a 9-square-foot well projecting 36 inches, a ladder with rungs 12 inches on center past 44 inches of depth, a rated cover with an egress hatch past 30, and 12 inches of washed gravel under the well. The egress installation page walks the build; two openings in one visit price meaningfully better than two.

Before we quote a cut we check the builder’s existing opening against the amendment. A well with rungs at 18 inches, or a cover with no hatch, is a small fix. A second rough-in the builder left in the wall is a big saving. Both happen.

Permits: city front door, MABCD inspections

Goddard is one of the Sedgwick County cities that contracts plan review and inspections to MABCD rather than running its own building department. The sequence: we pull the permit at City Hall, it is paid, and we schedule the inspections with MABCD. The fee is Goddard’s and appears at cost on the quote. The code is the Wichita/Sedgwick County Unified Building and Trade Code, laid out section by section on the code page, and we confirm any Goddard-specific amendment at the counter.

Soil, water, and settled backfill

Goddard’s ground is the Group D clay that covers most of the county, Goessel and Rosehill silty clays, 35 to 55 percent clay, with a perched seasonal water table at 2 to 3 feet on the Goessel series. NOAA’s normals put May at 5.17 inches and June at 4.93. Young subdivisions add a second problem: backfill around a foundation keeps settling for years, and we routinely find grading that has sunk into a slope toward the house. Every well we install or service in Goddard gets the surrounding grade checked and corrected, because a code-perfect well in a bowl of settled clay still collects water. The drainage page explains the gravel rule and the outlet choice; the flooding well page has the symptoms.

Radon and the finishing order

Sedgwick County is EPA radon Zone 2, and in the Kansas Radon Program’s 2010 county data 30.9 percent of tests came in at or above 4.0 pCi/L. New houses are not exempt. Openings first, test second, drywall third; the bedroom conversion page has the order.

Selling in Goddard

A “four bedroom” with the fourth behind a builder hopper is a three-bedroom on the appraisal. A code and permit upgrade before listing keeps the count; the same fix under a repair addendum happens on the buyer’s schedule.

Get a Goddard quote

Send the form with a photo of the wall or the existing well. Free on-site measure, flat quote, permit pulled at Goddard City Hall and inspected by MABCD. We also cover Maize to the north, Haysville to the southeast, and all of Wichita. Prices for every piece are on the pricing page.