Egress Window Installation in Haysville, Kansas

Egress window installation in Haysville is priced at our published $3,500 to $6,500 and built to the 2018 International Residential Code as Haysville adopted it by Ordinance 581, which carries the same egress amendment as Wichita. The permit, though, is not MABCD’s. Haysville runs its own Inspections Department out of the Public Works office at 401 S. Jane, and that office issues the permit and sends the inspector.

The Haysville desk

Haysville’s Inspections Department works with contractors and homeowners on new construction, remodels, and additions, reviewing the site plan, issuing the permit, and performing the stage inspections. A foundation cut for an egress window is a permit and a final at minimum. The fee is the city’s and appears on our quote at cost; MABCD’s Table B does not apply here.

The code Haysville enforces

Haysville’s residential construction article adopts the 2018 IRC and amends it in step with the county. The egress amendment reads as Wichita’s does: all emergency escape and rescue openings need a minimum net clear opening of 4.5 square feet, with the window-type height and width minimums and the 5.7-square-foot break-out area that go with it. Haysville’s code also says, in so many words, that frost depth in Haysville and Sedgwick County is 24 inches, and it incorporates the Wichita Foundation, Basement and Slab-on-Grade Standards for One and Two Family Dwellings (August 30, 2011) for footing sizes and foundation design.

We build every Haysville opening to clear the model 5.7 square feet net clear as well as the local reading, keep the sill within 44 inches, size the well to 9 square feet and 36 inches of projection, put a ladder with 12-inch rung spacing in any well over 44 inches, a rated cover with an egress hatch on any well over 30, and 12 inches of washed gravel underneath. The Wichita egress code page lays the whole amendment beside the model code.

Haysville’s housing: two rebuilds

Haysville was founded in 1891 and incorporated in 1951, and its housing has been shaped by two tornadoes. On April 26, 1991 the Andover F5 passed through Haysville on its way to southeast Wichita, McConnell, and Andover. On May 3, 1999 an F4 tore a 24-mile path through Haysville and south Wichita, killing six people and injuring more than 145; in Haysville alone nearly 150 homes and 27 businesses were destroyed or heavily damaged, and across Sedgwick County 1,109 buildings were destroyed and 7,371 damaged. The historic district was lost.

So Haysville’s 4,371 housing units (2020 census) are a mix: mid-century ranches on the streets the storms missed, and a large share of houses rebuilt after 1999 on poured foundations with modern basements. The population went from 8,502 in 2000 to 10,826 in 2010 and 11,262 in 2020. In the older houses the egress job is the classic enlargement of a high steel hopper; in the post-1999 houses it is usually cutting the second and third openings into a basement that shipped with one.

Sedgwick County Emergency Management’s advice in a warning is the basement, a safe room, or the lowest and most interior room away from windows. Haysville knows why. The egress window is the exit afterward and the way in for a firefighter, which is the entire reason R310 exists.

Soil and water

Haysville sits on the south end of the Wichita area’s Group D clays, 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. Toward the river flats the Kansas Geological Survey describes the flat land along the Arkansas as very poorly drained. NOAA’s normals put May at 5.17 inches and June at 4.93. Every well we set in Haysville gets the 12-inch gravel bed and an outlet, a footing-drain tie-in where one flows or a dry well where it does not; the drainage page covers the choice, and the flooding well page the symptoms.

Radon

Sedgwick County is EPA radon Zone 2; in 2010 the county’s average tested home was 3.6 pCi/L and 30.9 percent of tests came in at or above 4.0. Test before you finish the basement.

Pricing and scheduling

Full installs $3,500 to $6,500, well replacements $1,000 to $3,000, window swaps $400 to $1,100, Haysville permit itemized at cost. The pricing page has the variables. With a 24-inch frost line the dig season is most of the year; the hard-freeze weeks and the May-June saturation are the slow ones. Request a free on-site measure and we will file with Haysville’s desk.