Marietta Window Replacement provides professional egress windows in Marietta, GA for residential and commercial properties across Cobb County and northwest metro Atlanta. The arithmetic that gets quoted everywhere is the 5.7 square feet of net clear opening required for an emergency escape and rescue window. In Marietta that number is rarely the one that fails. The one that fails is the twenty-four inch minimum clear opening height.
It fails because of the shape of our houses. Ranch plans built here through the 1960s and 1970s used openings that are wide and short: five feet across, three feet tall, sitting under a long eave. Height is the scarce dimension in that proportion before anyone touches it. Then a replacement takes its share, and there is nothing left.
This is where the insert-versus-full-frame decision stops being about price. A pocket or insert replacement sets a new unit inside the existing frame, which costs you roughly two to two and a half inches of height and the same in width. On a tall window that is a rounding error. On a thirty-six inch bedroom opening it can drop the clear height below twenty-four inches and turn a legal bedroom into a room you cannot legally sleep in.
So on any sleeping room we measure the clear opening before we quote, not after. If the number works with an insert, we quote the insert and save you money. If it does not, we quote full-frame removal to the rough opening, or we quote enlarging the opening, and we tell you which one the header will allow.
Cobb County's terrain adds the second case. The land rolls hard enough that a large share of local ranches sit on a walk-out or daylight basement, with the rear of the house eight or ten feet above grade. That produces two opposite jobs in one building: below-grade openings on the uphill side that need a window well, a ladder and a cover, and floor-level openings on the downhill side that sit high above the ground outside.
Those high openings raise a requirement most homeowners have never heard of. Where a sill sits low above the finished floor inside and high above the grade outside, the code asks for a window opening control device or a fall-protection guard, so a wider-opening replacement sash can create an obligation the old window never had. It is a twenty dollar part and a conversation, not a crisis, but it needs to happen at ordering.
For below-grade wells we build to drain. A gravel base tied into the footing drain, a well depth that leaves the required clearance below the sill, and a cover rated to be opened from inside. A well that ponds is a basement leak you installed on purpose.
If your basement bedroom currently has no compliant opening at all, get the opening solved before you spend anything on finishes. Sawing a masonry wall after the drywall is up costs several times what it costs before.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — compression gasket, interlocking meeting stile, fusion-welded corners, pultruded fiberglass, warm-edge spacer, polyamide thermal break — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Marietta and nearby communities including Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Powder Springs.
What We Handle
Everything our egress windows in Marietta covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of egress windows work in Marietta, GA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
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- basement egress window Cobb County
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- egress window well install
- clear opening height 24 inches
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- escape and rescue opening
- egress well ladder
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- window opening control device
- cutting block wall for window
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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 Marietta 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 compression gasket, interlocking meeting stile, fusion-welded corners, pultruded fiberglass, 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 Marietta 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 Cobb County and northwest metro Atlanta 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 Marietta
Marietta Window Replacement covers Marietta and the surrounding communities of Cobb County and northwest metro Atlanta. 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 Smyrna, GA — Cobb County, population 55,663 at the 2020 census
- Egress Windows in Kennesaw, GA — Cobb County, population 33,036 at the 2020 census
- Egress Windows in Acworth, GA — Cobb County, population 22,440 at the 2020 census
- Egress Windows in Powder Springs, GA — Cobb County, population 16,887 at the 2020 census
- Egress Windows in Austell, GA — Cobb County, population 7,713 at the 2020 census
- Egress Windows in Mableton, GA — Cobb County, population 40,834 at the 2020 census
Start on the Marietta Window Replacement homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Marietta Chooses Marietta Window Replacement
- ✓We put the air-leakage rating at the top of the quote. In a county with a short winter and a long humid summer, the gasket is the only specification that returns something in both seasons.
- ✓We measure the clear opening in every bedroom before quoting. On the wide, short openings of Marietta's 1960s ranches, an insert can drop the escape opening below the code minimum without anyone noticing.
- ✓We flash behind the brick. On veneer houses the head flashing has to lap the water-resistive barrier rather than get caulked to the first course, and we will tell you if the brick will not allow it.
- ✓We price the smaller job when the smaller job is right. Fogged sealed units get reglazed, dragging patio doors get rollers, and tired entry doors often get a weatherstrip kit rather than a new slab.
The standards behind egress windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The egress windows work we do in Marietta 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 Marietta 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 Marietta, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.