For more than 20 years, Egress Windows Fairfax, proudly owned and operated by Clifton Contracting, has helped Northern Virginia homeowners create safer, brighter, and more functional basement spaces. Since 2004, our team has completed more than 400 professional egress window installations throughout the area.

Whether you’re finishing a basement, adding a bedroom, or need to meet current egress requirements, we handle the entire installation from start to finish. This includes the foundation opening, egress window and window well, drainage, waterproofing, and necessary finishing work.

With decades of experience in excavation, foundation work, drainage, and waterproofing, our team understands what goes into a properly installed below-grade window. Our goal is to create an egress window that provides a safe emergency exit, brings natural light into your basement, and makes the space more comfortable and usable.

An egress window is a window specifically designed to provide a safe emergency exit from a basement or other below-grade living space. Unlike a standard basement window, an egress window must be large enough and easy enough to open so that a person can safely exit through it in an emergency. When the window is located below ground level, an appropriately sized egress window well provides the necessary space outside the window for safe access.