If you are searching for a cheap window well near you, the honest answer is that the cheapest steel well in Canada is usually the one bought from the company that rolled it. We are that company. Shop Window Wells Inc. forms every well in this catalogue from flat galvanized coil at our own plant on 30 Street SE in Calgary, and sells it direct. There is no distributor, no builder's supply counter, and no markup stacked on top of ours.
Prices start at $134.99 for a stock galvanized well and run to about $850 for the largest sizes, or a little over $1,000 in gloss black. That range is not marketing: it is what the steel, the forming time and the finish actually cost across 213 sizes.
What actually makes a window well cheap
Four things move the price, and only one of them is negotiable.
- Size. A 36″ wide well uses about a third of the coil a 96″ well does. If your opening genuinely needs a 36″, you are already at the bottom of the price list.
- Projection. A 12″ or 16″ utility well is the cheapest thing we make. A 30″ egress well costs more because it uses more steel and more forming time — not because it is a premium product.
- Finish. Mill galvanized is the cheap option and the durable one. Gloss black powder coat is a finish, and it costs extra and adds one to two weeks.
- Freight. This is the one you control. Freight is charged per order, not per item. One well to Ontario costs $189.99 to ship; six wells to Ontario cost $189.99 to ship. Ordering a whole house at once is the single biggest saving available on this site.
The cheapest way to buy, ranked
- Collect from the plant. Free, and usually ready within 24 hours. If you are in or near Calgary, this is the lowest possible total cost.
- One consolidated freight order. A flat $189.99 per order to any address in Canada, charged once.
- Several separate small orders. The most expensive way to do it. Avoid.
Where cheap stops being cheap
Two places, and both cost more later than they save now.
The first is projection on a bedroom window. If the room is a bedroom, the National Building Code wants 760 mm of clear space in front of the window. A 24″ well gives 610 mm. It is cheaper, it will not pass, and replacing it means digging the hole twice.
The second is gauge. Everything here is 20-gauge G-90 galvanized. Thinner steel exists and is sold cheaply. It dents when backfilled and it perforates from the soil side first, where you cannot see it happening.
Is there a cheaper one actually near me?
Sometimes, and we will say so plainly: if you find a used well in the right size on a local ad, or a big-box store has your exact dimensions in a clearance bay, that will beat us on price. What a local retailer will not do is hold 213 sizes, or make the one you need if it is not on the list. Retail stock is a handful of common sizes, and if yours is not among them the cheap option disappears.
Prices you can check before you go further
Everything on this site is priced openly. Nothing is quote-only except genuinely custom sizes. Browse the catalogue, filter by the width you need, and the price is on the card.
Common questions
What is the cheapest window well you sell?
Stock galvanized sizes start at $134.99. The lowest prices are the narrow, shallow-projection utility wells; egress sizes cost more because they use more steel.
Do I pay freight per well?
No. Shipping is a flat $189.99 per order to any address in Canada, charged once. Several wells on one order ship for the price of one.
Can I pick one up instead of paying for delivery?
Yes. Pickup at our Calgary plant is free and stock sizes are usually ready within 24 hours. That is the cheapest option available.
Is a cheaper window well worse?
Not if it is the right size. Every well we make is the same 20-gauge G-90 galvanized steel, so a $134.99 well is the same material as an $850 one — it is simply smaller. Where cheap goes wrong is buying too little projection for an egress window.
Prices shown are current catalogue prices in Canadian dollars and exclude tax. Shipping is a flat $189.99 per order anywhere in Canada.