A basement bulkhead, also called a basement cellar door, basement hatchway or the brand name BILCO, ... Standard 330-square-foot (55-by-72-inch) cellar doors cost around $1,300 on average.

NEW HAVEN — The Bilco Co., a family business now in its 89th year, is best known for the Bilco door, developed by founder George W. Lyons Sr. to keep his own basement dry. Today, Lyons’… ...

I am buying a brick and frame house, built in 1901. There is a door to the basement from the front, and it is currently covered up with one of those double metal hatch doors, that look like a tornado ...

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