What is the price of blast-resistant glazing in Wrexham?
Our guide range for blast-resistant glazing in Wrexham is £450 to £1,495 plus VAT (£540 to £1,794 inc VAT) per m², including fitting. The survey is free for new installations and your fixed price follows in writing.
Blast-resistant glazing is laminated glass fitted in a frame and fixing system designed to stay in the opening, or fail safely, when hit by the pressure wave from an explosion. Its purpose is to stop glass becoming high-speed fragments, which cause most injuries in a blast, and it is designed from a threat assessment rather than chosen off the shelf.
Glass and fitting options
- Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
- Sealed units with a laminated inner pane
- Work planned from the threat assessment and engineer's design
- Manufacturer's test evidence supplied with your quote
- Glazing classed to BS EN 13541 or tested to ISO 16933 and 16934
- Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
Fitting in Wrexham and nearby
Surveys in Wrexham (LL13) are booked around installer availability, as they are in nearby Rhosllanerchrugog (4 miles) and Buckley (9 miles).
Clwyd takes in Wrexham's town centre and industrial estates, Deeside's business parks, Victorian seaside towns such as Rhyl and Colwyn Bay, and stone market towns like Ruthin and Denbigh.
This glazing suits:
- Government, council and civic buildings
- Laboratories and industrial sites with process risks
- Embassies, courts and police premises
- Offices in city centres and near potential targets
Questions we will ask at the survey
Who sets the level
The design pressure comes from a threat and risk assessment by a security adviser or blast engineer, not from the glass supplier.
Frame and fixings
The frame must hold the glass and the fixings must hold the frame. Upgrading glass alone can move the failure to the frame.
Building regulations and safety in Wales
Listed buildings and conservation areas
Listed buildings in Wales need listed building consent from the local planning authority for works that affect their character, which can include replacing historic glass, glazing bars or sashes. Cadw advises on the historic environment in Wales. Reversible options such as secondary glazing are often easier to agree, but the council decides.
Planning permission
In Wales the local planning authority decides whether a new or altered shopfront needs planning permission. Replacing glass in an existing frame usually does not, because the outside of the building looks much the same. Bollards or barriers on the pavement need consent from the highway authority, normally the council.
How it works
- Tell us about the glazing
- Survey, measuring and frame check
- Written quote naming the glass
- Fitting and handover
Blast-resistant glazing in Wrexham: questions
Can you survey in Wrexham and nearby towns?
Yes. Surveys in Wrexham, Rhosllanerchrugog and Buckley are booked around installer availability.
Who decides what level of protection we need?
Your security adviser, insurer or a blast engineer, based on a threat and risk assessment. Government guidance from the National Protective Security Authority covers the approach.
Can existing windows be made blast-resistant?
They can often be improved. Anti-shatter film with an edge-retention system, laminated replacement glass in strengthened frames or internal secondary glazing can cut the flying-glass hazard, depending on the threat.
Does blast glazing affect fire doors and fire screens?
Glass in fire-rated doors and screens must stay fire-rated glass tested in that system. Blast measures there need fire-rated products or a specialist design, never a swap to plain laminated glass.
Blast-resistant glazing in nearby towns
Other glazing in Wrexham
- Kiosk and booth security glazing
- Patio and bifold door security glass
- Security glass for doors
- Commercial reglazing
- Counter and reception security screens
- Bullet-resistant glass
Get a guide price now and book your free survey in Wrexham.