How much does blast-resistant glazing cost in Cornwall?
Guide prices for blast-resistant glazing in Cornwall are £450 to £1,495 plus VAT (£540 to £1,794 inc VAT) per m² for supply and fitting. We confirm a fixed price in writing after a free survey, before any glass is ordered.
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.
Choices you can make
- Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers
- Manufacturer's test evidence supplied with your quote
- Work planned from the threat assessment and engineer's design
- Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
- Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
- Sealed units with a laminated inner pane
Covering Cornwall
We can arrange surveys and fitting anywhere in Cornwall, including Redruth and Falmouth. Dates depend on installer availability. Choose your town below for local details.
Cornwall's granite and slate cottages, harbourside shops and holiday lets face salt-laden coastal weather, and towns such as Truro, Falmouth and St Ives have conservation areas in their centres.
Typical places for blast-resistant glazing:
- Transport hubs, venues and stadium frontages
- Government, council and civic buildings
- Embassies, courts and police premises
- Offices in city centres and near potential targets
Towns in Cornwall
Things to decide before you order
New glazing or retrofit
New facades can be designed as a full tested system. Existing buildings often get film with edge retention, internal secondary glazing or curtains instead.
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.
Rules that apply in England
Glazing in workplaces
Regulation 14 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 requires windows and transparent surfaces in walls, partitions, doors and gates to be of safety material or protected against breakage where health or safety makes that necessary, and to be marked so people notice them. The employer or the person in control of the premises decides what is needed through their risk assessment.
Planning permission
Changing the glass in an existing window or shopfront does not usually need planning permission, because the building looks much the same afterwards. A new or altered shopfront, or security features added to the outside of a building, may need planning permission from the council. Bollards or barriers on the pavement need the highway authority's consent, which is normally the council.
How it works
- Send sizes or use the quote tool
- Free survey at your Cornwall address
- Fixed price in writing
- Glass made, then fitted
Blast-resistant glazing in Cornwall: questions
Which towns in Cornwall do you cover?
We can arrange work anywhere in Cornwall, including Redruth, Falmouth, St Austell, Truro and Camborne, and in other towns across the area.
Is blast film enough on its own?
Film helps hold glass together but works much better when the film is anchored to the frame so the whole pane cannot fly in. Plain film without retention offers less.
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.
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.
Other glazing in Cornwall
- Display case security glass
- Toughened safety glass
- Bullet-resistant glass
- Security secondary glazing
- Misted unit replacement with laminated glass
- Patio and bifold door security glass
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