What is the price of blast-resistant glazing in Sutton?
Guide prices for blast-resistant glazing in Sutton 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
- Anti-shatter film with edge-retention systems for existing windows
- Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
- Glazing classed to BS EN 13541 or tested to ISO 16933 and 16934
- Work planned from the threat assessment and engineer's design
- Manufacturer's test evidence supplied with your quote
Fitting in Sutton and nearby
We can arrange blast-resistant glazing anywhere in Sutton, and in nearby Carshalton, Banstead and Ewell. Tell us your postcode and we will offer dates.
Greater London has every kind of glazing, from Georgian sashes and Victorian bays in conservation areas to high-street shopfronts, office curtain walling and new-build flats.
This glazing suits:
- Offices in city centres and near potential targets
- Laboratories and industrial sites with process risks
- Government, council and civic buildings
- Transport hubs, venues and stadium frontages
Questions we will ask at the survey
Fragment hazard
Some designs accept that glass will break but keep it in place; others allow controlled failure into a catching system. Both aim to stop flying shards.
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.
Building regulations and safety in England
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.
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.
How it works
- Guide price online or by phone
- Survey in Sutton
- Accept the fixed quote
- Fitted by glaziers working under our contract
Blast-resistant glazing in Sutton: questions
Which areas near Sutton do you cover?
We can arrange work in Sutton and in nearby Carshalton (2 miles), Banstead (2 miles) and Ewell (2 miles). Dates depend on 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 Sutton
- Shopfront security glass
- Toughened safety glass
- Bullet-resistant glass
- Security secondary glazing
- Safety glazing for schools and public buildings
- Security glass for home windows
Tell us about the glazing and we will come back with a guide price.