Blast-resistant glazing in Kettering

How much does blast-resistant glazing cost in Kettering?

Our guide range for blast-resistant glazing in Kettering 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.

What goes into blast-resistant glazing

Sealed units with a laminated inner pane
Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
Anti-shatter film with edge-retention systems for existing windows
Work planned from the threat assessment and engineer's design
Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers
Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer

Fitting in Kettering and nearby

Surveys in Kettering (NN16) are booked around installer availability. We also cover nearby Wellingborough (7 miles), Corby (7 miles) and Rushden (9 miles).

Northamptonshire mixes Northampton's town-centre retail and Victorian shoe-trade streets with newer estates around Corby and Wellingborough and stone villages towards Oundle.

Typical places for blast-resistant glazing:

Offices in city centres and near potential targets
Transport hubs, venues and stadium frontages
Embassies, courts and police premises
Government, council and civic buildings

Things to decide before you order

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.

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.

Rules that apply in England

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 Kettering address
Fixed price in writing
Glass made, then fitted

Blast-resistant glazing in Kettering: questions

Can you survey in Kettering and nearby towns?

Yes. Surveys in Kettering, Wellingborough and Corby 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.

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.

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