Blast-resistant glazing in Burntwood: what will it cost?
Expect £450 to £1,495 plus VAT (£540 to £1,794 inc VAT) per m² for blast-resistant glazing in Burntwood. The written quote names the glass makeup, the price and the lead time before you commit.
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
- Sealed units with a laminated inner pane
- Laminated glass with thick or stiff interlayers
- Glazing classed to BS EN 13541 or tested to ISO 16933 and 16934
- Blast-resistant net curtains as a fragment-catching layer
- Deep-bite frames and structural silicone or mechanical retention
- Manufacturer's test evidence supplied with your quote
Fitting in Burntwood and nearby
We can arrange blast-resistant glazing anywhere in Burntwood, and in nearby Lichfield, Cannock and Aldridge. Tell us your postcode and we will offer dates.
Staffordshire mixes Stoke-on-Trent's Victorian pottery-town terraces with Lichfield's cathedral quarter, Burton's brewery streets and newer estates around Tamworth and Cannock.
Typical settings for blast-resistant glazing:
- Embassies, courts and police premises
- Offices in city centres and near potential targets
- Laboratories and industrial sites with process risks
- Government, council and civic buildings
Getting the right glass for your building
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.
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.
What the rules say in England
Fire-rated glass is different
Glass in fire doors, fire screens and protected escape routes has to be fire-rated glass tested as part of that door or screen system, under Approved Document B and the fire safety duties of the building's responsible person. Laminated and security glass are not fire-rated unless the product says so. Where a pane needs both fire and security performance, it must be a product tested for both.
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 Burntwood
- Accept the fixed quote
- Fitted by glaziers working under our contract
Blast-resistant glazing in Burntwood: questions
Which areas near Burntwood do you cover?
We can arrange work in Burntwood and in nearby Lichfield (4 miles), Cannock (4 miles) and Aldridge (5 miles). Dates depend on installer availability.
What does ER1 to ER4 mean?
They are explosion-pressure classes in BS EN 13541. Glass samples are tested in a shock tube, with higher classes meaning higher pressures. The class applies to the glass, so the frame must be designed to match.
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.
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.
Blast-resistant glazing in nearby towns
Other glazing in Burntwood
- Misted unit replacement with laminated glass
- Anti-bandit glass
- Security glazed doors and screens
- Patio and bifold door security glass
- Glazing bead security upgrades
- Anti-ram-raid glazing
Tell us about the glazing and we will come back with a guide price.