Safety glazing for schools and public buildings in Gateshead: what will it cost?
Our guide range for safety glazing for schools and public buildings in Gateshead is £95 to £345 plus VAT (£114 to £414 inc VAT) per pane, including fitting. The survey is free for new installations and your fixed price follows in writing.
Safety glazing for schools and public buildings means finding glass in critical locations, such as doors, side panels and low-level panes, that would break dangerously, and replacing it with toughened or laminated safety glass or protecting it with safety film. It helps duty holders meet workplace and building safety rules where children, staff and visitors move around.
What you can specify
- Pane-by-pane survey and schedule of critical locations
- Clear records for your estate files
- Work in holidays and outside hours
- Fire-rated glass for fire doors and screens, using the glazing system named in the door's certification
- Toughened and laminated replacement glass
- Manifestation markings on large clear panes
Fitting in Gateshead and nearby
We arrange surveys and fitting in Gateshead and across the NE8 postcode district, as well as in nearby Newcastle upon Tyne (1 mile) and Felling (1 mile). Dates depend on installer availability.
Tyne and Wear covers Newcastle's Grainger Town stone streets and quayside offices, the town centres of Sunderland and Gateshead, and large inter-war and post-war housing estates.
Typical settings for safety glazing for schools and public buildings:
- Offices with older internal glazing
- Libraries, leisure centres and council buildings
- Colleges and community halls
- Nurseries and early-years settings
Getting the right glass for your building
Prioritising
Start with doors, side panels and low-level glass in busy areas, then work outwards. The schedule makes it easy to phase.
Manifestation
Large clear panes need markings at eye level so people do not walk into them.
What the rules say in England
Safety glass in critical locations
In England, section 5 of Approved Document K treats glazing in doors and in side panels within 300 mm of a door edge, from floor level up to 1,500 mm, and any other glazing below 800 mm, as a critical location. Glass there should break safely, be robust, or be guarded. Laminated or toughened glass meeting BS EN 12600 class 3 is the usual answer, rising to class 2 for door and side-panel panes wider than 900 mm.
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 Gateshead
- Accept the fixed quote
- Fitted by glaziers working under our contract
Safety glazing for schools and public buildings in Gateshead: questions
Do you cover Newcastle upon Tyne as well as Gateshead?
Yes. As well as Gateshead, we can arrange surveys in nearby Newcastle upon Tyne, Felling and Wallsend. Dates depend on installer availability.
Can you work during school holidays?
Yes. Most school glazing work is planned for holidays, weekends or after hours.
Can you replace glass in fire doors?
Often, yes, using the fire-rated glass and glazing system named in the door's certification or test evidence; some doors need a certificated fire-door installer, which we check first. Fire door glass must never be replaced with ordinary safety or security glass.
Is wired glass safety glass?
Not usually. Ordinary wired glass is not a safety glass and can break into sharp pieces in impact positions. Some wired glass is used for fire resistance, which is a different job.
Safety glazing for schools and public buildings in nearby towns
Other glazing in Gateshead
- Security secondary glazing
- Security glass for home windows
- Blast-resistant glazing
- Security glass for doors
- Security double-glazed units
- Security window film
Tell us about the glazing and we will come back with a guide price.