Bi-folding security gates in Lowestoft: what will it cost?
Our guide range for bi-folding security gates in Lowestoft is £954 to £2,634 including VAT (£795 to £2,195 plus VAT) per opening, including fitting. The survey is free for new installations and your fixed price follows in writing.
A bi-folding security gate is made of hinged leaves of vertical bars that fold against each other as they slide along a top track. It covers wide openings like a retractable grille but folds into fewer, flatter panels with no scissor lattice.
What goes into a bi-fold gate
- Mesh or solid infill panels on request
- Lock box on the leading leaf plus shoot bolts
- Neat folded stack for receptions and showrooms
- Fold to one or both sides
- Rigid hinged leaves of vertical bars
- Black, anthracite and RAL colours
Fitting in Lowestoft and nearby
Surveys in Lowestoft (NR32) are booked around installer availability. We also cover nearby Great Yarmouth (9 miles), Norwich (22 miles) and Wymondham (28 miles).
Suffolk has timber-framed and listed buildings in its market towns, Ipswich's Victorian terraces and waterfront, and coastal towns such as Lowestoft.
Common openings for bi-folding security gates:
- Loading doors and goods-in
- Office receptions and showrooms
- Wide internal openings
- Garden room and orangery openings
Getting the right bi-fold gate for your building
Look
Bi-folds read as a screen rather than a lattice, which suits modern interiors.
Folded stack size
Leaves stack flatter than a lattice but each leaf has a fixed width, so the stack is planned with the room layout.
What the rules say in England
Grilles inside the glass
A grille fitted inside the glass does not normally need planning permission, because it does not materially change how the building looks from outside. If the building is listed, listed building consent may still be needed.
Grilles across exits in business premises
In workplaces and other non-domestic premises, including the common parts of blocks of flats and HMOs, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 makes the responsible person keep escape routes and emergency exits available and easy to open while people are present. A grille across an exit should be unlocked and parked open whenever the building is occupied, and covered in the fire risk assessment.
How it works
- Guide price online or by phone
- Survey in Lowestoft
- Accept the fixed quote
- Installation by installers working under our contract
Bi-folding security gates in Lowestoft: questions
Do you cover Great Yarmouth as well as Lowestoft?
Yes. As well as Lowestoft, we can arrange surveys in nearby Great Yarmouth, Norwich and Wymondham, and elsewhere in Suffolk.
Do bi-fold gates need a floor track?
They need some bottom guidance, which can be a recessed channel or discreet floor pins rather than a raised track.
Can bi-fold gates be powder-coated to match our frames?
Yes, in most RAL colours.
How wide can a bi-fold gate be?
From a single doorway up to several metres, split to fold both ways on wider openings.
Bi-folding security gates in nearby towns
- Great Yarmouth9 miles
- Norwich22 miles
- Wymondham28 miles
- Diss28 miles
- North Walsham28 miles
- Dereham37 miles
Other grilles in Lowestoft
- Grille lock replacement and upgrades
- Escape window grilles (quick release)
- Front door security gates
- Internal security grilles
- Vacant property grilles and screens
- Home security grilles
Tell us about your bi-fold gate and we will come back with a guide price.