How much do quick-release escape window grilles cost in Falmouth?
Our guide range for quick-release escape window grilles in Falmouth is £534 to £1,074 including VAT (£445 to £895 plus VAT) per window, including fitting. The survey is free for new installations and your fixed price follows in writing.
An escape window grille is a retractable grille with a release on the inside that opens it without a key or tool. It secures a window against entry from outside while keeping the window usable as an emergency escape route from inside, which bedroom and upstairs windows often need to be.
Options for quick-release escape window grilles in Falmouth
- Release positioned so it should not be reachable from outside
- No key or tool needed to open from inside
- Keyless internal lever or push-button release
- Release positioned at a sensible height
- White, black or anthracite finishes
- Clear opening kept at or above the window's escape size
Fitting in Falmouth and nearby
Falmouth is about 8 miles from Truro, the main centre for Cornwall. We can survey and fit across the TR11 district and in nearby places such as Truro and Redruth.
Cornwall's stock is largely granite and slate cottages, terraces and holiday lets, with many seasonal properties left empty for part of the year.
Typical places for this kind of grille include:
- Upstairs habitable rooms
- Rooms in HMOs and rented homes
- Bedroom windows in houses and bungalows
- Loft conversion windows
Things to decide before you order
Is it an escape window?
If the room relies on the window for escape, the grille must have a keyless release.
Clear opening
The folded grille must not reduce the window's clear opening below what escape requires.
Rules that apply in England
Grilles in rented homes
Landlords in England must keep rented homes free from serious hazards under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System, which includes fire. A grille that stops a tenant using an escape window can create a hazard, so grilles in rented homes should have keyless internal releases.
Bedroom and escape windows
Approved Document B (fire safety) expects many habitable rooms in houses, especially first-floor rooms, to have an emergency escape window with an unobstructed opening of at least 0.33 m², at least 450 mm high and 450 mm wide, with the bottom of the opening no more than 1,100 mm above the floor. We only fit grilles over escape windows with a release that opens from inside without a key.
How it works
- Send sizes or use the quote tool
- Free survey at your Falmouth address
- Fixed price in writing
- Made to measure and fitted
Escape window grilles (quick release) in Falmouth: questions
Can you survey in Falmouth and nearby towns?
Yes. Surveys in Falmouth, Truro, Redruth and elsewhere in Cornwall are booked around installer availability.
Can I have security grilles on bedroom windows?
Yes, as long as the grille opens from inside without a key or tool. That keeps the window usable as an escape route.
Do landlords need escape grilles?
Landlords must keep escape routes usable for tenants. A key-only grille over a bedroom escape window is a fire hazard, so a quick-release grille is the safer choice.
Can I lock a quick-release grille when I go away?
Some designs allow a key lock to be used as well, for when the house is empty. The release must always be usable when anyone is sleeping there.
Escape window grilles (quick release) in nearby towns
Other grilles in Falmouth
- Security grille installation
- Roller security grilles
- Commercial security grilles
- Bi-folding security gates
- French door grilles
- Removable security grilles
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