Escape window grilles (quick release) in Cricklewood: what will it cost?
Our guide range for quick-release escape window grilles in Cricklewood 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.
What you can specify
- Can be keyed alike with other grilles for daytime locking
- Release positioned at a sensible height
- White, black or anthracite finishes
- 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
Fitting in Cricklewood and nearby
We arrange surveys and fitting in Cricklewood and across the NW2 postcode district, as well as in nearby Kilburn (1 mile) and Willesden (2 miles). Dates depend on installer availability.
London's buildings range from Victorian and Edwardian terraces and mansion blocks to post-war estates, with long high streets of ground-floor shops below flats.
Common openings for quick-release escape window grilles:
- Basement bedrooms
- Loft conversion windows
- Rooms in HMOs and rented homes
- Upstairs habitable rooms
Getting the right quick-release grille for your building
Is it an escape window?
If the room relies on the window for escape, the grille must have a keyless release.
Children
Discuss the release position with us if young children use the room.
What the rules say 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
- Guide price online or by phone
- Survey in Cricklewood
- Accept the fixed quote
- Installation by installers working under our contract
Escape window grilles (quick release) in Cricklewood: questions
Do you cover Kilburn as well as Cricklewood?
Yes. As well as Cricklewood, we can arrange surveys in nearby Kilburn, Willesden and Chalk Farm, and elsewhere in Greater London.
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.
How does a quick-release grille work?
A lever or push release on the inside of the lock box unlatches the grille so it can be slid open in one movement, with no key needed.
Escape window grilles (quick release) in nearby towns
Other grilles in Cricklewood
- Bi-folding security gates
- Patio and bifold door grilles
- Retractable security grilles
- Internal security grilles
- Shopfront security grilles
- Security grille servicing
Tell us about your quick-release grille and we will come back with a guide price.