What is the price of quick-release escape window grilles in Welwyn Garden City?
Our guide range for quick-release escape window grilles in Welwyn Garden City 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 goes into a quick-release grille
- Release positioned at a sensible height
- Clear opening kept at or above the window's escape size
- Can be keyed alike with other grilles for daytime locking
- White, black or anthracite finishes
- Retractable lattice that folds fully clear of the opening
- Keyless internal lever or push-button release
Fitting in Welwyn Garden City and nearby
Surveys in Welwyn Garden City (AL8) are booked around installer availability. We also cover nearby Hatfield (3 miles), Hertford (6 miles) and St Albans (6 miles).
Hertfordshire mixes the garden cities of Letchworth and Welwyn, post-war new towns such as Stevenage, and historic centres like St Albans.
This type of grille suits:
- Upstairs habitable rooms
- Loft conversion windows
- Basement bedrooms
- Bedroom windows in houses and bungalows
Questions we will ask at the survey
Release position
Easy to find and operate in the dark, but not something a passer-by can reach.
Children
Discuss the release position with us if young children use the room.
Planning and safety in England
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.
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.
How it works
- Tell us about the opening
- Survey and measuring
- Written quote and lead time
- Fitting, testing and handover
Escape window grilles (quick release) in Welwyn Garden City: questions
Can you survey in Welwyn Garden City and nearby towns?
Yes. Surveys in Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, Hertford and elsewhere in Hertfordshire are booked around installer availability.
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.
Could a burglar use the quick release?
It should not be possible from outside. The release is on the inside face and positioned so it is not reachable through the lattice from outside; we check this at fitting.
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.
Escape window grilles (quick release) in nearby towns
Other grilles in Welwyn Garden City
- Counter and hatch grilles
- Door security gates
- Roller security grilles
- Bespoke security grilles
- Grille lock replacement and upgrades
- Home security grilles
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