Escape window grilles in Birkenhead

What is the price of quick-release escape window grilles in Birkenhead?

Budget £534 to £1,074 including VAT (£445 to £895 plus VAT) per window for quick-release escape window grilles in Birkenhead, supplied and fitted. Size, number of leaves, colour and access all move the price, which is fixed in writing after the survey.

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

No key or tool needed to open from inside
Clear opening kept at or above the window's escape size
Can be keyed alike with other grilles for daytime locking
Release positioned so it should not be reachable from outside
Retractable lattice that folds fully clear of the opening
Release positioned at a sensible height

Fitting in Birkenhead and nearby

Surveys in Birkenhead (CH41) are booked around installer availability. We also cover nearby Liverpool (2 miles), Wallasey (3 miles) and Bebington (3 miles).

Merseyside has Liverpool's Georgian quarter and Victorian terraces, the Wirral's suburbs, and large high-street and dockside commercial areas.

This type of grille suits:

Upstairs habitable rooms
Basement bedrooms
Loft conversion windows
Bedroom windows in houses and bungalows

Questions we will ask at the survey

Children

Discuss the release position with us if young children use the room.

Clear opening

The folded grille must not reduce the window's clear opening below what escape requires.

Planning and safety in England

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 Birkenhead: questions

Do you cover Liverpool as well as Birkenhead?

Yes. As well as Birkenhead, we can arrange surveys in nearby Liverpool, Wallasey and Bebington, and elsewhere in Merseyside.

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.

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.

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.

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