Escape window grilles in Wellingborough

Escape window grilles (quick release) in Wellingborough: what will it cost?

Our guide range for quick-release escape window grilles in Wellingborough 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

Can be keyed alike with other grilles for daytime locking
No key or tool needed to open from inside
Release positioned at a sensible height
Keyless internal lever or push-button release
Release positioned so it should not be reachable from outside
Clear opening kept at or above the window's escape size

Fitting in Wellingborough and nearby

Surveys in Wellingborough (NN8) are booked around installer availability. We also cover nearby Rushden (4 miles), Kettering (7 miles) and Northampton (9 miles).

Northamptonshire combines Victorian boot-and-shoe terraces in Northampton and Kettering with post-war Corby and growing new estates.

Common openings for quick-release escape window grilles:

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

Getting the right quick-release grille for your building

Release position

Easy to find and operate in the dark, but not something a passer-by can reach.

Clear opening

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

What the rules say in England

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 Wellingborough
Accept the fixed quote
Installation by installers working under our contract

Escape window grilles (quick release) in Wellingborough: questions

Can you survey in Wellingborough and nearby towns?

Yes. Surveys in Wellingborough, Rushden, Kettering and elsewhere in Northamptonshire are booked around installer availability.

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.

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.

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Escape window grilles (quick release) in Wellingborough

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