Fire-Rated Glazed Screens
Internal glazed screens that keep compartments and corridors protected.
Learn more →Our fire-rated escape route glazing service covers Thornaby-on-Tees and neighbouring areas such as Stockton-on-Tees and Billingham, with every job built around a tested system.
Tell us what you need. We reply with next steps and a guide price.
We supply and install glazed screens, doors and panels on escape routes in offices, flats, schools and healthcare buildings, working from the fire strategy so integrity and insulation are used in the right places, and smoke control is maintained.
Coverage around Thornaby-on-Tees includes the TS17, TS16, TS18, TS5, TS19, TS8 districts and nearby Stockton-on-Tees, Billingham, Middlesbrough. York, around 66 km from Thornaby-on-Tees, is the largest town in the same coverage area.
We plan installation so escape routes stay available while the building is occupied, or agree temporary arrangements with whoever is responsible for fire safety in the building.
Corridor subdivision doors and double-swing doors normally need vision panels so people do not collide.
In England, blocks of flats over 11 metres need regular checks of communal fire doors, including glazed ones.
Building work in England is covered by the Building Regulations 2010, with fire safety guidance in Approved Document B and impact safety guidance for glazing in Approved Document K.
Once a building is in use, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires the responsible person to maintain fire safety measures, including fire-resisting glazing. The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 add duties for multi-occupied residential buildings, including fire door checks in buildings over 11 metres.
Designs follow the building and fire safety rules that apply in England, not a one-size-fits-all approach.
We can phase work in Thornaby-on-Tees around residents, staff or pupils, with out-of-hours options.
You receive the classification references, glass marks and installation photographs for your fire safety records.
Fire-rated escape route glazing applies to many building types in Thornaby-on-Tees, including schools and colleges and retail and leisure units.
Because people escaping may pass right beside the glass. Insulating glass limits the temperature rise on the escape side, so people can pass it more safely.
Yes, if it is fire-rated to the required classification and, for integrity-only glass, within the limits building guidance sets for that position.
Yes. We survey and install in Thornaby-on-Tees and across North Yorkshire, including the TS17 district and nearby Stockton-on-Tees.
Survey timing in Thornaby-on-Tees depends on access, the size of the building and how urgent the defect is. Tell us your deadline when you enquire and we will confirm a date before you commit.
Internal glazed screens that keep compartments and corridors protected.
Learn more →Doorsets with large glazed panels, tested as complete units.
Learn more →EI 30 to EI 120 glass that blocks heat as well as flames.
Learn more →Surveys that identify what fire glazing you have and what needs fixing.
Learn more →Send drawings, a fire risk assessment action or photos of the glass marks.
We visit Thornaby-on-Tees to measure, record existing marks and check the frames and substrate.
You receive a written quote naming the tested system and classification.
Installation to the system details, then a handover pack with photographs and evidence.
Send sizes, photos of any glass marks or your inspection report and we will come back with the right tested system.