Frameless Fire-Rated Glazing
Butt-jointed fire glass walls with minimal frames.
Learn more →When a fire strategy, inspection report or building control comment in Loughborough calls for glazing tested to resist fire, our fire-rated glass partitions service covers survey, supply and installation.
Tell us what you need. We reply with next steps and a guide price.
Fire-rated glass partitions are office-style glazed walls that are also tested to resist fire, used where a meeting room, corridor wall or reception wall forms part of a protected route or compartment. They look like standard office partitions but use rated frames, glass and seals throughout.
Our Leicestershire coverage takes in Loughborough (LE11, LE12) and the neighbouring towns of Coalville, Leicester, Long Eaton. Leicester, around 15 km from Loughborough, is the largest town in the same coverage area.
Non-rated partitions on the same floor can be matched in profile and finish.
Rated partitions need fire-stopping inspected before ceilings close. We plan inspection points into the fit-out programme.
Large glass walls need manifestation so people can see them. Applied film must be compatible with the glass and not cover any marks building control may need to see.
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.
In higher-risk buildings, broadly 18 metres or seven storeys with two or more homes, the Building Safety Regulator is the building control authority. England is also phasing out BS 476 references from Approved Document B, with the remaining fire-resistance references due to go in September 2029.
Designs follow the building and fire safety rules that apply in England, not a one-size-fits-all approach.
After survey you get a fixed written quote for the agreed scope, so Loughborough budgets are not open-ended.
We can phase work in Loughborough around residents, staff or pupils, with out-of-hours options.
Sector guides below cover industrial units, schools and colleges and other buildings in Loughborough.
Frames may be slightly deeper and glass slightly thicker, but most systems are hard to tell apart from standard partitions.
Some butt-jointed systems are tested for fire. See our frameless fire-rated glazing service for what is possible.
Survey timing in Loughborough 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.
We can give a guide range from photos and sizes, including a clear photo of any marks on the glass. A fixed price follows a survey.
Butt-jointed fire glass walls with minimal frames.
Learn more →Light, modern aluminium framing tested for fire.
Learn more →Doorsets with large glazed panels, tested as complete units.
Learn more →Internal glazed screens that keep compartments and corridors protected.
Learn more →Tell us the rating required, sizes and building type, or ask us to find out.
We visit Loughborough to measure, record existing marks and check the frames and substrate.
You receive a written quote naming the tested system and classification.
Work is completed to the manufacturer's details and documented for your records.
Send sizes, photos of any glass marks or your inspection report and we will come back with the right tested system.