Steel Fire-Rated Screens
Slim steel frames for long spans, high ratings and heavy glass.
Learn more →Looking for fire-rated glazed screens in Chesterfield? We survey, supply and install tested fire-rated glazing for care homes, offices and other buildings in and around Chesterfield, including the S49 postcode district.
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We design, supply and install fire-rated screens in steel, aluminium, timber and frameless formats, working from the rating and positions on your fire strategy. Every screen is built within the limits of its test or assessment evidence: pane sizes, transom and mullion spacing, glass type and the way it is fixed to the surrounding structure.
After survey you get a fixed written quote for the agreed scope, so Chesterfield budgets are not open-ended.
If an existing frame in a Chesterfield building has no traceable evidence, we say so and price the options rather than guess.
Every quote in Chesterfield identifies the tested system: frame, glass, beads, seals and fixings, within its pane-size limits.
A door in a glazed screen has to be tested in that configuration or covered by a doorset certificate and an assessment for the screen. We specify the door and screen as one system rather than mixing products.
New screens, and changes to existing fire-resisting walls, are normally building work. We provide the product evidence your building control body or approved inspector will ask for.
Building guidance limits where integrity-only glazing can sit on protected escape routes, and in some positions restricts it to above a set height from the floor. Insulating screens are not restricted in the same way, so the route plan often decides the glass.
We cover Chesterfield and the surrounding postcode districts, including S49, S41, S40, S42. Nearby towns we also serve include Staveley, Dronfield, Sheffield. Chesterfield lies roughly 37 km from Derby, within our Derbyshire coverage.
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.
We can survey and quote for care homes, offices and other building types in Chesterfield.
They need periodic checks for damaged glass, missing beads, failed seals and unauthorised changes such as new cable holes. We can carry out these checks as part of a survey.
Yes. Many screens are glazed from floor to ceiling, subject to the classification needed on that route and any impact safety requirements at low level.
Yes. We survey and install in Chesterfield and across Derbyshire, including the S49 district and nearby Staveley.
Yes. We plan phasing, out-of-hours work and temporary protection so the building can stay in use where the fire strategy allows.
Slim steel frames for long spans, high ratings and heavy glass.
Learn more →Light, modern aluminium framing tested for fire.
Learn more →Hardwood screens and borrowed lights tested for fire.
Learn more →Glazed screens and doors on protected stairs, lobbies and corridors.
Learn more →Send the fire strategy extract, inspection report or a few photos of the openings.
We visit Chesterfield to measure, record existing marks and check the frames and substrate.
Your quote lists each item with its classification and the evidence it relies on.
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.