Fire-Resistant Glass
Integrity and insulating fire glass supplied and fitted into tested frames.
Learn more →Our integrity fire glass service covers Blackpool and neighbouring areas such as Thornton-Cleveleys and Lytham St Annes, 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 fit integrity glass in screens, doors, vision panels and windows where the fire strategy allows it, and upgrade to EW or EI where it does not. Choosing correctly between E, EW and EI is where most of the cost on a project is decided.
Modern integrity glass is usually available with an impact classification, unlike plain wired glass.
Integrity glass costs a fraction of insulated glass and fits slimmer frames, which is why specifying it correctly matters.
Building guidance restricts how much integrity-only glass can be used on protected escape routes and where it can sit. Check the route before choosing E glass.
Whether the building is in central Blackpool or the wider FY1, FY3, FY4, FY2 districts, we can survey and quote. We also cover Thornton-Cleveleys, Lytham St Annes, Fleetwood. Preston, around 23 km from Blackpool, is the largest town in the same coverage area.
After survey you get a fixed written quote for the agreed scope, so Blackpool budgets are not open-ended.
We can phase work in Blackpool around residents, staff or pupils, with out-of-hours options.
If an existing frame in a Blackpool building has no traceable evidence, we say so and price the options rather than guess.
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.
Integrity fire glass applies to many building types in Blackpool, including industrial units and blocks of flats.
Yes, considerably, and it is thinner and lighter.
In limited amounts and positions. Building guidance sets the rules; insulating glass is used where those limits are exceeded.
Building work in Blackpool follows the Building Regulations 2010 and Approved Document B, and occupied buildings are covered by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Survey timing in Blackpool 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.
Integrity and insulating fire glass supplied and fitted into tested frames.
Learn more →EI 30 to EI 120 glass that blocks heat as well as flames.
Learn more →Replace old Georgian wired glass with modern fire glass.
Learn more →Replacement and new vision panels fitted to the door's evidence.
Learn more →Send the fire strategy extract, inspection report or a few photos of the openings.
We visit Blackpool 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.