Panic Room Installation in London

Securing a safe haven within your home has never been more attainable with Sectech’s comprehensive panic room installation services. Our adept panic room fitters design and install fortified spaces designed specifically for your needs, ensuring a sanctuary of safety for you and your loved ones.

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Who installs panic rooms in London, and what decides the cost?

Sectech UK, a security company based on Old Bond Street in Mayfair, designs and installs panic rooms and safe rooms in homes across London, including Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Kensington, Chelsea, Belgravia and Hampstead, and in the home counties. The cost depends on the size of the room, the level of protection it is built to, whether it is a new build or a retrofit, and its ventilation, power and communications, so each room is quoted individually after a survey.

A panic room, or safe room, is a fortified room inside your home or workplace where your family can lock themselves in and call for help. Sectech handle it from the first survey to the final sign-off. For the features a room should have and the standards each part should meet, read our guide to panic room features and safety standards.

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As a leading panic room supplier, Sectech offers a full range of custom solutions to fit the unique security needs of your household. Our panic rooms are crafted using top-notch materials and innovative designs, ensuring a robust sanctuary right within your home.

Efficient Panic Room Installation London & UK

With a firm commitment to quality and efficiency, our panic room installation in the UK stands unrivaled. The installation process is seamless and tailored to your convenience, ensuring a secure, fortified space without any hassle.

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Comprehensive Safe Room Services

Beyond just installing a panic room, we provide a comprehensive range of safe room services including consultation, design, and post-installation support. Our experts guide you through every step, ensuring your panic room meets the highest standards of safety and functionality.

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Having a safe retreat in your home or workplace is indispensable and Sectech’s unmatched expertise in panic room installation ensures you have a secure place, ready at any moment.

Panic room installation can help protect you in situations such as:

Security Threats
Aggravated Burglary
Kidnapping Attempt
Targeted Assaults
Terrorist Attacks

Our Panic Room Installation is offered to a variety of properties including homes, hotels and offices.

Panic Room Installation is a very specialist subject and it’s something that we’re very good at. You can benefit from our wealth of experience by simply giving us a call on 0207 118 1168 or emailing us at contactus@sectech-uk.com

How it works

Panic Room Installation, Step by Step

1. Survey

It starts with the property and the household: who lives there, who works there, what the room has to protect against and how quickly everyone could reach it. The survey looks at the structure, the candidate rooms and the services that run to them. A home security risk assessment is a useful first step: it sets the panic room in the context of the rest of the home's security.

2. Design

The design fixes the room's position, the protection rating of its walls, door and any glazing, and how it is ventilated, powered and connected to the outside world. A good design is invisible: the room can look like a dressing room, a study or a store, and the door can be finished to match the house.

3. Build

Walls, floor and ceiling are reinforced, the security door and frame are fitted, and the ventilation, power and communications are installed. In a new build this is part of the main programme; in a lived-in home the work is planned to keep disruption, and the number of people who know about the room, to a minimum.

4. Sign-off

Before handover the room should be checked against the design: the door, the locks, the ventilation, the backup power and the communications, and everyone who may need it should know how to use it. Post-installation support keeps it ready for the day it is needed.

Standards

The Standards a Safe Room Should Meet

A panic room is only as strong as its weakest element, so each part should be tested to a recognised standard, chosen for the threat the room is designed against.

Forced entry: doors, walls and windows tested to LPS 1175 or PAS 24, where a higher class resists a longer attack with heavier tools.
Bullet-resistant glazing: tested to EN 1063, which sets classes of protection against particular weapons.
Bullet-resistant doors, windows and shutters: tested to EN 1522.

Not every room needs every rating. A room designed against a burglar needs forced entry resistance; a room for a family facing armed threats needs ballistic protection as well. The survey and the design decide which classes your room needs, and the guide to panic room features and safety standards explains each in more depth.

Cost

What Decides the Cost of a Panic Room

Every panic room is designed for one home, so there is no standard price. Each is quoted individually after the survey. These are the things that decide it:

Size: how many people the room must hold, and for how long.
Protection rating: forced entry only, or ballistic protection as well, and at which class.
New build or retrofit: building a room into a new home or a major renovation is simpler than reinforcing an existing room in a finished house.
Ventilation: fresh air for the people inside, and protection for the air supply itself.
Power: backup power, so lights, communications and ventilation keep running if the mains is cut.
Communications: a way to call for help that does not depend on the house phone line or a single mobile network.

Where

Panic Room Installation in London and the UK

Sectech install panic rooms and safe rooms across London, in Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Kensington, Chelsea, Belgravia, Hampstead and beyond, and throughout the home counties: Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire. Homes elsewhere in the UK are covered too. A panic room is often one part of a wider plan, alongside residential security for the home and close protection for the family when they travel.

Client testimonials

"I have no hesitation in recommending Sec-Tech and Mick Field their Operations Manager. The company are very client focused assessing the needs of the business and offering advice and support. We have been working with Sec-Tech and Mick Field for the last three years. In the events industry we are inundated with security companies offering their services. Sec-Tech however with the quality of the personnel and the advice and support they offer places them in a different league."
Jayne Southall | CEOLincolnshire Showground
"Sec-tech UK were extremely professional and efficient in providing cover for a large scale hospitality event for the Rolling Stones at The O2 in November 2012. They managed to respond quickly and provide a VIP security team within a very tight deadline. I appreciated that they listened to the brief and consulted on how best to achieve this whilst maintaining a secure venue. They also integrated with the site security and understood the role that they needed to play in a multi venue site. They were a pleasure to work with and the service was exceptional."
Elizabeth McArthur | Operations ManagerThe O2, London

frequently asked questions

Panic room installation

How much does a panic room cost?

There is no standard price, because no two panic rooms are the same. The cost depends on the size of the room, the level of protection it is built to, whether it is part of a new build or a retrofit, and the ventilation, power and communications it needs. Each room is quoted individually after a survey of the property.

Can a panic room be added to an existing home?

Usually, yes. Many panic rooms are retrofitted into an existing room, such as a dressing room, a bedroom or part of a basement, by reinforcing the walls, floor and ceiling and fitting a security door. The survey establishes what the structure will take and which room gives the household the quickest route to safety.

What standards should a panic room meet?

Doors, walls and windows should be tested for forced entry, for example to LPS 1175 or PAS 24. Where firearms are part of the threat, bullet-resistant glazing should be tested to EN 1063, and bullet-resistant doors, windows and shutters to EN 1522. The right class for each depends on the threat the room is designed against.

How long does panic room installation take?

It depends on the size of the room, the protection rating, the lead time for certified doors and glazing, and whether the work is part of a wider build or a retrofit into a lived-in home. The programme is agreed at the design stage, before any work starts.

What is the difference between a panic room and a safe room?

In the UK the two terms are used for the same thing: a fortified room inside a home or workplace where people can lock themselves in and call for help until it arrives. Some people use safe room for a lighter specification, but what matters is the standard the room is built to, not its name.

Do you install panic rooms outside London?

Yes. Sectech install panic rooms and safe rooms in homes, hotels and offices across London and the UK, including the home counties of Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire.

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