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For fire escapes beyond repair or buildings that need one built new, we fabricate, anchor, and coat structures across Connecticut.
Not every problem fire escape needs replacing, and we’ll say so if yours doesn’t. Replacement is usually the right call when one or more of these applies:
If none of those describe your situation, your fire escape is very likely still repairable, and that’s the cheaper, faster answer.
Not sure whether yours is past repair? Send photos and the address and we’ll tell you straight.
At a high level, installing or replacing a fire escape means surveying the building and taking accurate measurements, fabricating the structure to fit, removing the existing fire escape where one is being replaced, anchoring the new structure into the building, and coating it before it’s exposed to weather.
The specifics, materials, anchoring approach, and exactly what’s included in a given job, depend on the building and the scope of work. We’ll walk through all of that with you directly once we’ve seen the site, rather than quote a generic process that may not match what your building actually needs.
Almost everyone asks this before they ask about cost. Here’s the straight answer.
In Connecticut, building and fire code enforcement happens at the local level. Your local building official reviews construction work, and your local fire marshal enforces the fire code. Approvals for a fire escape installation or replacement rest with you as the property owner, typically working with an architect or engineer who prepares the drawings the town reviews.
Our role is to fabricate and install the structure to what’s been approved. We don’t file for permits, obtain approvals, or handle that paperwork on your behalf, that responsibility sits with you and your design professional, and we think it’s more useful to say that plainly than to blur it.
Already working with an architect or engineer? We’ll fabricate and install their drawings.
Where a project involves removing an existing structure, that process disturbs whatever coating is on it, often more aggressively than a repaint does, since cutting and grinding through decades of paint layers generates more debris than surface preparation alone.
On a fire escape old enough to be carrying lead-based paint, that makes removal a lead-safe issue. As an EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm, we follow the same containment and cleanup practices during removal that we follow for repair and painting work, drop cloths, contained work areas, and proper cleanup rather than letting debris scatter.
Once the old structure is down, we also address the masonry at the old anchor points, so the building isn’t left with exposed anchor holes or damaged brick where the fire escape used to attach.
We’re based in Southington and take on installation and replacement projects statewide, from Hartford County to Fairfield County. These jobs typically need more coordination than a repair or repaint, site access, staging, and scheduling around the building’s use, and that planning starts with a site visit.
We don’t yet have a documented Connecticut installation project to show here the way we can for our painting, inspection, and maintenance work. It’s the one gap on this site we’re actively looking to close.
Extensive section loss across multiple structural members, failed anchor points rather than just surface corrosion, or a pattern of repeated repairs that keep coming back are all signs that replacement is the more sensible option.
You, as the property owner, typically work with an architect or engineer. We fabricate and install to what's been approved; we don't file for permits or handle approvals on your behalf.
In most cases, yes, since it's construction work reviewed by your local building official and it affects a building's means of egress, which your local fire marshal has an interest in. Your design professional can confirm exactly what's required for your specific project.
Repair addresses specific failed components on a structure that's otherwise sound. Replacement means fabricating and installing a new structure, which becomes the better option once damage is too widespread or the anchor points themselves have failed.
We work statewide from our base in Southington, including Hartford County and Fairfield County.
Yes, we carry $2 million in general liability insurance, which matters here more than on any other service we offer, since installation means anchoring a structure directly into your building.
Send us photos and the building address, and we’ll tell you honestly what you’re dealing with, repair, replacement, or somewhere in between.
Connecticut’s trusted fire escape contractors. From certified safety inspections and heavy-duty structural repairs to professional painting and maintenance, we keep your building safe, code-compliant, and weather-protected statewide. Proudly serving CT property owners since 2004.
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