Juliet balcony

It is read from a table with three inputs: width, height, thickness. As an order of magnitude, up to 1200 mm wide you are in 10.76 or 11.52 mm; up to 1400 mm in 12.76 or 13.52 mm; up to 1700 mm in 16.76 or 17.52 mm; and you need 20.76 or 21.52 mm to reach 3000 mm wide. Toughened laminated glass is the rule.

Kits exist in 500, 700, 900, 1000, 1100 and 1200 mm. The usable height is measured from the finished internal floor, not from the sill: 1.00 m minimum, 1.10 m as soon as the fall height exceeds 12 m. On a floor raised afterwards by a floating screed, that is the mistake that comes back most often.

Yes, the system is compatible with uPVC, aluminium, timber and metal. But the load is not transferred by the uPVC profile alone: you reach the steel reinforcement in the frame or the masonry. We probe the frame at survey — a balustrade screwed into hollow uPVC is work that will not hold.

That is provided for: the posts slide behind the guide rails and the rail stays removable. You need to know before ordering, because it changes the mounting variant and the anchor point.

Not necessarily. Depending on the configuration the glass is fitted from inside, which removes the scaffolding, the platform and the occupation permit. On a four-storey building that often deletes the heaviest item in the quote.

The kit arrives prefabricated and goes together with almost no tools: allow something like thirty minutes per post once the survey is done and the drillings marked out. The real site time is elsewhere — in access to the flats and coordination with the occupants.

Yes, drainage is built in. Under our climate that is decisive: water standing behind the glass freezes, and frost works on both glass and fixing. On work without drainage, the damage appears in the third or fourth winter.

A laminated panel with an opal interlayer, or acid-etched glass, keeps the light while cutting the view. The trade-off is known: etched glass shows water and finger marks, opal does not. On a north façade opal darkens little; facing south it actually adds comfort.

Yes, without exception. The sizing tables are established for toughened laminated glass: it is the interlayer that holds the pieces in the event of breakage, and twelve metres above a pavement that property is not negotiable.

As an order of magnitude, 600 to 1500 CHF per opening supplied, depending on width, glass thickness and finish. Installation is quoted after survey, and any strengthening of the spandrel or masonry is priced separately: it is the item that varies most from one building to another.

The systems we install are certified, backed by test reports and approvals. We attach the documents for the chosen variant to the quote — useful when the managing agent or the owners' association has to assemble a file.