Glazed balcony - good protection from bad weather

It so happened that glazing balconies has become a common practice. It began in Soviet times, and today many construction companies in the process of erecting the house independently perform the glazing of the balconies. The reasons are quite understandable. The glazed balcony provides additional protection against weathering (snow, water, dust, etc.) and soundproofing. In addition, such a balcony can be used as an unheated storage room or as an additional room. It depends on your choice.

Most often cold and warm glazing is used. When the cold is just set the frame with the glass, without taking additional measures for heating. In this case, the glassed-in balcony holds a temperature that is slightly different from the outside, but it protects badly from adverse effects from the atmosphere. The balcony in this case is most often an unheated warehouse and serves to store seasonal or rarely used things.

In cases where a warm glazing is done, special frames and double-glazed windows are used. In addition, in many cases, additional insulation of the ceiling, floor, walls is carried out, heating and lighting are carried out. As a result, the glazed balcony turns into an additional room, serving, for example, as a winter garden, a workshop, a kind of sports hall or rest room. Although the appointment of such a room can be absolutely anything, because as a result of the warm glazing you have additionally even a small but ordinary room.

However, despite the possibility of obtaining an additional room, most often cold glazing is used. However, different variants are possible for its realization. The main elements are the frames and the frame to which they are mounted. They are:

- wood;

-Aluminium;

-metalloplastics.

In addition, it is worth mentioning about frameless or panoramic glazing. In this case, glazing is performed without the help of frames from the floor to the ceiling. As similar glazed balconies look, the photo below gives an opportunity to evaluate in all details. However, most often they use conventional wooden frames, although in time they began to give up their positions in aluminum and plastic. This has its own understandable explanation - an aluminum profile for a very reasonable price allows you to get high-quality and durable glazing.

Everyone who was engaged in upgrading the apartment, asked himself a perfectly justified question about how much it costs to glaze the balcony. There is no unambiguous answer to it, everything will be determined by the choice of a specific glazing option. The wooden frame and the simplest wooden frames allow to get the result for the minimal cost. True, its durability is several years, and the wooden elements of the construction will need regular painting, but such improvement is cheap and eliminates the direct impact on the apartment environment.

At the same time, the use of aluminum profile, not to mention plastic, including with glass, provides a more durable, but also more expensive glazing. Choosing it, you need to decide in advance, and what should happen as a result of this task? If you plan a cold storage, the price of work will be one, if the winter garden, then it will cost much more.

The glazed balcony has now become almost the norm for any apartment. Glazing can be made in a variety of ways using different materials. And the resulting result can be dramatically different depending on the type of glazing chosen and the materials used in the work.