It so happened that glazing balconies has become common practice. It began in Soviet times, and today many construction companies in the process of building a house independently perform glazing of balconies. The reasons are understandable. The glazed balcony provides additional protection against atmospheric influences (snow, water, dust, etc.) and soundproofing. In addition, such a balcony can be used as an unheated pantry or as an additional room. It depends on your choice.
Most often cold and
warm glazing is used. When it’s cold, they simply install frames with glasses, without taking additional measures for heating. In this case, the glazed balcony keeps the temperature slightly different from the outside, but it protects it from adverse effects from the atmosphere. The balcony in this case is most often an unheated warehouse and is used to store seasonal or rarely used items.
In those cases when warm glazing is done, special frames and double-glazed windows are used. In addition, in many cases, additional thermal insulation of the ceiling, floor, walls, heating and lighting. As a result, the glazed balcony turns into an additional room, which serves, for example, as a winter garden, a workshop, a kind of sports hall or relaxation room. Although the purpose of such a room can be absolutely anything, because as a result of warm glazing you got an additional, albeit small, but ordinary room.
However, despite the possibility of obtaining an additional room, cold glazing is most often used. True, different options are possible for its implementation. The main elements in this case are the frames and the frame on which they are installed. They are:
-wooden;
aluminum;
-metalloplastics.
In addition, it is worth mentioning frameless or panoramic glazing. In this case, glazing is performed without the help of frames from the floor to the ceiling. What these glazed balconies look like, the photo below gives you the opportunity to evaluate in detail. However, they usually use ordinary wooden frames, although over time they began to give way to aluminum and plastic. This has its own understandable explanation - the aluminum profile at a very reasonable price allows you to get high-quality and durable glazing.
Everyone who was engaged in the refinement of the apartment asked himself a perfectly justified question about how much it costs to glaze a balcony. There is no definite answer to it, everything will be determined by the choice of a specific glazing option. The wooden frame and the simplest wooden frames allow you to get the result at the lowest cost. True, its longevity is several years, and wooden structural elements will need regular painting, but such landscaping is cheap and eliminates the direct environmental impact on the apartment.
At the same time, the use of an aluminum profile, not to mention plastic, including with double-glazed windows, provides more durable, but also more expensive glazing. Choosing it, you must decide in advance, and what should happen as a result of such a task? If a cold storeroom is planned, then the price of the work will be one, if a winter garden, then it will cost much more.
The glazed balcony has now become almost the norm for any apartment. Glazing can be performed in a wide variety of ways using various materials. And the result obtained as a result can differ dramatically depending on the type of glazing chosen and the materials used in the performance of the work.