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Frameless balcony glazing
A frameless system has no frame, and the first consequence of that is not the view. A framed window catches whatever gets past its outer seal in a chamber and lets it out again through drainage slots. A frameless run has no chamber, because between one pane and the next there is a contact line rather than a mullion — so rain driven at an angle comes through that line and lands on the balcony floor. This is not a defect to be sealed up; it is the condition the whole installation is designed around, which is why the balcony has to go on being a floor that drains. The second consequence is wind. Each pane is held at the head and at the floor and left free down both vertical edges, so it bows in the middle, and the joints open at precisely the moment the weather is worst.
- there is none drainage
- the balcony floor where water lands
- bows in the middle a pane in wind
Why choose aluminium windows?
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Durable EPDM seals
Three contours of EPDM seals keep the glass off the aluminium and close the gap between sash and frame, so dust, humid salt air and wind-driven rain stay outside.
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Foamed thermal inserts
Foamed inserts fill the profile chambers and stop air circulating inside them, so less outside heat and street noise passes through the frame into the cooled room.
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Polyamide thermal breaks
Glass-filled polyamide thermal breaks up to 40 mm wide keep the outer and inner shells apart, so the frame holds its shape and its insulation through a UAE summer.
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Energy-efficient double glazing
Double glazing up to 60 mm thick puts a sealed gap of still air or gas between the hot street and the cooled room, so less heat crosses the glass into the room.
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How a frameless balcony is set up
- Balcony floor checked for its falls and its outlet Surveyed within 48 hours of the enquiry
- Existing drain kept clear of the new track line Water still has to reach it
- Pane height and thickness set for the floor level The same pane works harder higher up
- Bottom track left free to pass water outward Never bedded solid all the way round
- Locks and stops fitted at the parking end Nothing left loose when a shamal arrives
- Run hung, aligned and the drainage proved with a hose Opened and closed with you at handover
What having no frame actually means
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A contact line
Joint between panes
Brush or gasket, no drained chamber
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Onto the floor
Driven rain
There is nowhere else for it to go
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Falls and an outlet
The floor
It has to keep working as a floor
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Head and foot only
How a pane is held
Both vertical edges are free
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Positive locks
Against a gust
Weight on its own holds nothing
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The honest downside
What a frameless balcony will not keep out
Fine dust is the part people do not expect. The joints between panes are contact lines, not compressed seals, so in a shamal the finest sand still finds its way through them and under the bottom track, and settles on the balcony floor as before — only less of it.
Noise behaves the same way. The glass takes the edge off the traffic below but the joints let sound through, so a balcony over a busy road stays audible from the living room. And with no frame to hide anything, every fingerprint and dried splash shows on the edges of the panes.
If the aim is a quiet, clean space you can cool and furnish as a room, a framed, thermally broken sliding system seals properly and is the better choice. Frameless stays right when the balcony is still an outdoor space and the point is to use it on more days of the year.
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Balcony glazing
Frequently asked questions
Through the joints between the panes and onto the balcony floor — the same place it went before the glass arrived. There is no drained chamber to catch it, so the design question is not how to stop it but where it is allowed to land and how it leaves. That makes the floor the important part of the job: its falls, its outlet and the gap under the bottom track all have to keep working. A common mistake is the opposite instinct made permanent: a bottom track bedded solid in sealant right the way round, which turns a balcony that used to drain into a shallow tray.
It bows. Carried at the head and at the floor with both vertical edges free, the pane spans between two tracks and deflects in the middle, taking the contact joints with its neighbours along with it — so the run is at its leakiest exactly when the weather is worst. That is the honest description of the product rather than a criticism of it. Practically it means the specification is written for a floor level and not for a building: the pane that is comfortable a few storeys up is working much harder near the top, and it means locks at the bottom rather than a pane trusting its own weight.
All of it. Because water crosses the joints, the balcony remains an outdoor room in every way that matters — the floor finish, the light fittings and sockets, the furniture, whatever gets stored against the wall. Owners are caught out by treating the space as interior in the week after the glass goes in, putting down a rug and a timber console, and then blaming the glazing for the first wet shamal. If the real aim is to bring the balcony into the flat, that is a sealed system and a different conversation, with different loads and usually a different approval.
Not unattended, and not with wind forecast. A pack of panes standing side-on at one end of the run presents very little resistance to a gust across it, and a single pane left halfway along the track has less than that. So the parking end takes a latch, the panes take stops, and the habit worth forming is closing the run before leaving the flat in the season when the wind gets up in the afternoon. Panes left parked in an empty flat are the most exposed, because nobody is there to close them when a gust arrives.
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Related pages
Nearby pages and the rest of the catalogue.
- All-glass corners
- Aluminium railings
- Balcony glazing
- Balcony glazing upgrade
- Cassette facades
- Conservatories
- Curtain wall
- Floor-to-ceiling glazing
- Frameless glazing
- Garden rooms
- Glass balustrades
- Glass canopies
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