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Panoramic balcony glazing
On a balcony, a panoramic view has to get past two things that are already standing there: the parapet at the edge of the slab and whatever barrier sits on it. Glass in front of a view is easy. Glass that does not lay a capping, a rail and a bottom frame across the horizon is a set-out problem, and it turns on two decisions. The first is where the transoms fall, because a rail at hand height is invisible to somebody standing at the glass and runs straight through the view of somebody in a chair — and a balcony is a place people sit. The second is which element takes which load, because resisting a person leaning and resisting wind are separate jobs that should not quietly be handed to the same piece of aluminium.
- drawn from a chair transom line
- two separate jobs barrier and glazing
- into the slab where load goes
What the balcony line is set out on
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Seated eye level
Sightline
Drawn from the chair, not the doorway
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Kept or replaced
Barrier
It resists people, not weather
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Wind and rain
Enclosure
Unless it was designed as a barrier too
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Slab, not coping
Fixings
A decorative capping holds nothing back
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Laminated below the rail
Glass
Where there is nothing to lean against
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Advantages of working with us
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In-house production
Windows, doors and glazed structures are made at our own factory in the UAE. Manufacturing takes 3–5 weeks from the survey, and the dates are written into the contract.
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Room measurement
After a free consultation, an engineer comes to measure within 48 hours and answers the technical questions on site — openings, profile, glass and hardware.
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Delivery of products
We deliver with our own transport across Dubai and all Emirates, and the installation date is agreed in advance so the crew arrives with the finished units.
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Installation on site
A "clean" installation is carried out – all construction debris is removed, and dust and dirt are cleaned. Work can be conducted with or without your presence. The date and time are discussed individually.
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Guarantee
The structures we make and the installation our crews carry out are covered by one warranty under one contract. The profile system also carries the manufacturer's warranty — up to 20 years, depending on the system.
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Service
Warranty cases are handled by the same crews that did the installation: send the address and photos, and in most cases we can say before the visit whether it is an adjustment, a gasket or a glass unit.
How a balcony view is set out
- Balcony measured with the parapet and its capping Engineer on the balcony within 48 hours
- Seating position agreed before any transom is drawn The view is judged from where people sit
- Barrier duty settled before the design is fixed The balustrade keeps it, or the glass takes it
- Fixings carried through to the slab Opened up and looked at, not assumed
- Frames and units made in our Dubai factory Three to five weeks from the approved drawing
- Set, sealed and checked from the chair Against the sightline it was drawn to
Partitions
Office partitions made of aluminium profiles are a simple, quick, and cost-effective way to organise efficient zoning within a large space, while maintaining interior unity.
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Aluminium office partitions with glass
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Full-glass office partitions
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Transformable partitions for the office
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Accordion partitions for the office
Aluminium windows of any configuration
Made to size in our own factory in Dubai — in 3–5 weeks.
We will find convenient opening options:
The honest downside
What a panoramic balcony costs in daily life
More glass on the balcony line means more sun inside it. With nothing solid below the rail, a west- or south-facing balcony takes the afternoon sun across the whole floor, and if it opens into the living room the air conditioning pays for that view every day of the summer.
Large panes that do not open are also hard to keep clean, and on a high floor their outer face may only be reachable from the building's cradle. Replacing one needs the same route and the same approvals as installing it did.
If you want a balcony you can open, clean from inside and use as a sheltered outdoor space, a standard sliding balcony system is simpler to live with. Panoramic glazing is worth it where the view is the point and the elevation is not facing the full afternoon sun.
Consider instead
Balcony glazing
Frequently asked questions
Because it was drawn for somebody standing at the glass. A horizontal member at a comfortable hand height is barely noticed on your feet, and it sits almost exactly on the horizon once you drop into a low outdoor chair — which is what a balcony is furnished with. The cure is to draw the section with the furniture in it and then move the transom deliberately above or below that line, or to remove it altogether by making the lower part a single laminated pane doing barrier duty. It costs nothing at the drawing stage and is hard to put right afterwards.
Only when it has been engineered and anchored to do it. A barrier resists somebody pushing or falling against it, which is a horizontal load applied along a line at body height; an enclosure resists wind pressure spread over a pane. Different load, different fixings, different glass — laminated, so a cracked pane stays standing rather than leaving an open edge. Where the enclosure is asked to do both, it is designed for both from the start and taken into the slab. The failure worth naming is a frame that quietly took over the barrier's job while sitting on a parapet coping.
There are three positions and each buys something different. On top of the parapet gives the most glass, but the fixing lands in the least dependable part of the balcony. Set back behind the existing balustrade, nothing structural changes and the approval is simpler, at the price of looking through two lines instead of one. Taken right down to the slab and replacing the barrier altogether, the view is clean and the job is the largest of the three, and it is the one most likely to need the building's agreement. We draw all three before recommending one.
Yes, and it is an easy step to skip. Many balcony parapets here are a blockwork upstand with render on it and a coping laid over the top, built to look right and to throw water off — not to hold anything back. Once you stand an enclosure on it, wind load and, sometimes, barrier load arrive in that upstand. So we open it up and look at how it is actually built and what it is tied to, and wherever it will not take the load we go past it and fix into the slab.
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 balcony glazing
- Frameless glazing
- Garden rooms
- Glass balustrades
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