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Veranda glazing
A veranda already has a roof, and that single fact separates it from the things on either side of it. A terrace is open to the sky, so glazing one means building a cover as well as walls. A conservatory is a new room designed from the first sketch to be cooled. A veranda sits between them: covered, attached to the house and not conditioned — which makes glazing it a job about shade, blown sand and insects rather than about climate. The roof also decides the shape of the work. Its columns and beams are already standing, usually laid up by a mason rather than machined, so the glazing is an infill between them and their spacing sets the panel split rather than the other way round.
- already there the roof
- low, under the eaves the sun it gets
- between the columns how it is split
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.
What a covered, uncooled space needs
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Low and sideways
The sun it gets
Overhead sun is already dealt with
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Dust and insects
What it shuts out
Not heat, and certainly not cold
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Bay by bay
Panel split
The mason's spacing, not a drawn grid
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Single toughened
The glass
No cooled surface to condense on
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Sliding or frameless
How it opens
It is used open more than shut
Let's calculate
the cost of glazing
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How a veranda is enclosed
- Columns measured one bay at a time Engineer on the veranda within 48 hours
- Plumb and spacing recorded as found, not as drawn Masonry rarely repeats itself exactly
- Gap left under the existing roof at the head The structure above moves with the season
- Insect screens planned into the same line Often the reason a veranda is closed at all
- Panels made in our Dubai factory Three to five weeks from the approved drawing
- Floor falls kept and the outlet left clear It goes on being an outdoor floor
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
The honest downside
What a glazed veranda will not become
A glazed veranda is a sheltered outdoor space, not a room. With single toughened glass and no thermal break, it cannot sensibly be air-conditioned, and in high summer it is left alone like the rest of the outside of the house.
It also keeps the veranda's roof and columns as they are. The panels are split to the mason's spacing, the low morning and afternoon sun still comes in sideways under the eaves, and the space is only ever as cool as the roof above it.
If the aim is a room the family uses all year, a conservatory designed for cooling from the first sketch is the right product, even though it is a bigger job. A glazed veranda is the better choice for the evenings and the cooler months, out of the wind, the dust and the insects.
Consider instead
Conservatories
Frequently asked questions
Not while the veranda stays what it is. A thermal break earns its money when there is cooled air on one side of the frame and UAE heat on the other; on a covered but unconditioned space there is no chilled surface to protect, nothing for condensation to form on and nothing worth paying for. Simple sections, single toughened glass and decent seals do the job and keep the framing slim. The moment the brief changes — a split unit on the wall, the space thrown into the living room — that answer changes completely, and it is very much cheaper to say so before the frames are made.
A terrace is open to the sky, so enclosing one means providing a cover as well as the walls, and once there is glass overhead the whole conversation turns into a conversation about the midday sun. A veranda has its cover already, which takes the hardest part of the heat off the table and leaves the low morning and afternoon sun coming in sideways under the eaves. So the glass specification matters rather less than what is done at the two open ends, and the work is an infill between structure that exists rather than a new structure of its own.
A conservatory is designed from the beginning as a cooled room: its own structure, a glazed roof, insulated units, sealed junctions and a cooling load worked out for a glass box rather than for a floor area. A glazed veranda is not attempting that, and pricing one as though it were is how people end up disappointed on both counts. What a veranda buys is the shoulder seasons — a space out of the wind, out of the dust and out of reach of the insects, used from the evening into the night for most of the year and left alone in high summer, like the rest of the outside of the house.
It is normal, and it is why every bay is measured on its own. A veranda is usually built in blockwork and render by hand, so the columns are close to plumb rather than plumb, no two bays are identical, and the roof over them moves a little between a February night and a July afternoon. The panels are therefore made to measured openings rather than to one repeated size, the head detail leaves a gap so the structure above never comes to bear on glass, and the trims are chosen with enough tolerance to absorb what the survey found without looking like packing.
Aluminium windows of any configuration
Made to size in our own factory in Dubai — in 3–5 weeks.
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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 balcony glazing
- Frameless glazing
- Garden rooms
- Glass balustrades
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