Curved Steel Juliet Balcony with Platform - Lincoln

A curved Juliet balcony you can stand on. The Lincoln bows out approximately 300mm from the wall and has a steel mesh platform inside the curve, so it is a step-out rather than a rail across a doorway. Room for a couple of pots, enough to clean the windows from, somewhere for the cat to sit in the sun.

12mm solid infill bars, 42mm tubular top and bottom handrails, and no decoration at all. The contemporary one in the curved range.

Most Juliet balconies are a straight rail across an opening. This one is not. The curve is what gives you the depth to actually use it, and it changes how the elevation reads from the street as well as from inside the room.

Sizes

The sizes above are the common door and window opening widths, not a limit. Any size can be made exactly to your opening, so if yours falls between the listed sizes, or outside them altogether, tell us the opening width and we will price it.

Measure the structural opening, not the door. As standard we make the balcony 150mm wider than the opening on each side, so it covers the reveals and the fixings land in solid brickwork rather than at the edge of it. The typical detail drawing (PDF) shows how that sets out, along with the section and the fixing centres.

The asterisks on the three largest sizes are explained further down the page: ** under how the big ones are built, and * under delivery.

Take the widest of three measurements across the structural opening rather than an average. The balcony has to cover the opening at its widest point and the fixings land outside it, so the widest figure is the one that matters. Our Juliet balcony measuring guide shows where to measure and how much we add each side.

UKCA marked, and compliant for domestic use

UKCA marked to BS EN 1090-2, execution class EXC2, as all our structural steelwork is. That is a legal requirement rather than a badge. The UKCA mark and the Declaration of Performance are issued against the goods on completion of fabrication and supplied with the order. Not every Juliet balcony sold online carries it, which is worth knowing when you are comparing quotes.

The balustrade is designed in accordance with BS 6180, the code of practice for barriers in and about buildings, for domestic applications. Commercial, public and multi-occupancy buildings are designed to higher imposed loads, so if the balcony is going anywhere other than a private dwelling, tell us at enquiry stage and we will design and price it to the right loading. Structural calculations are available on request either way.

Our balcony and Juliet building regulations guide covers guarding heights and loadings in plain English.

The steel mesh platform

The floor is a welded steel mesh panel that follows the curve, galvanised and powdercoated with the rest of the balcony. Mesh rather than a solid deck for three reasons, and they all matter on something this size:

• Water and leaves fall straight through. A solid tray at this depth collects rain against the wall and silts up with leaves, and there is no practical way to sweep it from inside.
• Light still reaches the window below. A Juliet usually sits directly over a window or door, and a solid floor puts that opening in shadow.
• It keeps the weight down. Everything here is carried by wall fixings alone, so less weight means less load into the brickwork.

It is a proper balcony floor. The platform is designed to the same imposed loading as the rest of our balcony range, 2.5kN/sqm spread with a 2.0kN concentrated load to BS EN 1991-1-1, which is higher than the figure that applies to a floor inside the house. What a 300mm projection limits is the room you have, not what the floor will carry. If you want the floor area to furnish, a step-out balcony projects up to 1200mm on steel brackets with composite decking, still with nothing coming down to the ground, and a full walk-out balcony goes further out again, carried on posts to ground level.

How it is made

• Curved design, approximately 300mm deep, fully welded steel (bolt-together at 2400mm and 3000mm, as below)
• 12mm solid infill bars at compliant centres
• 42mm tubular top and bottom handrails, stepping up to 60mm at 3000mm
• Welded steel mesh step-out platform
• Hot dip galvanised as standard, with powder coating in any colour as an option above. The galvanising is the corrosion protection; the powder coat is the colour. More on our material and finish standards.
• Wall fixings are not supplied: your installer sources anchors to suit the substrate, because the right fixing depends entirely on what you are fixing to

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** Why the 2400mm and 3000mm are built differently

They look essentially the same: the same curve, the same bar spacing, the same mesh platform, the same finish and the same fixings. What changes is how they are put together, because past 2100mm a single fully welded balcony is too large and too heavy to handle safely on a delivery vehicle or to lift into position on a wall.

So both are made as a bolt-together design instead of one welded piece. The top and bottom rails come as separate lengths, and the infill bars are welded up into individual panels that bolt up and down onto those rails. You build it on the wall rather than lifting a finished balcony onto it.

At 3000mm the rails also step up from 42mm to 60mm diameter. That is not cosmetic. A three metre span puts far more bending into the top and bottom rails than a 2.4m one does, and the heavier section is what keeps the load capacity where it needs to be across that distance. It is the main reason the 3000mm costs what it does.

Close up you will see the bolted connections between the panels and the rails, where the smaller sizes are welded throughout, and on the 3000mm the rails are visibly chunkier. From the ground, or from inside the room, they read almost identically to the welded sizes. What you gain is components a couple of people can lift and position, rather than a single welded assembly two or three metres long that has to be handled in one piece.

Installation

• Our Juliet balconies are straightforward to fit with reasonable DIY skills
• Basic fixing instructions are provided, and we are a phone call away if you want to talk it through
• Installation by our own site teams is available as an optional extra. Ask for it with your enquiry and we will price it alongside the balcony.

Working at height is your responsibility. Use properly erected access equipment, and on the wider sizes plan the lift before the delivery arrives rather than on the day.

We do not assess what your wall is built from. On an older house it is worth having that confirmed before you order, and the wider the balcony the more that matters. We certify the balcony; we never certify the structure it is fixed to.

Delivery

Delivered to mainland UK, with the cost added at checkout. See our delivery information for excluded zones.

* 2100mm, ** 2400mm and ** 3000mm openings. At those widths the balcony is too long for a standard tail-lift vehicle, so it travels on a flat-bed and you will need to arrange offloading at your end. Two or three people will manage it, or a telehandler or forklift if you have one on site. Worth arranging before the delivery date rather than on it.

Call 0114 243 9009 or email sales@diomet.co.uk with your opening width and a photograph of the doors if you want to check anything first.

Other designs in the range

• Lancaster - the same curve and the same mesh platform, with scrollwork, for a period elevation
• Yale - flat to the wall, if you do not need the depth, and held in stock for quick dispatch
• Step-out balcony - if 300mm is not enough to stand on, this projects up to 1200mm on brackets, still with nothing down to the ground
• Full walk-out balconies - larger again, carried on posts to the ground, where you want a floor you can put a table and chairs on
• The full Juliet balcony range - curved, flat, ornate, stainless and frameless glass

Not sure which shape suits your opening? Our Juliet balcony buying guide compares the curved step-out, flat, frameless glass and metal designs, and covers sizing, fixings and planning permission.

Fixings

Every fixing needed to assemble the balcony is supplied with it.

Wall and floor fixings are not supplied on a supply only order. The right anchor depends on what your building is made of and what condition it is in, and that is not a call we can make from here. Fixing points come drilled ready and your installer selects anchors to suit the substrate. Where we install, we take that decision on site and provide them.