Powdercoated Steel and Glass Juliet Balcony with Timber Handrail - Knowle

The Knowle is the only Juliet balcony in our range with a solid timber handrail. Everything else we make is finished in stainless steel or in metal alone. This one puts a hardwood rail over powdercoated steel and glass.

It exists because of a problem people run into once they have both a balcony and a balustrade to buy. Juliets get picked off a range and balustrades get bought separately, so they end up on the same elevation in different metals with different handrails. The Knowle is built to the same design as our System 5 balustrade, so the two match where you can see them both at once.

If the Juliet is on its own, it still stands up by itself. A timber rail is warmer in the hand than metal in winter, it suits a clad or rendered elevation that steel reads hard against, and the colour of the steelwork is yours to pick rather than chosen for you.

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.

The balustrade is designed in accordance with BS 6180, the code of practice for barriers in and about buildings, for domestic applications, at 0.74kN/m loading and 1100mm high. Commercial, public and multi-occupancy buildings are designed to higher imposed loads, so if it 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, loadings and building control sign-off in plain English.

How it is made

• Steel uprights, hot dip galvanised and then powdercoated
• Solid hardwood handrail carried on a steel ribbon rail that runs the full length under it
• Iroko as standard, oak available on request
• 10mm toughened safety glass with polished edges and radius corners, clear or frosted, selected above
• Black, white or anthracite grey RAL 7016, with other RAL colours priced on enquiry
• Extends 150mm wider than the door opening on each side to bracket centre
• 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
• Structural calculations available on request
• 10 year structural warranty

The ribbon rail is what makes the timber work. The steel underneath does the structural job, so the handrail is only being asked to be the thing you put your hand on rather than the barrier itself. That lets it be a comfortable section instead of an oversized one, and lets it follow the run without being jointed over every upright.

Finish and colour

The steelwork is hot dip galvanised and then powdercoated, in that order, on every one of these. The paint sits on a zinc coating rather than on bare steel, so a chip from a ladder or a dropped tool exposes galvanising instead of something that will rust out from the chip. There is no paint-only or galvanised-only version of this balcony.

Black, white and anthracite grey RAL 7016 are our standard colours and are included in the price above. Choose yours from the colour list.

Any other RAL colour is priced on enquiry and cannot be bought from this page. Call 0114 243 9009 or email sales@diomet.co.uk with the opening width and the RAL reference and we will price it. If you are matching existing window frames or a balustrade, say so, because that is usually what decides the colour.

Our material finishes page covers the coating in more detail.

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Living with a timber handrail

Worth knowing before you choose it, because it is the one part of this balcony that is not fit and forget.

Iroko weathers rather than rots, and it is the more weather tolerant of the two hardwoods we offer. Oiled once a year it holds its colour. Left alone it silvers off to a soft grey, which plenty of people prefer and some do not. Either way it is a brush and a tin once a summer, not a job.

If you would rather have nothing to do at all, our System 10 design uses a colour matched metal handrail on the same powdercoated frame, and the stainless Juliets further down this page need only a wash.

Sizes

1200mm to 3500mm above. Measure the structural opening, not the door. Take the widest of three measurements across it rather than an average, because the balcony has to cover the opening at its widest point and the fixings land outside it.

Our Juliet balcony measuring guide shows where to measure and how much we add each side. For a size between the bands, or wider again, tell us the opening width and we will price it.

Installation

• Delivered in kit form, designed for straightforward assembly
• Fixing instructions are included, with further guidance a phone call away
• 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.

We do not assess what your wall is built from. 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.

Call 0114 243 9009 or email sales@diomet.co.uk with your opening width if you want to check anything first.

See it on a house

Four of these went on one elevation in Sheffield with a matching terrace balustrade below them, all to the same design and the same colour. Glass Juliet balconies and a matching terrace balustrade, Knowle Lane, Sheffield shows how the two read together, and is where this design gets its name.

Other glass Juliets in the range

• Wembley - stainless and glass, single panel on gaskets with the fixings concealed
• Modern Style - single panel in stainless clamps, up to 2100mm, and held in stock
• Elegance - stainless posts and handrail, the same spans as this one in metal only
• Wide Span - a heavier rail to cross a wide opening in one clear run with no upright in the view
• The full Juliet balcony range - curved, flat, ornate, stainless and frameless glass

Not sure which suits your opening? Our Juliet balcony buying guide compares the 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.