We have a porch roof as shown in the picture, flat, low-sloped, and covered with sheet metal. A deck floor in sections rests directly on the roof, and a balcony railing with a steel frame and corrugated sheet metal is fully attached to the porch walls as shown in the picture. The house is from 1925, but the balcony construction is likely of a later date.
If you want to build a wooden railing that is more set back from the roof edge (thus a smaller balcony area), what construction is normally done then? Do you tear up the roof and make the post attachments in the under-roof, and pull up the new sheet metal around these before screwing support beams for the new balcony floor into the posts and against the façade? Or do you build a "platform" including posts that rests entirely on top of the sheet metal, only anchored to the façade at the inner edge?
If you want to build a wooden railing that is more set back from the roof edge (thus a smaller balcony area), what construction is normally done then? Do you tear up the roof and make the post attachments in the under-roof, and pull up the new sheet metal around these before screwing support beams for the new balcony floor into the posts and against the façade? Or do you build a "platform" including posts that rests entirely on top of the sheet metal, only anchored to the façade at the inner edge?
What do you think about a wrought iron railing? Keeping the steel frame with the nice and unique reinforcement struts.
Do you know of any wrought iron company?
Imagine a nice pattern maybe with the same red color as the window frames; it would be incredibly beautiful!
Do you know of any wrought iron company?
Imagine a nice pattern maybe with the same red color as the window frames; it would be incredibly beautiful!
Thanks for the answer - yes, we haven't ruled that out either, it's a fine wrought iron work. The plan was to first dismantle the sheet metal and see how it looks. But even with that solution, I still need to get a complete floor somehow, the loose old boards are finished and need to be replaced, and I would prefer that they were laid on some common framework instead of now lying loose one by one directly on the sheet metal. And I feel a bit uncertain about how to ensure the drainage is as good as possible and not blocked by leaves and other debris...S Spikrätaren said: