We have an old enclosed balcony that needs to be redone, all the half-rotted wood should be removed down to the concrete. The concrete floor on the balcony is the roof of a storage room that has been renovated and stabilized according to all the rules, so it's solid.
However, we would like to make the balcony a little bigger, about 10cm beyond the cast slab to match the depth of the adjacent, non-enclosed balcony. Today it is 248 x 447 cm. It's primarily the depth, 248 cm, that we want to increase, but aesthetically, it would look best to increase in the other direction as well.
The storage room underneath has a wooden facade outside the cast frame and currently extends further than the enclosed wall above, so it won't look strange in that regard.
But how is it done? Is there an established method or does anyone have any ideas?
There need to be posts that support the roof at the far corners, and also one in the middle of the long side. And there needs to be "flooring" on that last decimeter too. I don't really care if there's a slight height difference against the remaining floor closest to the wall, as long as it's structurally sound.
We don't have much height to work with, 45mm at the house wall and closer to 90mm at the far end (we think it was cast with a slope once because it wasn't enclosed back then, but we don't feel it's needed now).
I welcome tips and ideas with joy, not sure where to start right now.
However, we would like to make the balcony a little bigger, about 10cm beyond the cast slab to match the depth of the adjacent, non-enclosed balcony. Today it is 248 x 447 cm. It's primarily the depth, 248 cm, that we want to increase, but aesthetically, it would look best to increase in the other direction as well.
The storage room underneath has a wooden facade outside the cast frame and currently extends further than the enclosed wall above, so it won't look strange in that regard.
But how is it done? Is there an established method or does anyone have any ideas?
There need to be posts that support the roof at the far corners, and also one in the middle of the long side. And there needs to be "flooring" on that last decimeter too. I don't really care if there's a slight height difference against the remaining floor closest to the wall, as long as it's structurally sound.
We don't have much height to work with, 45mm at the house wall and closer to 90mm at the far end (we think it was cast with a slope once because it wasn't enclosed back then, but we don't feel it's needed now).
I welcome tips and ideas with joy, not sure where to start right now.
I am sure it can then, and it is an okay description you give us, but we will understand better if you can give us a picture or three of how it looks right now.
I'm a bit unsure of what's relevant to see, but I took some pictures from when the bottom part was being prepared, where the frame is exposed, then when the panel is on so it shows it goes all the way up, and then a couple of attempts to show that the sheet metal above the facade, below the glass panes is quite wide, but underneath there's nothing load-bearing, just battens and facade boards.H HammerGuuurl said:
Sure, it would be possible to make the balcony bigger, but I wouldn't trust that it would hold without adding some extra support, like pillars in the new balcony corners.