Measuring your balcony for a railing

Length of each side

Measure along the outer edge of the balcony slab, each side separately, corner to corner. A corner balcony has two measurements, a U-shaped one three. If a side ends at the house wall, measure to the wall and draw the wall into your sketch.

Metres are enough, say 2.00 m and 1.00 m. Added up, the sides give the length in running metres that sets the indicative price: stainless steel with glass is €230 net per running metre, so a 2.00 + 1.00 m balcony comes to a non-binding €690 net. The other systems list their prices on their own pages.

Shape of the balcony

The configurator draws three shapes; any other we build as a custom project from your sketch.

A hand sketch will do: the edge seen from above, each side with its length, and the house wall drawn in. If a corner is not square, add the angle if you can measure it.

• straight: one side
• corner (L-shaped): two sides
• U-shaped: three sides
• other shape or stairs: custom project from a sketch

Top or side mounting

Top mounted, the posts stand on base plates on top of the balcony slab. Side mounted, they hang on anchor plates fixed to the slab edge, which leaves more of the floor free, depending on the system.

For side mounting, measure the thickness of the concrete slab at its edge and, if you can tell the layers above it apart, the screed with waterproofing and the floor covering separately. Take a close-up photo of the edge too. The thickness alone does not settle whether the substrate and anchors are suitable; we settle that before fabrication. If you are not sure which mounting you want, the photos are enough.

Railing height and drop

You don't need to measure the railing height. Our railings are 1000 mm high from the finished floor. 1100 mm, which § 38 of the German model building code requires once the drop below the balcony exceeds 12 m, is available on request.

So tell us roughly how high the balcony is above the ground; the floor it is on will do. The building code of the federal state can ask for other values than § 38 of the German model building code.

Photos for the enquiry

From the photos and measurements we settle before you order which fixing suits your balcony edge and any gutter along the slab edge.

• the whole balcony from far enough away to get every side in the frame
• a close-up of the slab edge with a tape measure held against it
• every corner and every point where the railing meets the house wall
• when replacing a railing: the old railing and how it is fixed