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What pressures or “loads” do railings and balustrades need to withstand and how are these applied, tested or calculated?
Balustrades and railings are put in place with the basic purpose to protect users of buildings, and other areas, mainly from the danger of falling. In order for the railings to do this they must be designed and built not only to resist pressure on them but also impact.
Balcony’s sales staff are commenting on a great increase of enquiries for curved sliding patio doors. These enquiries I am told are mainly coming from architects with a large number of these curved door projects relate to refurbishment projects.
There is much confusion and many rumors running around regarding the correct type of glass allowed on balconies and balustrades.
This stems from two reasons; the first being lack of understanding of the required standards and the second a vested interest in sending customers towards a specific product.
What are the legal height requirements for railings? we get this question a lot; What is the height for Building regs for the balustrade? Or similar. In the United Kingdom this question is answered in BS6180:1999 Barriers in and about buildings:
We have put our Juliet Balconies range on Ebay in a “buy it now” auction. We have already sold quite a few through Ebay in the past and think this gives some users an additional way to purchase from us.
