If you are thinking about having your terrace covered, you can also go one step further. If you have your terrace glazed, you create additional space - and this is a good thing, especially in smaller houses or apartments.
Prices
The terrace then quickly becomes a space for cozy coffee chats or additional office space that was not available before and can also be used in the winter months. The prices for terrace glazing, which is equivalent to a small winter garden, are several thousand euros. However, exactly how much you pay depends on the hours worked, the type of glass and the size of the terrace. It's best to let the professionals inform you in advance.
Requested alternative: mobile glass walls
If you don't want to miss out on the terrace with fresh air and an outdoor feeling even in summer, despite the glazing, you can also help: there are also mobile glass walls that can simply be pushed to the side when the temperatures are pleasant allow sunbathing in the open air. The effort here is relatively low, you just have to respond to special requests like these before building terrace glazing.
How much care should you expect?
The maintenance effort for the terrace glazing shouldn't be a problem either. A standard glass cleaner and some newspaper, which ensures a clean wiping technique, should be enough and the terrace looks as if it had no glazing at all and offers the best view of the garden and bushes - with very little effort.
So that birds don't fly into the window, it is recommended to get appropriate bird motifs available from hardware stores and attach them to the window. You can also attach homemade window pictures that look much more attractive but still protect the birds from impact.
Patio glazing also helps you save energy: even the winter sun is usually strong enough to keep the small glass temple warm.
This is how the price for terrace glazing is made up
- First of all, of course, it depends on the size of the room that you want to turn into a permanently usable room with glazing.
- But you have to take many other details into account when calculating your price; the price can increase if the glazing has to be transported to a higher floor.
- Of course, it depends on whether you want to cover an area enclosed by a roof with glass or whether you are planning glazing without a roof.
- Glazing without a roof can be designed to be movable or permanently installed, quite a price difference.
- The size of the entire structure may require calculation by a structural engineer, who then also wants money.
- Special requests such as an electric drive can usually be fulfilled, but have their costs.
- And only at the very end does it come down to the actual glass from which your terrace glazing is to be made; here, building regulations and design wishes influence the price.
Price examples for terrace glazing
Our first example could put a smile on your face, because you probably didn't expect the possibility of glazing a terrace so inexpensively: you simply glaze the entire area with permanently installed, large windows, then you can You can use the considerable area of 2.20 x 3.60 meters for approx.500 euros with glazing. You even get glass surfaces that have an excellent Ug value of 1.1 W/(m2xK), so your new room will be somewhat restrained when it comes to heating energy consumption (somewhat because glass is always less favorable than wall surfaces from a thermal insulation point of view).
However, if you want these windows to be openable, it will be a little more expensive, and if you want to use wooden frames instead of plastic frames for design reasons, you will pay around 1500 euros for the same area, or three times as much (Additional requests such as special colors, division by rungs, special handles are completely ignored).
A continuous glass surface as terrace glazing is much more complex and therefore much more expensive. If the glass surface is to have a height of 2.20 meters, you pay at least 1 for the width of 3.60 meters assumed above.800 euros for toughened safety glass, installation and accessories not included.
