Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 7:54 pm
Newbie - first post though I've been a reader here 15 or so yrs.
I've a 1st floor balcony at my house. It is a galvanised steel frame with timber Joists, decking and balustrades. It is 20yo and the joists are beginning to go. I've asked a local mezzanine / balustrade installer to strip the timber and replace fully in galvanised steel with glass balustrades - all good, it's what they do.
For the surface I didn't want decking either wood or composite. We get a lot of rain in Scotland and the water runs off the ends or through the gaps mossing up the end walls or structural steel painted white. So they're going to lay a 4.5mm galvanised steel plate with the intention I put a solid, hard surface. I'm paranoid about drainage and they're going to put a gradient and have some channel system to route the run off - again all sounds good.
Now I need to choose a surface. Thinking either an impermeable resin or textured porcelain - Bradstone range looks decent and afaik a decent rep for quality? c. 26m2 to do and some stair treads. The questions are 1. any problems laying onto the steel? 2. Can a resin system achieve zero permeability? 3. Any gotchas with the porcelain option? 4. Any comments on Bradstone or alternates with a non-slip finish?
I'm doing the house up to sell so maybe I shouldn't care so much but I want a quality job to enjoy until it is sold!
I've a 1st floor balcony at my house. It is a galvanised steel frame with timber Joists, decking and balustrades. It is 20yo and the joists are beginning to go. I've asked a local mezzanine / balustrade installer to strip the timber and replace fully in galvanised steel with glass balustrades - all good, it's what they do.
For the surface I didn't want decking either wood or composite. We get a lot of rain in Scotland and the water runs off the ends or through the gaps mossing up the end walls or structural steel painted white. So they're going to lay a 4.5mm galvanised steel plate with the intention I put a solid, hard surface. I'm paranoid about drainage and they're going to put a gradient and have some channel system to route the run off - again all sounds good.
Now I need to choose a surface. Thinking either an impermeable resin or textured porcelain - Bradstone range looks decent and afaik a decent rep for quality? c. 26m2 to do and some stair treads. The questions are 1. any problems laying onto the steel? 2. Can a resin system achieve zero permeability? 3. Any gotchas with the porcelain option? 4. Any comments on Bradstone or alternates with a non-slip finish?
I'm doing the house up to sell so maybe I shouldn't care so much but I want a quality job to enjoy until it is sold!