The balcony is part of the apartment, we can say that this is the owner's business card. Each is free to dispose of extra meters as it is pleased, but much more pleasant to realize that the area is used rationally, but it looks defilmed. It is not difficult to refuel it with your own hands, the main thing is to part with unnecessary things stored there for years.
The arrangement of the balcony will make it possible to realize their own ideas and get a green zone outside the apartment and use it at any time.
Balcony repair
Cleaning space, it is often possible to detect the damaged concrete slab and the fittings sticking out of it. Removing all sections of the scattering concrete, you need to bring the floor in order.
Considering the fact that the balcony always has a small slope towards the street, it is necessary to purchase a cement-sand mix a little more than for the fill of the direct layer.
Before repairing the floor, you will have to transform the outer walls of the balcony by closing them with a profiled sheet. Sheet is better to choose neutral color. Only after that, from the boards, it is necessary to create a formwork to make cement to do not glasses on the head of passersby or to the living below the neighbors.
How to dilute the mixture can be read on each package, there are all proportions. For each cement brand, the ratio of water to the dry mixture is different. There is one nuance, a balcony, though part of the apartment, but the lack of heating makes it and part of the street. Choosing a cement-sand mixture, better so that there was a frost-resistant cement. Bay of the cement layer in the formwork, it is necessary to give it no less than a day to dry.
Trump for balcony
By making the floor closely adjacent to the walls, it will have to get acquainted that the water will not fall inside. It is not difficult to do this - it is enough to close the side sides of the balcony by the same profiled sheet and make a canopy from above, from a non-screed piece of polycarbonate.
It is not necessary to drill a concrete slab for this, the neighbors are disturbing from above. You can make a canopy on wooden bars.
The height of the bars must correspond to the balcony height. Section can be 4x4 or 5x5 - this is not fundamentally. To create the necessary bias for water drain, the upper part of the bar must be cut off at an angle of 30⁰. You can do it with your own hands with a hacksaw or jigsaw. Securing the rack with an inclination of the top of the edge of their edge with an inclination of the rack of the creek of the top of their edge, an additional support for the visor is created. Polycarbonate can be mounted for brushes and rails with self-tested hats - it is reliable and more beautiful than planting it on nails.
It remains only with the help of thick wire to attach bars to the angular metal elements of the balcony. Protect wood from rain and hide joints with a straightfalist with the help of decorating white corners used when weaving with polyvinyl chloride panels.
If the house of the old building and brickwork looks not the best way, PVC panels can become excellent interior design.
Sew balcony panels
The main thing is not to choose bright colors of panels and specific drawings. For the room facing the street more appropriately take neutral tones. Even those who have never spent the walls of the walls with panels or clapboards, make work from beginning to end with their own hands possible. To do this, you will need thin wooden rails for the root, drill (better perforator), panels, dowel screws, construction stapler with brackets.
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When putting the room with panels, the vertical location is more often used, so the rails must be placed on the wall horizontally. In the corners of the walls will have to consolidate the bars of the same size as those on which the canopy holds. Light panels, there is no point in doing freak. It is enough for 3 racks on the wall, and between the racks of the visor. To the wall, wooden parts are fastened with self-drawing in a dowel. It is easier and easier to spend this stage of work screwdriver.
Panels to the slats attach to attach the slapper used for furniture upholstery. The brackets are perfectly retaining the panels, the type of monolithic wall is created. Decorating the corners of the skin will help the same corners, they will hide sections and small flaws of the "walking" walls.
So statenly, slowly, thinking about every step of repair in the week with your own hands you can transform the balcony.
Decoration
For an open balcony in the summer, decorative plants are the best decoration. It is not necessary to buy seedlings and grow flowers in boxes. Most hosts in the house have unpretentious flowers, such as geranium. This flower is so rejoicing in the open air that it blooms all summer long. And this type of plants have a lot of colors and shades - white, red, pink, orange.
It is enough to place on the outer wall of the house several holders for flower pots like "Birch" or fasten the vertical rack, the balcony will instantly turn into a flowering gazebo.
It is worth putting a bench for recreation or a couple of folding chairs. A bench and stands for flowers can be made with their own hands. Creation from the balcony, the curly plants will help ivy from the balcony. Optionally use decorative grapes, cucumber or garden bind. How they will come in - this is an open question. And the repairful varieties of strawberries are characterized by the fact that both all curly, with the help of the assholes cling to rings, bitch and other protrusions. The greens are thick, and they are fruit from the end of June to the end of October. Such a home garden can be equipped with their own hands in urban environments.
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Where to dry linen?
A reasonable question of each hostess, where to dry up the lingerie, if the balcony is created for rest. Poor looks like windows hanging on rows of fluttering linen, only far from all citizens there is another opportunity. There is a way out, dried up the lingerie on the balcony, without exposing it to the bottom. To do this, it is necessary to stretch the ropes not under the ceiling, but below the rail.
To remove the ropes after each drying will not be either. An excellent laundry placement solution is a folding dryer. As they say, and wolves are full, and sheep are intact.
Gloomed balcony
The glazed balcony makes a more convenient place to relax with your own hands even easier. If the glazing panoramic can be used from the side of the balcony rolled curtains or blinds - it will save the tinted room from unnecessary warm-up. But the best protection from the scorching sun will be an athermal film.
The properties of the athermal film are such that it does not reduce the loss of light into the room, repels the sun's rays, which retains the coolness on the balcony in a hot day.
The glazed balcony gives great opportunities for interior decoration. The walls of the walls can be made of natural wood, which will help in winter to additionally protect the room from frost. To the balcony still serve as an additional storage area, a locker can be made from the same car board. True, this is not very combined with panoramic glazing, and if the side walls are sewn, then the locker will fit very organically.
Locker on the balcony
It is not difficult to make the locker with your own hands, it is enough to purchase the material on the outer wall, the shelves and make the doors from a veneer or plywood. One wall of the cabinet will serve as a wall of the house, riding the ceiling of the balcony. Collecting the wall of the cabinet made of boards, you can use the middle rack thickness, screwing them on the inside by self-draws. These rails will serve as a rack. The second row of the ridges is screwed onto the wall.
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For mounting the door of the cabinet, the loops are piano or ordinary - which someone like. If such a locker should have 2 doors, then the vertical bar must also be fixed on the wall so that the width of the outer wall and the edge of the bar is at one distance from the end side of the balcony, if this is not a deliberate asymmetry.
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