Glass balcony panels are cut to size, so every pane has to be right before the glass is ordered. Get a width wrong by a few millimetres and you either have a gap that looks like a mistake, or a pane that will not go in the channel. I wanted a quick way to work the sizes out properly, so I built a calculator for it.
Open the Glass Balcony Calculator
What it does
You enter each straight run of the balcony, its length and height, and the angle of each corner between them. It works out how many panes you need and how wide each one should be, and gives you a cutting list to copy or print.
- Equal panes. Every pane in a run is the same width, so it looks as if it was measured carefully.
- Corners at any angle. The glass is always cut square. At a corner it keeps the same end gap as at a wall, so there is room for connectors, and that gap is measured at its smallest, across the inside of the angle.
- The channel. You enter the channel width and where the glass sits in it. It starts in the centre, and you can move it toward either side. The sizes follow.
- Plan and elevation. A drawing of the whole run from the side, and from above, which you can open full page and zoom into.
- Stairs. A slope can be set on any run for raked glass.
Who it is for
It is only designed for use in Cyprus with Muskita© or Alumil© profiles. The channel and gap rules are set up around how those are fitted here, so it is not a general tool for any system.
Where it is now
It is still in beta and is being tested, and it may make mistakes. Check the sizes against a real corner before you order glass. If you spot something that looks wrong, tell me and I will sort it.