manohara
2021-01-02 11:39:47
- #1
I assume that there is no usable solution, but first the problem:
In the upper floor of a house, I want to install large, floor-to-ceiling sliding windows (the attic is being remodeled). The idea is that the front (with a superb wide view of the countryside to the south) can be opened as extensively as possible. This concerns an area 4 meters wide and 2.20 meters high. What I wish for is to feel "up there" on the south side like on a covered balcony.
So far I plan to have a fixed glass area of one meter on both outer sides and the middle area of 2 meters can be slid to the right and left. This will not be an "extremely large" opening but should be as wide as possible.
The window surfaces must of course be accessible from the outside for cleaning. The current solution for this is to put a narrow "balcony" in front. Presumably, this will sensibly be a narrow metal-grid floor with a railing.
What I am now considering is whether there are solutions where you do not need a walkable space outside in front of the windows. A railing must naturally be there in any case when the windows are open, but if the surfaces could somehow be cleaned from inside, like normal casement windows, that would save the "walkway" on the house’s outside.
So what is being sought is a sliding-casement technique (which I consciously have never seen anywhere before), where the floor-to-ceiling surfaces can also be folded inward for cleaning. Does anyone know something like this? Or know what it could be called to search for it on the internet? When I enter "fold-sliding door" I always only get folding doors offered (where you can’t reach the outside from the inside either).
Of course, I also welcome completely different ideas that I haven’t thought of so far.
In the upper floor of a house, I want to install large, floor-to-ceiling sliding windows (the attic is being remodeled). The idea is that the front (with a superb wide view of the countryside to the south) can be opened as extensively as possible. This concerns an area 4 meters wide and 2.20 meters high. What I wish for is to feel "up there" on the south side like on a covered balcony.
So far I plan to have a fixed glass area of one meter on both outer sides and the middle area of 2 meters can be slid to the right and left. This will not be an "extremely large" opening but should be as wide as possible.
The window surfaces must of course be accessible from the outside for cleaning. The current solution for this is to put a narrow "balcony" in front. Presumably, this will sensibly be a narrow metal-grid floor with a railing.
What I am now considering is whether there are solutions where you do not need a walkable space outside in front of the windows. A railing must naturally be there in any case when the windows are open, but if the surfaces could somehow be cleaned from inside, like normal casement windows, that would save the "walkway" on the house’s outside.
So what is being sought is a sliding-casement technique (which I consciously have never seen anywhere before), where the floor-to-ceiling surfaces can also be folded inward for cleaning. Does anyone know something like this? Or know what it could be called to search for it on the internet? When I enter "fold-sliding door" I always only get folding doors offered (where you can’t reach the outside from the inside either).
Of course, I also welcome completely different ideas that I haven’t thought of so far.